Al Nahda-located The Sheffield Private School provides education for approximately 1,200 boys and girls aged three to 18 years, from Foundation Stage 1 to post-16, offering UK IGCSE, AS and A' Level exams. The latest KHDA report shows the school's further improved Good rating, highlighting the important changes taking place to raise student progress, attainment and wellbeing.
UK curriculum based The Winchester School, located in Jebel Ali, is home to just over 3,800 boys and girls (an increase of over 200 in the past year), aged between three and 18 years. The single largest demographic is Indian, but the school had students from almost 90 different nations including Pakistan, Arab countries, the UK and the Philippines.
Newlands School is a British Curriculum school operated by well-known Beaconhouse Education which opened in Al Warqa in Autumn 2017.
Consistently rated good by the KHDA for 9 years, in 2017-18, the Oud Metha located Lycée Français International made the step up to Very Good, consolidating this rating a year later. Otherwise known as AFLEC, Lycée Français International is a French curriculum school currently attended by over 2,270 students aged from three to 18 years of age. The largest single group of students is made up of French nationals, followed by Lebanese and Egyptians.
The Arbor School opened in Al Furjan in September 2018. Now entering its fifth year of operation, the British Curriculum School has a particular focus on ecological awareness, responsibility and sustainability.
A mixed gender GEMS owned Foundation Stage to Year 6 school following the English National Curriculum, GEMS Royal Dubai School takes children from 3 to 11 years of age and, as of May 2016, is Mirdiff's first and currently only KHDA Outstanding-rated school.
Now in its fifteenth year of operation Umm Suqeim 3 located Raffles World Academy is home to approximately 1,827 boys and girls studying the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the IB Career-related and Diploma Programmes (DP).
Established as a separate Boys School to allow a single shift at the original Our Own High School in Bastakiya, Our Own High School Al Warqaa opened in 1975. Run by GEMS Education, OOHS AW had 4, 650 students on its register, looked after by 223 teachers at the time of the 2019-20 KHDA inspection.
Deira Private School is a Primary school only, located in Al Twar 3, Dubai. The school follows a British curriculum for children, following the Cambridge International Programmes for Primary and Secondary..
Dubai English Speaking College is the sister institution to Dubai English Speaking School (DESS), the oldest UK-curriculum school in Dubai, established in 1963. The College opened in 2005 to provide a through-school arrangement for secondary education for families at DESS. In between times, DESC has grown to admit students from a range of other schools around Dubai. Both DESS and DESC are among the few ‘not for profit’ schools in Dubai.
Having opened in September 2018, following the lead of the original GEMS Founders School in Al Barsha, GEMS Founders Mizhar School intends to offer parents a highly affordable and quality UK education.
The Indian Academy is a holistically focused CBSE curriculum school located in the Muhaisnah area of Dubai, close to the airport and to the border with Sharjah. The Indian Academy now offers pre-KG to grade 12.
The Royal Grammar School Guildford in Dubai opened in September 2021. It is the second school in the Middle East to be established in partnership with the 510 year old UK school - the other opened in Qatar in 2016. The Royal Grammar School Guildford UK is one of the most academically successful in the country.
Al Sadiq Islamic English School is a K-12 private school for girls and boys located in Al Qusais in Dubai.
North American International School is a fast-improving US curriculum school, teaching the US Common Core curriculum supported by the UAE Ministry of Education curriculum for Arabic and Islamic Studies.
