Dubai school fee calculator: total cost to graduation

Enter a school's published annual fee and your child's starting year group. See the year-by-year tuition and the total through to Year 13 or Grade 12, with the 2026-27 fee freeze built in.

Where the numbers come from

Every Dubai private school publishes a KHDA-approved fee for each year group; find it on the school's own fees page or its KHDA profile and enter it above. Fees usually step up in secondary and sixth form, so add those if the school lists them.

2026-27: KHDA confirmed no fee increase for Dubai private schools (Dubai Media Office, 22 May 2026), so the calculator holds that year flat.

Later years: KHDA sets an Education Cost Index each year that caps increases; for 2025-26 it was 2.35% (KHDA, 2 May 2025). We use 2.35% as the default; change it to test other cases. Nobody knows future caps, so treat the total as a planning estimate.

Not sure which year group your child enters? Use the year group calculator.

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General information, not financial advice. Fees are set by each school under KHDA rules and can change.