ONE of the leading private schools in Bahrain has announced plans that it will finally move into a new senior campus after searching for a suitable plot for more than a decade, writes STANLEY SZECOWKA.
Parents and pupils of St Christopher’s School were told of the plans yesterday on social media, described as ‘some more wonderful news for the St Chris community’.
Principal, Dr Simon Watson said: “I am delighted to share with you that we have signed a lease to build a new St Christopher’s Senior School for Years 7 to 13.
“We have engaged international architects who are working with us to develop a state-of-the-art school on approximately 100,000 m2 of land.
“The new facility will include classrooms that facilitate learning today, while being adaptable for future innovations.
“With state-of-the-art facilities planned for sports, music, art and drama, we will offer families in Bahrain a truly world-class facility to match our world-class reputation.”
Stay tuned for further developments, the school teased without revealing the location, or price of the project.
However, construction is scheduled to start this year with classes commencing from September 2025.
St Christopher’s first announced that it was planning to build a new senior school back in 2011 with academic, drama, music and sporting facilities. The ‘iconic campus’ would replace the existing Isa Town facility, initially accommodate 1,250 students and be designed to allow for further expansion to 1,600.
The school was at the time ideally seeking a site of 15 hectares (150,000sqm), although slightly smaller plots may have been considered.
St Christopher’s hoped to obtain a site as close as possible to its infant and junior premises in Saar, although more remote locations would have been considered if they had met all other school requirements. Despite several tabled possibilities nothing concrete emerged … until now.
From its modest beginnings in a villa in 1961, St Christopher’s has grown into a large, internationally-renowned, non-profit school with more than 2,000+ students from around 60 nations, aged from three to 18.
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