Buds Public School
Acceptable Al Nahda, Dubai · Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- KHDA rating
- Acceptable
Meets minimum standards; may be on an improvement plan. Read the full report before enrolling. Ratings are from the last full inspection cycle (2023–24).
- Annual fees
- AED 8,000 to 15,000 a year
Varies by year group; confirm current fees with the school. 2026–27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- Established
- Founded 2000
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Nahda, Dubai
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In context
Its mid-range fee is about 23 per cent below the median for Indian (CBSE/ICSE) schools in this guide (AED 15,000). It is one of 27 schools in this guide currently rated Acceptable. As a CBSE school, its academic year runs April to March — plan relocation timing around this.
These comparisons are computed from the verified data in this register, not editorial opinion.
What the inspectors said
Paraphrased from the last full DSIB inspection (2023–24 cycle) and its published record — read the complete report on the official KHDA directory.
Strengths the inspectors named:
- Acceptable in 2023–24 — and the honest reading is that holding this rating across many cycles has itself required improvement, because the regulator’s bar rises each year.
- Good progress in Islamic Education in the middle and secondary phases.
- Strong personal development and social responsibility — the inspectors’ clearest positive.
- A long-established, genuinely affordable CBSE school — open since 1986, with international benchmark tests now used to target teaching.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Attainment and progress in English, mathematics and science have sat at Acceptable across phases — the core reason for the overall rating.
- Benchmark results have shown weak progression against expectations, prompting targeted intervention — ask what has changed since.
- Financial constraints limit investment; other schools at similar fees have moved further, so ask leaders precisely what the improvement plan funds this year.
Inclusion (students of determination): Weak — the second Weak inclusion judgement in this register, and the inspectors’ wording is published in full: teachers do not adapt the curriculum in ways that help them to adequately meet the needs of all groups of students, including provision for students of determination and those with particular gifts and talents. Inspectors recommended a review of the entire system of monitoring and support so that all students make better progress, and a review of the curriculum for the least able. 40 students of determination were identified at the last inspection. The school publishes no detail about facilities or support for additional learning needs, despite being required under KHDA inclusive education policy to have them in place — which is itself the finding. Nine consecutive Acceptable ratings sit behind this. See the special educational needs guide for the questions to ask on a visit.
Inspector summaries are being added school by school as each report is read — 169 of 169 so far, dated per cycle, never invented. A school without a summary yet is unread, not unjudged.
Visit kit
Questions worth asking on a tour — tuned to this school’s rating and curriculum:
- What did the last KHDA report ask you to improve, and what has changed since?
- Who leads inclusion here — and may we meet them before enrolling?
- How much staff turnover did you have last year, and why?
- What are actual class sizes this term — not the maximum?
- How and how often will I hear about my child’s progress?
- How do you handle children joining outside the April intake?
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Special educational needs? Read the inclusion guide before you visit.
Other schools in Al Nahda
- American School of Creative Science — Good, AED 20,000 to 38,000 a year
- Pristine Private School — Good, around AED 22,000 a year
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