Harrow International School Dubai
Harrow International School Dubai
Harrow International School Dubai is a British curriculum school for boys and girls on Hessa Street in Al Thanyah Second, Dubai. It opened for the 2026-27 academic year with FS1 to Year 6, adds Years 7 and 8 in 2027-28 and will add a year group each year until Year 13. The school is owned and operated by Taaleem, which holds the exclusive rights to Harrow International Schools in six Gulf countries, and it uses Harrow School's name and badge under a sub-licence from Harrow International Schools Limited, whose representatives evaluate it regularly. Taaleem built the campus on a 50,000 sqm plot for up to 1,800 pupils, designed by KODA architects; the school says its spaces were designed with the architects Kidzink on neuroarchitecture principles. Teaching follows the English National Curriculum from the Early Years Foundation Stage to GCSE and A Level, with Arabic, Islamic Education and Moral, Social and Cultural Studies as the UAE requires, and the years are grouped as Pre-Prep (FS1 to Year 2), Prep (Years 3 to 8) and Senior (Years 9 to 13). Every pupil joins one of four Houses (Druries, Elmfield, Newlands and West Acre), lunch with Leela's Lunches is compulsory, and the extended day brings co-curricular activities from FS2 and compulsory Prep in Years 5 and 6. Simon O'Connor is Head Master and, for Taaleem, Executive Principal of its Harrow schools in the UAE. Taaleem announced KHDA's initial approval in April 2025; the school has not yet been inspected.
Fees read from the school's published 2026-27 fee schedule. Last checked 30 September 2026. How Talem verifies →
Fees for 2026/2027, per year group. Excludes registration, uniform, and transport.
These are the school's fees for 2026/27, its first year: its Parent Handbook 2026/27 calls them the KHDA-approved fees for the 26/27 academic year, and its fee page gives the same figures. FS1 to Year 6 are taught this year, with tuition from AED 80,000 (FS1) to AED 106,000 (Years 5 and 6). Dining with Leela's Lunches is compulsory and adds AED 6,650 to AED 13,440, so the school's total per year is AED 86,650 to AED 119,440. The fee page also lists tuition for year groups that will be added in future academic years: Years 7 to 9 AED 110,000, Years 10 and 11 AED 120,000 and Years 12 and 13 AED 128,000, with dining to be confirmed; Years 7 and 8 open in 2027/28. KHDA's online directory did not list the school when checked on 30 September 2026, so there is no KHDA fact sheet to compare.
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KHDA inspection rating
Source: Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau (DSIB)
Part of the Pre-Prep. The Early Years Foundation Stage framework, taught through play and a child-led approach, with a focus on communication, self-regulation and emotional wellbeing alongside early reading, writing, mathematics and science. FS1 finishes at 2.00 pm and FS2 at 2.30 pm; co-curricular activities begin in FS2.
The rest of the Pre-Prep: the National Curriculum for England with the UAE's compulsory Arabic, Islamic Education and Moral, Social and Cultural Studies. The Ministry of Education Arabic curriculum formally begins in Year 2.
Years 3 to 6 of the Prep, which runs to Year 8: Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum for England within the Harrow Curriculum 2025, with the Harrow Diploma's electives, project work, debate and research. Years 5 and 6 have compulsory Prep (homework) each afternoon, Monday to Thursday.
Years 7 and 8 complete the Prep and open in 2027-28. Year 9, the Shell, begins the Senior School, with a broad range of sciences, humanities, languages and the arts before GCSE. The school adds a year group each year.
Remove (Year 10) and Fifth Form (Year 11): a broad and balanced choice of GCSE subjects around a core of English, mathematics and the sciences. These year groups will be added in future academic years.
Lower Sixth (Year 12) and Upper Sixth (Year 13): A Levels taught by specialist teachers, with leadership roles in the Houses and guidance on university applications worldwide. These year groups will be added in future academic years.
FS1 and FS2 are in the Hornby Building (the school's campus map). The co-curricular programme names Foundation Stage classrooms, an FS play area and an EYFS gym, and each Foundation Stage classroom has child-friendly toilets.
Swimming lessons are compulsory, from Term 2 of FS1, and swimming clubs and a selective Harrow Swim Squad use the school pool; the campus map marks pool areas beside the Peel and Hornby buildings.
A sports hall, a school gym and an EYFS gym, used for gymnastics, netball and other sessions in the 2026-27 co-curricular programme.
Football and rugby are played on the field and the all-weather (astro) pitch; the campus map shows two grass pitches at the centre of the site.
Used for the Years 5 and 6 Strength and Conditioning club.
LAMDA drama, Young Directors & Actors and Theatre Craft & Technicians meet in the school theatre.
A performing arts suite, studio and room, used by choirs, dance and fencing clubs.
Five numbered music rooms, used for strings, orchestra and choirs.
Head Master
Founding Head Master of Harrow Dubai and, for Taaleem, Executive Principal of the Harrow International Schools in the UAE. He brings over 25 years of leadership experience: he was Director of Deira International School and Chief Education Officer of the Al Futtaim Education Foundation, founding the Centre for Education Action Research (CEAR) during that time, and earlier Principal of Jumeirah College and a Vice President of GEMS Education. He was educated at The King's School, Rochester.
Head of Junior School
Assistant Head of Pastoral
Assistant Head of Curriculum
Director of Sport
Director of Expressive Arts
Director of Inclusion
Director of Arabic and Islamic Studies
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Al Asayel Street, Al Thanyah Second, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
