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International Schools

🇦🇪 International Schools in Dubai

9 schools, profiled on verifiable public data.

Dubai is the rare Asian-hub market with a real public inspectorate: the KHDA inspects every private school annually and publishes an official rating from Outstanding down to Very Weak, alongside regulated fee schedules. That makes Dubai schools genuinely tierable on verified quality — the KHDA band is a hard, externally-audited anchor, not a marketing claim. The market is dominated by large British-curriculum providers (many under the GEMS group) leading to A-Levels or the IB, with premium fees and, for the strongest schools, a long unbroken 'Outstanding' record.

Compare these schools side-by-side →
SchoolCurriculaAgesFees (SGD)
Dubai American AcademyKHDA: OutstandingAmerican / IB4–18AED 66,185–93,300
Dubai CollegeKHDA: OutstandingBritish11–18AED 97,415–110,305
Dubai English Speaking CollegeKHDA: OutstandingBritish11–18AED 84,325–90,633
Dubai International Academy Emirates HillsKHDA: OutstandingIB3–18AED 44,979–79,696
GEMS Jumeirah CollegeKHDA: OutstandingBritish11–18AED 78,946–98,681
GEMS Modern AcademyKHDA: OutstandingNational / IB3–18AED 30,983–73,876
GEMS Wellington International SchoolKHDA: OutstandingBritish / IB3–18AED 47,527–103,399
Jumeirah English Speaking SchoolKHDA: OutstandingBritish / IB3–18AED 54,129–104,544
Kings' School Al BarshaKHDA: OutstandingBritish3–18AED 57,999–105,873

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