GEMS Wellington International School
Outstanding Al Sufouh, Dubai · IB
- KHDA rating
- Outstanding
The highest KHDA rating - consistently excellent teaching and outcomes. 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: Outstanding · Inclusion: Outstanding
KHDA’s separate judgements for student wellbeing and for inclusion, from the same inspection.
- Year groups
- FS1 to Year 13; Year 12 to Year 13
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 3 to 18.
- Annual fees
- AED 47,527 to 103,399 a year
Varies by year group. 2026-27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- IB
KHDA lists: IB (13 Y),UK (13 Y),UK/IB (13 Y).
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Sufouh, Dubai
Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Al Safouh First.
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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 12 per cent above the median for IB schools in this guide (AED 67,582). It is one of 23 schools in this guide currently rated Outstanding.
Worth comparing: Deira International School (AED 44,616 to 89,889 a year) - a lower-fee school with the same Outstanding rating and curriculum.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Strengths the inspectors named:
- A twelfth consecutive Outstanding rating.
- Well-developed learning skills with excellent attainment and progress in almost all subjects.
- Several previously lower measures improved this cycle - including self-evaluation and improvement planning.
- Extensive, high-quality facilities that greatly assist the curriculum.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Arabic and Islamic Education remain the lower tier of the profile - now at least Good, with progress improved to Very Good in Primary; every other key performance measure in the 2023-24 report is rated Outstanding.
- Inspected thirteen times since 2008-09 with twelve Outstanding results: the question for leaders is what still moves, not what holds.
- A 13:1 ratio with classes of roughly 22-24 in a school of 2,900-plus students from over 90 nationalities - scale is the trade-off for the breadth on offer.
Inclusion (students of determination): Outstanding for both inclusion and wellbeing - close to 180 students identified with SEND requirements in a school of over 2,900. Provision runs on a graduated Wave 1 to Wave 3 framework with early identification, where Wave 3 involves an individual education plan and specialist input, covering the twelve SEND categories KHDA recognises. The team is named: a Governor for Inclusive Education, Directors of Inclusion and SENDCos for different year bands, an autism spectrum specialist and inclusion language development specialists. Inspectors describe the ethos of wellbeing and inclusion as intrinsic features of the school - and note it is non-selective, which makes its academic results a genuine value-added measure rather than a product of who it admits. 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:
- 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 long is the real waiting list for my child’s year group, and how does sibling priority work?
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Special educational needs? Read the inclusion guide before you visit.
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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
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- the year it opened - the figure we held was wrong on every school we checked
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Other schools in Al Sufouh
- Dubai College - Outstanding, AED 97,415 to 110,305 a year
- The International School of Choueifat - Acceptable, AED 21,896 to 41,906 a year
- Icademy Middle East - Not yet rated, To be updated
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