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British schools in Dubai, 2026–27: fees and KHDA ratings in one table
Every open school KHDA lists under the British curriculum, with its 2026–27 Year 5 tuition and its latest KHDA rating and year. Sort by fee, rating or area.
KHDA Fees Fact Sheets 2026–27, after the school's discount; ratings from KHDA inspection reports, with their year; checked 24 September 2026.
All British schools, Year 5, 2026–27
- 106 schools · KHDA Education Directory
- Year 5 tuition AED 5,384 to AED 152,000 · 99 schools publish it
- 74 of 89 rated Good or better · most ratings 2023–24
Tap a school to open its profile: the fee for every year group, its inspection history and its place on the map.
The table
In 2026–27, 106 schools in Dubai teach the British curriculum. Their Year 5 tuition runs from AED 5,384 to AED 152,000 a year, as published in KHDA's Fees Fact Sheets, at the 99 schools that publish a Year 5 fee. The table below lists every one of them with its fee, area and latest KHDA rating, with the year that rating was given.
All 106 schools, lowest Year 5 fee first. A school with no Year 5 fee sits at the end, marked «Not published» or «Starts at …» with its first year group. Tap a column heading to sort by fee, rating or area; tap again to reverse.
British curriculum schools in Dubai: Year 5 tuition 2026–27 and latest KHDA rating106 schools · Year 5 · fee year 2026–27 · ratings with their year
Tuition is the Year 5 figure on the school's 2026–27 KHDA Fees Fact Sheet, after the discount the sheet lists; where the approved fee is higher, it is shown beneath. Uniforms, transport, books and registration fees are extra.
Of the 106 schools, 99 publish a Year 5 fee. The others either start above Year 5 or did not publish that year group; a missing fee does not mean there is no fee for that year group.
Of the 89 rated schools, 84 carry a rating from 2023–24, the last full inspection cycle; 2 are from 2024–25; 3 are from 2025–26. Another 17 schools have no rating yet; most of them are new.
How to read the table
Three things make the columns comparable: one year group, one fee year, and a rating that carries its date.
Year 5 is Grade 4
Year 5 is the British name for the year group of children who are nine on 31 December, the same age as Grade 4 in an American, Indian or IB (PYP) school. This site uses Year 5 as its comparison year, so the same column exists for every curriculum on one page: Year 5 fees, all curricula. Check your child's class with Which year group is my child in? or the glossary.
A rating has a year
KHDA rates schools on a six-level scale: Outstanding, Very good, Good, Acceptable, Weak and Very weak. It published few new ratings for established schools after 2023–24, which is why 84 of the 89 rated British schools carry a 2023–24 rating; new 2026–27 reports will replace them one school at a time. The year beside each rating shows how recent it is: What KHDA ratings mean.
One year group, never an average
A school's fees rise from FS1 to Year 13, so an average of its fees says little about what you would pay. The table therefore gives one year group in one fee year for every school. The hub gives Year 1, Year 7 and Year 12; every other year group is on the fee pages.
«Approved» and «Not published»
Where a school's Fees Fact Sheet lists a discount, the first figure is what families pay in 2026–27 and the «approved» figure beneath is the fee before the discount. Treat the approved figure as the most the school may charge for Year 5 in 2026–27. «Not published» means the sheet gives no Year 5 fee; «Starts at Year 7» means the school's first year group is above Year 5.
Fees in bands
The 106 schools spread widely: 99 publish a Year 5 fee, from AED 5,384 to AED 152,000. One dot per school, in a row for its latest KHDA rating; the Table tab counts them in four bands.
99 of 106 British schools publish a Year 5 fee for 2026–27, from AED 5,384 to AED 152,000; schools rated Good or better sit in every band from under AED 20,000 to AED 70,000 and above.
Open British-curriculum schools with a Year 5 fee on their 2026–27 KHDA Fees Fact Sheet, after the school's discount · one dot per school · rating = latest overall judgement, for most schools 2023–24 · 7 schools without a Year 5 fee are in the table above, not here
Outstanding: 15, AED 44,121 to 87,030; Very good: 23, AED 18,688 to 101,861; Good: 33, AED 9,030 to 72,000; Acceptable: 15, AED 5,384 to 76,762; No rating yet: 13, AED 17,000 to 152,000
Arrow keys move between the dots and read each value.
99 of 106 British schools publish a Year 5 fee for 2026–27, from AED 5,384 to AED 152,000; schools rated Good or better sit in every band from under AED 20,000 to AED 70,000 and above.All 5 rows.
| Tuition band | Schools | Rated Good or better |
|---|---|---|
| Under AED 20,000 | 22 | 13 |
| AED 20,000 to 39,999 | 17 | 11 |
| AED 40,000 to 69,999 | 44 | 36 |
| AED 70,000 and above | 16 | 11 |
| No Year 5 fee published | 7 | 3 |
| All 106 schools | 106 | 74 |
For scale: 74 of the 89 rated British schools are Good or better: 18 Outstanding, 23 Very good and 33 Good; 15 are Acceptable and none Weak or Very weak. These counts include the schools with no Year 5 fee, so they add up to more than the dots above. A rating of Good or better sits in every fee band.
Fees by area
British schools sit in 43 places across Dubai. The areas with the most of them, and the Year 5 range in each:
Areas with the most British schools, Year 5 tuition 2026–278 areas, most British schools first
| Area | British schools | Year 5 tuition2026–27, low to high |
|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha SouthBritish schools here | 7 | AED 30,375 – 87,0307 of 7 publish |
| Al NahdaBritish schools here | 6 | AED 9,809 – 28,0596 of 6 publish |
| Al QusaisBritish schools here | 6 | AED 5,384 – 35,0006 of 6 publish |
| DubailandBritish schools here | 6 | AED 25,602 – 59,4896 of 6 publish |
| Al SafaBritish schools here | 5 | AED 55,714 – 65,0984 of 5 publish |
| Al TwarBritish schools here | 5 | AED 18,450 – 33,6875 of 5 publish |
| Nad Al ShebaBritish schools here | 5 | AED 45,034 – 76,4364 of 5 publish |
| Dubai Sports CityBritish schools here | 4 | AED 54,733 – 152,0003 of 4 publish |
Counts are schools, not campuses, by the place this site lists for the school. Where an area has three or more British schools, its own page lists them by rating group, such as British schools in Al Barsha South.
Families moving from abroad usually choose the home first and the school second. The fee column shows that a British education at a similar price exists in more than one part of the city, so the search can start from the commute: Schools near where you will live.
Other year groups
The hub gives the 2026–27 tuition range for Year 1, Year 7 and Year 12 at British schools, and the schools under each rating: Year 1, Year 7 and Year 12 fees, British schools. For one year group across all curricula, the fee pages run from FS1 and FS2 through Year 2 to Year 13.
On KHDA's register, 65 of the 106 British schools run to Year 13 and at least 9 are primary schools ending at Year 6. Another 8 have not yet published their year groups.
Sources
- KHDA Fees Fact Sheets, 2026–27 (opens in a new tab)The tuition for each year group on each school's Fees Fact Sheet, the approved fee and any discount the sheet lists. Read by this site for every school page and fee list; checked 24 September 2026.
- KHDA inspection reports (opens in a new tab)The overall rating and its inspection year, as the school's profile and the curriculum hub read them; for 84 of 89 rated British schools the latest full report is 2023–24.
- KHDA Education Directory (opens in a new tab)Which curriculum each school is registered under, its area and its year groups.
- About the dataHow this site reads the data.
Every fee and rating in the table was read from the same data as the school's own page on 24 September 2026; open the school for the source document and page.
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