Buds Public School
Acceptable Muhaisnah, Dubai · Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- KHDA rating
- Acceptable
Meets minimum standards; may be on an improvement plan. Read the full report before enrolling. 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: Acceptable · Inclusion: Acceptable
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
- To be updated
This school does not publish a fee schedule we can verify. Ask us and we will get the figure for your year group.
- Curriculum
- Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
KHDA lists: Indian.
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Muhaisnah, Dubai
Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Muhaisnah First.
- Contacting the school
- Ask us and we will ask them
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KHDA’s page for this school - every inspection report
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How far is this from another school? What the bus costs
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In context
It is one of 52 schools in this guide currently rated Acceptable. As a CBSE school, its academic year runs April to March - plan relocation timing around this.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Acceptable in 2023-24 - and the honest reading is that holding this rating across many cycles has itself required improvement, because the regulator’s bar rises each year.
- Good progress in Islamic Education in the middle and secondary phases.
- Strong personal development and social responsibility - the inspectors’ clearest positive.
- A long-established, affordable CBSE school - open since 1986, with international benchmark tests now used to target teaching.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Attainment and progress in English, mathematics and science have sat at Acceptable across phases - the core reason for the overall rating.
- Benchmark results have shown weak progression against expectations, prompting targeted intervention - ask what has changed since.
- Financial constraints limit investment; other schools at similar fees have moved further, so ask leaders exactly what the improvement plan funds this year.
Inclusion (students of determination): Acceptable in KHDA’s directory and its published 2023-24 ratings table, matching the school’s overall judgement. The inspectors’ wording is published in full: teachers do not adapt the curriculum in ways that help them to adequately meet the needs of all groups of students, including provision for students of determination and those with particular gifts and talents. Inspectors recommended a review of the entire system of monitoring and support so that all students make better progress, and a review of the curriculum for the least able. 40 students of determination were identified at the last inspection. The school publishes no detail about facilities or support for additional learning needs, despite being required under KHDA inclusive education policy to have them in place - which is itself the finding. Nine consecutive Acceptable ratings sit behind this. 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:
- What did the last KHDA report ask you to improve, and what has changed since?
- 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?
- How do you handle children joining outside the April intake?
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Special educational needs? Read the inclusion guide before you visit.
What we don't know about this school
Every other page on this site tells you what we have verified. This one tells you what we have not, because a register you cannot calibrate is worth less than one you can. We do not currently hold:
- its fees - this school has not published them
- whether it is co-educational, boys or girls
- how many children are on roll
- its facilities - sports, arts, science, library
- published exam results or university destinations
- what registration, transport, uniform and meals add to the fee
- the year it opened - the figure we held was wrong on every school we checked
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Other schools in Muhaisnah
- Greenwood International School - Good, To be updated
- Oxford School Dubai - Good, AED 12,695 to 20,128 a year
- Philadelphia Private School - Good, AED 18,514 to 31,704 a year
- Russian International School - Good, AED 15,722 to 25,180 a year
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