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Abu Dhabi, UAE · Private
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Pearl British Academy is a primary school in Abu Dhabi on Muroor Road, part of the Aldar Academies network of seven academies. That is both its defining feature and its limit: the stages run from FS1 to Year 6 and stop there, so after the primary school a child has to move elsewhere. The curriculum is the National Curriculum for England. The school's judgements are high from both sides: Very Good from the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge across all six performance standards, and Outstanding under the British BSO scheme. On top of that it has collected a set of named recognitions: High Performance Learning school, the School Mental Health Award, the Unified Champion Schools programme, founding membership of TASS and an international award for inclusive education. The school promises a wide range of extra-curricular activities and names A-league competitive sport separately. The principal is Abigail Fishbourne; the parent testimonials on its own website show a school that keeps daily contact with families, runs surveys and holds principal drop-ins.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $12 112–12 534 a year
44 480–46 030 AED
About the fees The fees approved by the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge for 2026/2027: FS1 44,480 dirhams a year, FS2 and Years 1 to 6 46,030. Payment is in three instalments: about 40 per cent for the first and 30 per cent each for the second and third. For comparison the school keeps earlier years on the same page: in 2024/2025 the figures were 43,340 and 44,850 dirhams. The school offers interest-free instalment plans on a range of credit cards. Uniform, food services, transport, examination fees and extra-curricular activities outside school hours are not included.
Stages and year groups Grades FS1 - Year 6. This is a primary school: the stages run from FS1 and FS2 to Year 6 and stop there. It has no secondary or senior stage, so after Year 6 a child moves to another school; where exactly its pupils go, the school does not say. The pages that were read contain no school day timetable.
Address Muroor Road
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.
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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
There is no data for this section yet.
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%)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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