The school was named after a 12th-century Andalusian-Arabian philosopher Ibn Rushd (also known as Averroes 1126-1198).[4][5] The school's origins date back to 1994 when the Al-Imane Mosque began teaching 19 Muslim girls who were expelled from their public school for refusing to remove their headscarves.[4] The school was officially established in 2003.[6] It[when?] now has several hundred students and has been ranked as one of the top schools in the country.[6]