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Abu Dhabi, UAE · est. 2014 · Private
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The Creative British School opened in Abu Dhabi in September 2014 and runs the British curriculum, which it describes as a college-preparatory education. The stages run from FS2 to Year 13, and the school is noticeably cheaper than its neighbours in the emirate: a year in FS2 costs 10,090 dirhams and the senior years 25,890 to 25,970. The school describes its curriculum through its own principles - breadth and balance, age-appropriateness, a carefully sequenced plan across the stages - but names neither IGCSE nor A-level anywhere on the site, even though it charges separately for external examination boards and has a Year 13. What a parent needs to know: the website is sparse. The school writes nothing about rooms, grounds, clubs, a medical room, security or a counsellor, and the news on its front page is a social media feed, where Year 6 and Year 13 graduations and a sports day can be seen.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $2 747–7 071 a year
10 090–25 970 AED
About the fees Tuition for 2026-2027 (AED a year): FS2 - 10,090, Years 1 to 3 - 12,960, Years 4 to 6 - 17,390, Years 7 to 9 - 20,260, Year 10 - 25,970, Years 11 to 13 - 25,890. It is paid in three parts, due by 15 August, 15 December and 15 March. The registration fee runs from 500 AED in FS2 to 1,300 AED in the senior years and is set against the first term's fee. External examination fees are listed separately. The school warns that fees may rise only with prior approval from ADEK.
Stages and year groups Grades FS2 - Year 13
Address 33rd Street ME - 10
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
The school does not describe its premises on its website.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
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 data55 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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