GEMS Dubai American Academy

GEMS Dubai American Academy (DAA) is GEMS Education's flagship American school. Offering both an enriched American Curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Diploma to students from around the world, DAA prepares its students for success in the world's most prestigious universities and colleges.

DAA is the only American curriculum school in Dubai to receive the KHDA rating of Outstanding, and has received this rating since 2011.

With over 20 years of history and academic excellence,  DAA is one of the most sought after American schools in Dubai.  The school's outstanding heritage is coupled with its future-fluent program which embeds creative design, cutting-edge robotics and digital fluencies at its core.   Through teaching, learning and innovation, students develop a mastery of multiple literacies and fluencies to support genuine world-class learning, personal growth and future readiness. DAA offers a diverse range of extra-curricular, athletic, and leadership opportunities to enrich the holistic development of each student.

Our staff teaches and inspires excellence in academics and life-long learning skills by continually reviewing and building an enriched American curriculum, promoting student achievement, encouraging integrity and nurturing a desire to learn.

At GEMS Dubai American Academy, we aim to be good citizens who are:

• Respectful and inclusive, celebrating diversity
• Aspirational and inspirational in pursuit of excellence
• Committed to the well-being of people and of the environment
• Open-minded, creative, resilient and reflective
• Passionate and determined in embracing and driving positive change
• Ethical in our actions and accountable for them

Dubai American Academy (DAA) is a vibrant international community, deeply rooted in a culture of kindness. We are proud of our long heritage and dedication to the academic success of all students in a compassionate and inspirational learning environment. Targeting the highest international standards for our students, DAA offers an enriched American curriculum and the International Baccalaureate Diploma infused with a focus on innovation, including cutting-edge robotics, coding and technology.

DAA students are compassionate, independent leaders, who act with integrity. With our move to state-of the-art facilities in 2017, we aim to inspire innovative thinkers who integrate technology across the disciplines, are dedicated to a growth mindset and to adopting the academic and emotional dispositions required for deep and meaningful learning experiences.

We take our students on a journey through a world-class educational experience, empowering them to become the next generation of leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs. At the core of our future-fluent curriculum is creative design, cutting-edge robotics and digital fluencies encouraging students to apply technology-based solutions to real-world problems. Students are challenged to identify, inspire and imagine new and innovative approaches. As they envision and engineer these new approaches, they work together cooperatively to evaluate and execute new solutions. They ask questions, analyze and apply information and data, and then listen, interpret and communicate information using multimedia tools and approaches. Students are encouraged to discover and dream about the world and its issues all the while developing digital competencies and literacy as they navigate the new technologies arising daily.

Dubai American Academy offers an enriched American curriculum to students of all nationalities culminating in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and/or an American high school diploma. Beyond its rigorous academic program, DAA prepares students to lead successful lives through the exceptional diversity of its community and the extra-curricular experiences that contribute to the development of the whole person.

Dubai American Academy is a vibrant international community, deeply rooted in a culture of kindness, that creates and empowers leaders and independent thinkers with integrity, character, and drive.

From vision to reality and beyond, Dubai American Academy celebrates over 23 years of excellence in education. We opened in 1998 as a small school with a big vision. Over the past 23 years, we have been relentlessly committed to improving and delivering academic excellence to our international student community. Our gratitude extends to all who have supported and believed in our efforts and contributed to the development of Dubai American Academy. We move into our next chapter and decade with a promise and vision of infinite possibilities for our learning community.