← Back to homeAl Rabeeh Academy
Abu Dhabi, UAE · Private
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Al Rabeeh Academy stands in Zone 23 of Mohamed Bin Zayed City in Abu Dhabi and runs the British curriculum from the Foundation Stage to Year 13. The Foundation Stage follows the UK EYFS framework and the Curiosity Approach. From Year 7 to Year 12 boys and girls are taught separately, and the school explains this by saying it makes teaching easier to tailor to the children's needs. In Year 10 pupils choose their subjects, and the school names A-Level and International A-Level as the exit routes. Alongside the regulator's assessments the school sets GL Progress tests in English, mathematics and science and takes part in the international TIMSS and PIRLS studies. The main thing a parent should know: the fee is flat at the top - from Year 7 to Year 13 it is the same 46,000 dirhams - and external examinations are paid for separately by the family at the British boards' own rates.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $10 592–12 526 a year
38 900–46 000 AED
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Languages of instruction
English
About the fees Fees for 2025/26 by year group: 38,900 dirhams for the first pre-school year, 40,000 for the second and for Year 1, 43,000 for Years 2 to 6 and 46,000 for Years 7 to 13. Textbooks are included in the sum. Inside each figure sits a non-refundable registration fee of between 1,900 and 2,300 dirhams, and the remainder is split into three payments due on 1 August, 1 December and 1 March. School transport costs 5,000 dirhams a year, paid in the same three instalments. External examinations in the middle and upper years the school calls outright the parents' responsibility, and it publishes a separate price list for them. Families are given a 10 per cent discount on the third and fourth child and 15 per cent from the fifth.
Admissions Admission starts with a short form on the website, after which the head of admissions speaks to the family, and the school presses hard for a personal tour of the campus. It sets the entry year by the age chart of the Abu Dhabi education authority and asks families to check the child's date of birth against the table on the admissions page. Pupils with additional needs are accepted, and the school runs support programmes for them with teachers and tutors, while the strongest pupils are given separate work.
Stages and year groups The stages run right through: a pre-school stage on the British EYFS framework, then Key Stage 1 - Year 1 from age five to six and Year 2 from six to seven - followed by the primary and secondary schools. From Year 7 to Year 12 boys and girls are taught in separate classes. In Year 10 pupils choose their subjects, and the exit routes are A-Level and the International A-Level.
Address Zone 23, Mohamed Bin Zayed City
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeCOBIS · membershipBSO · accreditationschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →COBISCouncil of British International Schools
An association of British schools abroad with a quality inspection of its own. It has nine membership categories, and the word "accredited" appears in seven of them, although COBIS does its own inspection in one: in the rest it recognises an accreditation granted by somebody else.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to this organisation but has not been through its accreditation. The difference matters: membership is usually paid for and has no external inspection behind it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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A scheme of the UK Department for Education: a school abroad is inspected against the standards for independent schools in England, including safeguarding and the standards for boarding. The inspections are done by independent inspectorates approved by the department, and the inspectorates themselves are monitored annually by Ofsted. The reports are published in full on the government website.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
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Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 8 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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