Business & Finance Group - Eduaction - Dubai: Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) published the results of the second year of school inspections on Monday.

Only five schools in Dubai have been ranked outstanding this year, up from four last year. Three of them are public schools and two are British curriculum private schools.

Al Manhal Kindergarten School, Al Nokhbah Model School and Childhood Development centre Kindergarten are the three outstanding public schools and GEMS Wellington International School and Kings Dubai School are the two private schools in the outstanding category.

Kings Dubai is the only school that has retained its top ranking from the previous year.

Jumeirah College, Jumeirah English Speaking School and Jumeirah English Speaking School(Arabian ranches) were graded outstanding last year, but have been downgraded to ‘Good’ this year.

About 66 schools have been ranked good – same as last year, while 94 are acceptable, down from 97 last year, and 20 are unsatisfactory down from 22 last year.

A total of 202,441 pupils were inspected by the Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau (DSIB). The agency ranks schools in four categories: outstanding, good, acceptable and unsatisfactory.

In February, the KHDA released results for 23 Indian and Pakistani schools, which were inspected for the first time this academic year.