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Dubai, UAE · Private
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Al Sadiq Islamic English School stands in Al Qusais 2 behind the Al Twar Centre, a short way from Al Qusais metro station, and runs the National Curriculum for England together with Islamic values - that is its own wording and the sense of its name. The school belongs to the Athena Education group. The stages run from FS2 to Year 11: early years, Key Stages 1 and 2, Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 leading to IGCSE, which the school sits with the Cambridge board. It has no senior stage: Key Stage 5, that is A Levels or the IB Diploma, a leaver completes at another school, and the school says so plainly. There are dedicated rooms for ICT, art and STEAM, and a library with a collection of books and periodicals. The outdoor space is divided by age: the Foundation Stage has its own covered play area supervised by teachers, and primary and secondary pupils have two covered basketball courts.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $1 276–2 587 a year
4 687–9 499 AED
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE
About the fees The KHDA-approved tuition fee for 2026-27: 4,687 dirhams for FS2, 5,243 for Years 1 to 4, 5,384 for Years 5 and 6, 6,764 for Years 7 to 9, 7,931 for Year 10 and 9,499 for Year 11. On top of that the school charges mandatory items - 334 dirhams for activities, 557 for computers and 213 miscellaneous - and a long list of optional ones: books, uniform, stationery, photograph, student ID, the National Agenda Parameter or Arabic benchmark test, enrichment activities, the annual day, an educational local trip, a skill development programme, an English language immersion programme and a STEM programme. With VAT the yearly total comes to between 10,852 dirhams in FS2 and 16,338 in Year 11. A new student also pays a non-refundable registration fee of 525 dirhams including VAT.
Stages and year groups Grades FS2 - Year 11. FS2 and then the British stages: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. Key Stage 4 is Year 10 and Year 11: at the end of Year 9 a student chooses subjects from an options booklet and then follows a two-year programme to IGCSE. That is where the school ends: it describes A Levels and other pre-university courses as the next step elsewhere.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeAthena Education · school is part of the networkschool 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). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Athena Educationschool network
Athena Education is a UAE school group; its site is athenaeducationglobal.com. The About us page dates it to 2015 («Established in 2015») and speaks of operation only: «We proudly operate nine schools», «nine schools, five in Dubai and four in Sharjah». Counters on the homepage give «9» schools, «15000+» students and «1300+» academic and teaching staff. The nine schools are named: Al Sadiq Islamic English School, Grammar School, Oaktree Primary School, American International School, International Academic School (the five in Dubai) and Al Zuhour Private School, Al Wahda Private School, Al Resalah International School of Science, Al Resalah American International School (the four in Sharjah). Whether the group owns the schools or only runs them the site never says: the single word used is «operate». One clash between networks is worth recording: Al Zuhour Private School is counted among Athena Education's nine, while the First Education Holding site lists the same school in its own portfolio and dates its purchase to 2008; neither network mentions the other.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
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
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio · Playground
Campus: Dedicated rooms for ICT, art and STEAM programmes. A school library with a collection of books, periodicals and reference material for research. The Foundation Stage has a covered play area supervised by teachers; primary and secondary pupils have two covered basketball courts.
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
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%)72 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%)85 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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