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Murshid, your family’s decision engine, opens a case and works it with you: verified fees, estimated real costs, KHDA inspection results, and the inspectors’ own words, across all 212 of Dubai’s private schools. It does not stop until you have a school.
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- Schools
- 212
- Neighbourhoods
- 40
- Curricula
- 17
- KHDA verification
- Weekly
What you actually pay
The headline tuition isn't the whole bill.
We add it all up.
Dubai private schools disclose transport, books, uniform, and activity fees to KHDA. The figures are published, just scattered across a 6-page PDF per school. We do the arithmetic for you.
A realistic example
A British Year 4 place in a mid-tier Dubai school lists tuition at AED 52,000.
Here is what KHDA actually requires the school to charge, added up for the whole academic year →
Year 4 · British
Real Annual Cost
KHDA-published · AED
- Return school busAnnual+ 7,140
- Books & learning materialsAnnual+ 650
- UniformAnnual+ 800
- Extra-curricular activitiesAnnual+ 1,155
Estimated real cost
19% more than the sticker price
AED 52,000
Dubai School Finder
× 14 years ≈ 864,430
Every one of the 212 schools, ranked to your home. Free.
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A note from the founder
Hi. I’m Ambika.
I started looking for the right Dubai school for my son, and three months later I still didn’t have an answer. Thirty browser tabs. Two spreadsheets that disagreed with each other. Four school visits on the wrong side of the city.
I am a biology teacher. I have spent over a decade in classrooms, working with higher-secondary students. I still got lost in this search.
So I built what I had been looking for. Dubai School Finder is free for parents, and it always will be.
Why trust this?
Built on KHDA's data. Verified against school websites. Open methodology.
We extract fee data from KHDA fact sheets using OCR, cross-reference it with published school fees, and normalise everything into a single comparable format. The pipeline runs once per academic year when KHDA publishes updated inspection results.
212
KHDA-registered schools
Every private school in Dubai, sourced directly from KHDA inspection reports and published fee schedules. No school is excluded or promoted.
Open
Methodology published
Our scoring weights, distance formula, and fee normalisation logic are documented and available for anyone to review.
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Watched by agents
Autonomous verification re-checks every school's fees and DSIB records against KHDA's official sources weekly. What drifts gets caught and corrected before you see it.
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Paid rankings
No school can pay to rank higher, change a rating, or buy a recommendation. Anything sponsored is clearly labelled and kept out of your results. The ranking is the ranking.
About Dubai School Finder
Built for families moving to Dubai, and for those choosing their next school.
Dubai School Finder indexes every KHDA-registered private school. Tuition, ratings, location, curriculum, and the non-tuition fees every school is required to disclose. Updated every inspection cycle.
No ads above the fold. No sponsored schools. No tracking that follows you around the internet. Searching and comparing is free.
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