Dubai Modern Education School
Acceptable Al Mizhar, Dubai · American
- 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: Good · Inclusion: Good
KHDA’s separate judgements for student wellbeing and for inclusion, from the same inspection.
- Year groups
- KG1 to Grade 12
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 4 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
- American
KHDA lists: American,Ministry of Education.
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Mizhar, Dubai
Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Al Mizhar 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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In context
It is one of 52 schools in this guide currently rated Acceptable.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Strengths the inspectors named:
- A dual-track school running both a US section and a Ministry of Education section, unusual in Dubai and the reason many families choose it.
- In the published inspection record, most areas of students’ personal and social development are good, and understanding of Islamic values and Emirati culture is particularly strong in the MoE section.
- Students described by inspectors as keen, participatory and responsible learners, and assessment has improved to acceptable across all phases in both sections.
- NEASC candidacy status was granted in 2019 as part of a stated commitment to continuous improvement.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Acceptable overall - the lowest rating the regulator accepts, and the honest headline.
- The teaching picture is uneven by section and phase: improved to good in Kindergarten and in the MoE section, acceptable in the US High School, and recorded as weak in the elementary and middle phases of the US section - if your child would sit in those years, that is the finding to put directly to leaders.
- Students show limited independent research and problem-solving skills, reflecting insufficient opportunities provided for them, and opportunities to take responsibility and develop innovation skills are limited.
- Ask what has changed since: the detailed published record for this school is older than most in this register, so verify everything on a visit.
Inclusion (students of determination): The school describes itself as inclusive and non-discriminatory in admissions, with over 2,200 students across more than 50 nationalities in a dual-curriculum model - US and UAE Ministry of Education sections on one campus. We have not found a separate published KHDA inclusion rating in the sources we can verify, and rather than infer one from the Acceptable overall judgement, we say so. The admissions detail worth knowing is published by the school: applications are accepted without discrimination, but the decision to offer a place rests on availability and entrance test results - so the test is consequential, and a family should ask what it is used to decide. Read this entry alongside the inspection findings on this page, which record teaching as weak in the elementary and middle phases of the US section. 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?
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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 Al Mizhar
- Al Mawakeb School Al Khawaneej - Good, To be updated
- Al Mizhar American Academy - Good, AED 36,485 to 65,270 a year
- 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
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