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Al Ain, UAE · Private
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Al Sanawbar School is a private school in Al Ain on Khalid Bin Sultan Street, and it is a full-cycle school: its own site calls it a "KG to 12 school with a full 12 year academic program" and breaks it into five stages - kindergarten KG1 and KG2, lower elementary grades 1-3, elementary grades 4-6, middle school grades 7-9 and high school grades 10-12. Beyond that there is almost nothing to tell, and a parent should know this in advance: the school's own site works as a single home page, every inner page runs into a redirect loop and does not open, and the home page itself has stood untouched since the covid years - it carries a letter about the move to distance learning and a separate covid support telephone number. The school states neither its curriculum, nor its language of instruction, nor its fees, nor a year of foundation, nor its staff, nor the make-up of its campus. The only substantive thing on the page is a list of distance-learning platforms - ClassDojo for grades 1-8, Google Classroom for grades 9-12, Zoom, e-books, Alef for grades 5-9 and Abjadiyat for grades 1-4 - and a link to a 360-degree tour of the campus. The school does hold an external accreditation: it is listed in the Cognia registry. It asks for enquiries by telephone, and answers calls made after eight in the evening the following day.
Key facts
Stages and year groups Grades KG1 - grade 12. The school breaks its twelve years into five stages: kindergarten KG1 and KG2, lower elementary grades 1-3, elementary grades 4-6, middle school grades 7-9 and high school grades 10-12. It attaches no ages to the stages and publishes no shape of the school day.
Address Khalid Bin Sultan Street
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cognia · 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
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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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.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school's own site works only as a home page. Every inner page - About, Vision and Values and the rest - answers with a redirect from the secure protocol to the insecure one at the same address, that is, a loop, and not one of them opens. This is why the school states none of the following in the open: its curriculum, its language of instruction, its fees, a year of foundation, its staff or a list of campus facilities - all of that lives on pages that cannot be reached.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Facilities
The school's own site works only as a home page. Every inner page - About, Vision and Values and the rest - answers with a redirect from the secure protocol to the insecure one at the same address, that is, a loop, and not one of them opens. This is why the school states none of the following in the open: its curriculum, its language of instruction, its fees, a year of foundation, its staff or a list of campus facilities - all of that lives on pages that cannot be reached.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Teaching staff
The school's own site works only as a home page. Every inner page - About, Vision and Values and the rest - answers with a redirect from the secure protocol to the insecure one at the same address, that is, a loop, and not one of them opens. This is why the school states none of the following in the open: its curriculum, its language of instruction, its fees, a year of foundation, its staff or a list of campus facilities - all of that lives on pages that cannot be reached.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school's own site works only as a home page. Every inner page - About, Vision and Values and the rest - answers with a redirect from the secure protocol to the insecure one at the same address, that is, a loop, and not one of them opens. This is why the school states none of the following in the open: its curriculum, its language of instruction, its fees, a year of foundation, its staff or a list of campus facilities - all of that lives on pages that cannot be reached.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
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%)63 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%)90 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 median82 "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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