Ajman, UAE · PrivateAl Shola American School stands in Ajman on Almwihat Street in the Al Talla 2 district and teaches an American programme from kindergarten to grade 12. The school is young: it calls 2026-2027 its seventh year. From the middle stage onwards teaching is split by sex - the boys have their own supervisors for grades 5-8 and 9-12, the girls one for grades 5-12 - while the kindergarten and grades 1-4 are shared. In the kindergarten the school states two language aims plainly, English and Arabic. Child protection deserves a separate word, because here the school has done more than most: the site publishes reporting channels with names, telephone numbers and email addresses - an admissions and digital safety manager, a childhood protection officer, a health and safety officer, a career counsellor and a hotline - and says plainly where a parent or a student should go about bullying or a digital safety breach. The main thing a parent needs to know: the site is built so that no internal page opens without JavaScript, and neither the fees, nor the timetable, nor the campus could be read on it.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
ACS WASC · accreditationCollege Board · authorised programmeWhat stands behind each entry
An American regional accreditation of the institution, working since 1962 and covering some 5,500 schools in California, the Pacific and Asia. It judges the whole school: a self-study, then a team visit. It gives the same status to supplementary and virtual programmes, so the category of an entry is worth checking separately.
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.