IANT Quranic Academy students are trained to become proficient in the standard subjects provided by the State of Texas Education Code 4.002, which include English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Physical Education. In addition, all students receive intensive religious instruction in Hifz (Quran Memorization), Qiraa’ (Quranic pronunciation and recitation) and Classical Arabic Language. All courses integrate Islamic content.

IQA has utilized the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) published by CTB (www.ctb.com) which is a nationally recognized norm-referenced test. The purpose of this test is to allow for a third party measure of IQA’s academic program through comparisons with other students nationwide. All IQA students take this test annually in the spring.

The performance-based assessment system developed by our school includes the following areas of learning: English/Language Arts, Arabic/Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Fine Arts (Hifz, Qirah), Physical Education and Health, and Religious Studies. The assessment tasks and scoring guides (rubrics) have been chosen by the faculty and include criterion-referenced exams created by faculty and/or textbook publishers.

All IQA staff members and administrators are well-qualified in their respective fields, averaging 8 years of experience. IQA has 4 full-time administrators on staff. There are currently 17 full-time and 4 part-time teachers on staff, with 4 full-time instructional support staff members. 34% of teaching and administrative staff members hold advanced degrees. IQA’s student-teacher ratio is 14:1. (Figure 1)

The academic school year is 180 days. The school day begins at 7:40 a.m. and concludes at 3:45 p.m. at the IANT campus.