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Dubai, UAE · Private
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Ambassador International Academy is a full-continuum IB school in the Al Khail district of Dubai: the early years as part of the PYP from the age of three, the PYP from Grade 1 to Grade 5, the MYP from Grade 6 to Grade 10, and the Diploma and Career-related Programmes in Grades 11 and 12. On top of the IB the school offers the BTEC International Level 3 Extended Diploma in Business - a course with no examinations, assessed entirely by coursework, with internships organised by the school and visits to local businesses. The school blends the IB with the English National Curriculum and puts weight on STREAM and the arts: music, drama, visual arts and design, with artificial intelligence used in lessons. The KHDA inspection rated the school "Good" in 2021-22, and in 2023-24 judged 85 per cent of its quality standards to be "Good" or better. Care for the child is described systematically: daily check-ins, mindfulness activities, qualified counsellors, the PERMAH wellbeing model, peer mentoring and leadership programmes. There are more than a hundred extracurricular activities, free of charge, reaching more than six hundred pupils from KG2 to Grade 10 - from robotics and entrepreneurship to TED-style talks.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $12 867–25 404 a year
47 255–93 297 AED
Programmes
IB · PYP, MYP, DP, CP · BTEC
Languages of instruction
English
Registration fee
≈ $136
500 AED
About the fees The annual fee in UAE dirhams for 2026-2027, as approved by the KHDA: 47,255 for the nursery and early childhood centre, 49,593 for FS1 (Pre-KG), 56,083 for FS2 (KG1) and Year 1 (KG2), 64,464 for Years 2-6, 74,956 for Years 7-9, 82,527 for Year 10, 84,324 for Year 11 and 93,297 for Years 12 and 13. The school also publishes its own discounted scale for the same year - from 35,206 dirhams in the early childhood centre to 77,108 in the senior grades, a discount of some fifteen to twenty per cent. A registration fee of 500 dirhams per pupil is non-refundable and payable on application. Sibling discounts are calculated on tuition: 5 per cent for a second child in a family of two, rising to 12.5 per cent for a fifth. The school publishes a KHDA Fact Sheet for each stage. There is a scholarship programme and a school bus network covering almost all of Dubai.
Admissions The school admits children from all communities and ability groups and stresses that its pupils and staff come from many countries, ethnic groups, languages and cultures. The application is made online, and a non-refundable registration fee of 500 dirhams per pupil is payable on application; for registration and refund rules the school points to the KHDA policy. Admission begins at the age of three - at the Pre-KG early years stage - and the nursery of the early childhood centre takes children younger still.
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery and Pre-KG to Grade 12 (ages 3-18). The stages run right through: the early years from 3 to 6 (Pre-KG to KG2) as part of the PYP, the PYP from Grade 1 to Grade 5 (ages 6-10), the MYP from Grade 6 to Grade 10 (ages 11-15), and in Grades 11 and 12 either the IB Diploma Programme or the IB Career-related Programme (ages 16-19). A separate strand is the BTEC International Level 3 Extended Diploma in Business: six mandatory units (exploring business, planning a marketing campaign, managing an event, business finance, principles of management, business decision making) and nine further units chosen by the teaching staff.
Address Al Khail, Plot No. 3653942
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP, MYP, DP, CP · authorised programmeCIS · 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
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
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: PYP (ages 3-12), MYP (ages 11-16), DP (ages 16-19), CP (ages 16-19, with a vocational slant). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end. MYP is the middle stage, ages 11 to 16. There are no exams here either; at the end an optional electronic assessment of pupils' work is possible. DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate. CP is the final stage with a vocational slant, ages 16 to 19: some of the DP subjects plus an applied qualification. It is meant for those heading into a trade or an applied degree rather than an academic one.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →CISCouncil of International Schools
It accredits international schools and is a paying association at the same time. It examines governance and ownership, the curriculum, teaching, student wellbeing, staff and premises; a team of volunteers from other CIS accredited schools visits the school. Membership and accreditation are different things here, and schools confuse them more often than anything else.
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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A British vocational qualification from Pearson: not an academic course with an exam at the end, but a programme of practical assignments in a particular trade, from engineering and business to art and sport.
What this means for this school. Teaching and assessment work differently from A-level: instead of written exams there is a run of practical assignments marked by the school, while Pearson checks the school itself and samples the work. British universities do accept BTEC, but not all of them and not for every course: level 3 carries the same UCAS points as A-level, and that is what a family aiming at a particular university should look at. For a child who needs the classic academic route, BTEC is not a replacement for A-level but a different path.
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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school has no dedicated page listing its facilities - the "Campus & Facilities" link leads to the general section about the school. What is named specifically: STREAM (science, technology, reading, engineering, arts and mathematics), the use of artificial intelligence in lessons, spaces for music, drama, visual arts and design, and a school bus with a route network covering almost all of Dubai.
Clubs and activities (100): Robotics · TED-style talks · Entrepreneurship
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
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school treats care for the child as a whole-school responsibility rather than a separate service: every teacher and member of staff is accountable for a pupil's emotional, social and personal development. Emotional wellbeing rests on daily check-ins, mindfulness activities and access to qualified counsellors who give a child a safe space to talk and be heard. Social development runs through teamwork, peer mentoring, leadership programmes and cultural events. The school works to the research-informed PERMAH wellbeing model and runs separate formats for parents - coffee mornings, workshops and listening circles. The school describes neither a child protection policy, nor a medical room, nor security staff, nor CCTV on any dedicated page.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)95 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)90 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data60 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data70 "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.
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