← Back to homeJebel Ali School
Dubai, UAE · est. 1977 · Private
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Jebel Ali School opened its doors in September 1977, making it one of the oldest British schools in Dubai; today it stands in Damac Hills and belongs to the Taaleem group. The stages run straight through from the early years to the Sixth Form. Fees are charged not year by year but in three blocks: one for the early years and primary, one for the secondary and one for the senior stage. Admissions deserve a separate look: next to the fees the school publishes a table of place availability by year group, and for 2026-27 some classes are closed, some hold a waiting list and only FS1 is open directly. The school gives no pupil numbers, no examination results and no list of universities on its pages.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $13 514–22 380 a year
49 630–82 190 AED
About the fees The annual fee is charged in three blocks: 49,630 dirhams from FS1 to Year 6, 76,590 from Year 7 to Year 11 and 82,190 in Years 12 and 13. It is paid in three termly instalments of 40, 30 and 30 per cent.
Admissions The school is open about availability: a table by year group for two school years ahead sits next to the fees. For 2026-27 only FS1 is open directly, some classes hold a waiting list, and Years 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 12 are closed; for 2027-28 FS1, FS2 and Year 12 are open and the rest hold a waiting list.
Stages and year groups Grades FS1 from age 3 - Year 13. The stages run straight through: early years, primary, secondary and Sixth Form. Fees are set in three blocks - FS1-Year 6, Year 7-Year 11 and Year 12-Year 13.
Address Damac Hills
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
BSO · accreditationBSME · part of the associationschool 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
BSOBritish government inspection of schools overseas
A scheme of the UK Department for Education: a school abroad is inspected against the standards for independent schools in England, including safeguarding and the standards for boarding. The inspections are done by independent inspectorates approved by the department, and the inspectorates themselves are monitored annually by Ofsted. The reports are published in full on the government website.
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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →BSMEAssociation of British schools in the Middle East
One hundred and eighty schools in ten countries - Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE; more than half of the membership is in the UAE. It runs no inspections of its own at all. Instead it requires somebody else's accreditation, and the requirement is strict: a school not already accredited on joining must gain accreditation within two years and then maintain it. The inspectorates are EDT or ISI, which means the accreditation in question is the British government's BSO scheme. The organisation has withdrawn its former lighter routes in - one route remains.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to the association, and the association requires its members to hold a real accreditation: for Gulf schools that is almost always BSO. What to look at is that accreditation rather than this badge. Nor is the badge empty - there is no inspection of its own behind it, but a school is not admitted to the association without somebody else's accreditation. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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
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Teaching staff
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Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
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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%)60 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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