Horizon English School
Outstanding Al Wasl, Dubai · British (NCfE)
- 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 6
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 3 to 11.
- Annual fees
- AED 43,849 to 58,825 a year
Varies by year group. 2026-27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- British (NCfE)
KHDA lists: UK (13 Y).
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Wasl, Dubai
- Contacting the school
- Ask us and we will ask them
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In context
Its mid-range fee is about 2 per cent below the median for British (NCfE) schools in this guide (AED 52,500). It is one of 23 schools in this guide currently rated Outstanding.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Outstanding again in 2023-24 - held continuously since 2018-19, with not a single measure below Good.
- Outstanding attainment and progress in English, mathematics and science across Foundation Stage and Primary.
- Leadership Outstanding across all five indicators, with the new principal joining an already high-quality team.
- A nurturing, caring ethos with excellent identification procedures ensuring SEND needs are addressed early.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Strengthen presentation and handwriting.
- Give students more scope to explore mathematical concepts independently, and more enquiry-led activities in Years 1-2.
- Make fuller links between learning and the wider world.
Inclusion (students of determination): Outstanding - 99 students of determination in a school of just over 1,100, taught by 78 teachers with 48 teaching assistants, which is unusually generous adult capacity for a primary. Note the practical structure: this is a primary-only school, so the secondary transition needs planning from the outset, and the school runs a no-homework philosophy - a fit question rather than a fault. 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
- 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 Wasl
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