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Al Ain, UAE · est. 2006 · Private
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Al Ain American School, or AAS, has run since 2006 in the Asharij district of Al Ain, next to Tawam Hospital, and follows the American curriculum. The school calls itself high-performing and backs that with an outside measure: it puts its students' results in the international TIMSS 2023 study of mathematics and science on its front page as evidence that its work on quality pays off. The shape of the site shows where the school invests: separate sections on STEM and robotics, on digital learning, on inspection reports and accreditation, on pastoral care, on extracurricular life, on students of determination and on the gifted and talented, a board of trustees and a parent council. The fee is published as a full 2026-2027 schedule with everything broken out into columns - tuition, three dated instalments, books, transport and uniform - and the school states plainly that the schedule is approved by ADEK. The registration and re-registration fee is 5 per cent of tuition and is refundable.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 193–7 894 a year
15 400–28 990 AED
Programmes
American programme
About the fees Tuition for 2026-2027 by grade: KG1 and KG2 15,400 dirhams, grades 1 and 2 19,740, grade 3 19,820, grade 4 20,980, grade 5 22,030, grade 6 24,250, grades 7 to 9 26,360 and grades 10 to 12 28,990. It is paid in three instalments: by 15 August 2026, by 15 November 2026 and by 15 February 2027. On top of tuition come books (from 710 dirhams in KG1 to 2,896 in grade 12), transport at 3,510 dirhams for every grade and uniform from 510 to 650 dirhams. The registration and re-registration fee is 5 per cent of tuition and is refundable. The schedule is approved by ADEK and all amounts are in dirhams.
Stages and year groups Grades KG1 - grade 12. The stages run straight through from kindergarten KG1 to grade 12 - this shows in the fee schedule, where every grade has a line of its own. The school names no age brackets and no daily timetable on the pages that were read.
Address Asharij, Bida Bin Ammar, 41st Street, near Tawam Hospital
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cognia · accreditationschool 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
CogniaCognia, formerly AdvancED
The widest-reaching American accreditation: some forty thousand schools in over a hundred countries. It accredits both individual schools and whole school systems. It also sells a paid membership with no inspection behind it, and that membership is often passed off as accreditation.
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.
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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
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%)72 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 "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 8 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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