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Abu Dhabi, UAE · Private
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ICS Al Falah is the International Community Schools group's campus in New Al Falah City in eastern Abu Dhabi, and it runs the American programme from Pre-KG to grade 12. The school stresses two things: an American programme built around critical thinking, creativity and independent learning - and UAE culture and values at its base. The campus is a modern one: science and IT laboratories with interactive boards, multi-purpose rooms for lessons through movement, football pitches, basketball courts and tracks outdoors, temperature-controlled gymnasiums indoors so that lessons are not lost to the heat, and computers with pre-installed software and access to resources both at school and at home. The school publishes its fee as a table and honestly separates two figures: the approved fee and the discounted fee for new students. Books, uniform and the bus are not included.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $8 441–11 960 a year
31 000–43 923 AED
Programmes
American programme
About the fees The annual fee for 2026-2027 by stage: Pre-KG 31,000 dirhams, KG1 and KG2 33,000, grades 1 to 5 36,300, grade 6 39,930, grades 7 to 9 39,930, grades 10 to 12 43,923. New students get a discount: 20 per cent in the kindergarten, 15 per cent in grades 1 to 6 and 10 per cent in grades 7 to 12, which brings the fee to between 26,400 and 39,531 dirhams. On top of the fee come books (from 300 to 3,850 dirhams by stage), uniform at 350 dirhams and a two-way bus at 5,000 dirhams a year; there is no bus in Pre-KG. The school works out the full bill with the bus itself: from 28,550 to 48,731 dirhams.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-KG - grade 12. The stages run straight through from Pre-KG to grade 12 on the American programme. The school week is five days, from 7:30 to 15:30; Saturday and Sunday are closed.
Address New Al Falah City, Sector 1E-P3
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cognia · accreditationInternational Community Schools · school is part of the networkschool 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
CogniaCognia, formerly AdvancED
The widest-reaching American accreditation: some forty thousand schools in over a hundred countries. It accredits both individual schools and whole school systems. It also sells a paid membership with no inspection behind it, and that membership is often passed off as accreditation.
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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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.
International Community Schoolsschool network
International Community Schools (ICS) is a school group in Abu Dhabi. The site dates its start to 1990, when it opened as Al Ibrahimiyah School with 130 students, and says it now has «over 6000 academic minds«. It lists six campuses: ICS Mushrif, ICS Al Danah, ICS Al Falah City, ICS Khalifa City, ICS Al Manhal, ICS Al Maharat — some American, some British curriculum, covering Pre-KG/FS1 to Grade 12/Year 13. The group also has a separate nurseries site (nurseries.icschool-uae.com). The site names Mohamed Al-Shamma as Managing Director & CEO. The homepage student counter renders as «0+«, i.e. the figure does not load there.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
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 hall
✓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
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The school describes its own campus: science and IT laboratories with interactive boards, multi-purpose rooms for lessons through movement and practical analysis, spacious outdoor sports areas with football pitches, basketball courts and tracks, temperature-controlled gymnasiums for indoor sport, and computers with pre-installed software and access to learning resources at school and at home.
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 data70 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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