About
Built by an educator. For Dubai families.
Every family moving to Dubai walks into the same wall. Thirty browser tabs open, fee schedules that don’t match what schools actually charge, WhatsApp forwards of opinions dressed as advice, and a spreadsheet that lies about the total cost. At the end of the week, you’re no closer to a decision than when you started.
Dubai School Finder exists to end that week. The person who built it has lived it.
Built by
A biology teacher. Not a tech startup.
Dr. Ambika Yadav
Founder · Dubai School Finder
PhD in Biology. M.Sc. Biotechnology. Over a decade teaching higher-secondary students, the kind who are two years from a decision that defines the next decade of their lives. She knows the difference between a school that looks good on paper and a school that actually prepares a child for what comes next.
She moved to Dubai with a child in KG1 and went looking for the school. What she found was marketing copy, inconsistent fee disclosures, and zone-based listings that had nothing to do with where her family actually lived. No site gave her the real annual cost. None ranked schools to her home. None showed the weights behind the algorithm.
So she built what was missing. Every feature on this site answers a question she had as a parent, and was pressure-tested against what she knows as an educator. If it didn’t survive that double audit, it got cut.
No venture capital. No advertiser relationships. No affiliate kickbacks. The product is supported by discreet display ads on results pages, never on the homepage, never above the real-cost reveal. If that ever changes, this page changes first.
Reach out: hello@dubaischoolfinder.ae
The manifesto
Two things we promise.
- Schools don’t pay us. They never will. No sponsored listings. No commissions on enrolment. No advertiser-shaped ratings. The product pays for itself through paid advisory calls and parent-purchased reports, not through schools.
- We give you the data, the math, and an opinion. You make the call. Our scoring weights are public and tunable. Our cost calculator is auditable line by line. Where we have a view on a school, we say so, and we say it the same way to every parent.
Ready when you are
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Read the methodology · review the weights