Dream International School

Long-running American-curriculum school in 6th of October City, set up in 2002 and using the McGraw-Hill programme through to a US high school diploma. Around 2,000 students across the age range.

Site sits in Dream Land off the Wahat road, which puts it inside the Giza side of Cairo's western expansion rather than out in Sheikh Zayed proper. The school's pitch is breadth of language teaching alongside the American core, with Arabic, French and Quranic studies built into the timetable. Dr Eva Beshay has been the long-standing head, which gives the school an unusually settled leadership profile by Cairo standards.

Public review traffic is thin. Families who choose it are typically Egyptian rather than expat, and the appeal is the price point against full-fee American schools further east. No IB or AP at present, so high-school families weighing top-tier US university routes will want to compare against schools running APs.