Al Resalah International School of Science
Sharjah, UAE · est. 2003 · PrivateAl Resalah International School of Science has worked in Sharjah, in the Al Azra district, since 2003, and has more than 1,300 students - from kindergarten to grade 12. The programme is American and ends in an American high school diploma, which has to be earned by credits; the senior grades offer AP courses, and the subject domains run across eight areas from English and mathematics to world language, social studies, physical education and the visual and performing arts. The school is a SAT test centre, an IELTS venue and an authorised IC3 centre. The school day is short and runs Monday to Thursday: 7:30 to 12:40 for PreK-KG2 and 7:25 to 14:30 for grades 1-12. Admission runs all year round if places are available, and the school says plainly that it takes different learners - gifted and talented, high achievers, students of determination and those studying English as an additional language. Of its extracurricular life the school builds leadership: head students, primary and secondary student councils, learning ambassadors, literacy, numeracy, digital and sports leads in the tutor groups, and the Heritage Heroes and Moral Ambassadors clubs.
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Cognia · accreditationCollege Board · authorised programmeWhat stands behind each entry
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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 →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.