The Elite English School
Acceptable Deira, Dubai · Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- 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: Good · 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
- AED 4,480 to 10,186 a year
Varies by year group. 2026-27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
KHDA lists: Indian.
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Deira, Dubai
- 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 58 per cent below the median for Indian (CBSE/ICSE) schools in this guide (AED 17,471). It is one of 52 schools in this guide currently rated Acceptable. As a CBSE school, its academic year runs April to March - plan relocation timing around this.
Worth comparing: National Charity School Primary (AED 4,277 to 7,841 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
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:
- CBSE from KG1 to Grade 12, with over 2,000 students in Al Wuheida, Deira - one of the more established Indian schools in that part of the city.
- Among the most affordable in this register at roughly AED 4,500 to 10,200 a year.
- Parents and former staff consistently describe a warm, welcoming, multicultural environment, and leadership states an explicit commitment to consistency in academic performance.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Acceptable in every inspection but one. The school was rated Good at its first inspection in 2010-11 and has been Acceptable ever since - so the leadership’s stated aim of consistency has been achieved, but at the bottom of the acceptable range rather than its benchmark.
- A teacher-to-student ratio of about 1:23, from 2,156 students, 95 teachers and 11 teaching assistants at the October 2023 inspection. That is high even by the standards of lower-fee Indian schools in Dubai, and it is the number to weigh against the price.
- KHDA is pressing all schools toward a Good rating; a school that has sat at Acceptable for over a decade should be asked directly what its improvement plan funds this year, and whose name is against it.
Inclusion (students of determination): 116 students on the SEN roll at the October 2023 inspection. Inspectors record that identification is accurate, but that support remains uneven - the recurring pattern in this register, where the front end of the system works and delivery in individual classrooms does not reach every child. Weigh that against the 1:23 teacher-to-student ratio: a thin adult-to-child ratio makes consistent in-class support materially harder to deliver, and that is the question to put to leaders. 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.
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?
- 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 Deira
- Pearl Wisdom School - Good, AED 16,100 to 23,300 a year
- Sabari Indian School - Good, To be updated
- Himayah School for Education Boys (Abu Hail) - Acceptable, To be updated
- Little Flower English School - Acceptable, To be updated
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