The first school was a boys school started soon after the founding of the Mission. In the 1960's during the presidency of Gamal Abd El Nasser, the management of the schools was transferred from The American Mission to The Synod of the Nile which had become an independent Egyptian organization. In Cairo there are also an Institute for Secretarial Studies and a school of Special Education on the same grounds as Ramses College for Girls. This makes a total of 20 schools under the Board of Management of the Evangelical Schools of the Synod of the Nile.
Language schools teach high level English plus teach science and math in English.
They vary in the final grade level of education offered. The other schools offer the Secondary Certificate, the highest level before university. The language schools either offer the secondary certificate or are progressing to that point. The total number of students is approximately 23,000. There are a little over 500 teachers.