← Back to homeAl Salam Community School
Dubai, UAE · est. 2019 · Private
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Al Salam Community School is a British school in Al Twar 2 in Dubai, and it is the second campus of the old Dubai Al Salam: Al Salam itself began as a nursery in 1985, became a school in 1988 and moved around the city, through Al Rigga, Al Muteena, Hor Al Anz and Al Nahda 2, while the campus in Al Twar 2 opened in September 2019 for the middle and senior stages, with its own new facilities; the first campus, Al Salam Private School, stayed on to run the primary school and Key Stage 3. The curriculum is the National Curriculum for England, with IGCSE and A level examinations; the stages run from the Foundation Stage at three years old to Post-16 at 18. The DSIB inspection gave the school Good, and the school holds BSO accreditation, a SEND Inclusion award for 2026-2028, a Wellbeing Award for Schools for the same years and ALPS Diamond status, the top percentile in the world for attainment at GCSE. In facilities the campus gives more than seventy spacious classrooms, seven science laboratories, laboratories for technology, art and media design, a hall of a thousand square metres for sport and a stage, a covered six-lane 25-metre pool, indoor and outdoor courts and more than four thousand square metres of play areas with separate zones by age; there is a heritage centre with an open-air part, and the building is adapted for people of determination. In activities the school names Model United Nations, more than ten sports teams and community work under the Rahhal programme.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $6 479–11 192 a year
23 795–41 102 AED
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · Pearson Edexcel
Languages of instruction
English
Registration fee
≈ $143
525 AED
About the fees Fees by year of study, in dirhams: 23,795 at both pre-school stages, 27,041 in years one and two, 29,204 in years three and four, 31,367 in years five and six, 35,152 in years seven and eight, 36,775 in year nine, 38,938 in years ten and eleven and 41,102 in years twelve and thirteen. They are split into three payments: 40 per cent by 1 August and 30 per cent each by 1 December and 1 March. Beyond the fees the school charges a non-refundable admission assessment fee of AED 525 including VAT, a non-refundable registration fee of AED 2,000 that is later deducted from the fees, and a charge for learning resources and platforms. Family discounts go by the number of children: 5 per cent for the second and third child, 10 per cent for the fourth and 15 per cent for the fifth. The school warns that fees may change under the federal law on private education.
Admissions Admission involves an assessment, for which the school charges a non-refundable fee of AED 525 including VAT, payable before the assessment itself; comparative international tests are set on the instructions of the Dubai regulator and are also paid for by parents. Once a place is offered, the family pays a non-refundable registration fee of AED 2,000, which is later deducted from the fees. The school names no nationality restrictions and speaks of diversity, tolerance and inclusion as its foundation.
Stages and year groups The Foundation Stage covers ages three to five, the primary school five to eleven, the secondary school eleven to sixteen and Post-16 sixteen to eighteen. Under the English National Curriculum every student of the same age takes the same set of subjects until the end of Key Stage 3.
Address 18th Street, Al Twar 2
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeBSO · accreditationBSME · part of the associationschool 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 →BSOBritish government inspection of schools overseas
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →BSMEAssociation of British schools in the Middle East
One hundred and eighty schools in ten countries - Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE; more than half of the membership is in the UAE. It runs no inspections of its own at all. Instead it requires somebody else's accreditation, and the requirement is strict: a school not already accredited on joining must gain accreditation within two years and then maintain it. The inspectorates are EDT or ISI, which means the accreditation in question is the British government's BSO scheme. The organisation has withdrawn its former lighter routes in - one route remains.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to the association, and the association requires its members to hold a real accreditation: for Gulf schools that is almost always BSO. What to look at is that accreditation rather than this badge. Nor is the badge empty - there is no inspection of its own behind it, but a school is not admitted to the association without somebody else's accreditation. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Pearson Edexcel
A British exam board, the second after Cambridge. It issues its own versions of IGCSE and A-Level: the programme is the same in substance, what differs is who sets and marks the exams.
What this means for this school. The exams are set and marked by Pearson, and the school acts as an exam centre. Universities accept IGCSE and A-Level from Pearson on the same footing as the Cambridge ones. One caveat about checking: the Pearson centre search shows only those centres that agreed to be shown, so the absence of a school from it proves nothing.
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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
·Librarynot stated on the website
·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: The campus was purpose-built and opened in September 2019. The school lists more than seventy large, well-resourced classrooms, with the Foundation Stage and Year 1 classrooms each having direct access to an outdoor play area and separate outdoor breakout spaces for primary and secondary. Beyond that there are seven science labs and labs for technology, art, media and design, a 1,000-square-metre multipurpose hall with provision for performing arts and sport, a six-lane 25-metre swimming pool with appropriate covering so that girls can swim in privacy, and large outdoor and indoor playing fields catering to a diversity of sports.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
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 data80 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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