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The school is one of two branches (it is the sister school of Jumeirah English Speaking School, a primary school based in Jumeirah) and was established in September 2005. Since then the school has grown to a size of approximately 1,400 students with a teacher-to-student ratio of almost 1:11. The school employs 115 teachers and 19 teaching assistant... s. Maximum class sizes are said to be 22 students per class. JESS and JESS Arabian Ranches are incredibly popular schools - as popular as Dubai College - and thus just as difficult to get your child into. To get in at primary level, you will likely have needed to pay for a personal debenture (an interest free loan you make available to the school), and even then are likely to be on the waiting list for 2-3 years. If you have been offered a job in Dubai, and want your child to attend JESS, your one shot is whether your company has a corporate debenture at the school, and you are able to use it. At present the debenture costs 20,000 AED. In a recent XPress report, R.D. Stokoe, Director of the school admitted "lists are significant (2,000-plus) with high levels of interest across the 3-18 age phases. We have closed a number of these waiting lists due to over-subscription." As of 2012-2013, the school received the Knowledge and Human Development Authority inspection rating of Outstanding - the second year in a row, after two years of a Good rating by the KHDA. Its sister school in Jumeirah is also ranked Outstanding. The curriculum followed by the school is initially UK based with students up to the end of Key Stage 4 following the National Curriculum of England, and subsequently the increasingly sought after International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) in Years 12 and 13. The quality of teaching at JESS is highly praised by the KHDA, who rank it Outstanding. That is more than borne out in its last set of fully published results (2011 and inconsistently in 2012). In 2012, JESS made the grade - and then some: Over 96% of its students achieved 5 grades A* to C at ...Read More