Delhi Private School, Dubai

One of the most established CBSE schools in Dubai, opened in 2003 in The Gardens near Ibn Battuta. KHDA Very Good and consistently among the top Indian curriculum schools in the city.

Run since opening by Rashmi Nandkeolyar, who parents talk about with unusual warmth. Around 3,750 students from KG to Grade 12. Board results are the headline story, averages near 90% at both Grade 10 and Grade 12 in 2025, with a 100% pass rate. Fees of roughly AED 11,000 to 16,000 make this exceptional value compared with the British and IB market in Dubai.

The DNA is disciplined, exam-focused CBSE preparation aimed at engineering, medicine and business pathways. Free tutoring for strugglers and enrichment for stronger students sit alongside a deep co-curricular programme covering robotics, debate, music and sport. Campus dates from the early 2000s and feels functional rather than contemporary. Families seeking small classes, boutique attention or interdisciplinary learning will find this too large and traditional. Families who want a clear pathway to competitive university entry get strong value here.

• KHDA has rated the school Very Good with Outstanding Features for a decade across seven inspections, and parents online consistently treat it as the strongest CBSE option in Dubai.
• One Reddit comment said "There's lots of CBSE schools in Dubai... Schools I would recommend are Delhi Private School (in Sharjah and Dubai, the former is considered better than the latter) and Indian High School". Other parents push back and rate Dubai above Sharjah, so the within-DPS comparison is genuinely contested.
• Parents praise the academic results, the free tutoring for students who fall behind, and an enrichment track for stronger students. One parent said "my children came from a different school, and they made the transition within two weeks".
• Negative voices are narrower. One parent commented that "students seem to grow arrogant as they reach secondary and high school", and the waiting list is described as long enough that admission is treated as luck.
• An older Reddit thread by a former student called the school "a hellhole" without elaborating, against a much larger pool of recent positive comment. Treated as outlier.