Yara International School
| Yara International School مدرسة يارا العالمية | |
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Yara International School, 2024 | |
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Saudi Arabia | |
| Coordinates | 24°37′44″N 46°43′02″E / 24.62889°N 46.71722°E |
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| School type | Private day school |
| Motto | We want your Kid to be a Star! |
| Established | 17 May 2003 |
| School board | Central Board of Secondary Education |
| Educational authority | Ministry of Education |
| Trust | Yara Educational Trust |
| Session | April to March |
| Chairman | Habeebul Rahman PP |
| CEO | Khalid Abdullah Mohammed Aldrees |
| Administrator | Abdul Kader Koya |
| Principal | Aasima Saleem Yezdani |
| Teaching staff | 132 |
| Grades | K–12 |
| Gender | Mixed (nursery–kindergarten) Gender-isolated (1–12) |
| Age range | 4 to 18 |
| Enrollment | 2500 |
| Education system | Indian (since 2003) British (2019–2023) |
| Language | English |
| Classrooms | 119 |
| Area | 9,890 square metres (2.44 acres) |
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| Slogan | Paving the path to excellence... |
| Affiliation | CBSE Gulf Sahodaya |
| Demonym | Yarian |
| Named after | Yara bint Khalid Aldrees |
| Website | yaraschool |
Yara International School (YIS) (Arabic: مدرسة يارا العالمية) is a K–12 private foreign school in the ad-Dirah district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located next to Qasr Al Hokm station in the former campus of the Female Student Study Center of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. Established in 2003, the school moved to its current campus in 2013. It primarily serves the local Indian diaspora and offers curriculum prescribed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and previously offered British curriculum alongside the Indian one from 2019 to 2023.