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Ajman, UAE · est. 2018 · Private
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Ajman American Private School has been running in Ajman since 2018 and calls itself the first and only school in the emirate and the Northern Emirates to hold NEASC accreditation. It has more than a thousand pupils of more than thirty nationalities and more than a hundred teachers. The programme is American: the kindergarten follows the California Early Learning and Development Foundations, the elementary school the California State Curriculum Framework, and the middle and high school the Common Core for English and mathematics and the Next Generation Science Standards for science, plus the subjects required by the UAE Ministry of Education - Arabic, Islamic studies, moral education and social studies. The stages run straight through: KG1-KG2, then grades 1 to 12. What sets the school apart is its high school: thirty electives and AP courses in computer science, statistics, physics C, chemistry and biology, with Pre-AP chemistry and biology leading into them. From grade 9 a career and university counselling centre runs aptitude tests, SAT and ACT preparation, help with applications to the UAE, the US, the UK, Europe and Asia, internships and recommendation letters. Attainment is tracked with external measures: NWEA MAP, CAT4, TIMSS, PISA and PIRLS.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 718–9 803 a year
21 000–36 000 AED
Programmes
AP · American programme
Languages of instruction
English
Registration fee
≈ $136
500 AED
About the fees The annual fee depends on the grade: 21,000 dirhams for KG1-KG2, 24,000 for grades 1-4, 27,000 for grades 5-6, 30,000 for grades 7-8, 33,000 for grades 9-10 and 36,000 for grades 11-12. The school publishes two discount columns beside them: with the discount the fee falls to 16,500-28,500 dirhams, and with the sibling discount to 14,850-25,650. On top of the fee there is a registration charge of 500 dirhams (non-refundable but credited against tuition), books from 1,200 to 2,900 dirhams by grade, and uniform at 750 dirhams plus 5 per cent VAT. Transport is not included: 3,500 dirhams a year within Ajman, 4,500 for Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain. The first term is paid in cash, by card or by cheque; the second and third terms are taken as post-dated cheques.
Admissions Admission runs in four steps: an application through the online form or in person with the registrar, submission of documents, an interview or placement test, and the admissions committee's decision. The documents are passports of child and parents with visa pages, Emirates IDs for both, two photographs, an attested birth certificate, a vaccination certificate, previous school reports for two years for kindergarten and for the latest year for grades 1-12, and a transfer certificate where applicable. The test is not for selection but to decide which grade the child joins.
Stages and year groups Grades KG1 - grade 12. There are four stages: kindergarten KG1-KG2, elementary from grade 1 to grade 5 (ages 6-11), middle from grade 6 to grade 8 and high school from grade 9 to grade 12. The school week runs Monday to Friday. In the elementary school lessons run from 10:30 to 14:45.
Address Al Jurf 1, Behind Sheikh Khalifa Hospital
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
NEASC · accreditationCollege Board · 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
NEASCNew England Association of Schools and Colleges
An American accreditation working since 1885. For international schools it uses an approach where the visitors look first at live lessons rather than at folders of paperwork: the team works in the school for about a week. It is the only one here whose public directory honestly separates accredited schools from candidates.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Authorisation here runs a year at a time: the register lists the school for the 2025-2026 school year.
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Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
American programme
The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.
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 from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: A campus in Al Jurf 1 behind Sheikh Khalifa Hospital. Classrooms are fitted with interactive displays and digital equipment, and the elementary school has dedicated technology coaches. There is a canteen with a published menu and school buses serving Ajman, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain.
Clubs and activities (7): After-school clubs · Off-site lessons · Celebration days · Citizenship education · STEAM projects · Robotics · Debating
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a clinic of its own: the school clinic and medical forms are in the parents' section.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)75 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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.
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