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Abu Dhabi, UAE · Private
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Future Leaders International Private School is a private school of the Bin Fadel group, founded by Mr Saif Mubarak Fadel Al Mazrouei, and it has three campuses in the emirate of Abu Dhabi: the main one in Baniyas East, plus Rabdan and Madinat Zayed. This card is about the main Baniyas campus. Teaching follows the American curriculum from KG1 to grade 12 - the Virginia State Standards of Learning, reinforced by the NGSS in science and by the UAE Ministry of Education national curriculum - and the school states plainly that it also builds on the AP standards. Its right to put AP on a transcript is confirmed by the College Board ledger: three courses are authorised for the 2025-2026 school year, though neither the ledger nor the site says which ones. Teaching is in English and Arabic is compulsory - the entrance test covers English, Arabic and mathematics. Across the subjects run four strands the school calls its own: creativity and innovation, UAE identity, leadership and moral education. The campus is arranged not in corridors but in learning communities: every three to six classrooms share common spaces, playfields, a library and a dining area. Every classroom has iPads, and there is a pool, a gym, science and robotics laboratories, multipurpose halls and outdoor playfields, while meals are cooked on site under approval from the Abu Dhabi food control authority. There are seventeen clubs, from Holy Quran and Arabic poetry to robotics, Model UN and video editing. The main thing a parent needs to know: the school's ADEK inspection rating is Acceptable, and it publishes neither examination results nor a list of the universities its leavers go to.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $7 025–10 837 a year
25 800–39 800 AED
Programmes
AP · American programme
Languages of instruction
English
Registration fee
≈ $272
1 000 AED
About the fees The annual fee depends on the stage: 25,800 AED for KG1-KG2, 29,500 for grades 1-5, 35,100 for grades 6-9 and 39,800 for grades 10-12. Alongside it the school prints a second, discounted column: 19,350, 25,075, 29,835 and 33,830 AED respectively, with no conditions for the discount stated on the page. The fee is the same for all three Abu Dhabi campuses. On top of it: a registration fee of 1,000 AED, books from 535 to 3,720 AED depending on the grade, uniform from 430 to 590, and an optional bus at 5,000 AED a year subject to availability. Tuition is paid in three instalments - 1 August, 1 December and 1 March - while books and uniform are paid with the first instalment and cannot be deferred.
Admissions Admission runs in five steps: an application with the full set of documents, a meeting with the registrar together with the parents within two or three working days, an interview with the section head - the school looks at the child's character, skills and commitment - then an aptitude test in English, Arabic and mathematics covering writing, critical thinking and problem solving, and finally an answer by email within two or three working days and a closing interview with the principal or the section head. KG1 takes children from the age of four; the school says it follows the ADEK directive on age for grade level. It names neither a list of documents nor an application deadline.
Stages and year groups Grades KG1 - grade 12. The stages run right through from KG1 to grade 12, and the fee is split into the four bands the school treats as its stages: KG1-KG2, grades 1-5, grades 6-9 and grades 10-12. Classrooms are gathered into learning communities of three to six rooms that share common spaces, playfields, a library and a dining area. The school does not publish the shape of the school day or its hours.
Address St No 33, Baniyas E 9, Zone P7
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · 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
College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Authorisation here runs a year at a time: the register lists the school for the 2025-2026 school year.
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Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
American programme
The American school programme, with the High School Diploma at the end. It usually comes together with AP courses, which the College Board stands behind, and with an American accreditation - MSA, NEASC or Cognia.
What this means for this school. The diploma is written out by the school itself: the American programme has no common leaving exam, and the content of the senior years is set by the school. Outside checking therefore rests on two things here - the accreditation of the school, and the AP exams if the school runs them.
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
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The campus is arranged in learning communities: every three to six classrooms share breakout spaces, shaded outdoor learning areas, flexible classrooms, playfields, a library and a dining area. There is a pool and a gym, science and IT-robotics laboratories, multipurpose halls for assemblies and performances, libraries and learning areas, outdoor playfields and a separate UAE identity room. Every classroom has iPads, and the school calls its campuses eco-friendly. Meals are cooked on site, a monthly menu by week with breakfast and lunch goes to parents, and the kitchen is approved by the Abu Dhabi food control authority. There is a school bus, but it is not included in the fee.
Clubs and activities (17): Qur'an · Arabic poetry · Drawing and handicrafts · Robotics · Ecology · Sport · Journalism · Photography · Sustainable development · Model United Nations · Chess · World cuisines · Book club · Science · Theatre · Video editing · Latest inventions
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school describes its staff with a single figure covering all three campuses - 90 per cent highly qualified teachers - and that is all: it names neither the number of teachers nor their qualifications, the pupil-teacher ratio or class sizes. There is no staff list by name on the site.
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 policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school publishes its internal documents on a page of their own, and child protection appears there in two documents at once: the Safeguarding Policy 2025-26 and the Student Protection Policy 2025-26. Beside them sit an occupational health and safety policy, an inclusion policy, a policy on the management of student behaviour and its consequences, a protocol for underperforming students in English and Arabic, an attendance policy, a digital policy, a healthy eating policy, a food and nutrition policy, an admission policy for 2026 and a parents' guide to drugs prevention. The school names neither a medical room or nurse, nor a psychologist, nor security staff.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)75 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%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data95 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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