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Abu Dhabi, UAE · State
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A state school in Abu Dhabi and, by its own description, a pilot one: on it the Emirati model of education is being trialled, joining the state curriculum with programmes of the International Baccalaureate. There are not many pupils, 314 from kindergarten to the twelfth grade, and 110 staff including teaching and administration - that is, the school is small and with very close attention to the pupil. The model of teaching is bilingual, and Arabic language and Islamic studies the school treats not as separate subjects but as what binds the curriculum together. A distinct feature of the school is its work with special educational needs: a support service of its own, a head of that service and sessions with an occupational therapist. The school became the first state school in the Emirates to hold a youth conference of the TEDx cycle, and it gives teachers access to British and Sharjah professional development programmes. The main thing a parent needs to know: its own pages the school does not show outward - its site is closed for reading, and neither admission conditions, nor fees, nor the age of entry, nor a list of premises and activities can be read from its own materials. This is a state school, and for conditions one must apply to it directly or to the emirate's department of education and knowledge.
Key facts
Languages of instruction
English, Arabic
Stages and year groups Grades KG - Grade 12. The school works a full line from kindergarten to the twelfth grade, and the kindergarten is a separate section of its own. How many classes it has, how they are filled, how long the school day lasts and how the cycles are arranged cannot be said from its materials: the site is closed for reading.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · 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
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: PYP (ages 3-12). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school's own site, kbza.sch.ae, is closed for reading from outside: every one of its addresses returns an access refusal, including the home page and the pages about the school, the kindergarten, the learning journey, school life and answers to frequent questions.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
Facilities
The school's own site, kbza.sch.ae, is closed for reading from outside: every one of its addresses returns an access refusal, including the home page and the pages about the school, the kindergarten, the learning journey, school life and answers to frequent questions.. We have asked the school for the data directly.
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
There are 110 staff in the school including teaching and administration, and 314 pupils, that is, the staff is very large in relation to the number of pupils. The school keeps its own support service for pupils with special educational needs, with a separate head and sessions with an occupational therapist, and it opens to teachers British professional development programmes and postgraduate teaching programmes of the Sharjah education academy. How many of the 110 teach, what their composition by country and qualification is and how many pupils there are per teacher is not stated.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school's own site, kbza.sch.ae, is closed for reading from outside: every one of its addresses returns an access refusal, including the home page and the pages about the school, the kindergarten, the learning journey, school life and answers to frequent questions.. 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%)72 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 data55 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median68 "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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