Dwight School Dubai
Dwight School Dubai
Dwight School Dubai is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School in Dubai Sports City for boys and girls from Pre-K to Grade 12. It opened in 2018 as the first Dwight School in the Middle East; the Dwight Schools network, owned by the Spahn family, began in New York in 1872 and has campuses in New York, London, Seoul, Shanghai, Dubai, Hanoi and Cairo, and Dwight Global Online. The school is authorised for all four IB programmes: the Middle Years Programme (March 2020), the Diploma and Primary Years Programmes (May 2020) and the Career-related Programme (July 2025), whose students take the Pearson BTEC International Level 3 Business Diploma with a weekly internship. Children move from the Early Years (Pre-K to KG2) through the PYP (Grades 1 to 5) and the MYP (Grades 6 to 10) to the Senior Years (Grades 11 and 12). KHDA rated the school Good at its February 2024 inspection, as in 2022-23 (Acceptable in 2021-22), judging its provision for students of determination and its National Agenda Parameter standards very good and English in the Diploma Programme outstanding. It is accredited by NEASC and is a licensed centre for the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award. Its Quest programme supports students of determination, gifted and talented students and English language learners. Beyond lessons, students join the Spark Tank innovation programme, Model United Nations, with an annual DWIGHTMUN conference hosted on campus, and the Dwight LIONS teams in Dubai's DASSA school leagues. The campus is low-rise and purpose-built, with the Early Years' own building, the Spahn Innovation Hub, a performing arts centre and a 25m competition pool.
Fees read from the school's published 2026-27 fee schedule; KHDA rating from its 2023-24 inspection report. Last checked 28 September 2026. How Talem verifies →
Fees for 2026/2027, per year group. Excludes registration, uniform, and transport.
Fees are the KHDA-approved annual tuition for 2026-27, which the school publishes under "Annual Tuition Fees 2026-27"; KHDA's 2026-2027 fact sheets agree for every year group and record no discount, so the approved fee is the fee charged. KHDA's sheets also record that the school requested no tuition increase for 2026-27. Tuition does not include uniform, food services, transport or extra-curricular activities outside school hours. The fee page also refers to "Founding Fee discounted rates", which it does not publish.
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KHDA 2023–2024 inspection
Pre-K, KG1 and KG2, in the Early Years' own building, with outdoor classrooms, a play area and a dedicated music room. Children learn through play and inquiry across mathematics and science; communication, language and literacy; expressive arts and design; physical education; and personal, social and emotional development, with Arabic, French, Mandarin and Spanish woven into daily learning. The IB learner profile is introduced from Pre-K with the school mascot, Gus the Lion, and KG2 begins the PYP's six units of inquiry a year. Classes have at most 18 children in Pre-K and 20 in KG1 and KG2.
Grades 1 to 5. Learning is organised around the PYP's six transdisciplinary themes, with six units of inquiry a year, and ends in the Grade 5 PYP Exhibition, a student-led inquiry with action in the community. Subjects are mathematics, science, language and literacy, social studies, the arts and physical education, with Arabic, a choice of French, Mandarin or Spanish, and Islamic Studies in line with KHDA guidelines. Primary pupils have their own classrooms and outdoor adventure play areas, a MakerSpace, an art room and a music room, swim weekly to Grade 4 and for one term in Grade 5, and are taught in classes of at most 22.
Grades 6 to 10, across the MYP's eight subject groups: language and literature, language acquisition, individuals and societies, sciences, mathematics, arts, physical and health education, and design, with at least two languages. In Grades 9 and 10 students take standard or extended mathematics, integrated humanities, one science, the language they studied in Grade 8 (Arabic B, French, German, Mandarin or Spanish), one e-Portfolio subject and one elective, and work towards the IB MYP Certificate through the MYP eAssessment, the Personal Project and Service as Action. Classrooms are complemented by the Spahn Innovation Hub's design studios and several science labs.
Grades 11 and 12, the Senior Years, in one of two IB pathways. Diploma Programme students take six subjects, three at higher and three at standard level, with Theory of Knowledge, the 4,000-word Extended Essay and Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS). Career-related Programme students take two or three DP subjects at standard level, the Pearson BTEC International Level 3 Business Diploma and the CP core (personal and professional skills, community engagement, language and cultural studies, and a reflective project), with an internship typically one afternoon a week. The 2025-2027 DP offer includes English and Arabic language and literature, French, German, Spanish and Mandarin, business management, history, psychology, the three sciences, design technology, environmental systems and societies, two mathematics courses, visual arts, music, global politics and economics. Seniors have a silent study area and a DP/CP hub.
The youngest learners, Pre-K to KG2, have their own building within the green campus, with outdoor classrooms, an engaging play area and a dedicated music room (Our Campus page); the Early Years ECAs use its atelier space (ECA brochures 2025-26).
Middle Years classrooms are complemented by the Spahn Innovation Hub, with design studios where students work through the design process and problem-solving challenges (Our Campus page).
Multiple science labs support experimental learning (Our Campus page).
A fully equipped Performing Arts Centre with drama studios, rehearsal spaces and music technology classrooms, with professional instruments, digital recording studios, AV set-ups, acoustic treatment and sprung wooden floors (Performing Arts page).
A 25m competition swimming pool (FAQ). Pupils from Pre-K to Grade 4 swim once a week all year, and the school runs swim squads, house swimming galas and lifeguard training, with lessons delivered in partnership with Urban Swim Academy (Sport page).
A multi-purpose sports hall (FAQ).
A hands-on space where students from KG2 to Grade 4 explore, design and build with a variety of tools and materials (the Spark Lab on the Spark Tank page); Primary pupils also have an art room and a dedicated music room (Our Campus page).
A visual arts centre, a darkroom and a kiln room (Our Campus page).
Head of School
A Business and Economics teacher by background, he held senior leadership posts in two UK schools before moving to Abu Dhabi in 2011 to join an international school in its foundation year as Vice Principal, then spent six years there as Principal. He holds a BA (Hons) in European Business from the University of Leicester, an MSc in Education and Training Management and the National Professional Qualification for Head Teachers, and is a certified school inspector and a Council of International Schools evaluator (the school's FAQ).
Vice Principal & Head of Upper School
Vice Principal & Head of Lower School
Assistant Principal & DP Coordinator
Director of Operations
Assistant Principal & MYP Coordinator
Assistant Principal & PYP Coordinator
Assistant Principal & Head of Arabic and Islamic
Assistant Principal & Head of Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Assistant Principal & Head of Early Years
Assistant Principal & Head of Quest (Inclusion)
Assistant Principal & Head of Pastoral and Wellbeing
Chancellor, Dwight School
Inclusion Governor (COO, Dwight Schools)
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Dubai Sports City, Dubai, UAE
