International school fees · Bangkok · 2024-25
British Columbia International School Bangkok fees 2024-25: 479,000 THB a year (£10,667)
Bangkok · ages Kindergarten 1 to Grade 12 · British Columbia (Canada) curriculum · checked 27 October 2026
- Tuition, G.6479,000 THB
- Application fee, paid once5,000 THB
- Registration fee, paid once130,000 THB
- Embroidered bedset (K1 and K2 only), compulsory, each year– not published
- First year, published parts only614,000 THB
- Plus damage deposit, refundable50,000 THB £1,114
The school lists Embroidered bedset (K1 and K2 only) as payable but gives no amount, so the total above leaves it out and the real first year is higher.
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £14,662. At the high of 45.194 it was £13,586.
Source: bcisb.ac.th (image), 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.
British Columbia International School Bangkok charges 479,000 THB a year for G.6 in 2024-25: about £10,667 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 135,000 THB, plus 50,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 614,000 THB (£13,674). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 27 October 2026.
British Columbia International School Bangkok is an international school in Bangkok, following the British Columbia (Canada) curriculum, taking children aged Kindergarten 1 to Grade 12. The figures on this page are the school's own published fees for 2024-25, 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 bcisb.ac.th (image), 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: bcisb.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
- Embroidered bedset (K1 and K2 only)–Amount not stated · Compulsory, in the first-year total · compulsory 2,500 baht, kindergarten only–
Source: bcisb.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Three semesters (two in G10-12). Paying annually in advance by cash/transfer/cashier cheque: 15,000 baht discount; credit-card fee (2%) waived only if paying tuition annually. From the 2nd year, tuition can be paid in 3 instalments.
- Sibling discount: 2nd child 5%, 3rd 10%, 4th and later 15%. Not inclusive: uniform K1-G12, external class, camping trip G4 up, provincial exam fees and registration in G10-G11-G12. 'Tuition fee increases by 3-5% every year' (school's note), so 2026-27 will be higher than shown. The schedule is a single image on the Tuition Fees page (uploaded Aug 2025); page text carries no amounts. not stated on the pages read. Fee year note: the only fee schedule on the school's tuition page; no 2026-27 schedule found.
- How the figures were read: fee table is an image (jpg); schedule is for 2024-2025.
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 G.6 fee of 479,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £9,979 |
| 44.9 (today) | £10,667 |
| 42 | £11,405 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £1,426 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 £427 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 159,667 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.
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.
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What did you actually pay at British Columbia 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.