The Japanese School in Abu Dhabi
The Japanese School in Abu Dhabi
The Japanese School in Abu Dhabi (アブダビ日本人学校, JSAD) is a private, co-educational school in Al Bateen, Abu Dhabi, founded in 1978 to serve the Japanese expatriate community and recognised by Japan's Ministry of Education (MEXT), the only authentic Japanese-curriculum school in the emirate. It follows the Japanese national curriculum across an attached Kindergarten, Elementary school (Grades 1-6) and Junior High school (Grades 7-9); there is no senior high school. Teaching is in Japanese, with English and Arabic also taught, and a strong emphasis on moral and character education (道徳). Since 2006 a cohort of Emirati students (around 30% of the roll) has been admitted under a programme supported by the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince. A very small, high-touch school of around 80 students with an exceptionally low student-teacher ratio, it is rated Very Good by ADEK (Oct/Nov 2025), a rating sustained across cycles.
Fees for 2026/2027, per year group. Excludes registration, uniform, and transport.
The school bills three unequal termly instalments and publishes no annual total. For Grades 1 to 9 those are AED 12,720, 15,900 and 9,540, which is a monthly rate of AED 3,180 across four, five and three months, and the AED 38,160 shown here is that year in full. ADEK's register carries AED 38,180, twenty dirhams higher, and both figures are current - the school's own instalments only reconcile to 38,160, so that is what a family pays. Kindergarten figures come from ADEK; the school's own kindergarten guide is undated and charges one flat rate across all three years, and it names the stages Pre KG, KG1 and KG2 where ADEK names them KG 1, KG 2 and KG 3. Tuition is charged pro-rata by month from the admission date and is never refunded. Admission normally requires the child to be a Japanese national and the family to belong to the Abu Dhabi Japanese Association. The school runs to Grade 9 only; there is no Japanese high school in the UAE.
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ADEK 2025–2026 inspection
Japanese kindergarten (youchien): play- and character-based early years with experiential learning and moral education.
The Japanese MEXT elementary curriculum: Japanese, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, with Music, Art, PE, Technology/Home Economics and moral education (道徳), plus English and Arabic.
The Japanese MEXT junior-high curriculum, the highest stage of the school (no senior high); after Grade 9 students continue high school in Japan, supported by a scholarship programme.
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Two age-appropriate libraries (junior and senior).
Around 14 classrooms, each with a reading corner.
Specialist science, art and music rooms.
An on-campus swimming pool.
A grass football field and PE/gym spaces.
An optional bus service.
Field-trip and cultural-immersion programmes rooted in UAE culture.
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King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street, Al Bateen, PO Box 8120, Abu Dhabi, UAE
