Lycée Français Jean Mermoz
Very Good Al Quoz, Dubai · French
- KHDA rating
- Very Good
High quality across the board with minor areas to improve — often better value than Outstanding. Ratings are from the last full inspection cycle (2023–24).
- Annual fees
- AED 40,000 to 65,000 a year
Varies by year group; confirm current fees with the school. 2026–27 fees are frozen by KHDA directive.
- Curriculum
- French
- Established
- Founded 2017
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Quoz, Dubai
District-level pin for Al Quoz — use the Google Maps link for the exact gate.
Link verified against a live domain, July 2026.
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In context
Its mid-range fee is in line with the median for French schools in this guide (AED 50,000). It is one of 46 schools in this guide currently rated Very Good.
Worth comparing: German International School Dubai (AED 33,650 to 44,050 a year) — a lower-fee option in the same area; Lycée Libanais Francophone Privé (AED 35,000 to 55,000 a year) — a lower-fee school with the same Very Good rating and curriculum.
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:
- Very Good in 2023–24, up from the Good awarded at its first inspection in March 2022 — rapid progress for a school that opened in 2017 with 170 students and had over 1,400 by its third inspection.
- English rated Outstanding across the whole school — unusual in a French-curriculum setting — with French, mathematics and science all Very Good, and Outstanding progress in French in Primaire and Collège.
- 109 teachers supported by 15 teaching assistants and a guidance counsellor, predominantly French nationals.
- Part of the AEFE-accredited network, with a purpose-built south campus extending the model.
What they asked the school to improve:
- A young school still completing its senior years — at the 2024 inspection it ran to Première, so the full Terminale track record is still being built.
- The overall rating understates the improvement: read the phase detail rather than the single word.
Inclusion (students of determination): Very Good — 120 students of determination on a 1:13 ratio, and the inspectors’ description is one of the most complete in this register. The school meets the physical needs of students of determination including wheelchair users. The inclusion leader sits within the school’s Pôle d’Inclusion — a team comprising two psychologists or counsellors, the principal, heads of phase and a governor — so inclusion has leadership, clinical expertise and governance in one room. Most lesson plans are carefully differentiated so that students of determination have relevant and meaningful activities pitched at their own level, with in-lesson support where needed to aid access, independence and resilience. Identification runs through observation and analysis of assessment data, and the team works with parents to celebrate successes and build children’s self-esteem. Parents of students of determination are described as actively engaged with functional, trusted feedback mechanisms. The published gap: middle leaders and classroom teachers lack sufficient understanding to use assessment data effectively for differentiated planning. 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:
- 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 long is the real waiting list for my child’s year group, and how does sibling priority work?
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Special educational needs? Read the inclusion guide before you visit.
Other schools in Al Quoz
- GEMS Our Own English High School — Very Good, AED 9,000 to 16,000 a year
- GEMS Our Own Indian School — Very Good, AED 7,000 to 14,000 a year
- The English College Dubai — Very Good, AED 41,000 to 68,265 a year
- Safa British School — Very Good, AED 45,428 to 73,550 a year
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