Education was in Bahrain at the beginning of the twentieth century is limited to Koranic schools only a primary objective teach reading the Quran for emerging traditional educational institutions, has been Many feel that this type of education does not achieve scientific adequacy fit the spirit of the times, however, after the end of the First World War changed things and led the openness Bahrain more broadly on data from modern Western Renaissance to make a big political and social changes in the country resulted in the emergence of cultural and social awareness among the members of the community of Bahrain, and by virtue of the need to create a modern educational institutes differ from Koranic schools in terms of systems and curricula and goals emerged.

Such as in 1919 consult the people of opinion in the island of Muharraq and unanimously agreed on the need to work to create a regular school, blessed the elders of the country this appeal and subscribed in favor of the project and launched systematic work and founded a school guidance Al-Khalifa for boys in 1919 in the northern region of the city of Muharraq.

This has created this school committee of parents under the auspices of His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Isa Al Khalifa, Minister of the previous knowledge with the help of donations collected for this purpose. In 1926 the National Committee overseeing the education at that time to establish a high school for boys in the city of Manama.

The girl in Bahrain was not immune to education, he has had a chance to formal education after the parents sensed the need of education for girls Kdharorth for boys, so it opened the first regular school for girls in 1928 called the Hedaya Al-Khalifa School for Girls.

Given the financial and administrative difficulties faced by the education committee supervising the government proceeded in 1930 to take charge of these schools and put it under the direct supervision.
Mission:

Pursuit of the qualitative development of the educational system is characterized by quality in order to achieve excellence and perfection and creativity of pop constants and the values of the Islamic religion and human civilization, interaction and belonging to the Arab Kingdom of Bahrain and its Constitution in order to achieve sustainable development in harmony with international standards requirements.

the letter

Provide educational opportunities for everyone to develop aptitudes and abilities and skills through the development of development plans, implementation and evaluation so as to achieve overall quality requirements to enhance the quality of education and its effectiveness in accordance with the international standards and stipulated in the Education and Higher Education Act and the Special Education Law in the Kingdom of Bahrain Act.