International school fees · Bangkok · 2026-27
BASIS International School Bangkok fees 2026-27: 936,000 THB a year (£20,845)
Rama 2 (next to Central Rama 2), Bangkok · ages Nursery to Grade 12 · BASIS curriculum (US-style; AP) · checked 27 October 2026
- Tuition, Grades 6-8936,000 THB
- Application fee, paid once5,000 THB
- Registration fee, paid once250,000 THB
- Campus development fee, compulsory, each year22,000 THB
- First year, not refundable1,213,000 THB
- Plus security deposit, refundable100,000 THB £2,227
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £28,966. At the high of 45.194 it was £26,840.
Source: basis.ac.th (pdf), the school’s own fee schedule. Checked 27 October 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.
BASIS International School Bangkok charges 936,000 THB a year for Grades 6-8 in 2026-27: about £20,845 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 255,000 THB, plus 100,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 1,213,000 THB (£27,014). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 27 October 2026.
BASIS International School Bangkok is an international school in Rama 2 (next to Central Rama 2), Bangkok, following the BASIS curriculum (US-style; AP), taking children aged Nursery to Grade 12. 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 basis.ac.th (pdf), read on 27 October 2026. Nothing is estimated or taken from a third-party site.
One-off fees and deposits.
Same source and date as the tuition table: basis.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: basis.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Two semesters; withdrawal-notice deadlines apply; contact Finance for card payments.
- Per the PDF, snack and lunch and textbook/lab supply fees are included in tuition. the two sources differ and both are quoted. Pre-K 1-2 shows 326,000 per semester / 653,000 per year on the HTML page but 326,750 / 653,500 in the PDF; PDF figures used. Optional: Chinese/additional language 40,000 per year, activities and transport vary. Sibling discount and referral credit exist (terms on request). HTML page: https://basis.ac.th/admissions/tuitions-fees/. Fee year note: PDF version May 2026.
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 Grades 6-8 fee of 936,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £19,500 |
| 44.9 (today) | £20,845 |
| 42 | £22,286 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £2,786 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 £834 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 312,000 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.
Schools in Bangkok at a similar fee.
Source: each school’s own fee page; open a school for its source and checked date.
Side by side: BASIS Bangkok vs Dulwich College Bangkok · BASIS Bangkok vs Wellington College Bangkok · BASIS Bangkok vs Shrewsbury Riverside · BASIS Bangkok vs King's Bangkok.
All Bangkok schools, cheapest first, with the median and range: international school fees in Bangkok. The national picture is on Thailand international school fees 2026-27: the statistics.
Report a figure, read the method.
Working here: the school lists 11 open vacancies on its own careers page; benefits listed: competitive salary reflecting education and experience (no figure), global health coverage for the employee, furnished accommodation or a housing allowance, paid travel to and from Thailand at start and end of contract. See jobs and pay at BASIS International School Bangkok.
What did you actually pay at BASIS International School Bangkok?
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.