Dubai International School Map

Checked 4 November 2026. Grades and curricula can change, so confirm with the school before applying.

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Dubai schools rated Outstanding by KHDA, plus other national schools, on one map grouped by curriculum. Pin your home or workplace to see the distance to each school, sorted from nearest. Pinned locations are not stored or sent.

How to use it

  1. Use the curriculum buttons to show British, American, IB or other national schools. Schools offering two programmes appear under both.
  2. With Pin home selected, tap the map to pin your home. Switch to Pin work and tap again to add your workplace. On a phone you can use Use my location as home.
  3. The list below is sorted by distance from home and shows the distance from home and work for each school.
  4. Route from home opens the real route in Google Maps. Set a weekday morning departure to check the school run time.
  5. To compare home options, tap the map again to move your home. For yearly fuel cost, use the school run time and fuel cost comparison.

Curriculum groups

  • British: schools following the National Curriculum for England, leading to IGCSE and A Level.
  • American: schools with a US curriculum and high school diploma.
  • IB: schools running International Baccalaureate programmes. Some offer only the IB Diploma in the final years.
  • Other national: schools following another country’s curriculum, and international groups from elsewhere.

Things to keep in mind

  • Distances are straight-line. In Dubai you often have to loop round via highways and interchanges, so real distances and times are longer.
  • Schools with Primary in their name only teach primary years. Check that your child’s grade is available.
  • Dubai has more than 200 private schools. This map uses the 22 schools rated Outstanding by KHDA for 2026-27, as listed by Khaleej Times, and adds French, German and Japanese schools and a Korean language school. Many schools without an Outstanding rating are also good, so search the KHDA website too.
  • Dubai private school fees are frozen for 2026-27. To compare schools, use the school cost comparison calculator.

Sources

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Leaflet. School locations are Google Maps place locations as of November 2026.