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The cost of education in Dubai is always bigger than the tuition figure on a school’s fee sheet. Uniforms, books, devices, the school bus, exam board entries, clubs, trips and lunches can add thousands of dirhams per child every year, and most of these charges are billed separately from tuition. This guide focuses only on

British curriculum schools in Dubai teach more children than any other system in the emirate. KHDA data for 2024/25 shows 90 British curriculum schools serving 144,307 students, 37% of all private school pupils, and the number keeps growing. This guide explains how British curriculum schooling in Dubai works from the first year of the Foundation