Al Minhaj Private School, Abu Dhabi

Al Minhaj Private School is led by Dr. Maher Mohammad Ahmad Momani, who serves as Principal, supported by Mohammad Yaseen Mahmoud Al-Khudair as Vice Principal (Academic) and Ilham Ahmed Youssef Rashid as Vice Principal (Student Affairs). The school was founded by Maryam Dwais Al Mansouri, who remains Founder and CEO, providing an additional layer of strategic oversight. [MISSING: principal tenure/years in post] No information is available on how long Dr. Momani has held his current role.

The 2025–2026 ADEK Irtiqa inspection rated the effectiveness of leadership as Good, a standard the school has maintained since its previous inspection in 2022 — a signal of meaningful continuity rather than stagnation. Inspectors noted that senior leaders provide clear strategic direction and that middle leaders contribute effectively through regular monitoring and collaborative team planning. However, self-evaluation and improvement planning regressed from Good to Acceptable in the current cycle, with inspectors finding that monitoring activities focus more on teaching processes than on the measurable impact of actions on student outcomes. This is a material weakness parents should weigh: the school knows what it wants to achieve but has not yet built the evaluative rigour to confirm it is getting there.

Governance is rated Acceptable — the lowest substantive rating available — and has remained at this level since the previous inspection. The governing body is described as continuing to strengthen accountability and oversight, though its impact on raising academic performance is still developing. Among the 17 MoE curriculum schools in Abu Dhabi, only 7 hold a Good rating and 10 are rated Acceptable, placing Al Minhaj in the stronger half of its curriculum peer group, though the governance picture tempers that position.

The school employs 60 teachers serving 1,085 students, producing a student-to-teacher ratio of 1:18. This is notably higher than the Abu Dhabi city average of 1:13.6 across all private schools, meaning each teacher at Al Minhaj carries a meaningfully larger class load than the sector norm. [MISSING: staff qualification percentages — no data on proportion holding Masters or above] Teaching quality is rated Good across KG and all cycles, with inspectors describing lessons as purposeful and well-structured and questioning used effectively to check understanding. The depth of classroom dialogue is noted as growing but not yet consistent in promoting critical and creative thinking — an honest reflection of a school still building its instructional culture.

Parent and community engagement is rated Good, and the evidence behind that rating is substantive. The school runs structured reading challenges, reflection logs, reading festivals, family literacy events, author visits, and storytelling sessions. Parents receive termly progress communications and are actively informed about international assessment results and their implications. This level of family partnership is a genuine strength, and one that the inspection report explicitly identifies as contributing positively to the school's learning culture. The school's vision — articulated through its mission to graduate globally competent students grounded in cultural and heritage awareness — is clearly communicated and consistently embedded in school life, from national activities programs to the integration of Islamic values across all cycles.