The Indian Academy Sharjah

Most school pages answer questions about fees and admissions. This one has to answer a prior question: is The Indian Academy Sharjah still operating? We cannot tell you yes, and we are not going to tell you no on the strength of a third-party note, so what follows is the evidence we gathered and where it points - because a family planning a move deserves the doubt stated rather than a confident page built on a dead link.

What is certain is that CBSE's affiliation register still carries the school. Affiliation number 6630088, school code 90034, secondary level - which means it was affiliated to teach up to Class 10 rather than to Class 12 - with a principal named and a website listed at a subdomain of iqraeducation.net. The register also gives an address near the Sharjah transport authority in Al Azra. A CBSE affiliation record is not, however, evidence that a school opened its doors this morning. Boards carry entries for schools that have stopped teaching, and the register does not tell you when an entry was last touched.

What is equally certain is that the licence does not appear where it should. Private schools in Sharjah are licensed and inspected by the Sharjah Private Education Authority, not by CBSE, and SPEA publishes its register of licensed schools with a detail page for each one. That register lists 135 schools. Every other Indian-curriculum school in this batch is in it - with a licence date, a class list, a fee document and inspection reports. The Indian Academy is not in it, under this name or any variant of it. A CBSE school teaching in Sharjah without a SPEA licence is not a thing that can happen; the licence is the permission to operate.

The websites tell the same story. Both domains CBSE lists still resolve in the domain name system, but neither accepts a connection - not over http, not over https, tested directly rather than through a browser that might have cached something. The school's older domain, indianacademysharjah.com, now returns an entirely unrelated commercial site. Domains that have lapsed and been repurposed are a reasonably reliable signal, and this is the third independent one pointing the same way. Add a fourth: the school does not appear in the published round-up of Sharjah's 2026 inspection outcomes, and a school-review site states plainly that it closed in 2021, while a directory listing still shows it as open with a parent review dated 2024.

There is also a genuine ownership tangle worth recording, because it affects how you search. The domain in CBSE's register belongs to Iqra Education, and several sources name Iqra Education as the owner. A review of the sister school in Dubai instead names LEAMS Education as the operating group behind The Indian Academy Sharjah along with Oxford School and the Apple International schools. We could not resolve which entity holds the licence, and we are not going to assert one. If you are trying to reach anybody about a transfer certificate, a record or an unpaid balance, the group name is the thread to pull rather than the school name.

So the practical advice is short. Do not plan an application around this school. If you need something from it - a transfer certificate for a child who studied here, confirmation of a record, a reference - go to SPEA rather than to the school, because a regulator that licensed a school retains the file when it closes, and the authority that handles Sharjah parent complaints is the same one. If you are simply looking for an Indian-curriculum school in Al Azra, several licensed ones sit within a few minutes of this address and are covered elsewhere on this site with their fees, ratings and language options intact.