Dubai British School Jumeira
Not yet rated Jumeirah, Dubai · British (NCfE)
- KHDA rating
- Not yet rated
Newly opened or not yet through a full inspection cycle. This school has not yet been inspected by KHDA, so there is no rating to date.
- Year groups
- Early childhood (ages 2-3) to Year 8
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 2 to 13.
- 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
- British (NCfE)
KHDA lists: UK (13 Y).
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Jumeirah, Dubai
Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Jumeira Second.
- Contacting the school
- Ask us and we will ask them
We hold this school's details and put questions to it for parents - fees for a year group, whether there is a place, what happens next. KHDA's own page for the school, linked below, carries its published contact details if you would rather go direct.
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District-level pin for Jumeirah - we have not recorded exact gate coordinates, so use the Google Maps link above for the entrance.
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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 has not yet completed a full KHDA inspection cycle - no rating is not a bad rating, but there is no inspection evidence yet either.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
This school has not yet been inspected by KHDA, so there is no rating and no inspection findings to report. What follows is verified public record about the school itself - what it has committed to, and what remains unproven - kept clearly separate from anything a regulator has judged.
What is known and committed:
- Opened August 2024 in Al Wasl as the third Dubai British School campus under Taaleem, following Outstanding-rated Emirates Hills and Jumeirah Park.
- Opened with a full primary section from FS1 to Year 6 and has already added Years 7 and 8 for 2025-26, growing year on year toward Year 13 subject to KHDA approval - faster expansion than most new schools manage.
- A central Dubai location bringing an established curriculum framework to families who could not previously reach the DBS campuses.
What is not yet proven:
- No KHDA rating yet: a full inspection normally comes in the third year of operation, so nothing here has been independently judged.
- The Outstanding ratings belong to Emirates Hills and Jumeirah Park, not to this campus - shared branding is a reasonable signal, not evidence.
- Secondary provision is being built a year at a time and there is no examination record: if you need a proven senior school now, the established campuses are the lower-risk choice.
- Note the standing charges across this group: a AED 4,000 registration fee credited against term fees, an application fee, and KHDA transfer charges - build them into the first-year budget.
Inclusion (students of determination): Around 10% of the school population is registered with additional learning needs, and the school supports up to a quarter of its students in total, the balance having marginal needs met mostly through individualised classroom support. The inclusion team is a Head of Inclusion, two SEN teachers, three assistants and a school counsellor. The head of inclusion joined from Arcadia British School, where he is widely credited with the Outstanding inclusion ratings that school holds from both KHDA and British Schools Overseas - which is a more meaningful signal for a school with no inspection record of its own than any group branding. 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:
- Which facilities are open today, and which are still ‘coming soon’?
- 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?
- If the school is not full, what happens to fees and staffing next year?
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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
None of it is guessed or filled in from a similar school. Ask for any of it using the form below and it moves up the queue - requests are how we decide what to collect next.
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Tell us the year group, and we will ask Dubai British School Jumeira what it costs, whether there is a place, and what the next step is. Then we send you what they say. Every answer we get is also checked into this school's record, so the next parent finds it already here.
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Other schools in Jumeirah
- GEMS Jumeira Primary School - Outstanding, AED 44,200 to 55,714 a year
- Jumeira Baccalaureate School - Very Good, AED 43,325 to 91,840 a year
- Al Shurooq Private School - Good, To be updated
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