Primus Private School
Good Al Warqa’a, Dubai · Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- 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: Very good · Inclusion: Good
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
- AED 12,265 to 24,587 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
- Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
KHDA lists: Indian.
- 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
- 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 5 per cent above the median for Indian (CBSE/ICSE) schools in this guide (AED 17,471). It is one of 85 schools in this guide currently rated Good. As a CBSE school, its academic year runs April to March - plan relocation timing around this.
Worth comparing: Our Own High School (AED 8,700 to 14,600 a year) - a lower-fee option in the same area.
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 thirteenth consecutive Good, held at every inspection since 2009-10, with the latest report showing clear further improvement.
- English, mathematics and science rated Very Good across almost all phases - the detail the single word hides.
- Personal development rated Outstanding across the entire school, with wellbeing Very Good.
- A CBSE school with accessible fees of roughly AED 12,000-24,000, serving around 1,455 students from Pre-KG to Grade 12.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Staffing has thinned: 86 teachers at the last inspection against 108 four years earlier, moving the ratio from 1:13 to about 1:17, with class sizes averaging 27-30.
- Teacher turnover ran at 22% in 2022, above the 19% recorded in 2020 - roughly one in five teachers new in a year, which is worth asking about directly.
- Thirteen cycles at Good: consistent under a toughening framework, and the step up has not come.
Inclusion (students of determination): Good - 53 students of determination supported through a dedicated Student Development Centre, with interventions across literacy, mathematics, speaking and listening, social skills, motor skills and life skills, and individual education plans developed for relevant students. Two inspector caveats are published with it, and they are the familiar pair: there is some mismatch between the school’s vision and classroom practice in how education plans are actually implemented, and while a Gifted and Talented Students Policy exists, curriculum modifications for higher-ability students are not yet well embedded. Career counselling is available for older students. 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 do you handle children joining outside the April intake?
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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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- 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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