Zayed Educational Complex Secondary School - Al Qatah
Sharjah, UAE · StateZayed Educational Complex Secondary School - Al Qatah is a UAE state school in Sharjah, in the emirate of Sharjah. It has no website of its own, and that is not an omission on the school's part: the emirates' state schools live on the pages of their regulator, the federal Emirates Schools Establishment, rather than on sites of their own. So everything checkable about this school sits in one place - the AP course ledger kept by College Board: the name, the address (Nazwa Road Qatah Suburb, Qattah, Sharjah) and permission to run 5 courses of Advanced Placement in the 2025-2026 academic year. The ledger holds this unit as a campus of the Zayed Educational Complex and names it a secondary school; its entry does not say whether it takes boys, girls or both. What that permission means is worth knowing precisely, because it is finer-grained than an ordinary accreditation: College Board grants it not to the school as a whole but course by course, ties it to the particular teacher who filed the application, and it has to be renewed every August; before it is granted, the syllabus written by the school itself is read. The school as such is not examined at all: governance, safeguarding, premises and the primary years are no part of that check, and the permission says nothing about how pupils do in the AP exams - it is only the right to put the letters AP on a transcript. The main thing a parent should know: this page is thin not because the school lacks things, but because it has nowhere to describe itself. Stages by year, the shape of the school day, fees, clubs and campus facilities cannot be stated from anywhere, and each of those sections says so separately. State school education in the UAE is free for nationals, but whether this school takes children without citizenship, and on what terms, cannot be seen from the ledger.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · authorised programmeWhat stands behind each entry
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.