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Dubai School Fees Explorer

Dubai has one of the widest school-fee ranges of any city on earth — from a few thousand dirhams a year to well over a hundred thousand. Every figure below comes from DXB Talk's own published guides, with the source linked under each row, so you can check exactly where a number came from.

Pick a curriculum and a stage to filter the ranges our guides publish. Where a guide gives one range for a whole curriculum rather than splitting it by stage, the row appears under both stages — it is labelled "all stages" so you always know which kind of figure you are reading.

Annual tuition ranges from our guides

Curriculum / bandAnnual tuition

Fees change every year — always confirm with the school. KHDA publishes each school's approved fees on its official school fact sheet, and KHDA froze tuition across all Dubai private schools for the 2026–27 academic year. Check your school's calendar and fact sheet on the KHDA website.

The costs on top of tuition

Tuition is not the whole bill. These are the add-ons our Cost of Living flagship guide puts figures on:

School transportPer child, per year, on the school busAED 5,500 – 9,225
Uniforms, books & activitiesPer child, per yearAED 1,800 – 5,500
Nursery / preschool (full day)Per child, per month, for younger childrenAED 2,000 – 5,000
Registration / admission feeA one-off charge for new admissions, capped as a percentage of tuition under KHDA rules and typically deductible from the first term's tuition — confirm the exact rule with the schoolOne-off

Source: transport, uniforms/books and nursery figures — Cost of Living in Dubai 2026 (DXB Talk flagship). Registration fee note — KHDA School Fees: Fees, Fines and Deadlines You Should Know. Nursery ranges are explored in depth in How to Choose a Nursery in Dubai, which puts typical nursery fees broadly at AED 18,000 – 55,000 per year depending on area, hours and curriculum.

Go deeper: our school-fee guides

All DXB Talk education guidesSchool choices, admissions, curricula and costs across Dubai KHDA School Fees Explained: What It Is, Who Pays and How MuchWhere the curriculum ranges on this page come from Understanding School Fees in Dubai: What Parents Pay Beyond TuitionThe extras that catch new parents out Cost of Living in Dubai 2026Real monthly budgets for singles, couples and families — with the full schools section

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