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Abu Dhabi, UAE · Private
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ABC British Academy is an all-through British school in Al Shamkha, Abu Dhabi, with a thirteen-year route: from FS1 at three to year thirteen at seventeen. The school stands in the Cambridge International school register, and among British qualifications it names GCSEs and A Levels. Its ADEK Irtiqaa rating is Good with Outstanding Features, with 77 per cent of all indicators rated Outstanding or Very Good, and Outstanding for personal development, social responsibility and innovation skills and for health and safety. The school describes its intake by nationality: Indian, British and Irish, Egyptian, European, American, Emirati, Jordanian, Australian, Canadian and South African. Of its teachers it says that they are UK trained and that some are native English speakers. Two things about its website are worth knowing in advance: the annual fee is published only as pictures, and the secondary and key stage four sections are filled with placeholder text, so the subjects taught there cannot be seen.
Key facts
Admissions The year group is set by age on 31 August: FS1 takes three-year-olds, FS2 four-year-olds, year one five-year-olds, year two six-year-olds and so on a year per grade up to year thirteen at seventeen. The school also publishes a second column matching the twelve-year American route from pre-kindergarten to grade twelve, for children transferring from another system.
Stages and year groups Grades FS1 - year 13, from age 3. The route is a thirteen-year one and runs straight through: the Foundation Stage is FS1 and FS2, followed by the primary school with key stages one and two, then the secondary school with key stages three and four and the senior years. The school also gives a table matching its thirteen-year route to the twelve-year American one.
Address 1st Street, Sector SH22, Plot 8, Al Shamkha City
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)60 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median68 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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