École Internationale Française de Sharjah (EIFS) is a private, co-educational French-curriculum school in the Al Abar area of Sharjah, on the site of the long-running Lycée Français International Georges Pompidou. It delivers the French national curriculum (homologated by the AEFE and approved by the French Ministry of National Education) from Petite Section through the Collège, currently to 4ème (Grade 8), expanding year by year. Teaching is in French alongside UAE-mandated Arabic, with English taught as a foreign language. Home to around 300 students from over 20 nationalities, EIFS is rated Very Good by the Sharjah Private Education Authority (SPEA).