GEMS International School Al Khail is an established KG to Grade 9 (from September 2015) international school within the GEMS network of award winning schools, providing a high quality progression in the International Baccalaureate curriculum from the primary years and upward, with the IB Diploma Program arriving in successive years.
Greenwood International School (GIS) is a private K-12 school located in Muhaisnah 1, Dubai. The school first opened its doors on September 2006 and currently caters to over 990 students (up 70 on the year) – 80 percent of whom are Emirati. The remainder come from mainly British and American families. Greenwood is mixed gender up until Grade 4. Girls and boys are separated from Grade 5.
English Medium School Dubai (also referred to as English Language School) is a private K-12 school located in Oud Metha, Dubai.
The school is currently ranked Acceptable by the KHDA, Dubai’s education regulator, an encouraging move after being rated Unsatisfactory from 2009 to 2012/13.
Emirates English Speaking School is a private K-12 school, founded in 1979. The school is located in Al Safa, Dubai and currently caters to just over 1900 students (up almost 200 on the previous calendar year) with approximately 100 teachers (up significantly over the previous year), over half of which hold a relevant teach qualification according to the KHDA, Dubai’s education regulator (2011/12 report)..
Elite English School is a private K-10 school located in Deira, Dubai and currently caters to 1200 students at present, with 62 full-time teachers, most of whom have appropriate teaching qualifications. Students of Indian nationality comprised about 60 per cent of the student body, Pakistani 14 per cent and Filipino 12 per cent.
Taaleem owned Greenfield Community School (GCS) is a K-12 school located in Dubai Investment Park, Dubai. The school was established in September 2007 and offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme. It is an “International Baccalaureate World Continuum School”.
A CBSE school owned and run by GEMS Education, Our Own Indian School first opened its doors in 1991, and is based in Al Quoz, Dubai. It currently has a ranking of ‘Good’ by Dubai’s education regulator, the KHDA, a rating it has held for the last four years.
A GEMS Education, CBSE and CBSE-i curriculum based school, The Millennium School, Dubai is home to 3034 (up 150 on last year) mixed gender students, aged three to 17 (KG to Grade 12). Students are currently exclusively of Indian heritage.
Dubai Scholars Private School is a private K-12 school located in Al Ghusais, Dubai, taking children from 3 to 18 years of age (KG to Grade 12). The school was established in 1976, making it one of the oldest schools in the country, and currently has just under 1600 students (a reduction on 2011/12). It employs 98 full-time teachers (up 8 on the year) giving it a mid range teacher to student ratio.
Dubai National School, Al Barsha, established in 1988, is one of two branches (the second based in Al Twar) of Dubai National School, with a total of 4200 students. In total 2,770 (a small increase over the last academic year) attend the Barsha branch, a student body made up of boys and girls, aged from 4 to 18 years of age (KG to Grade 12). Two thirds of the children are Emirati.
Dubai Modern Education School (DMES) is a private K-12 school located in Al Mizhar near Mirdiff, Dubai. The school was first established in 1996 with just over 70 students, a number that has since has grown to approximately 2500, over two thirds of which come from local, Emirati families. Thirty nationalities are represented as a whole.
Located in Al Garhoud, Dubai International School is a private school providing education for boys and girls from Kindergarten to Grade 12, aged three to 18 years. It is the sister school of Dubai International School, Nad Al Sheba.
Al Salam Private School is located in Al Nahda, Dubai. It provides education for both girls and boys, from ages 3 to 18. It currently has just over 1158 students (up 60 on the last academic year), one in five of whom are from local, Emirati families. Arab nationals as a whole make up one in two students. Pakistanis account for almost one-third of the student body.
DPS Academy is the third school from the highly regarded Delhi Public School Society in the UAE. The school is located in Academic City and follows the ICSE Curriculum. This new branch of the school says it focuses on giving children “21st Century Skills for academic and co-curricular excellence”.
Al Safa Private School, located in Al Quoz (it relocated in September 2012) is a British National Curriculum. It is currently attended by 800 students between the ages of three and 11 years. The school is introducing 4 new classes in September 2015, thereby increasing the student population to 900.
Deira Private School is a combined first and middle school located in Al Twar, Dubai. The school follows a British curriculum for children, following the Cambridge International Primary Programme.
Al Rashid Al Saleh School is a private K-12 school (ages 4 – 19 years of age) licensed by the Ministry of Education and located in Oud Metha, Dubai.
Buds Public School is a well established institution in Dubai, having been in operation in the emirate for the last 25 years. Currently the school has approximately 770 students on its roll (up 13% on last year), and follows the Indian CBSE curriculum.
Al Mawakeb School is a private, K-12 school (3 to 18 years of age) located in Al Garhoud, Dubai. The school is one of two campuses located in Dubai (the other based in Barsha) managed by the Academia Management Solution International (AMSI).
Al Ittihad Private School Jumeirah, established in 1988, is an Arabic speaking, private K-12 school highly popular with Emirati families located near Al Safa, Dubai. The school is home to almost 2000 students, 9 out of 10 of whom come from local families, from ages 3 (KG1) to 18 (Grade 12). In total 100 teachers are employed (almost all with appropriate teaching qualifications) giving the school a respectable teacher to student ratio.
Located in Al Nahda, Dubai Carmel is a private school providing education for boys and girls aged three to 16, from Kindergarten to Grade 10. There are currently 885 students (up 10% on last year) attending a school relatively popular among the local population – one in five of the student body is Emirati.
Al Diyafah High School, which has been operating since 1982, is located in Al Qusais / Al Ghusais. It serves a predominantly Indian expatriate demographic, but with 29 plus other nationalities also represented at the school. The school teaches the UK’s national curriculum, but “modified”, with International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) examinations at Grade 10/11, and Advanced/Subsidiary Level examinations at the post-16 phase.
Al Mizhar American Academy is owned by Taaleem Education. It was previously known as the American Academy for Girls and is located in Al Mizhar, very close to the border with Sharjah. The “for Girls” was dropped from the name two years ago, when the school started to admit younger male siblings of older female students into KG1 for KG1 and KG2 only. This was done as a service to existing parents. The boys move on, generally to other Taaleem schools, for Grade 1 onwards.
Uptown School, owned and managed by Taaleem, is an IB based, Mirdiff located school that currently takes children aged from 3 years of age to 15 (Foundation to Year 10). Grades 11 and 12 will be added in 2015/16.
Ambassador Kindergarten in Dubai has now been inspected twice by the Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau, the inspection arm of the KHDA, and for two consecutive years awarded an Acceptable rating. Given the KG opened in 2012, this is perhaps unsurprising, although the school should have a Good rating in its line of site.
GEMS World Academy, Dubai is a private Pre K-12 international school located in Al Barsha, Dubai. The school was first established in September 2007 by GEMS Education and follows the IB curriculum. It currently has 1853 students (up quite sharply on 1500 pupils last year), and 172 teachers (up from 150 last year), giving it one of the better teacher to student ratios. All teachers have academic degrees; 84 per cent of them have a teaching qualification according to the KHDA.
American School of Dubai, one of the oldest co-educational K-12 schools in Dubai, was originally owned by DPC and was then transferred to a not for profit foundation in 2004. It has consistently achieved a ‘Good’ rating from Dubai education regulator, the KHDA, the second highest grade, since inspections began.
GEMS Education owned, UK curriculum based Winchester School, located in Jebel Ali, is home to 3,612 boys and girls, aged between three and 18 years. The single largest demographic is Indian, but the school had students from just under 90 different nations including those from Pakistan, Arab countries, Asian countries and The Philippines.
Don’t be confused by the name, The School of Research Science is not Dubai’s answer to MIT, but a Good rated UK curriculum K-12 school, adapted to local cultures, and with no particular emphasis on science or research. That said, its recent move to outstanding new premises in 2014, does give it a 21st century feel.
A relatively small school Lycée Libanais Francophone Privé, located in Al Muhaisnah, caters to 960 mainly Lebanese national boys and girls aged three to 17 years.
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