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Private Schools
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Total Students (2024)
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Outstanding Schools
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Avg Annual Fee (AED)
Enrollment Growth (2015-2024)
* COVID years (2020-21): Data collection paused. Values estimated.
Schools by KHDA Rating
Curriculum Distribution
New Schools by Decade
Schools That Improved
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Schools that improved their KHDA rating since 2015
Largest School
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Oldest School
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Fee Range
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From budget-friendly to premium (AED/year)
Featured analyses
Long-form data work, ranked by parents who found them most useful.
Fees
14-year fee history: who raised, who held flat
Median Dubai school CAGR is +2.83%/yr. The range is 0.3% to 6.8%. Named outliers.
Class size
Fee predicts class size — KHDA rating barely does
195 schools ranked. Pearson r = −0.48 (fee) vs −0.12 (rating). Why this surprised us.
Demand
Where the demand actually is
14 years of enrollment data and capacity figures for 189 schools. 53% are still growing.
Health
Dubai air quality across the school year
4 years of AQI data. When outdoor PE is genuinely riskier, and what schools can control.
Ranked lists
Single-metric rankings — pick the lens that matters to you.