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Al Ain, UAE · Private
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MBK School, named after Mohammed Bin Khalid Al Nahyan, stands in the Falaj Hazza district of Al Ain, teaches the American curriculum and is a small school: more than five hundred pupils, forty-two teachers and twenty nationalities. Its accreditation is Cognia, and the school states its Index of Education Quality score: 309. The Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge has rated it "good". The main thing a parent needs to know: the school does not take a child through to leaving - admission runs from the Pre-KG preparatory stage to grade 9, it has no senior stage and no leaving certificate of its own, and it does not write where its ninth-graders go. The school describes itself as a values-driven one: strong foundations in the core subjects together with character education, diversity, mutual respect and partnership with parents.
Key facts
Programmes
American programme
Languages of instruction
English
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-KG - grade 9. The school announces admission from the Pre-KG preparatory stage to grade 9; its home page names stages up to grade 8 - the school is growing. It has no senior stage and no leaving year.
Address Falaj Hazza
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cognia · accreditationschool 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.
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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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
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
More than five hundred pupils and forty-two teachers; twenty nationalities in the school. The school does not state teachers' qualifications, class sizes or an exact pupil-teacher ratio.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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 median82 "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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