Frequently asked questions

A matching service for families choosing a school in Dubai. Instead of ranking schools from best to worst, we profile how your child learns through a structured quiz and match that profile against the environments of private schools across Dubai. The output is not a league table. It is a shortlist of schools where your particular child is most likely to flourish, with flags for schools that look great on paper but are likely a poor fit for your child specifically.

Three steps. First, a 5-minute quiz builds your child's learning profile: how they respond to competition, structure, group size, pressure and independence. Second, every school in our database carries an environment profile built from public data, including KHDA inspection reports and each school's published information. Third, our engine scores your child's profile against school environments across 36 profile-environment combinations, each rated for compatibility. The result ranks schools by fit with your child, not by prestige.

The methodology is developed and maintained in-house by a team with backgrounds in data analytics and AI, grounded in seven decades of published research on child temperament and person-environment fit (Thomas & Chess, Holland, Eccles). It was built by parents who went through the Dubai school search themselves and found that a rigorous, data-driven search can still miss the most important variable: the child it is all for. No school, agency or advertiser participates in how the methodology scores matches.

No. We are fully independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of KHDA, the UAE Ministry of Education, or any school. School information in our database draws on publicly available data, including KHDA inspection reports, which remain the property of their respective owners. No school can pay to improve its match results: compatibility scores are produced by the same methodology for every school.

226 private schools across Dubai, covering all major curricula: British, IB, American, Indian and others. We review and refresh school data on a regular cycle, and each school profile notes when it was last updated.

No. The quiz is not a diagnostic instrument and produces no clinical labels. It builds a practical learning profile: a structured description of the conditions in which your child tends to do their best work. Every profile type in our system is a healthy way to be a child; none is better or worse, and none is a verdict. The profile exists for one purpose only: to be compared against school environments.

The free result gives you your child's profile and a top-level view of your match list. Paid reports add the full analysis: the complete ranked shortlist with compatibility levels, the reasoning behind each match, the psychological compatibility profile, and the "Looks great on paper, wrong for this child" section that flags popular schools likely to be a poor fit for your child. Current tiers and prices are listed on the pricing page.

It can be incomplete, and we are direct about this. The engine works with what a quiz can capture and what public data reveals about schools; it does not know your family's full context, and no algorithm should make this decision for you. Our results are decision support, not a decision. The final choice belongs to you, ideally after visiting your shortlisted schools with your child. In line with UAE and international data protection rules on automated decision-making, no consequential decision about your child is made solely by our algorithm.

Very. Relocating families are our most common users. The quiz works from anywhere, and the resulting shortlist is a practical way to plan school visits before committing to a neighbourhood, since in Dubai the school choice often should drive the housing choice, not the other way round.

Carefully and minimally. We collect only what the matching requires, we do not sell personal data, and we honour deletion requests. Our privacy practices are designed to meet the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, the Australian Privacy Act and the GDPR. The full details, including how automated matching works and your rights around it, are in our Privacy Policy.

No. Schools do not pay to be listed, cannot pay for placement, and cannot pay to influence match results. This independence is the product; without it, a matching service is just an advertising channel with extra steps.

With the quiz. Five minutes, no account needed to begin: find your child's school match. If you want the background on our approach first, start with Why do children struggle in outstanding schools?