International school fees · Phuket · 2026-27
British International School, Phuket fees 2026-27: 977,900 THB a year (£21,778)
Koh Kaew (Muang), Phuket · ages Nursery to Year 13 · British (IGCSE) and IB Diploma, per fee schedule · checked 27 October 2026
- Tuition, Year 7977,900 THB
- Application fee, paid once6,000 THB
- Placement fee, paid once200,000 THB
- First year, not refundable1,183,900 THB
- Plus bond, refundable150,000 THB £3,341
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £28,272. At the high of 45.194 it was £26,196.
Source: cdn.bisphuket.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.
British International School, Phuket charges 977,900 THB a year for Year 7 in 2026-27: about £21,778 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 206,000 THB, plus 150,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 1,183,900 THB (£26,365). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 27 October 2026.
British International School, Phuket is an international school in Koh Kaew (Muang), Phuket, following the British (IGCSE) and IB Diploma, per fee schedule, taking children aged Nursery to Year 13. 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 cdn.bisphuket.ac.th (pdf), read on 27 October 2026. Nothing is estimated or taken from a third-party site.
Every year group added together, at today's published fees, comes to 11,356,200 THB (£252,905) across the 13 year groups the school lists. That is the cost of a child going all the way through at current prices, before the one-off fees, before extras, and before the annual fee rises that The Baht's fee inflation dispatch puts at 5 to 8 per cent a year across the region.
One-off fees and deposits.
Same source and date as the tuition table: cdn.bisphuket.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Three terms; each invoice due one month before term start (24 Jul 2026, 4 Dec 2026, 19 Mar 2027). 10% p.a. late surcharge.
- Not included: uniform, IGCSE and IB exam fees, some ECAs and music. Optional: weekly boarding 396,400-457,800, full boarding 473,550-509,300 per year, transport 99,900 per year (Y3-Y13 excl. Y11/13 term pattern differs); Intensive English Course (Y7-8) 63,000 + 42,000 + 42,000; high-performance athlete fee 36,000 per year. Sibling discount: 2nd child 5%, 3rd+ 15%. The HTML page https://www.bisphuket.ac.th/admissions/school-fees/ states 2026-27 and shows the same annual figures.
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 Year 7 fee of 977,900 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £20,373 |
| 44.9 (today) | £21,778 |
| 42 | £23,283 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £2,910 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 £871 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 325,967 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 British International School, Phuket?
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.