Amity Private School, Sharjah

Amity Private School sits in Muwailih Commercial on a campus its own CBSE disclosure measures at 32,092.5 square metres, roughly eight acres, holding 132 classrooms and ten laboratories. It is a young school - SPEA's review records the establishment date as 2018 - and it belongs to the Amity Education Group, a not-for-profit foundation that runs universities, schools and preschools in several countries. The group connection is the thing families ask about most and the thing the school says least about: there is no articulation route, no preferential pathway and no mention of a guaranteed place at any Amity university anywhere on the school's own site. If somebody tells you otherwise, ask them to point at the page.

What lifts this record above most of its neighbours is that the school hosts its own SPEA School Performance Review. Six reviewers spent 11 to 14 November 2024 in the building and observed 152 lessons, 59 of them jointly with school leaders, and the outcome was an overall effectiveness of Very Good - up from Good at the previous review in 2022-23. The standard-by-standard detail is more useful than the headline: personal development was rated Outstanding across all four phases, as were the protection, care, guidance and support standard and governance, while achievement, teaching, curriculum and leadership all landed at Very Good. The two areas flagged for improvement were attendance, sitting at 95 per cent and rated only good, and threading independent learning and innovation through every curricular area rather than some of them.

That review also supplies numbers the school does not otherwise publish. The roll at the time of inspection was 1,998, distributed 641 in Cycle 1, 851 in Cycle 2, 211 in Cycle 3 and 295 in Cycle 4, with 90 pupils identified as having special educational needs and no Emirati students on roll. Staffing was 123 teachers plus 33 teaching assistants, a teacher-to-student ratio of one to sixteen and turnover of 12 per cent. The school's separate CBSE disclosure gives a higher teacher count of 137 - the two were filed on different dates, and we are quoting both rather than picking the flattering one.

The language offer here is genuinely broad by Sharjah standards and, unusually, it is evidenced in an official document rather than a brochure. The SPEA report names French, Hindi and Malayalam as curricular language choices and reports achievement in all three across all phases. Arabic is taught as an additional language from Primary upward, with no first-language Arabic cohort, and Islamic education runs from Primary too. Malayalam in particular is worth knowing about: it is the language families relocating from Kerala most often lose in a move, and comparatively few Gulf CBSE schools carry it through to a board paper.

The school also runs a career-counselling operation that goes beyond the usual assembly. Its wellbeing and careers page describes a dedicated counsellor and a head of careers offering one-to-one planning, support with UCAS, the Ontario application system and the US Common Application, and test-preparation workshops for IELTS, SAT, ACT, UKCAT and EmSAT. For a Class 12 cohort of 87 - the number in its 2025 CBSE results, all of whom passed - that is a meaningful ratio of support to students. What the school does not publish is a stream table for Classes 11 and 12, which is the one thing you should press it on before accepting a seat.