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Fujairah, UAE · State
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A state school for girls in the village of Dadna in the north of the emirate of Fujairah, on the coast of the Gulf of Oman, not far from Dibba Al Fujairah. It has no site of its own: the state schools of the UAE do not keep them, they teach the curriculum of the Ministry of Education, the main language is Arabic and English is taught as a separate subject, and for citizens of the UAE the schooling is free. This school has almost no public side at all: the emirate of Fujairah has set aside a page of its own for state schools on its portal, but has not put the table of schools on it, while the general map of schools of the authority that runs all the state schools of the country is loaded by a script and gives up no list. As a result the school tells the reader neither its year of opening, nor the number of its pupils, nor its stages, nor its campus, nor clubs, nor examination results.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
Arabic
About the fees Schooling at a state school is free for citizens of the UAE: state schools are kept from the budget, they take no tuition from citizens, and the school has no tariff of its own.
Admissions The school takes girls only: the state schools of the UAE are separated by sex, and this one is kept as a school for girls. For citizens of the UAE the schooling is free. Intake into state schools goes centrally through the Ministry of Education rather than through the school itself. Age cut-offs and entrance tests the school does not announce.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College 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
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.
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 "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.
The full methodology → Similar schools in the country