Iranian Khadije Kobra School
Acceptable Umm Hurair, Dubai · International / other
- KHDA rating
- Acceptable
Meets minimum standards; may be on an improvement plan. Read the full report before enrolling. From the 2023–24 inspection cycle — now more than two years old. KHDA has not completed a full cycle in two consecutive years, so this rating, and every rating on every other site, is older than it looks.
- Annual fees
- Fees not listed — confirm with the school
Varies by year group; confirm current fees with the school. 2026–27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- International / other
- Established
- Founded 1980
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Umm Hurair, Dubai
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In context
It is one of 51 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 (2023–24 cycle) and its published record — read the complete report on the official KHDA directory. These findings are from the 2023–24 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:
- Among the oldest Iranian schools in the UAE, on an extended green campus in Al Karama, running the Iranian National Curriculum for girls from Grade 1 to Grade 12.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Acceptable — the floor, not the standard.
- Staffing has fallen: the school employs around 26 teachers, down from 35 in 2019–20, and has no teaching assistants. For a family whose child needs in-class support, the absence of teaching assistants is the single most consequential fact on this page.
- Ask how support is delivered in a classroom with no assistant, who leads inclusion, and how many students of determination are on roll.
Inclusion (students of determination): We have not verified a separately published inclusion rating and will not infer one. What we can verify matters more here than a rating would: the school employs around 26 teachers, down from 35 in 2019–20, and no teaching assistants at all. In-class support in a classroom without an assistant depends entirely on the teacher, so ask specifically how a child who needs adult support through a lesson receives it. 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 — 212 of 212 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.
Other schools in Umm Hurair
- Springdales School Dubai — Good, AED 10,000 to 20,000 a year
- English Language Private School — Acceptable, AED 4,528 to 11,888 a year
- Iranian Towheed Girls School — Acceptable, Fees not listed — confirm with the school
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