International Academic School
Acceptable Al Warqa’a, 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: Acceptable · Inclusion: Acceptable
KHDA’s separate judgements for student wellbeing and for inclusion, from the same inspection.
- Year groups
- Pre-primary to Grade 12
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 3 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.
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Warqa’a, Dubai
Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Al Warqa First.
- Contacting the school
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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.
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What the inspectors said
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Achievement is strongest in Kindergarten, where children meet or exceed curriculum expectations in the core subjects.
- Wellbeing has grown in prominence and is supported by a dedicated team led by the school counsellor, with strong foundations in place.
- Inclusion is clearly improving, with most students of determination making expected progress from their starting points, supported by regular monitoring and targeted strategies.
- Parents speak positively about the care shown to their children.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Acceptable overall, maintained across the last five inspections - and the school’s history includes two years rated Weak in 2015-16 and 2016-17, so read the trajectory as recovery rather than stability.
- Across the upper school attainment and progress are generally acceptable, with reading fluency among the named weaknesses.
- Inclusion remains Acceptable overall: planning does not always articulate how students of determination will be meaningfully included in lessons, and teachers’ differentiation skills are developing but inconsistent.
- Wellbeing structures, data analysis and parental involvement are still developing; many parents would welcome more structured guidance on supporting learning at home.
- With no new inspection until 2026-27, the relatively new leadership’s impact will be untested in public for some time.
Inclusion (students of determination): Acceptable - improving, and published with the inspectors’ caveat: planning does not always articulate how students of determination will be meaningfully included in lessons, and teachers’ differentiation skills, while developing, remain inconsistent. Most students of determination do make expected progress from their starting points. 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
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- 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 Warqa’a
- GEMS Our Own English High School - Very Good, To be updated
- GEMS Al Khaleej International School - Good, AED 36,096 to 52,129 a year
- International School of Arts and Sciences - Good, To be updated
- Newlands School Dubai - Good, AED 21,400 to 40,100 a year
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