Aspam Indian International School, Sharjah

Aspam Indian International School opened in Al Azra in 2013 - SPEA's register puts the establishment date at 2 June that year - which makes it one of the youngest Indian-curriculum campuses in an emirate where several of its neighbours were teaching before the UAE federation had finished forming. Age matters here in a very practical way. A school founded in 2013 has only just finished growing a cohort from Pre-KG all the way to a leaving certificate, and the school's own record shows exactly that: the first Class 10 board batch sat in 2018-19, and CBSE did not extend the affiliation to senior secondary level until 2022-23. Families comparing it with a 1975 or 1982 school in the same city are not comparing like with like, and the honest framing is that this is a school whose senior wing is three years old, not a school with three decades of Class 12 results behind it.

The group behind it is the ASPAM Education Group, whose governing-board director is listed on the school's own About page as Mr Ayush Goel. Parents searching for the name should be warned about a genuine confusion: ASPAM Scottish School is a different institution in Noida, India, run by the same family of schools, and there is no Scottish partnership attached to the Sharjah campus. SPEA's own licence register names the legal entity Aspam Indian Int. Pvt. School LLC, school 107, and CBSE's register carries it as affiliation 6630080 with school code 90020. Those two numbers, not the trading name, are what a query should quote.

Where this record can be unusually specific is staffing and board cohorts, because the school files a CBSE mandatory public disclosure and puts it on its own site. That disclosure gives 66 teachers - 16 post-graduate teachers, 36 trained graduate teachers and 14 primary teachers - alongside a named special educator and a named counsellor, and it lists the affiliation as running 2022-27. It also gives board cohort sizes, which are the most revealing numbers on the page: Class 10 grew from 20 candidates in 2022-23 to 32 and then 36, and Class 12 from 23 to 41 to 55. A senior cohort of 55 is a small sixth form by Sharjah standards, and it is worth asking the school directly which Class 11 subject combinations actually ran last year, because a stream in a school this size can fail to open on numbers alone.

SPEA's own register evaluates the school as Good, and the school repeats that on its About page as the outcome of the 2024-25 review across all key standards. Good is the middle of the six-point Itqan scale - below Outstanding and Very Good, above Acceptable, Weak and Very Weak - and it carries a concrete consequence rather than being a badge: SPEA ties the maximum permitted fee increase to the rating band, so a Good school sits below an Excellent one in what it may apply for. That is the connection most parents miss when they read an inspection grade as a marketing line.

One gap here is the school's own doing and we are not going to paper over it: the tuition page at aspamiis.com does not show a figure, asking you to complete an admissions enquiry before it will release the fee structure, and the fee PDF linked from the CBSE disclosure sits on a SharePoint link that is not publicly readable. SPEA's own licensed-schools directory fills that gap - it hosts a downloadable approved fee-structure PDF for this school, which is what the fee table below is built from. There is also no careers page anywhere in the school's site navigation, which is awkward given that "aspam indian international school sharjah vacancies" is one of the most common things people type about this school, and that is noted below as not published rather than backfilled from a third party.