International school fees · Chiang Mai · 2026-27
American Pacific International School fees 2026-27: 389,400 THB a year (£8,672)
San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai · checked 1 November 2026
- Tuition, Grade 6389,400 THB
- Application fee (Pre-N to K3), paid once3,000 THB
- Application fee (Grade 1 to 12), paid once4,000 THB
- Entrance fee (Pre-N to K3), paid once40,000 THB
- Entrance fee (Grade 1 to 12), paid once100,000 THB
- Registration deposit (Pre-N to Grade 6), paid once50,000 THB
- Registration deposit (Grade 7 to 12), paid once80,000 THB
- Chromebook (Grades 3-6), paid once15,000 THB
- Sleeping set (Pre-N to K2), paid once1,000 THB
- Lunch and snacks (Grade 6 figure), compulsory, each year26,550 THB
- Miscellaneous account (Grade 6 figure), compulsory, each year20,000 THB
- Classroom Without Walls trip (Grade 6 figure), compulsory, each year25,000 THB
- First year, not refundable753,950 THB
- Refundable deposit– none on the fee page
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £18,004. At the high of 45.194 it was £16,683.
Source: apis.ac.th (pdf), the school’s own fee schedule. Checked 1 November 2026. Refundable deposits are shown separately and are not in the total. Optional extras, trips, transport and uniform are not in it either.
What a year costs here.
American Pacific International School charges 389,400 THB a year for Grade 6 in 2026-27: about £8,672 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 293,000 THB, so the first year at this year group costs about 753,950 THB (£16,790). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 1 November 2026.
American Pacific International School is an international school in San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai. The figures on this page are the school's own published fees for 2026-27, converted to pounds at the mid-market rate on the day The Baht last rebuilt this page. Nothing here is an estimate: where the school does not publish a number, the line is left blank.
Rate used at build: 44.9 THB per GBP, Latest daily mid-market snapshot · 10 November 2026.
Tuition by year group.
Tap a row for the source and the sum.
Every row above is from the school's own fee schedule at apis.ac.th (pdf), read on 1 November 2026. Nothing is estimated or taken from a third-party site.
One-off fees and deposits.
Same source and date as the tuition table: apis.ac.th, checked 1 November 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: apis.ac.th, checked 1 November 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Paid in full before the school year or by semester: first semester due 1 June, second semester due 1 December. Late payments incur a 1.5% per month surcharge. Fees are charged pro rata for students joining mid-year.
- Fees are per year in THB for 2026-27. Pre-Nursery to Grade 4 figures come from the Primary Campus fee sheet; Grades 5-12 from the Main Campus fee sheet (Grades 5-6 are identical on both). Lunch and snacks are charged on top of tuition from Grade 1 (included before). Boarding at the Main Campus (Grades 5-12, per year): weekly board 267,800 (G5), 273,700 (G6-8), 291,800 (G9-11), 305,500 (G12); full board 337,800 (G5), 343,700 (G6-8), 361,800 (G9-11), 375,500 (G12); boarding includes three meals a day and snacks. Residential students also pay laundry 13,500 (Grades 7-12; included for Grades 5-6) and a residential miscellaneous account of 30,000 (G5-10), 40,000 (G11), 50,000 (G12). Weekly boarders pay 6,500 per year for transport between campuses; airport transfer is free for full boarders. Application, entrance and deposit fees are non-refundable and there is no tuition refund once any part of a semester has been attended. Primary Campus fee sheet: https://www.apis.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-2027-PC-Fee-Structure-3.pdf. The fee sheets do not state curriculum, ages, founding year or operator, so those fields are null.
What it costs in pounds, and why that moves.
The school bills in baht. A British family paying from sterling income pays a different amount every term because GBP/THB moves. The same Grade 6 fee of 389,400 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £8,113 |
| 44.9 (today) | £8,672 |
| 42 | £9,271 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £1,158 a year per child. A family paying termly from a UK account at a high-street bank's 3 to 5 per cent spread adds £347 a year on top. Fee payments are the single largest transfer most expat families make, which is why the transfer method matters more here than anywhere else in the budget.
A termly 129,800 THB transfer at the mid-market rate costs a fraction of a bank's spread. Compare the GBP to THB quote before the first invoice.
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What did you actually pay at American Pacific International School?
Published figures are the starting point; the real bill is what readers tell us. Reports are checked by hand before anything appears here, and no name or email is published.
Reading the fee schedule
- The hidden fees catalogue: the £30,000 to £70,000 your school will charge that is not in the tuition schedule.
- The fee inflation trap: how £18,000 in Year 1 becomes £32,000 by Year 13.
- The British family's decision framework for international schools in Asia.
- Where the £25,000 actually goes: the international school operating budget nobody publishes.
How The Baht records school fees
Every figure comes from the school's own website or fee document, recorded with its URL and the date it was checked. Figures are annual tuition as the school states them, in Thai baht, for the academic year shown. Where a school prints termly fees only, the annual figure is the termly fee multiplied by the number of terms and is marked as such. Refundable deposits are listed but excluded from first-year totals. Pound figures use the mid-market GBP/THB rate on the day the page was built (Latest daily mid-market snapshot · 10 November 2026) and are rounded to the nearest pound. Fee schedules change every year, usually between March and July; the checked date on this page is the date the figures were last read from the school's site. Corrections: editorial@thebaht.com.
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