The school was established in 1912 by Sheikh Ahmed Bin Dalmouk, making it Dubai's oldest known formal educational institution.

The school has housed an illustrious faculty collection, including some of Dubai's most famous jurists and Islamic scholars at the time.

The school was founded in the year 1912 by Sheikh Ahmed Bin Dalmouk, of the pearl trade in the Persian Gulf.

The Dubai government worked on the restoration of Al Ahmadiya School in mid-1994 and converted it into a museum that was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum on March 20, 2000, representing the genesis of semi-formal education in Dubai.

Over the decades the school remained in operation, it graduated many notable figures that would go on to contribute to Dubai's development in the 20th century.