Our Own High School
Good Al Warqa’a, Dubai · Indian (CBSE/ICSE)
- KHDA rating
- Good
Good standards in most areas. The most common rating among Dubai schools. Ratings are from the last full inspection cycle (2023–24).
- Annual fees
- AED 10,000 to 19,000 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 1968
- School transport
- Bus service available
- Location
- Al Warqa’a, Dubai
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In context
Its mid-range fee is in line with the median for Indian (CBSE/ICSE) schools in this guide (AED 15,000). It is one of 62 schools in this guide currently rated Good. 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:
- Good for ten consecutive years — one of Dubai’s largest schools, opened in 1975 as a single-shift boys’ school within the GEMS Our Own family.
- Core-subject achievement in the inspection record sits above the overall rating, with English, mathematics and science judged Very Good across almost all of the school.
- Exceptional community engagement with the regulator’s wellbeing survey — more than 3,500 students took part, giving leaders unusually rich data to act on.
What they asked the school to improve:
- Ten cycles at Good is the honest headline: consistent, and not yet climbing — ask leaders which phase is closest to Very Good and what is being done.
- Scale is the defining condition here — ask how a child who is neither top nor struggling gets noticed.
Inclusion (students of determination): DSIB inspectors recognised the Inclusion Department as a success story, with an open-door policy with the counsellor and accommodations provided in line with the Dubai Inclusive Education Policy Framework and UAE law. The inspection report is unusually specific about what still needs to change, and it is worth quoting in substance: extend provision so that the inclusion team is fully represented within senior leadership, so that there are sufficient learning support assistants to maximise the progress of all students of determination, and so that class teachers are fully informed about exceptional learning needs and develop the expertise to provide consistently high-quality modification and support. Those three asks are a checklist a parent can put directly to the school. Context: a boys’ school of roughly 4,700 students, Good for seven consecutive years, at fees of about AED 8,700 to 14,600. 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 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 Warqa’a
- GEMS Al Khaleej International School — Good, around AED 42,000 a year
- Cedar School — Acceptable, AED 25,000 to 48,000 a year
- Newlands School Dubai — Good, AED 28,000 to 54,000 a year
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