Adil Raza Khan | August 29, 2025
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin
We have been writing to share our knowledge on Dubai real estate investments and earning monetary gains for a long time now. We like to stay educated to guide our clients and readers. Recently, while studying, this famous quote grabbed our attention, motivating us to write this blog on the most expensive schools in Dubai.
The quote is so true but often so neglected! Good investment in knowledge indeed fetches the highest gains possible for an all-round prosperity.
Your dazzling lifestyle choices account for nothing if the choice of school for your children fails to shape and shine their future. In Dubai, everything is a notch higher than expected. So, here we enlist those schools in Dubai that match your extravagant expectations and your child’s education needs uncompromisingly.
We believe education doesn’t need to be measured by assessing how deep the pockets of the parents are anywhere. Nevertheless, everyone expects Dubai schools to match up to the idea of Dubai riches that the emirate is so famous for worldwide.
We do not wish to contradict their idea, and that's the reason we are enlisting the names of some top the most expensive schools in Dubai.
The most expensive school in Dubai status is now grabbed by GEMS School of Research and Innovation (SRI), which recently opened in Dubai Sports City in August 2025. The estimated opening cost is claimed to be around $100 million. The annual fees range from AED 116,000 for early years to AED 206,000 for senior students.
The school plans to administer studies on real-world technology and science through AI, robotics, esports, and sustainability.
A leading international school in Dubai, it has been offering the IB curriculum from Pre-KG to Grade 12 since 2008. The school takes pride in offering the best education possible to its vibrant international community.
The school has a Nursery Programme (2-3 years old), a Primary Years Programme (3-11 years old), a Middle Years Programme (from 6th-10th Grade), IB Diploma Programme (16-19 years old), and a Career-related Programme (16-19 years old).
Repton School Dubai is the UAE brand of the world-renowned Repton School in the UK. In Dubai, it has started nurturing the children with the finest education possible since 2007. It offers full boarding facilities (there are only 2 such schools offering it in Dubai) and unparalleled pastoral care.
The school has IGCSE courses, IB Diploma, IB Career Programme, and A-Level courses, with a rich collection of 45 subject choices across different academic specializations.
Repton school ranks amongst the best 100 private schools globally and is mentioned within the top 15 UAE schools. It has continued achieving the ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) for over a decade now.
North London Collegiate School Dubai is a branch of the age-old renowned North London Collegiate School UK. It started its teaching journey in Dubai in 2017 in its 38,000 square meter campus. It is one o the most expensive schools in Dubai.
The school is an accredited IB Continuum School offering the PYP (Primary Years Programme), MYP (Middle Years Programme), and the DP (Diploma Programme). Besides the English language being used as the main instruction mode, other foreign languages available are Arabic, French, German, Spanish, and Mandarin. The school offers The Duke of Eddinburgh International Award Programme.
The prestigious Kent College Dubai school is a joint venture between the legendary Kent College Canterbury, Mir Hashem Khoory, a Dubai-based company, and Meydan Estates. Full-time boarding facilities are available for 8-18 year old students.
The academic journey of the learners in this school is segmented into phases like Garden Cottage Nursery (up to 3 years old), Junior School (3-11 years old), Senior School (11-16 years old), and Sixth Form (16-18 years old). The school community has students from 40+ nations worldwide.
Kent College, both its Junior and Senior Schools, has consistently been bagging an ISI “Outstanding” rating in all the categories of inspection. Very few schools in Dubai earn it.
Swiss International School Dubai (SISD) ranks among the top 100 private day and boarding schools globally. It is also one of only 50 all-through International Baccalaureate (IB) World Schools we have.
The curricula include the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the IB Diploma (IBDP), and/or the IB Career-related Programme (IBCP). Full, weekly, and/or flexible boarding facilities are available for 11- to 18-year-olds (Grades 6-13).
Bilingual IB programs are administered in either French and English or German and English. One can also opt for only English as the medium of instruction.
The school believes in sustainable practices, so it teaches all the students about green architecture, solar energy, and water conservation techniques.
Wrapping up
These are 5 of the most expensive schools in Dubai that offer the best education through established global curriculums, fantastic learning and holistic well-being guidance, an array of beneficial extracurricular activities, and world-class campus facilities. Majority of our choices offer boarding facilities with a range of activities to keep the students feeling engaged.
The tuition fees we gave you a glimpse of are the most updated ones. Nevertheless, the fees and school timings may change anytime. Other minute details you can find out by going to their respective official websites, where they detail the slightest of information that may interest you as a parent if you have decided to enroll your kids there.
We usually stay busy enlisting and discussing real estate investment scopes and monetary interests earned in Dubai.
We realized it will make us feel much happier to focus some light on investing in our next generation’s future also, and what else could it have been without detailing the essentials of top schools in Dubai?
WRITTEN BY
Adil Khan is a Dubai luxury real estate expert with over 13 years of experience in the UAE property market. He is the Chairman of APIL Properties.
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