ADMISSIONS PROCESS

We are accepting admissions for term 2 and term 3 of the current academic year 2024-2025. Please write to registrar@diyafahinternationalschool.com for more details.

Admissions are Open from Nursery/FS1 to Year 13, for the Academic Year 2025-26, starting in September 2025.

Please email registrar@diyafahinternationalschool.com to book a tour of Diyafah. If you wish to walk-in, please enter via gate number 6.

Admission Process

  1. Online Application Submission

    • Parents applying for admissions are required to register online.  Click here for online registration.

    • Mandatory attachments- Passport copy of your child & most recent school report card, if your child has been to school/ nursery.

  2. Admission Interview & test

    • Stay & play for FS1 and FS2 applicants

    • Pearson based baseline assessment for Year 1 applicants

    • CAT4 test for Year 2- Year 11 applicants

    • Interview with the Head of Secondary/ Key Stage Coordinator for Year 12 & Year 13 applicants

  1. Acceptance & Admissions
    If your child is accepted into the school, you will receive an offer for a place from the Admissions Team. You must respond within 7 days to secure the place. 

  2. Submission of required documentation
    Parents are required to submit all the required documentation online. Admission is confirmed only on payment of the registration fees.

  3. Fees
    Upon confirmation, a registration fee amounting to 5% of the school fees will be charged (non-refundable). You will also be required to pay the school fees via an online bank transfer and issue post-dated cheques once school resumes. On cancellation of admission, the fees will be refunded as per the ADEK guidelines. Click here for 2025-2026 fee structure.

 

DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED

We require the following documents to be submitted at the time of registration:

  1. Passport copy of the student and both the parents
  2. Birth certificate copy of the student
  3. Copy of the Emirates ID of the student & both the parents
  4. 1 recent passport size photographs of the child with a white background
  5. Copy of the Immunisation record
  6. Transfer Certificate from the last school with the required attestation
  7. Most recent school report card

 

AGE CRITERIA

Age is calculated as on 31st August of the respective year of admission.

Year group

As on 31st August

FS1

3 Years

FS2

4 Years

Year 1

5 Years

Year 2

6 Years

Year 3 & above

Admission is based on successful completion of the previous year group

 

Upon payment of registration fees, please see the ADEK (Department of Education & Knowledge) Requirements:

If you are new to Abu Dhabi or your child is joining for the first time in a school in Abu Dhabi, please visit the school with the original Emirates IDs of both the child and both the parents to complete the ADEK registration.

  • Children studying in schools within Abu Dhabi- Please send us the final report card from the current academic year upon receiving the same from your child's current school. The online transfer from the current school must be done before the child begins school with us. If your child is coming from an Asian curriculum school/ Government school in Abu Dhabi, the current school must withdraw your child and you must visit us with the original Emirates Id of both the student and parents.
  • Children currently studying in schools outside of Abu Dhabi, please read the below documentation requirements.
  • Please send us the final report card from the current academic year upon receiving the same from your child's current school. The transfer certificate with the attestations must be submitted before the child begins school with Diyafah International School.

Please see the attestation requirements detailed below:

  • Transfer from other Emirates
    Transfer Certificate (TC) should be duly attested by the Education Zone from where the child last studied.
  • Overseas transfer
    • GCC Countries- The transfer certificate to be attested by the Ministry of Education from the country where the child last studied.
    • Northern Europe, Britain, France, Greece, Australia, Canada & North America- The transfer certificate must be duly stamped and signed by the Principal from the school from which the student is transferring.
    • Arab Countries & rest of the world- Transfer certificate and final report card/mark list must be attested by the Embassy of the country where the child last studied and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs.