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Sharjah, UAE · est. 2003 · Private
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The flagship school of the Bukhatir group in Sharjah: more than 4750 pupils of 68 nationalities, a full line from the age of three to graduation. Teaching follows the national curriculum of England, with Arabic, Islamic studies, social studies and moral education added from the ministry programme, and the school counts its Quran memorisation programme as a distinguishing feature, giving a tuition discount of up to a quarter of the fee for it. The stages run like this: Foundation Stage from the age of three, the primary school, the secondary school with IGCSE examinations and the sixth form with A-Level; the school sits its examinations through Pearson. The school day starts at seven in the morning and ends at 12:45 for the youngest and at 14:25 for everyone else. The campus is gated, with a heated indoor pool, a sports hall, a multi-purpose hall and its own clinic; swimming starts in the third year. Children of any nationality are taken in order of application and there are no entrance examinations, but the youngest group takes only children who are already out of nappies. For awards the school shows the best results in the world and in the region achieved by individual pupils in Pearson examinations, while where its leavers go and whether there is a summer camp it does not say.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $6 285–12 259 a year
23 080–45 020 AED
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Admits from
3 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Registration fee
≈ $136
500 AED
About the fees Tuition for the 2026/27 academic year runs from 23,080 dirhams a year in Foundation Stage to 45,020 dirhams in Year 13. By stage: FS1 and FS2 23,080, Year 1 23,395, Year 2 and 3 27,440, Year 4 27,465, Year 5 and 6 from 31,060 to 31,085, Year 7 31,235, Year 8-10 from 37,390 to 37,425, Year 11 and 12 from 41,090 to 41,120, Year 13 45,020. The sum is split into three instalments, and the first is larger than the two that follow: in Year 13, for instance, they are 18,008, 13,506 and 13,506 dirhams. The first instalment is paid in cash or by a current-dated cheque, and the school takes the cheques for the second and third instalments straight away together with the first. Examination fees for external examinations are not included in tuition and are billed separately. The school gives four kinds of discount and calculates them on the amount after deductions: from 5 to 20 percent for a second and subsequent children, from 15 to 25 percent for the Quran memorisation programme, from 5 to 10 percent for a referred family and up to 15 percent for high results in the GL test.
Admissions Children of all nationalities are admitted, with no entrance examinations: the school writes that it is glad of everyone who is able to cope with the curriculum and to accept its rules of behaviour, and it gives out places in order of application as they become available. The year group is set by date of birth against the single UAE cut-off of 31 August: three-year-olds go into FS1, four-year-olds into FS2, five-year-olds into Year 1 and so on up to the age of seventeen. The only separate requirement the school sets is for the youngest: in FS1 a child must be toilet trained, and nappies are not allowed in class. The school sets no restrictions by citizenship, sex or faith.
Stages and year groups Grades FS1 - Year 13. Foundation Stage is split into FS1 (also called Pre-KG1) and FS2 (also called KG1), then come Key Stage 1 and 2 in the primary school, Key Stage 3 and 4 in the secondary school leading out to IGCSE, and Key Stage 5 with A-Level. In the SPEA register the same stages are recorded as FS1, FS2 and years 1 to 13. The school lists the core primary subjects itself: English with phonics in Key Stage 1, mathematics, science, social studies, Arabic, Quran, Islamic studies, art, physical education, humanities and computing.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeBSO · accreditationBukhatir Education Advancement & Management · 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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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 →Bukhatir Education Advancement & Managementschool network
BEAM is Bukhatir Education Advancement and Management, a school group based in Sharjah. The site claims «20 Years of Inspiring Leaders with Faith, Knowledge & Innovation«, implying a start around 2004; no exact founding year is stated. It shows six campuses under two brands: International School of Creative Science (ISCS) in Sharjah (Muwaileh), Dubai (Nad Al Sheba) and Bahrain (Al Riffa), and American School of Creative Science (ASCS) in Sharjah (Maliha Road and Al Layyah) and Dubai (Nad Al Sheba). The site gives a total of about 13,717 students. It says nothing explicit about ownership versus management.
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
Exam results The school sits IGCSE and A-Level through Pearson and uses the Pearson Learner Awards to show the results of individual pupils: the top result in the world in IGCSE mathematics for Ansari Mohammed Hamza, the top result in the Middle East in IGCSE physics, and top results in the UAE in human biology, Arabic as a first language, classical Arabic, chemistry and in A-Level business. Of the international benchmarks the school reports that its pupils met the UAE national mark of 510 points in TIMSS and went above it in PISA in mathematics, science and reading in English. Neither pass rates nor the spread of grades across the cohort does the school give.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming poolA large heated indoor pool; swimming lessons start in the third year
✓Sports hallA sports hall and a separate multi-purpose hall with stands, where basketball, netball, volleyball, badminton and table tennis are played and martial arts are practised
✓LaboratoriesA science laboratory and computer rooms
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓LibraryA library the school calls well stocked, with books for every age
✓CateringIts own canteen, paid for through a deposit
✓School transportSchool buses by district, one way and both ways
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Clubs and activities: Quran memorisation · Sports activities · Science fairs · Mathematics olympiads · Art and needlework · Cookery · Culture days · Field excursions
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school names more than 85 teachers for more than 4750 pupils and says separately that some of them are native speakers; it publishes no staff list by name and no class sizes, and it gives no pupil-teacher ratio either.
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 roomIts own clinic, staffed with medical professionals; the school writes that the clinic manages children with chronic illnesses and allergies together with parents and teachers
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policyA separate child protection policy for 2025/26, a safe recruitment policy, a code of conduct for education staff, a single central record of staff regulation and a safe working practices policy - all five documents are published and dated December 2025
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school describes its approach as constant review of its own work, reliance on data and early intervention, and says that it acts together with families and outside services. A separate anti-bullying policy, the name of the person responsible for child protection, a complaints procedure and the presence of a counsellor the school does not name on this page.
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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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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