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Sharjah, UAE · Private
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Manthena American School stands in the school zone of the Muwailih district in Sharjah and teaches the American programme from Pre-KG to grade 12: early years up to KG2, elementary from grade 1 to grade 5, middle school from grade 6 to grade 8 and high school from grade 9 to grade 12. Its accreditation is Cognia, to which the school devotes a page of its own; the school is approved by the Sharjah Private Education Authority (SPEA), which also approves the fee. The school day is short and early: Monday to Thursday from 7:10 to 14:10. Among its own distinctions the school singles out an AI and robotics lab and the NCFE Cache programme. The campus is a large one: a science centre, laboratories, a modern library, a performing arts theatre, a cafeteria, a health clinic, a gym, a basketball court, outdoor sports fields, art studios, music rooms, a student lounge, resource rooms, parking, campus-wide Wi-Fi and school buses. A swimming pool is planned but does not yet exist. The main thing a parent needs to know about the fee: the figures in the table are the authority-approved fee, and beside them the school shows a "founders discount" of 30 per cent, so the fee actually charged at present is markedly lower.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 169–14 241 a year
30 000–52 300 AED
Programmes
AP · American programme
Languages of instruction
English
About the fees The fee approved by the Sharjah authority for 2026-2027: 30,000 dirhams for Pre-KG, 32,400 for KG1 and KG2, 35,400 for grade 1, rising to 49,000 in grades 9 and 10 and 52,300 dirhams in grades 11 and 12. With the 30 per cent "founders discount" the same stages cost from 21,000 to 36,610 dirhams. The fee is split into three instalments: the first before the start of the school year, the second by 15 December and the third by 15 March. The fee does not include books and learning resources, uniform, transport, school trips, food and drink or external after-school activities. The registration fee is set against the first term's fee. The school charges 500 dirhams for each cheque returned by the bank and after two returns moves to cash and transfer only. Refunds follow the rules of the Sharjah authority.
Admissions For registration the school requires a copy of the pupil's passport and residence visa, their Emirates ID, the passports and Emirates IDs of both parents, a family book for UAE nationals, a vaccination card, a birth certificate, the final report card from the previous school and, for a transfer from a school outside Sharjah, a transfer certificate attested by the Ministry of Education. Documents of a pupil coming from abroad are attested by that country's ministry of education, its ministry of foreign affairs and the UAE consulate.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-KG - grade 12. The stages are: early years up to KG2, elementary from grade 1 to grade 5, middle school from grade 6 to grade 8 and high school from grade 9 to grade 12. The school day runs Monday to Thursday from 7:10 to 14:10, and the office is open from 6:45 to 15:45 and at weekends from 9:00 to 15:00.
Address School Zone, Muwailih Commercial
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cognia · accreditationCollege Board · 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
CogniaCognia, formerly AdvancED
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 →College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
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.
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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.
American programme
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.
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 hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: A science centre, modern laboratories, a modern library, a performing arts theatre, a cafeteria, a health clinic, a gym, a basketball court, outdoor sports fields, indoor and outdoor play areas, art studios, music rooms, a student lounge, well-equipped resource rooms, playground equipment, parking, campus-wide Wi-Fi and school buses. An AI and robotics lab is a particular pride of the school. The swimming pool is described as a future plan and does not yet exist.
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 room
·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
There is a health clinic on campus; the school also names "safety features" without detail, and health and wellness programmes.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)75 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data90 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.
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