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Dubai, UAE · Private
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The Apple International School stands in the Al Qusais 1 district of Dubai and occupies two sites: the primary campus on Doha Road and the secondary on 40 3B Street. It belongs to the LEAMS Education group, which has been in education for more than forty years and is built on the idea of quality education at an affordable cost. The curriculum is English: the EYFS in the Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum for England from Year 1 to Year 13. The school divides its life into three stages - Foundation Stage, primary and secondary - and in the senior years, Key Stage 5, a pupil takes at least three subjects at AS and at least two at A level, with subjects coming from both Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel. Compulsory in the senior years are ministry-syllabus Arabic for all Arab pupils, ministry-syllabus Islamic studies for Muslim pupils, moral, social and cultural studies, and physical education; the options run from accounting, business and economics to psychology, sociology, environmental management and travel and tourism. Inclusion is placed at the foundation: since 2017 the school has followed the Dubai Inclusive Education Policy Framework, refuses ability labels and builds lessons on whole-class differentiation. Its facilities include a library, a science laboratory, an ICT lab, an outdoor learning area, visual and performing arts spaces, a sports hall, an outdoor football pitch, a tennis court, a swimming pool and an athletics track, with equipment for chess, carrom, football, basketball, volleyball, badminton, athletics, cricket, taekwondo and yoga. The extracurricular side is organised not as clubs but as events: daily assemblies, super learning weeks, plays, charity events, field trips, career and university fairs, book fairs, a STEM challenge, Model UN and dozens of themed days.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $1 904–5 482 a year
6 993–20 131 AED
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · Pearson Edexcel
Languages of instruction
English
About the fees The annual fee for 2025-2026: FS1 6,993 dirhams, FS2 7,244, Years 1 to 4 at 8,198, Year 5 9,408, Year 6 10,409, Year 7 11,242, Year 8 13,304, Year 9 14,001, Year 10 15,731, Year 11 17,652, Year 12 18,847 and Year 13 20,131. From FS1 to Year 10 it is paid in three parts, from Year 11 to Year 13 in two. On top of the fee the school charges compulsory levies, the same at every stage: 600 dirhams for activities, 500 for computing, 250 medical, 250 for e-learning and 200 for resources - plus books by stage, from 553 dirhams in the Foundation Stage to 1,217 in Years 9 and 10, and 25 dirhams for a school ID card.
Admissions The year group is set by age on 31 December of the school year under Ministry of Education and KHDA rules, and the school keeps a dedicated table for this with a comparison of grade names between countries: FS1 at three, FS2 at four, Key Stage 1 at five to seven, Key Stage 2 at seven to eleven, Key Stage 3 at eleven to fourteen, Key Stage 4 at fourteen to seventeen and the Sixth Form at sixteen to eighteen. Applications go through an online form, there is an entrance examination with a published syllabus, and there is a scholarship programme. Disputed placements the school asks families to settle with the admissions team.
Stages and year groups Grades FS1 from age 3 - Year 13, up to age 18. The stages run straight through and the school sets them out by age: Foundation Stage 1 at three, Foundation Stage 2 at four, Key Stage 1 - Years 1 and 2, five to seven - Key Stage 2 - Years 3 to 6, seven to eleven - Key Stage 3 - Years 7 to 9, eleven to fourteen - Key Stage 4 - Years 10 and 11, fourteen to seventeen - and the Sixth Form - Years 12 and 13, sixteen to eighteen. In the Sixth Form pupils take at least three subjects at AS and at least two at A level.
Address 40 3B Street, Al Qusais 1, P.O. Box 33963
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmePearson · authorised programmeThe school confirms both registry entries itself: in the senior years it takes AS and A level subjects from both Cambridge Assessment International Education and Pearson Edexcel. It has an accreditations and affiliations page of its own, but there are no accreditors on it at all: what it lists are admissions and careers partners - UCAS, BridgeU and Concourse Match. On a separate page the school calls itself a registered ASDAN centre. Neither ASDAN, nor the LEAMS Education group that owns the school, nor BSME is in our directory of organisations, so none of them is entered in the card.
school 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 →PearsonPearson Edexcel, a British exam board
It gives a school approved centre status: that means Pearson exams can be sat in the school itself. What is checked is the premises, the equipment, the secure storage of papers and the presence of trained invigilators.
What the badge means for this school. The school can run Pearson exams on its own premises. The status says nothing about teaching, about results or about the school itself: any school able to run an exam securely holds it. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which Pearson qualifications 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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓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
Campus:
Clubs and activities: Chess · Carrom · Football · Basketball · Volleyball · Badminton · Athletics · Cricket · Taekwondo · Yoga · Model United Nations · STEM challenge
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 data78 "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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