Jumeirah English Speaking School

JESS Arabian Ranches (Jumeirah English Speaking School Arabian Ranches) is a not revenue driven co-instructive essential and auxiliary school situated in Arabian Ranches, Dubai.

The school is one of two branches (the other being the first Jumeirah English Speaking School, a grade school situated in Jumeirah) and was built up in September 2005. From that point forward the school has developed to a size of 1,369 understudies (over portion of whom are from the United Kingdom). The school utilizes 140, overwhelmingly British educators. The school lost one in 4 educators in the last scholastic year – high even by the UAE normal. Most extreme class sizes are said to be 22 understudies for each class, and the educator: understudy proportion is 1:20.

JESS and JESS Arabian Ranches are amazingly prominent schools, and hard to get your kid into. The school has holding up records, and numerous year gatherings are shut. New schools have opened around the Arabian Ranches range which has lightened some weight on spots.

As a not revenue driven school, to reserve its extension, all youngsters are required to pay to the school an individual debenture (an interest free advance you make accessible to the school) well beyond school charges. There are two sorts of debentures accessible: Corporate and Personal. Corporate Debentures were sold to organizations who bolstered JESS on a long haul premise by putting resources into the underlying working of the schools. Consequently for this dedication their workers, (if qualified), pick up need on the holding up records and the choice to apply to JESS regardless of the fact that the holding up rundown is shut.

Individual debenture applications can be acknowledged just if the sitting tight rundown for their qualified year gathering is open or for more youthful kin entering Foundation One as it were. An individual debenture obliges guardians to pay 20,000 AED, yet simply after a spot is advertised. This is completely refundable when the youngster leaves the school. See Admissions – Debentures for more data about the debenture plan.

In a XPress report, R.D. Stokoe, the previous Director of the school conceded "records are critical (2,000 or more) with abnormal amounts of enthusiasm over the 3-18 age stages. We have shut some of these holding up records due to over-membership."

Starting 2015-2016, the school got the Knowledge and Human Development Authority investigation rating of Outstanding – the fifth year in succession, following two years of a Good evaluating by the KHDA. The first JESS in Jumeirah is likewise positioned Outstanding.

The educational programs took after by the school is at first UK based with understudies up to the end of Key Stage 4 taking after the National Curriculum of England and Wales, and consequently the undeniably looked for after International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) in Years 12 and 13.

There are various courses to follow in the IB portfolio incorporating another IBCC in Sport course, which propelled in September 2013, for understudies intrigued by a profession in the games business.

The nature of instructing at JESS is exceptionally commended by the KHDA, who rank it Outstanding. That is more than borne out in its last arrangement of completely distributed results.

In 2014/15, at IGCSE, 4.4% of exams went at A* or An evaluation, 96.6% went at A* to C and 99.8% of students accomplished 5 passes (A*-C) including Maths and English. Just about seventy five percent of JESS GCSE understudies went no less than 8 GCSEs.

In 2014, for post 16 tutoring, JESS expanded its IB Diploma normal to 34.3 focuses – an expansion of 1.5 focuses more than 2013, and eleven understudies accomplished 40 or above focuses. The school accomplished a 97% pass rate. The school recorded a 93% pass rate in 2013 (down 2% on 2012). In both 2011 and 2012 its normal point score was 32. The worldwide normal point score in 2013 was 29.7.

In 2015, the school has improved. The normal point score for the Diploma was 35.3 focuses, fundamentally higher than the world normal (30 focuses). Altogether, 18.0% of understudies got more than 40 focuses, 55.1% of students got more than 35 focuses, and 84.6% of students got more than 30 focuses.

Examination results are upgraded yearly on the school's Web site. You may discover points of interest here – Examination Results. WSA emphatically trusts all schools in the district ought to be as straightforward with the aftereffects of their understudies.

The school's scholastic execution is noted in the school's review report by the KHDA. It notes "extraordinary accomplishment" in the center ranges of English, arithmetic and science over all stages. It additionally notes understudies "model conduct and uplifting states of mind, together with their profound comprehension of Islamic qualities and solid feeling of social obligation". JESS AR is likewise noted for its exceedingly compelling instructing and evaluation in all subjects which effectively created and broadened understudies. Authority is applauded for its "drive, desire and determination in supporting and further enhancing the school's remarkable general viability… " This is not a school laying on its shrubs.

JESS Arabian Ranches makes great utilization of its nine section of land site and its offices are just as great as any of the best benefit making schools with 70 showing regions, Science and ICT labs, Art, Drama and DT offices, a free music office, a 500-seater Auditorium, 1000sq meter sports lobby, two temperature-controlled, shaded swimming pools, prepared play area zones and broad playing fields.

A 4000sq. m Sixth Form advancement and expansion will have been finished toward the end of 2013. It incorporates a PE/move studio, class rooms, a senior study corridor, an examination lobby, a cafeteria and a further assembly hall.

Guardians at JESS, Arabian Ranches are as a rule profoundly fulfilled by the nature of training got. They additionally adulate the school's comprehensive nature. Understudies and, all the more abnormally, educators likewise enroll elevated amounts of fulfillment at the school. Instructors probably advantage from the school's not revenue driven nature which, by and large, for the most part means all the more preparing, and better compensation. Dubai's not revenue driven schools when all is said in done experience the ill effects of high staff turnover.

Expenses at JESS Arabian Ranches begin at 37983 AED for Foundation Stage 1, increment to 46829 AED from FS2 to Grade 6 – these a mid to premium reach. Optional school expenses however bounce to top end premium, beginning at 78494 AED for quite a long time 7-11, preceding moving to 89274 AED for a considerable length of time 12-13.

Note 1: For data on the IB, go here.

Note 2: JESS Arabian Ranches has an extraordinary microsite on Why IB.