Durham School Dubai
Acceptable Dubai Investments Park, Dubai · British (NCfE)
- KHDA rating
- Acceptable
Meets minimum standards; may be on an improvement plan. Read the full report before enrolling. From KHDA’s 2024-25 inspection - now more than a year 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
- FS1 to Year 11
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 3 to 16.
- 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
- Dubai Investments Park, Dubai
Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Dubai Investment Park 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
Paraphrased from the last full DSIB inspection we could verify (2024-25 cycle) and its published record - read the complete report on the official KHDA directory. These findings are from the 2024-25 cycle and are now more than two years old. Leadership, staffing and provision can change substantially in that time - see the note below on why every rating in Dubai is older than it looks.
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Inspected in the 2024-25 cycle - one of only four schools in Dubai to receive a full inspection that year, when full inspections were otherwise paused.
- Rated Acceptable on debut, with a clear improvement roadmap set by inspectors from the start.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Acceptable is the lowest rating the regulator accepts, and a debut rating reflects a school still building its systems - read the full report before deciding.
- New schools commonly need several years to establish academic and cultural identity: ask which specific recommendations are being funded this year.
Inclusion (students of determination): Acceptable - 50 registered students of determination, and inspectors’ verdict is unusually blunt: provision is caring in intent but reactive in practice, with insufficient infrastructure, inconsistent individual education plans and limited monitoring of impact. IEPs require redesign so they actually inform lesson planning and differentiated activities. Wellbeing monitoring lacks formal data collection and student participation mechanisms, and there are zero guidance counsellors on roll, which inspectors identify as a significant gap. A separate Quality Assurance Visit from Durham School UK found teaching standards high with differentiation a strength in the majority of lessons observed - so the classroom practice may be ahead of the systems around it. For a family whose child needs structured, monitored support, this is a school to question closely rather than assume. 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?
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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 Dubai Investments Park
- Greenfield International School - Very Good, AED 34,470 to 82,865 a year
- Bright Riders School - Good, AED 13,630 to 21,890 a year
- Dove Green Private School - Good, AED 42,000 to 65,000 a year
- Nibras International School - Good, To be updated
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