The Philippine Private School was established in 2014 to support the educational needs of the Filipino population.
GEMS Winchester School Abu Dhabi currently teaches 1222 students according to the National Curriculum for England.
Sister to the original Abu Dhabi Indian School on Abu Dhabi Island, founded in 1975, the Abu Dhabi Indian School (ADIS) branch at Wathba was opened in 2014. The school offers the CBSE curriculum. The core curriculum is supplemented by a range of other subjects including Hindi, Physical Education, Creative Arts, ICT, and French from Grade 8.
Established in 2014, Mayoor Private School, Abu Dhabi is a collaboration between TAALEEM National Private Educational & Facilities Management Company L.L.C, Abu Dhabi, with the 140 year old Mayo College General Council (MCGC, India) aimed at developing the first branded day scholar school outside India.
Creative British School, Abu Dhabi (CBS) opened in September 2014. It is owned by the PACE Group, set up by Dr PA Ibrahim Haji, a philanthropist and Indian businessman who heads businesses and educational institutions in India and the Middle East including Gulf Asian English School, Sharjah, and India International School, Sharjah. Creative British School was the first UK curriculum PACE school and has now been joined by two further UK curriculum schools, one each in Dubai and Sharjah.
Liwa International School - Al Mushrif is the third school to open under the Liwa Education brand, and the first in the capital. The original schools, based in Al Ain, offer both a co-educational and All Girls' option, offering a US curriculum.
Ajyal International School Al Falah is the second school opened by the Bin Omeir Group, a construction group based in Abu Dhabi. The sister school is located in Mohammed bin Zayed City and offers a UK curriculum. Both schools are rated Good by ADEK.
Virginia International Private School currently accepts students from KG to Grade 9 which will grow organically to Grade 12. It is a US curriculum school in Khalifa City B (Shakbout City), in Abu Dhabi. The school, which opened in September 2015, achieved a Good ADEK inspection rating in 2021-22.
GEMS United Indian School began as Our Own English School, opening in 1990 and now, following a restructure and a new campus, has been renamed.
Global Indian International School Abu Dhabi, a K-12 school, is part of the Global Indian International School (GIIS) group of schools. In the latest and second ADEK inspection, the school overall improved its rating to Good.
Sunrise English Private School is a long-established, low budget CBSE curriculum located in the Mussafah area of Abu Dhabi.
Opened in September 2020, the Spanish School of Abu Dhabi is a welcome (though rather unexpected) addition to small number of non-English tongue international schools in the emirate.
Al Rabeeh Academy is a relatively new and successful UK curriculum school which opened in Mohammed bin Zayed City in 2017.
The original International Community School is a private K-12 school located in Al Mushrif, Abu Dhabi. The school was first established in 1990 and caters to approximately 1,600 students, almost exclusively of Arab origin, with UAE Nationals the largest single grouping, followed by Jordanians, Egyptians and Syrians.
GEMS Cambridge International School, Abu Dhabi, is a co-educational school located in East Baniyas, with a student population of approximately 3,500 students.
