Oxford School Dubai
Good Muhaisnah, Dubai · British (NCfE)
- KHDA rating
- Good
Good standards in most areas. The most common rating among Dubai schools. 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: Good · Inclusion: Good
KHDA’s separate judgements for student wellbeing and for inclusion, from the same inspection.
- Year groups
- FS1 to Year 13
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 3 to 18.
- Annual fees
- AED 12,695 to 20,128 a year
Read from the school's own published fee schedule on 16 September 2026, and stated as the range across its year groups. 2026-27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- British (NCfE)
KHDA lists: UK (13 Y).
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Muhaisnah, Dubai
Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Muhaisanah Fourth.
- 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
Its mid-range fee is about 69 per cent below the median for British (NCfE) schools in this guide (AED 52,500). It is one of 85 schools in this guide currently rated Good.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Good in 2023-24 - the first time in the school’s inspection history, after a Weak rating in 2008-09 and eleven consecutive Acceptable cycles.
- A large number of Very Good ratings now appear in the report: in student achievement, almost every measure sits at Good or better.
- Health and safety and care and support Very Good across all four phases - pastoral provision is the school’s consistent strength.
- One of Dubai’s longest-established schools, open since 1988, offering IGCSE and A-Level at accessible fees.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Mathematics attainment in Primary is the exception to an otherwise improved achievement profile.
- Earlier reports flagged under-resourced science laboratories, libraries short of Arabic texts, and constrained indoor-to-outdoor flow in Foundation Stage - areas the school has been working on, and worth checking with your own eyes on a visit.
- The campus dates from 1988 and is functional rather than purpose-built premium - judge it against the fee, not against a new-build.
Inclusion (students of determination): Good and improving - approximately 147 students supported through an inclusion programme overseen by a dedicated team including a counsellor, a special educator and class teachers, with individual education plans developed following psycho-educational assessments. Two details give this weight: the admission process screens for needs early, so support can be in place from the start rather than after a child struggles, and there is a dedicated inclusion centre for targeted interventions. English-as-additional-language provision is embedded in the curriculum given a student body spanning over 80 nationalities. Honest limits worth knowing: the A Level range is narrow, focused on Commerce and Science, so a student drawn to performing arts, design or humanities will find little at Post-16, Primary mathematics remains a work in progress, and the campus is functional rather than premium - the value here is in the people, not the infrastructure. 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?
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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 Muhaisnah
- Greenwood International School - Good, To be updated
- Philadelphia Private School - Good, AED 18,514 to 31,704 a year
- Russian International School - Good, AED 15,722 to 25,180 a year
- SMM High School Muhaisnah - Good, AED 14,770 to 24,177 a year
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