HOME / Admissions at JESS

Welcome to Admissions

Thank you for considering JESS.

Applications for FS1 and Year 7 2026-27

Personal debenture applications for FS1 and Year 7 for 2026-27 are now closed. Please do not submit an online application as it will not be processed.

Applications for all other Year Groups

We regret to inform you that we are currently full for all other year groups, with over-subscribed waiting lists.

Applications for Year 12 2025/26

Limited places to join JESS’s high performing IB Diploma and BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma programmes are now open for Year 12 2025. To register your interest, please click on the Sixth Form button below.

Applications to join Waiting List

If you are a Corporate Debenture Holder, an Emirati National, or looking to apply to Year 12 for the 2025-26 academic year, you may apply to our join our waiting lists. Please click on the relevant button below.

Sixth Form

Corporate Debenture

Emirati National

Owing to the high volume of applications we receive; we are unable to respond to applications other than from Year 12 applications for 2025/26, Corporate Debenture Holders, or Emirati Nationals.

How to Apply at JESS

Here is how to Apply to JESS

You can check the year group you should apply for in our school age and curriculum comparison:

SCHOOL AGE & CURRICULUM COMPARISON

Open Year groups (1 December 2024)

We are currently accepting applications to join our waiting lists from:

Corporate Debenture holders (all year groups except Years 10 – 13)

Emirati applications (all year groups except for Years 10 – 13)

FS1 and Year 7 siblings only.

Year 12 for academic year 2025-26

Personal Debenture Applications

We will only reopen year groups to Personal Debenture applications if our waiting lists fall below a certain level. If we can reopen year groups to Personal Debenture applications, we will update the information above.

Please check back here at the beginning of each month and if you see the year group you require listed as open, you will be able to apply to join our waiting list.

Please Note

We do not accept any applications into Year 11 or Year 13 as they are part of a two-year exam programme.

All Year Groups (except Years 10 – 13) are OPEN to Corporate Debenture and Emirati Applications only.

FS1 and Year 7 are OPEN to Sibling Applications.

We ONLY accept FS1 and Year 7 for Personal Applications two years in advance of the enrolment year.

FS1 2025 is now CLOSED; Year 7 2025 and 2026 are now CLOSED.

For all other year groups, you have to apply in the current (2024-25) academic year IF the year group is OPEN as indicated above.