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The Aquila School

Good Dubailand, Dubai · IB

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: Very 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 54,081 to 77,876 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
IB

KHDA lists: IB (13 Y),UK (13 Y).

School transport
Bus service available
Location
Dubailand, Dubai

Open in Google Maps. KHDA records the community as Dubai Land.

Contacting the school
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In context

Its mid-range fee is about 2 per cent below the median for IB schools in this guide (AED 67,582). It is one of 85 schools in this guide currently rated Good.

Worth comparing: GEMS FirstPoint School (AED 44,288 to 75,756 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 across all three inspection cycles - with a report peppered with Very Good judgements across sub-domains, and an April 2025 British Schools Overseas inspection awarding Outstanding across every area.
  • Very strong Foundation Stage outcomes, an inclusive ethos and successful wellbeing provision, with students’ personal and social development - particularly their respect for Emirati culture and sustainability - singled out.
  • SEN, English-as-additional-language and gifted provision praised in both KHDA and BSO inspections: individualised plans, adaptive teaching and specialist support staff, with inclusion judged very good to outstanding.
  • Wellbeing central to the school’s ethos - rated Very Good by KHDA and outstanding for pastoral care, safeguarding and student happiness by BSO - on an award-winning campus with a sports and performance complex, auditorium and black box theatre.

What they asked the school to improve:

  • Inspectors urged greater consistency in teaching quality, especially in Secondary.
  • The upper-years curriculum needs broadening and refining in preparation for the IB Sixth Form.
  • Middle leadership capacity must be developed so monitoring and interventions become more rigorous.
  • Attainment in Arabic needs raising, particularly reading comprehension and use of standard Arabic.

Inclusion (students of determination): Very good to outstanding in recent reports - SEN, English-as-additional-language and gifted provision praised by both KHDA and British Schools Overseas inspectors, underpinned by individualised plans, adaptive teaching and specialist support staff. British Schools Overseas rated the school Outstanding in 2025. Worth knowing for a family planning a full school journey: the pathway runs the UK National Curriculum to IGCSE and then offers the IB Diploma, the IB Career-related Programme and BTEC in Sixth Form - three distinct senior routes, which for a student who will not thrive on a single academic track is a genuine structural advantage. 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?

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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