About TheSchoolGuide.ae - Independent Dubai School Reviews from KHDA Inspection Data
Who we are
TheSchoolGuide.ae is an independent platform covering Dubai's private schools. It was founded in 2026 by a Dubai parent, and is an honest guide of every school it covers.
Why this exists
Thousands of families move to Dubai every year, and one of the first decisions they face is also one of the hardest: choosing between 226 private schools, at fees that can run past AED 100,000 a year, for a decision that shapes a decade of a child's life.
The information to make that choice is public. Every school is inspected by KHDA's Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau, and every report is published. But each runs to forty pages of technical language, and almost nobody reads them. Meanwhile most school directories are funded by the schools they list, so what they publish reads like marketing.
This started as my own school search when we were working out where our children would go, and became the thing that search should have been.
How we work
Every school page is built the same way.
- We take that school's most recent official KHDA-DSIB inspection report.
- We summarise what inspectors found across the six inspection areas, in plain English.
- Every finding is attributed. When we write that something is weak, we are reporting what inspectors said, not offering an opinion.
- Fees, enrolment and rating history come from KHDA's published open data.
- We record the inspection date on every page, so you always know how current the assessment is.
We do not use anonymous parent reviews, school marketing materials, or paid submissions as editorial sources.
What we will never do
We do not sell verdicts. No school can pay to change what we write, or to leave out what inspectors found.
We do not run awards. We do not accept undisclosed sponsorship.
If you disagree with what we have published
Schools can claim their profile free of charge. Once verified, a school can do two things.
Request a correction. If a fact on your page is wrong, tell us. We check it against the inspection report and fix it. Every correction we make is recorded in our public corrections log, with the date and what changed.
Publish a response. You can publish your own statement on your page, in your own words. It appears clearly labelled as coming from the school, and we do not edit it.
Both are free and always will be. What we cannot do is change the inspection findings themselves, because they are not ours to change.
We aim to reply to schools within two working days.
How this is funded
The site is free for parents and always will be. Claiming a profile, requesting corrections and publishing a response are free for schools, and always will be.
As we grow, we will offer schools an optional enhanced profile, which lets them add their own content to their page.
We are not affiliated with KHDA
TheSchoolGuide.ae is independent. We are not part of, endorsed by, or connected to KHDA, the Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau, or any government body. We use their published reports and open data as sources, as anyone may.
TheSchoolGuide in numbers
226 private schools covered · 209 with published editorial · 6 curricula · KHDA rating history from 2008/09 to the present · fee data from 2020/21 to 2024/25 · founded 2026 in Dubai.
Contact
Email hello@theschoolguide.ae. We reply within two working days.
Operates from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.