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Abu Dhabi, UAE · est. 2022 · Private
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The school opened in Abu Dhabi in 2022 and operates as an overseas campus of the Primakov Gymnasium. Its first intake was children aged 3 to 11, that is the preschool section and the primary school, while the website sets out a path to grade 12 in three stages: Pre-KG to grade 1, grades 2-5 and grades 6-12. Teaching follows the Russian federal standards and prepares pupils for the OGE and EGE state exams, with the compulsory UAE subjects layered on top: Arabic, social studies and Islamic studies for Muslims. Lessons are bilingual, in Russian and English, with Arabic taught as a separate subject. The school holds Russian state accreditation, and it covers all three levels of general education, even though the classes it runs today stop short of the graduating year. The school is listed by the emirate's education authority ADEK as a private school, licence 9339, in the Al Bateen district; it has no Irtiqa'a inspection rating yet, as it is new.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $9 666–10 211 a year
35 500–37 500 AED
Programmes
Russian programme
Languages of instruction
Russian, English
About the fees For the 2024/2025 school year the school quotes AED 35,500 for Pre-K, KG 1 and KG 2 and AED 37,500 for grades 1 to 11, and in the same breath promises enrolled pupils a 50 per cent discount off those amounts. On top of the fee come a non-refundable administrative charge of AED 500 and a registration charge of AED 1,000. There is no more recent table on the website. The school does not list transport, meals or any other charges as separate items.
Admissions Admission runs through the year, into whichever classes have places. The sequence is an application through the website, a non-refundable application fee of AED 500, then assessment - an interview for Pre-KG and KG, and an age-appropriate test in Russian, English and mathematics for the primary school - and after that a meeting with the administration and the handover of documents. What is needed: the completed form, proof that the fee was paid, a transfer certificate from the previous school, and, for foreign nationals, copies of the passport showing the photograph, date of birth, number and validity dates, together with UAE visa details. The school states outright that it reserves the right to refuse at the assessment stage and at the meeting.
Stages and year groups Three stages: Pre-KG to grade 1, grades 2-5 and grades 6-12. The first intake, in 2022, was children aged 3 to 11, that is the preschool section and the primary school; the school announces the senior stages, but its intake has not yet reached the graduating class. Russian accreditation is broader than the range of classes now running: it covers all three levels of general education. The preschool section is open from 7:30 to 18:00, with morning exercises and assembly at 8:00-8:30, a nap from 13:30 to 15:00, breakfast at 8:30-9:00, lunch at 13:00-13:30 and two snacks.
Address Al Bateen
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Russian state accreditationschool 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
Russian state accreditationFederal Service for Supervision in Education and Science
Russian state accreditation, held not by the school as a whole but by its educational programmes: on an accredited programme a leaver receives the Russian state-issued certificate. Institutions abroad are gathered in the registry under a code of their own, and their certificates carry a term - twelve years from issue. No visit to the school is intended: since 2022 the indicators are calculated from documents and returns.
What the badge means for this school. The school holds Russian state accreditation, and that can be checked in the open registry. It means the right to award the Russian certificate on the accredited programmes - and nothing about the quality of teaching, the premises or the school's international programme. Levels of education are accredited separately, so it is worth checking whether the accreditation reaches the final year. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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The Russian school programme: a state-issued leaving certificate used for entry to Russian universities. The certificate is awarded on the results of the state final attestation - the OGE after Year 9 and the EGE after Year 11.
What this means for this school. This school holds Russian state accreditation: its education programmes have been checked by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, and the entry is visible in the open register. Accreditation is granted level by level, so the main question here is whether it runs as far as the final year: a school may have the right to award a certificate for Year 9 and not for Year 11.
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
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
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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 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.
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