Dhruv Global School
Acceptable Al Barsha South, 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 2025-26 inspection - the most recent inspection cycle. 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 8
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 3 to 14.
- Annual fees
- AED 18,000 to 26,400 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
- Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
KHDA lists: Indian.
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Barsha South, Dubai
- 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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In context
Its mid-range fee is about 27 per cent above the median for Indian (CBSE/ICSE) schools in this guide (AED 17,471). 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
Paraphrased from the last full DSIB inspection we could verify (2025-26 cycle) and its published record - read the complete report on the official KHDA directory.
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Inspected for the first time in February 2026, a school that only opened in 2023 and was assessed while still establishing its systems, staffing and curriculum.
- Inspectors describe a young school that has quickly built positive relationships with its parent community, through effective communication and a welcoming environment.
- Fees charged significantly below the KHDA-approved ceiling at every grade - for example Pre-KG at AED 13,000 against an approved AED 18,000.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Acceptable overall on debut - the least KHDA expects of any school, and a common starting point for a school still building its academic record.
- Provision is still being extended year by year: Grade 7 opened in 2025 and Grade 8 in 2026, so upper grades and any examination record remain unproven.
- The campus was previously occupied by a school that closed after about twelve months - a piece of context worth knowing, and worth asking the school to address directly.
Inclusion (students of determination): Acceptable at the school’s first inspection in February 2026, with 22 students identified with special educational needs - a small cohort. Inclusion is presented as a core part of the school’s philosophy, built around the principle of ‘Learning for Everyone’ and aligned to the Dubai Inclusive Education Policy Framework, covering students of determination, English language learners and gifted students, with an Inclusion Support Team led by a named Head of Inclusion working alongside classroom teachers, learning support staff, counsellors and parents, and a graduated approach of assessment, intervention and review. The admissions detail is unusually transparent and worth knowing: the admissions test may be waived, the child and family are invited to meet the Inclusion Department for a detailed discussion to assess and plan support, admission depends on the school’s capacity to provide that support, and individualised service agreements may be signed where needed - which is exactly the KHDA-registered mechanism described on our key-findings page. 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.
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
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- 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
- an admissions email or direct line
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Other schools in Al Barsha South
- GEMS Dubai American Academy - Outstanding, To be updated
- Safa Community School - Outstanding, AED 54,437 to 89,440 a year
- Repton Al Barsha - Very Good, AED 53,540 to 89,774 a year
- Dubai Schools Al Barsha - Acceptable, To be updated
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