Doha Academy Salwa Branch

Year 1 to Year 9 co-educational campus of Doha Academy in the Mamoura area, running a blended curriculum that splices the English National Curriculum, Cambridge International and the Qatar National programme.

Salwa is the original Doha Academy site from 2000, founded by Sheikha Aisha Bint Faleh Al Thani and operated by Al Faleh Educational Holding. The campus stops at Year 9, after which families typically continue at the larger Al Waab campus, which holds the secondary divisions and the IGCSE pathway. Single-sex classrooms come in from Year 6.

The pitch is small classes, a settled Qatari ownership and a curriculum that lets bilingual families keep the Arabic and Qatar national strands without losing the English programme. The mix of nationalities is broad. Families looking for a pure British school with a single curriculum and a fast straight line to IGCSEs in one location tend to look at the bigger British campuses instead.

• Doha Academy is a Qatari-owned, private day school running three campuses (Al Waab, Salwa, Al Mamoura kindergarten). Both Al Waab and Salwa carry NEASC accreditation through to December 2027.
• The Salwa campus is the primary site for Years 1 to 9 and feeds into the Al Waab secondary school. Online review pools focus mainly on Al Waab, so signal specific to the Salwa branch is thin.
• Family reviews left on Edarabia between 2022 and 2024 are uniformly warm. Parents describe dedicated teachers, an inclusive feel and clear values, with one parent saying the school helped their child show real growth in a single year.
• A separate, more critical account on InternationalSchoolsReview says the gym at Al Waab has structural pillars that limit its use, that some teachers come without prior training in the English National Curriculum and that PD is thin. One reviewer wrote, "the mark of a school is would you send your own children there."
• A 2020 Edarabia review during Covid flagged weak primary academics, non-native English-speaking teachers and gaps in communication during school closures. More newer reviews don't repeat that pattern.
• Other recurring concerns from posted reviews: a strict girls' uniform policy that requires all students to wear hijab from secondary regardless of faith, and slow administrative communication on fees and email queries.