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Dubai, UAE · Private
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The Apple International Community School stands in Al Karama on 29A Street behind the Karama Centre, next to the park, and it is the newest school of LEAMS Education, which has been working in the UAE for more than forty years. The school runs the early years on the British EYFS and then the National Curriculum of England, with the primary stage supplemented by the UAE Ministry of Education subjects - Arabic, Islamic studies, moral education and UAE social studies. The stages run from FS1 to Year 11. The school's motto is "Justice, Equality and Unity", and it calls itself affordable: its fee is a discount on the KHDA-approved scale, and it already covers textbooks, a set of uniform, e-learning resources, laboratory materials, external exams, medical provision and robotics. The school holds the WELL Health-Safety Rating of the International WELL Building Institute, which the LEAMS group pursued after the pandemic, and it names a school clinic that complies with Ministry of Health rules and a child protection policy that all staff are aware of.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $5 290–7 006 a year
19 427–25 728 AED
Languages of instruction
English
Registration fee
≈ $136
500 AED
About the fees The KHDA-approved fee for 2026-27 and the standing discount on it: FS1 and FS2 - 19,427 dirhams less 18.41 per cent, that is 15,850; Year 1 and Year 2 - 21,002 and 16,980; Year 3 and Year 4 - 21,002 and 17,980; Year 5 and Year 6 - 22,052 and 18,500; Year 7 and Year 8 - 23,102 and 19,130; Year 9 - 24,678 and 19,550; Year 10 - 24,678 and 20,100; Year 11 - 25,728 and 20,955. It is paid in three instalments due on 25 August, 25 December and 25 March, and in two for Year 11. The fee covers textbooks and workbooks, one set of regular and PE uniform excluding accessories, blazer and cardigan, e-learning resources and apps, computer and laboratory resources, external exams, medical provision and robotics; ministry books and optional books are not included. A new student pays 500 dirhams plus VAT as an application fee. Paying the full year before 30 August earns a 2.5 per cent discount; a second child gets 20 per cent and a third or later child 25 per cent. There are sports scholarships: 15 per cent for an international champion and 10 per cent for a national champion in badminton, chess, karate, tennis, table tennis and swimming.
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeschool 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. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The school names computer and laboratory rooms whose resources are covered by the fee, a school clinic, and a sports programme planned separately from lessons. There is no detailed campus description on the pages read.
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
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 room
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school clinic complies with the policies and guidelines of the Ministry of Health and keeps comprehensive medical records for all pupils. The school has a child protection policy, all staff are aware of it, and the school calls it binding on every member of staff. Its infrastructure and facilities, it says, meet the regulator's safety standards. Separately the school names the WELL Health-Safety Rating obtained by LEAMS Education after the pandemic.
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 data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 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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