At the end of the four-year program, students are provided with a unique opportunity to present their Senior Project. This represents two years’ (four semester) worth of work on a student chosen topic of their own interest. This original piece of extended research is exclusively designed by every student in the ADP with the help of the student’s teacher and mentor, to match the student’s areas of interest, motive, and commitment to service. Students start with their Senior Project at the beginning of grade 11, and are expected to finish it by the end of grade 12 where it is judged by a committee of school professionals. Practically speaking, there are four courses split over the last four semesters of the ADP; the collective work put in these four courses make the senior project complete at the end of the fourth semester in grade 12. However, each course has a clear product and clear criteria of evaluation; a final grade is given to each of the four Senior Project courses.

The Senior Project is a graduation requirement that has specific expectations and its own criteria of evaluation and grade computations. For more information, please refer to the Guide of Senior Project.

The Advance Diploma Program (ADP) at Dhahran Ahliyya Schools aims at providing world-class education with an Arab and Muslim identity. ADP is a four-year program that goes from grade 9 to grade 12, and targets at preparing secondary students to join the best universities in Saudi Arabia and around the world.
The program is designed to provide students with adequate, challenging, and balanced opportunities in studying religion, languages, social studies, math, sciences, computer, art, physical education, and other topics.
Additionally, the program engages students in structured research opportunities and community service activities that promote their critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership. All of this is integrated in the student’s learning path, that aims at developing their cognitive capacities, while respecting their individual capabilities, interests, and career choices.

By the end of the four-year ADP, students will be able to take Advanced Placement (AP) exams in many subject areas; and thereby, support their admission to the most prestigious programs and universities in the world.
The program is accredited by the international organization AdvancED, and is licensed by the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia. DAS ADP is recognized by all universities inside and outside KSA.

Dear DAS Students,
Welcome to the American Diploma Program (ADP),
If you are joining the Program in grade 9, then you we would like to give you a special welcoming, and assure you that the learning opportunities are in abundance in ADP . year. We encourage you to make use of these four years in the Program to seek all of these learning opportunities that will extensively develop your learning. If you are a returning student, we would like to welcome you back, and hope that the changes you will encounter in the program will be to your own benefit in your college ambitions and career choices. A special welcome goes to the new students at DAS; we trust that you will find a uniquely welcoming, supportive and caring learning environment.
You will receive a package that includes a ‘Student Handbook’ that is intended to help you find your way in the new path at the ADP. This Handbook includes a lot of information that answers many of your questions. You are fully responsible of reading and understanding this Handbook thoroughly: It is assumed that you have read, understood and agreed on all the information in the Handbook, and accordingly, you are held accountable and fully responsible of the content of this Handbook. We encourage you to use this Handbook as a reference in the ADP at all times.
The new ADP has many features that are intended to help you develop both general and specialized knowledge in areas that are of interest to you. In every grade level of the four grade levels of the ADP, all students will have the opportunity to choose one elective course from a pool of elective courses. Please make sure to make use of this to option and enrich your intellectual capacities and skills. Furthermore you will start working on you Senior Project from grade 11 over a period of two years. This represents a unique opportunity for all of you to choose and work on a topic of your own interest and study this topic in rigorous depth, and thus developing many life-long learning skills. We will leave you to discover the rest of the elements of the ADP on your own by reading, understanding and committing to the ADP Handbook.
Once again, we would like to welcome you, and wish you all the best in your studies and all your future endeavours.

Students are mandated to respect all deadlines set by the school in any situation. This includes, but not limited to, registration for AP exams, submitting assignments, signing official documents, respecting counselor’s deadlines, and so on. Any disrespect of any of the set deadlines may result in unpleasant consequences.

It is the sole responsibility of the student to bear all the consequences resulting from disrespecting deadlines at all times.

The 7 Teaching Days Rule

The ADP adopts the 7 teaching days rule in all students’ requests. In other words, any student request will need 7 teaching days to receive an answer. Here are some examples of requests that students are expected to make 7 days ahead of time:

-           Request of grades

-           Request of recommendation

-           Request of attestation, etc.

This is not an exclusive list there are many other sample requests that can be made in this regard.

It is important to mention that urgent requests will be dealt with promptly, if a valid excuse is presented in time. The validity of excuses is solely determined upon the discretion of the Secondary Principal or ADP Director.