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Sharjah, UAE · Private
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GEMS Cambridge International Private School - Sharjah stands on King Abdul Aziz Street in the Muwailih school zone and teaches the National Curriculum for England from FS1 (Pre-KG) to Year 13. The school is new and builds on two older schools in the group - GEMS Cambridge in Dubai and Abu Dhabi - of which it writes "over 85 years of combined history" and "a legacy that is 36 years old"; it does not state its own opening year. Enrolment currently runs to Year 12, and from Year 10 pupils prepare for IGCSE, AS and A Level. The school presents its location as an advantage: it is designed to serve families across Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman at once. The campus offers a multi-purpose hall, prayer rooms, several libraries, computing facilities including robotics, science labs and a STEAM room, a cafeteria, dedicated art and music rooms, clinics, a parent café, indoor and outdoor play areas for the kindergarten and dedicated sports areas. Its support service is described in more detail than at most schools in the emirate: a designated safeguarding leader with four deputies by stage and a separate allegations manager, school counsellors available by self-referral, staff or parent referral and drop-in sessions, an inclusion department, and the HPS Golden Award held in partnership with the Sharjah Private Education Authority.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $6 038–9 476 a year
22 175–34 800 AED
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Languages of instruction
English
About the fees The annual fee in UAE dirhams for 2026/27, approved and inclusive of book fees: 22,175 for FS1 and FS2, 22,900 for Year 1, 25,245 for Year 2, 25,520 for Year 3, 25,545 for Year 4, 25,565 for Year 5, 25,695 for Year 6, 27,995 for Year 7, 28,030 for Years 8 and 9, 32,870 for Year 10, 32,905 for Year 11, 34,445 for Year 12 and 34,800 for Year 13. Fees are payable in advance of each term and follow the fee framework of the Sharjah Private Education Authority. A seat reservation fee of 1,000 dirhams is due within three days of the offer: it is non-refundable but is credited against the first term's fee. Refunds on leaving follow Ministry of Education and SPEA bylaws: a pupil withdrawing before the start of the year is refunded the balance of the first semester's fees, less the registration and admission fees.
Admissions Admission runs in four steps: an online enquiry, registration with an opportunity number, an invitation to the admission assessment and, if successful, a seat reservation of 1,000 dirhams within three days. The assessment establishes the right placement: after it a pupil is offered a seat, placed on the waitlist or refused. The school states a minimum age for KG1 (FS2) - four years old by 31 December of the academic year; FS1 (Pre-KG) runs a year earlier. The documents required are a passport with a valid UAE residence visa, a birth certificate in Arabic or English, Emirates ID cards of the child and both parents with their passports and visas, and the school file.
Stages and year groups Grades FS1 (Pre-KG) to Year 13; enrolment currently to Year 12. The stages run right through: FS1 and FS2 on the EYFS framework with its seven areas of development, then primary school, secondary school and sixth form. From Year 10 pupils prepare for IGCSE, AS and A Level. The school states plainly that it currently admits from FS1 to Year 12, so the top year is still being built out. Extracurricular activities run after school from 14:45 to 16:15 on certain days of the week and change each term.
Address King Abdul Aziz St., Muwailih School Zone
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeGEMS · school is part of the networkschool 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: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). 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.
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GEMS Education is a private school group that describes itself on its own site as one of the oldest and largest K-12 (to Grade 12 / Year 13) private education providers in the world. The site dates its start to 1959 («Our story began in 1959«, «65+ Years of Legacy«), while another page on the same site says «over 60 Years of Legacy«. School counts on the site disagree: the homepage says both «52 schools across the UAE, Qatar and Egypt« and «Choose from our list of over 47 schools«, while the Our Company page says GEMS has schools «in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, Europe and North America«. Students: «200,000 students from over 176 countries« (Our Company) and «over 200,000« (homepage). On ownership the site is explicit: «GEMS Education own, operate and manage schools globally« — it both owns and manages, but does not say which schools fall into which category.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
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 poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: A multi-purpose hall, prayer rooms, several libraries, computing facilities including robotics, science labs and a STEAM room, a cafeteria, dedicated art and music rooms, clinics, a parent café, indoor and outdoor play areas for KG pupils and dedicated sports areas. The school offers a virtual tour of the campus.
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
✓Counsellor
✓Child protection policy
✓Staff training
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Child protection is led by a designated safeguarding leader (the Vice Principal for Children's Services) with four deputies - for primary, foundation stage, secondary and inclusion - and a separate allegations manager. Under UAE law all staff are required to pass on any information that raises concern about a pupil's safety, including the risk of neglect or abuse; the safeguarding policy is published. The school counsellors take self-referrals from pupils as well as staff and parent referrals, run individual and small-group sessions, hold drop-in sessions for those needing immediate support and refer on to external services; confidentiality is stated explicitly, except in cases of harm or abuse. The school holds the HPS Golden Award in partnership with the Sharjah Private Education Authority. There are clinics on campus, but the school does not state how many healthcare staff it has.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 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 data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 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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