Recognition
Awards, honours and where our students go
Recognition for the school, its teachers and its students, with the year of each. And the universities past students have gone on to.
01From the school office
Published by the school officeRecognition published by the school office
- T4 World's Best School Prizes
- Top 10
- Shortlisted for Innovation, 2022
- ADEK inspection rating
- Good
- 2024-25 inspection
- Years in Musaffah
- 12
- Since 2014
02Timeline
Recognition, year by year
2025
IBT: 84% overall mastery in the secondary school
International Benchmark Test, 2025. 94% of Grade 9 students scored above 61%.
2024–25
Rated Good by ADEK
Abu Dhabi's school inspection (Irtiqa'a), up from Acceptable.
2024
Teachers' Excellence Award
Mrs. Deepika Pathak, Head of English, from the Indian Association Ajman.
2023
Climate action at COP28
Khaleej Times reported SSIS's climate-consciousness work at COP28 UAE.
2022
World's Best School Prizes: top 10 for Innovation
Shortlisted by T4 Education, one of two UAE schools named.
2020
Global Teacher Award
Mrs. Bushra Afreen, then Head of English.
2020
KG Climate Warriors competition: four prizes
A grand inter-school competition for 28 schools from 7 emirates.
2019
Hosts of the UAE CBSE Cluster Kabaddi Championship
SSIS hosted the cluster championship on its own grounds.
The evidence
03After SSIS
Universities our past students study at
From the school's own list. A fuller record of each year's leavers, by stream and country, is being gathered with the alumni.
- 01Khalifa UniversityUAE
- 02Indian Institute of ScienceIndia
- 03University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
- 04University of MelbourneAustralia
- 05California Institute of TechnologyUSA