Dubai International Academy

There are not very many schools in Dubai to be recompensed the KHDA's Outstanding rating, less still to have advanced up from an Acceptable rating (though as long prior as 2008/9) however Dubai International Academy (DIA) is presently one of just 16 schools to get the instruction controller's top evaluation.

DIA is additionally the main unadulterated play IB school to get the KHDA's top Outstanding rating.

Situated in Emirates Hills along Al Khail street, DIA opened on September 10, 2005 with more than 500 understudies from 55 nations and a similarly assorted staff of more than 50 individuals from 18 distinct nationalities. Today the school is home to 2,072 understudies from more than 80 nationalities, cared for by 156 educators. Nobody nationality rules, however mirroring the UAE, the biggest single nationality of understudies is Indian.

The teacher turnover is right now, we trust, excessively high – at present running at 29%. The teacher:student proportion is 1:13 with the dominant part of educators being enlisted from the United Kingdom. The school utilizes 33 educating colleagues.

Dubai International Academy was the first in the UAE to offer the Geneva based International Baccalaureate (IB) the distance from the Primary Years Program (PYP, KG 1 – Year 6), to the Middle Years Program (MYP, 11 and 16 years) lastly Diploma Program (DP, 16-18 years). Over the projects, arrangement is given to understudies with extraordinary instructive needs (SEN) and English as a second dialect (ESL)

Part of the school's prosperity must originate from a choice made as long back as January 2013 when the school delegated a quality certification chief to guarantee models. In its 2011/12 report the KHDA, Dubai's training controller, noted accomplishment and advancement had enhanced in English, arithmetic and science, a remark proceeded into its 2012/13 and 2013/14 reports.Today it is truly elusive a rating that is not either Very Good or Outstanding for English, Maths or Science, for fulfillment or advancement.

As indicated by the school its "IBDP results have been among the best in the district". The outcomes are great, and generally making strides.

The school has had some extensive individual victories – in May 2013 Xanita Saaymen accomplished the ideal score of 45/45, while a year ago the top score was 44/45. Somewhere in the range of 8% of its understudies accomplished 40 or above – a pass check that would be sufficient for Oxbridge (which generally refers to 38). Truth be told DIA says "all" of its graduates secured school arrangements crosswise over 17 nations, which incorporate the world's top colleges: Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cambridge, and London School of Economics. "In May 2015, 80% of our understudies got acknowledgments from their first decision college."

Zones of shortcoming at DIA keep on being its Islamic Education and Arabic arrangement, which needs "to mirror the standards of IB all the more nearly". Arabic and Islamic Studies are considered territories of shortcoming over by far most of Dubai's tuition based schools.

Changes at DIA have not just been scholastic. Different qualities of the school incorporate understudies' close to home and social improvement and its effect on their taking in; a remarkable arrangement for understudies' social and individual needs; the school's formation of a firm group from the assorted scope of societies and foundations and the capacity of school pioneers, governors, guardians and instructors to work towards a typical quest for fabulousness in both training and self-improvement.

Offices at DIA are great. There school records these as: 95 Classrooms, a Networked Library, Specialist spaces for music, music innovation, workmanship, move, dramatization and dialect taking in, an Exam Hall, Fully prepared science labs, PC labs and Robotic lab, 4 atmosphere controlled multi-reason lobbies for an extensive variety of games and different exercises, 2 secured swimming pools, a completely grassed open air playing field, a few shaded play zones – littler ones with play gear, and an amazingly substantial one over the Kindergarten segment of the school. The school utilized the accessible space well. Shaded open air b-ball and tennis ball courts, a Cafeteria and a Music and development sprung-amazed space for kindergarten understudies.

The school has a good scope of after school exercises – which as an IB school you would anticipate. The school offers the International Award (Duke of Edinburgh) and the Model United Nations, staples it appears of IB schools. One of the school's understudies as of late won the verse recitation rivalry at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.

Criticism to WSA on DIA is by and large positive. Most guardians like the school's IB program, and the way that the school is required to keep up the Geneva based association's IB measures.

The school wells in the progressing WSA School Survey. Most guardians would suggest the school, all are content with the scholastic execution of the school, and roughly half trust the school offers great worth for cash. Guardians trust the school positions very much contrasted with worldwide companions, with the lion's share thinking the offering is on a standard with "the level of instruction offered in their nations of origin".

The school grasps and praises the differing qualities of its multinational understudy populace, running native language dialect programs in a few dialects, for example, Dutch, Spanish and a few others. There is a little Dutch library amongst different things.

The school was one of the main schools in Dubai to wind up and Eco Flag school.

Charges at DIA are premium – however moderately great quality for an IB school, particularly an Outstanding one. They begin at 38,315 for KG for each annum and ascend to a little more than 67,893 AED for Year 13.

There are extra charges on confirmations. There is a passage test expense of 500 AED, 3,000 AED yearly re-enlistment charge (balanced against term one expenses – very sensible contrasted with associates), a 7,000 enlistment expense for new understudies (again relatively sensible), and a 4.500 expense if the understudy is recognized as requiring English as a Second Language (ESL) support.