Jumeirah College, Dubai
KHDA Inspection Report & Ratings 2019
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Executive Summary
Jumeirah College continues to provide an Outstanding quality of education, maintaining its strong reputation. The school excels in fostering exceptional personal development, behavior, respect, tolerance, and attitudes among its students. Teaching across the school is consistently Outstanding, with particular strength noted in Year 13, supported by knowledgeable and competent senior leadership.
Academically, attainment in English, mathematics, and science is Outstanding, complemented by students' Outstanding learning skills. Progress in Islamic Education and Arabic has improved to Very Good. The curriculum is broad, balanced, and effectively meets students' needs, offering challenge, enjoyment, and engagement, with regular review and adaptation.
Recent improvements in inclusion have led to even better support for students of determination, who are now thriving. The school provides a caring, safe, and nurturing environment that stimulates achievement and a strong sense of community. Leadership is very strong, supported by a dedicated governing board and powerful partnerships with parents, ensuring high standards are maintained.
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Jumeirah College Overall Rating
Outstanding for 12+ consecutive years
Dubai Focus Areas
These three pillars represent the Dubai education authority's priorities: ensuring inclusive practices, prioritizing student wellbeing, and meeting UAE National Agenda targets.
The school demonstrates an Outstanding commitment to inclusion, with increased staffing and a dedicated team ensuring students of determination thrive. Leaders accurately identify needs, and whole-school training has enhanced provision across all subjects. Parents are actively involved through regular reviews of individual education plans (IEPs), and a student-led inclusion team empowers student voice. inclusion teamstudents of determinationindividual education plans (IEPs)
Wellbeing provision and outcomes are at an Outstanding level, driven by leaders' pursuit of happiness for all stakeholders. A comprehensive wellbeing program, led by an experienced team, provides support and guidance. The school uses daily online wellbeing checks and surveys to inform effective care, fostering honest and trusting relationships within a welcoming environment. wellbeing programmetherapy dogextra-curricular activitiesmental health weeks
Overall school standards in the National Agenda Parameter are Very Good. While students in lower grades showed improvements in mathematics and science, Emirati students' progress in benchmark assessments is slower. The school's action plan focuses on improving performance, addressing skill gaps, increasing familiarity with test vocabulary, and enhancing reading literacy through programs like accelerated reader. benchmark assessmentsreading literacyEmirati cohort
Key Highlights
Standout achievements identified by the inspection team that distinguish this school.
Student Progress
Students demonstrate excellent progress across all subjects, reflecting effective teaching and curriculum adaptation.
Nurturing Environment
The school provides a caring, safe, and nurturing environment, fostering a strong sense of community, outstanding inclusion, and student wellbeing.
Personal Development
Students exhibit outstanding learning skills and personal development, showing responsibility, initiative, and respect for diverse values.
Exceptional Teaching
Teaching quality is outstanding throughout the school, with a particular strength observed in Year 13, driving high student achievement.
Strong Leadership
Very strong leadership, supported by a dedicated governing board and powerful partnerships with parents, ensures continuous school improvement and high standards.
Academic Performance Breakdown
Attainment in English, mathematics, and science is outstanding across both secondary and Post-16 phases, with students demonstrating exceptional learning skills. Progress in Islamic Education and Arabic has improved to very good in both phases.
Leadership & Management
Effectiveness of school governance, strategic planning, and leadership capacity to drive continuous improvement.
Leadership Approach
Senior leaders, including the principal, are highly competent and skilled, possessing a deep understanding of high-quality teaching, learning, curriculum, and assessment. They foster a clear, inclusive vision supported by the whole school, empowering teams and individuals. Leaders effectively manage school expansion while maintaining high outcomes, demonstrating strong capacity for sustained excellence.
Inspection Findings
Students' Outcomes
Students demonstrate outstanding attainment in English, mathematics, and science, with exceptional learning skills across the school. Progress in Islamic Education and Arabic has improved to very good. Students are responsible, take initiative, and show a strong appreciation for sustainability, Emirati, and Islamic values.
Personal Development
Students exhibit outstanding personal development, behavior, and attitudes, demonstrating respect, tolerance, and self-reliance. They have an excellent understanding of Islamic values, Emirati heritage, and world cultures, actively participating in charitable activities and showing strong social responsibility and innovation skills.
Teaching Quality
Teaching is outstanding across the school, with teachers possessing excellent subject knowledge and planning lessons to challenge all students. Assessment practices are rigorous, supporting exceptional teaching, though reporting of student progress could be more securely established. Teachers effectively use learning technologies and provide high-quality feedback.
Protection & Care
The school provides outstanding protection, care, guidance, and support for students, with rigorous safeguarding procedures and a safe, well-maintained environment. Staff-student relationships are a strength, fostering a culture of respect and kindness. Students receive personalized academic and careers guidance, and those with additional needs are swiftly identified and effectively supported.
Areas for Development
- •Ensure that the most capable students are appropriately challenged in the full range of subjects.
- •Improve middle leaders' understanding of assessment procedures.
- •Improve the reading skills of all Emirati students in order to close the gaps in performance in benchmark assessments.
- •Prepare all students for benchmark assessments by focusing on the key instructions that they encounter in the tests.
- •Maintain the high expectations for wellbeing throughout the school.
- •Enhance students' knowledge and understanding of the Islamic creed.
- •Consolidate students' ability to substantiate answers with verses from the Holy Qur’an.
- •Provide more opportunities for students to write at length.
- •Improve students' accuracy in writing.
- •Raise expectations of what younger students can produce in writing.
- •Develop students’ confidence to move to the next level of challenge independently.
- •Provide opportunities for students in all year groups to design their own experiments and to test their hypotheses.
- •Encourage students to share ideas through discussion in all subjects.
- •Increase the number of students who choose a healthy lifestyle and who follow healthy pursuits.
- •Ensure that students have sufficient time to think and discuss their ideas in all subjects.
- •Use the KHDA framework to assist in the monitoring of progress.
- •Ensure that more classroom activities have a link with the UAE or are framed in an Emirati context.
- •Implement the provision of alternative pathways in the post-16 curriculum.
- •Provide appropriate and consistent challenge for more able students.
- •Extend even further the involvement of parents in their children’s education.