Al Mizhar American Academy
Good Al Mizhar, Dubai · American
- KHDA rating
- Good
Good standards in most areas. The most common rating among Dubai schools. From KHDA’s 2023-24 inspection - now more than two years old. Checked against KHDA’s directory on 14 September 2026.
- Dubai focus areas
- Wellbeing: Good · Inclusion: Good
KHDA’s separate judgements for student wellbeing and for inclusion, from the same inspection.
- Year groups
- Pre-primary to Grade 12
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 3 to 18.
- Annual fees
- AED 36,485 to 65,270 a year
Read from the school's own published fee schedule on 16 September 2026, and stated as the range across its year groups. 2026-27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- American
KHDA lists: American.
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Mizhar, Dubai
Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Al Mizhar First.
- Contacting the school
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KHDA’s page for this school - every inspection report
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In context
Its mid-range fee is about 50 per cent above the median for American schools in this guide (AED 33,996). It is one of 85 schools in this guide currently rated Good.
Worth comparing: GEMS Founders School Al Mizhar (AED 24,877 to 37,856 a year) - a lower-fee option in the same area.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Good in 2023-24 - and the same rating in every single inspection since 2008-09, while the inspection framework itself has been progressively toughened: holding Good today is meaningfully harder than holding it a decade ago.
- Early years and elementary provision is the core strength, with teaching, assessment and student outcomes rated Very Good.
- Health and safety rated Outstanding across every phase, and partnership with parents Outstanding.
- A well-maintained purpose-built campus with resources effectively deployed across all subjects, including an innovation hub and science laboratories, for a school of around 550 students.
- Dubai’s only international-curriculum private school educating girls only from Grade 1 upward - a distinct option for families who want single-sex education.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Beneath the Good headline several indicators reach Very Good or Outstanding - read the phase detail rather than the single word, in both directions.
- More than a decade at the same overall rating: ask leaders directly which measures they are targeting to move, and on what timetable.
Inclusion (students of determination): This school now operates as American Academy for Girls, and our inclusion entry for it sits under that name - approximately 100 students registered as students of determination at the November 2023 inspection, a significant 18% of the roll, in a school whose operator was directly involved in developing KHDA’s Inclusive Education Policy. If you are searching under the former name, the provision described there is the same school. See the special educational needs guide for the questions to ask on a visit.
Inspector summaries are being added school by school as each report is read - 221 of 230 so far, dated per cycle, never invented. A school without a summary yet is unread, not unjudged.
Paraphrased from KHDA’s published inspection record for 2023-24. Read the dated report on KHDA’s page for this school.
Visit kit
Questions worth asking on a tour - tuned to this school’s rating and curriculum:
- Who leads inclusion here - and may we meet them before enrolling?
- How much staff turnover did you have last year, and why?
- What are actual class sizes this term - not the maximum?
- How and how often will I hear about my child’s progress?
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Special educational needs? Read the inclusion guide before you visit.
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- how many children are on roll
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- published exam results or university destinations
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- the year it opened - the figure we held was wrong on every school we checked
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Other schools in Al Mizhar
- Al Mawakeb School Al Khawaneej - Good, To be updated
- GEMS Founders School Al Mizhar - Good, AED 24,877 to 37,856 a year
- Mirdif American School - Good, AED 23,894 to 37,638 a year
- Arab Unity School - Acceptable, AED 6,462 to 10,808 a year
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