Liwa International School - Falaj Hazza
Al Ain, UAE · est. 1992 · PrivateLiwa International School - Falaj Hazza has been running in Al Ain since 1992 and is the senior school of the Liwa Education group: it states more than three thousand three hundred pupils against a design capacity of 2,600 and marks 33 years of work. It teaches the American programme from KG1 to grade 12 - the Liwa Education curriculum is built on the California Common Core State Standards, while Arabic and Islamic studies follow the UAE Ministry of Education programme. The school has held an American accreditation since 2005, and its ADEK rating for 2024-2025 is "very good". The campus has a resource centre, a library, science laboratories, an IT infrastructure and technology lab, an art room, learning hubs, a large indoor gymnasium, sports fields and outdoor play areas, and the kindergarten and primary classrooms have green areas of their own. The medical provision is strong and named in detail: two school doctors and two experienced emergency nurses, a clinic with a doctor available full-time, and training for the medical staff through the Ministry of Health. A counselling and development service runs, and all entrances and gates are manned during the school's opening and closing times. After lessons there is a large programme of activities: sport, from gymnastics, basketball and football to swimming, and clubs for arts and crafts, cooking and individual subjects.
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Cognia · accreditationCollege Board · authorised programmeWhat stands behind each entry
The widest-reaching American accreditation: some forty thousand schools in over a hundred countries. It accredits both individual schools and whole school systems. It also sells a paid membership with no inspection behind it, and that membership is often passed off as accreditation.
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.
The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.