During the first decades of its operation the school seems to have been administered by various family members of Mohamed Ali who resided in Kavala. However, when in 1851 the Central Vakıf Administration was established in Egypt, it began to take an interest in the Kavala Külliye and shortly thereafter an Egyptian Bey was dispatched to serve as both the Governor of the island of Thasos and as Administrator of the Kavala Pious Foundation. He was supported by a chief secretary, an accountant and a finance officer, together with secretaries who dealt specifically with correspondence in Greek and Ottoman Turkish. Toward the end of the nineteenth century a secretary for Arabic correspondence and a registrar were added to the administrative personnel of the Foundation.