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Sharjah, UAE · est. 2011 · Private
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Brilliant International Private School in the Muweilah district of Sharjah opened in 2011 with 60 pupils; three years later it had 807, and today the school reports more than 1,450 - and close to fifty nationalities. The curriculum is Cambridge and runs right through: EYFS in FS1 and FS2, Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary with two Checkpoint tests, IGCSE in Years 10-11 and, since 2022-2023, AS and A Level. The senior stage is small by design: the school caps its Post 16 class at nine pupils and gives each a personal academic adviser; the A Level subjects are physics, chemistry, biology, business studies, mathematics, accounting, economics, English and information technology. The Sharjah Private Education Authority has rated the school "GOOD". Its provision is solid: three networked ICT laboratories with interactive boards, separate physics, biology and chemistry laboratories with a preparation room and a lab assistant, an art and music room, a networked library with reading levels from starter to advanced, a sensory room and swimming lessons. Support comes through an inclusion department with a protocol for identifying special educational needs.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $3 965–7 788 a year
14 560–28 600 AED
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Arabic, French
Registration fee
≈ $136
500 AED
About the fees The annual fee in UAE dirhams for 2026-2027, including textbooks: 14,560 for Pre-School, Reception and Year 1, 17,205 for Years 2 and 3, 17,225 for Year 4, 17,230 for Year 5, 19,365 for Year 6, 20,480 for Year 7, 21,655 for Year 8, 22,800 for Year 9, 23,900 for Year 10, 26,215 for Year 11, 28,530 for Year 12 and 28,600 for Year 13. From Year 6 the school offers a discounted fee: 18,325 in Year 6, 19,325 in Year 7, 20,325 in Year 8, 21,325 in Year 9, 21,825 in Year 10, 23,325 in Year 11, 24,825 in Year 12 and 25,575 in Year 13. It is paid by three cheques - 5 August, 5 December and 5 March. The 500-dirham registration fee is non-refundable and is set against the first term; a bounced cheque costs 100 dirhams. Uniform is 600-850 dirhams plus VAT. Compulsory examinations are charged on top: TALA 49, IBT 45, the PT series 100, CAT4 80, NGRT 60, Checkpoint 550 in Year 6 and 700 in Year 9, IGCSE 800 per subject, AS and A Level 950 per subject. Discounts: 5 per cent for siblings and 5 per cent for payment in full.
Admissions The application is made online; the admissions team then asks for documents, invites the child for an assessment and, subject to seats, issues an offer letter; the place is held by the registration fee. Age is counted at 31 August as required by the Sharjah Private Education Authority: for 2026-2027 FS1 takes children born between 1 January and 31 December 2023, FS2 those born in 2022, Year 1 those born in 2021 and Year 2 those born in 2020. The document list is long: a photograph, Emirates IDs of pupil and sponsor, passports and visas, for UAE nationals the passport page with the unified number and the family book, a vaccination record or medical file from the previous school, a birth certificate, colour copies of a continuous studying letter, a transfer certificate and a pass certificate for the last grade, and from Year 5 a code of conduct certificate.
Stages and year groups Grades FS1 to Year 13. The stages run right through: FS1 and FS2 on the EYFS framework aligned with Cambridge International Early Years, then Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary (Years 7-9) with Checkpoint tests, Cambridge Upper Secondary in Years 10-11 with IGCSE option choices, and Post 16 in Years 12-13 with AS and A Level. In Years 10 and 11 English, mathematics, business studies, information technology, biology, chemistry, physics and physical education are compulsory, as are Islamic studies for Muslim pupils and Arabic as a first language for Arab passport holders; the options are geography, history, French, Urdu, physical education and an examination in the pupil's home language.
Address Muweilah, near Nesto Super Market
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSE, A-Level · 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
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end. IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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 from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Art studio
Campus: Three fully networked ICT laboratories with interactive boards for different age groups. A physics laboratory with electrical, mechanical and optical instruments and a separate junior lab, a biology laboratory with microscopes and a collection of biological specimens, and a chemistry laboratory with a well-equipped preparation room, a lab assistant and safety rules posted at key points. An art and music room with a studio where collage, origami, sketching, painting and the art of recycling are taught. A networked library with material for all key stages sorted into seven reading levels from starter to advanced, with a reading record kept for every child. There is a sensory room and swimming lessons.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Support is run by the inclusion department: the school describes a protocol for identifying special educational needs with early intervention and assessment, and a sensory room with specialised equipment for children with sensory processing difficulties. It also has a separate page on e-safety. The school names no counsellor, no medical room, no security staff, no CCTV and no child protection policy.
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%)95 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 data75 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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