The Indian High School
Very Good Oud Metha, Dubai · Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- KHDA rating
- Very Good
High quality across the board, with minor areas to improve. 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
- Grade 5 to Grade 12
As registered with KHDA. Typical ages about 10 to 18.
- Annual fees
- To be updated
This school does not publish a fee schedule we can verify. Ask us and we will get the figure for your year group.
- Curriculum
- Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
KHDA lists: Indian.
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Oud Metha, 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
It is one of 48 schools in this guide currently rated Very Good. As a CBSE school, its academic year runs April to March - plan relocation timing around this.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Very Good for six consecutive inspection cycles, with Outstanding sub-ratings in science attainment, curriculum design, personal development and safeguarding.
- Improving performance in most subjects, with excellent relationships between teachers and students.
- A wide variety of extracurricular activity developing innovation and problem-solving.
- Inclusion a named strength - an inclusion champion leads a specialist team with early, accurate identification.
No separate improvement requirements are recorded in the published material we have verified for this school. That is a gap in our sourcing, not evidence that inspectors raised none - the full report on the KHDA directory is the place to check.
Inclusion (students of determination): Very Good - 220 students with additional learning needs at the 2023-24 inspection, in a school of over 5,300 with 317 teachers, 3 teaching assistants and eleven guidance counsellors on a 1:16 ratio. Inspectors record that the inclusion team works effectively to ensure early and accurate identification of the needs of students of determination, and that students of determination make good progress with personalised learning plans. Personal and social development is rated Outstanding. The value context matters here: fees run from roughly AED 5,525 in Grade 5 to AED 10,465 in Grade 12, which places this level of inclusion provision at the very bottom of the Dubai fee range. Note the structure - this is the Grades 5 to 12 campus, with KG to Grade 4 taught at the Garhoud branch, which holds a different rating. 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 long is the real waiting list for my child’s year group, and how does sibling priority work?
- 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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- its fees - this school has not published them
- 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 Oud Metha
- Dubai English Speaking School - Outstanding, AED 43,084 to 53,320 a year
- Lycée Français International (Oud Metha) - Outstanding, To be updated
- Lycée Français International Pompidou - Outstanding, AED 36,900 to 50,700 a year
- Al Rashid Al Saleh Private School - Good, AED 8,527 to 18,298 a year
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