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Questions & answers
Common questions about GEMS Founders School Mizhar, answered from KHDA inspection data:
What did KHDA inspectors highlight as this school's strengths?
According to the most recent KHDA inspection, this school's notable strengths include:
- Students' very strong personal and social development and their innovation skills
- The outstanding day-to-day school management providing a safe, and happy community
- Consistently good and improving standards of achievement
- Comprehensive and highly accurate approaches to school self-evaluation and improvement planning
What did KHDA say the school should improve?
KHDA inspectors recommended the school work on:
- Embed recent improvements in Islamic Education and Arabic so that standards of teaching, learning and achievement are at least good across all phases.
- Develop further differentiated planning of learning to personalise provision more effectively for individual students in lessons – most notably for higher attainers.
- Improve further students’ learning skills to optimise their achievements by: – providing more opportunities for them to undertake independent research, – improving teachers’ questioning skills so that they can lead and manage more perceptive discussions and reflection in lessons, and – ensuring teachers always provide comprehensive and diagnostic feedback to students about their learning – both orally and when marking their work.
How has this school's KHDA rating changed over time?
Across multiple inspection cycles, this school's KHDA rating has gone First Inspection 2021-2022 → Good (2016 to 2024). See the full rating history above for year-by-year detail.
How does the school perform across different age groups?
KHDA rates each phase separately for attainment and progress in core subjects:
- Foundation Stage — english attainment: Good, learning skills attainment: Good
- Primary — english attainment: Good, learning skills attainment: Good
- Secondary — english attainment: Good, learning skills attainment: Good
- Post 16 — english attainment: Good, learning skills attainment: Good
How competitive is admission to GEMS Founders School Mizhar?
High Demand. Apply 12+ months ahead. Waitlist likely. Admission-difficulty score: 47/100.
How have fees at this school changed?
Looking at Grade 5 fees from 2018 to 2025 (KHDA open data), tuition has gone from AED 28,000 to AED 30,285 — a +8% change.
What is the student-to-teacher ratio?
This school's overall student-to-teacher ratio is 17.3:1 across 232 teachers (plus 53 teaching assistants).
Where is the school and what's the nearest metro?
GEMS Founders School Mizhar is in Al Mizhar First, the area KHDA lists for it. It sits in a community of about 16,552 residents. The nearest Dubai Metro stop is Etisalat on the Green Line, 5.2 km away.
Is the school accredited and what exams do students sit?
Accreditation: BSME, BSO. External exams: GCSE, AS Level, A Level, BTEC.