← Back to homeThe Millennium School - Dubai
Dubai, UAE · est. 2000 · Private
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The Millennium School opened in September 2000 and stands in Al Qusais on Al Baghdad Street, behind the Lulu hypermarket. It is a school of the GEMS Education group with the Indian CBSE programme, and it should not be confused with GEMS New Millennium School in Dubai Hills: the names are alike, the schools are different - another district, another post box, another principal. It carries a child from kindergarten to the twelfth grade: from the first grade to the tenth the international version of CBSE runs, and in the eleventh and twelfth ordinary CBSE with streams, the commerce stream among them - business studies, economics, accountancy, entrepreneurship and marketing. There are four languages beyond English: Arabic on the ministry programme, and as a second language a child takes Hindi, French or Malayalam; separately there are Islamic studies, UAE social studies and a moral education programme of four pillars. There are 186 teachers, and the ratio the school names itself - fifteen pupils to a teacher, twice as tight as at its namesake. Examination results it shows in full: in 2025 the tenth grade was sat by 248 pupils and all of them passed, with a cohort average of 87.5; the twelfth by 195 pupils and all of them passed too, average 85.6. Its KHDA inspection rating the school has held for a fifth year running at "Very Good". Rooms are many and they are listed by name: eight laboratories, separate junior and senior ones among them, a library, a computing room, a voice room and music rooms, an art room, a dance hall, an ICE centre for the primary school and Zone Millenia for the kindergarten, two basketball courts, a tennis court, a football pitch with an artificial surface, cricket nets, a swimming pool with a separate toddler pool and a multi-purpose hall. The clinic the school describes as cheerful and keeps a doctor and four nurses in it, and the canteen is called Slices. What goes on outside lessons runs here through the Round Square network: Model United Nations, Generation Global with video conferences with schools in other countries, an eco club with a sustainability week, Best Buddies together with The Manzil school, and the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award at three levels. There is an extended day. What is not on the site: a number of pupils, a list of the universities its own leavers go to, and a summer camp.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 977–7 318 a year
18 278–26 876 AED
Programmes
Indian programme
Admits from
4 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Arabic, Hindi, French, Malayalam
About the fees The annual fee for the 2025-2026 school year: KG1 and KG2 - 18,278 dirhams, the first and second grades - 21,179, the third and fourth - 22,468, the fifth to the eighth - 24,189, the ninth and tenth - 25,265, the eleventh and twelfth - 26,876. The school notes specially that the fee is counted over ten months in the year and is invoiced from the moment of enrolment, so that payment goes through before the start of the month. Payment is by card through GEMS Connect, by cheque or in cash at the school's cash desk.
Admissions The school takes children from KG1 to the ninth grade - above that it has no entry. Age is held to a cut-off of 31 March: by that date the child must have reached the age the stage requires, and the table of correspondences the school posts separately. In KG1 brothers and sisters of current pupils are taken first; the other stages depend on whether there are free places. Everyone going in above KG1 has to sit an entrance test, and without it there is no enrolment; in KG1 a test may be set for those who have nobody at the school yet - as the intake requires. The intake for a new school year opens in September or October of the year before. Of papers it asks for a birth certificate or an affidavit attested by a consul, a passport with a valid residence visa for the child and the main parent, Emirates IDs for both, a photograph, transcripts from the previous school, an immunisation card and a transfer certificate with attestations that depend on the country the child has come from. Enrolment goes in two steps: an application through the site and then a non-refundable registration fee of 525 dirhams, paid at the school. The school has a student support service and an inclusion team, that is, children with special educational needs it does admit.
Stages and year groups Grades KG1 - grade 12. There are four stages, and the school names them with pages of its own: kindergarten, primary school from the first grade to the fifth, middle school, and senior school from the ninth grade to the twelfth. The programme from the first grade to the tenth is the international version of CBSE; in the eleventh and twelfth it is ordinary CBSE with streams to choose from. There are 88 classrooms, each of 44 square metres, and these are the school's own figures from its CBSE disclosure. Class size the school does not publish, but the ratio of pupils to a teacher it does name - fifteen to one. There is an extended day.
Address Al Baghdad Street, behind Lulu Hypermarket, Al Qusais, PO Box 32446
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
CIS · membershipGEMS · 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
CISCouncil of International Schools
It accredits international schools and is a paying association at the same time. It examines governance and ownership, the curriculum, teaching, student wellbeing, staff and premises; a team of volunteers from other CIS accredited schools visits the school. Membership and accreditation are different things here, and schools confuse them more often than anything else.
What the badge means for this school. The school belongs to this organisation but has not been through its accreditation. The difference matters: membership is usually paid for and has no external inspection behind it. The entry is confirmed in the organisation's open directory.
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The Indian school programme. Its most widespread board is CBSE, the Central Board of Secondary Education: it sets the content, runs the common leaving examinations after Class 10 and Class 12, and awards the certificate. Schools outside India work to it as the board's overseas affiliates.
What this means for this school. The examinations after Class 10 and Class 12 are common and external - the board runs them, not the school - which sets this programme apart from the American one, where the school itself sets the content of the senior years. The entry does not count towards the score: we do not check membership of an Indian board against any register, and it stands from the school's own words.
GEMSschool network
GEMS Education is a private school group that describes itself on its own site as one of the oldest and largest K-12 (to Grade 12 / Year 13) private education providers in the world. The site dates its start to 1959 («Our story began in 1959«, «65+ Years of Legacy«), while another page on the same site says «over 60 Years of Legacy«. School counts on the site disagree: the homepage says both «52 schools across the UAE, Qatar and Egypt« and «Choose from our list of over 47 schools«, while the Our Company page says GEMS has schools «in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, Europe and North America«. Students: «200,000 students from over 176 countries« (Our Company) and «over 200,000« (homepage). On ownership the site is explicit: «GEMS Education own, operate and manage schools globally« — it both owns and manages, but does not say which schools fall into which category.
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
Exam results For 2025 the school prints full figures for both CBSE leaving examinations: in the tenth grade 248 pupils registered, all of them passed, and the cohort average was 87.5; in the twelfth 195 registered, all of them passed, average 85.6. A grade distribution, results by subject and a summary for earlier years the school does not give. Its KHDA inspection rating it does name - "Very Good", for a fifth year running.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: The site the school names as a figure in its CBSE disclosure - 14,864 square metres - and on it there are 88 classrooms of 44 square metres each and eight laboratories of 77. The laboratories are separate: physics, chemistry, biology and home science on the CBSE programme, plus separate junior and senior science ones. The library the school calls spacious and well stocked and it renews the books in it; alongside it there is a computing room and trolleys of laptops that are wheeled around the classrooms. For the arts there is a voice room and music rooms with instruments, an art room, a dance and movement hall, an ICE centre - imagine, create, explore - for the primary school and Zone Millenia for the kindergarten, and a Play Pen play area. Sport: two basketball courts, a tennis court, a football pitch with an artificial surface, cricket nets, a swimming pool with a separate toddler pool and an indoor multi-purpose hall. The clinic the school describes as cheerful and keeps a doctor and four nurses in it, the canteen is called Slices and serves hot and cold food. School transport the school has, with a page of its own. An assembly hall the school does not name.
Clubs and activities (5): Model United Nations · Generation Global · Eco club · Best Buddies · Duke of Edinburgh's Award
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
✓Number of teachers186
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
There are 186 teachers, and the school breaks them down by the grades of the CBSE programme itself: 78 post graduate teachers (PGT), 73 trained graduate teachers (TGT) and 32 primary teachers (PRT). The ratio of pupils to a teacher it names plainly - fifteen to one, that is, a class here is run more tightly than in most CBSE schools of Dubai. The principal is Ambika Gulati, and the school writes her title in two ways: Ms on the home page and Dr in the CBSE disclosure. Teachers' qualifications and class sizes the school does not name, and 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 room
·Counsellornot stated on the website
✓Child protection policy
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The child protection policy the school posts as a separate document, which it lets be downloaded from its child protection page, and the school works inside the health and safety system of the GEMS Education group - which it calls reliable and compliant with requirements. The medical side is described in figures: a clinic with a doctor and four nurses. Beside it stand pages on student support and inclusion. A named person responsible for child protection, the procedure for reporting an incident and staff training the school does not describe on its open pages - those details it leaves inside the document itself.
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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 data80 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data65 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)65 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data85 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data73 "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.
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