International school fees · Bangkok · 2026-27
Denla British School fees 2026-27: 909,300 THB a year (£20,250)
Pak Kret, Nonthaburi · ages Mini Dragons (Pre-Nursery) to Year 13 · checked 27 October 2026
- Tuition, Year 6-8909,300 THB
- Application fee, paid once5,000 THB
- Admission fee (including waiting list fee), paid once220,000 THB
- Annual residential trip (Year 3-13), compulsory, each year– not published
- First year, published parts only1,134,300 THB
- Plus acceptance deposit, refundable150,000 THB £3,341
The school lists Annual residential trip (Year 3-13) 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 £27,087. At the high of 45.194 it was £25,098.
Source: dbsbangkok.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.
Denla British School charges 909,300 THB a year for Year 6-8 in 2026-27: about £20,250 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 225,000 THB, plus 150,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 1,134,300 THB (£25,261). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 27 October 2026.
Denla British School is an international school in Pak Kret, Nonthaburi, taking children aged Mini Dragons (Pre-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 dbsbangkok.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: dbsbangkok.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
- Annual residential trip (Year 3-13)–Amount not stated · Compulsory, in the first-year total · Mandatory; billed separately, cost varies by trip–
- School bus–Amount not stated · Optional · Additional cost; prices from Finance Department–
- ESL support–Amount not stated · Optional · THB 1,250 per hour if identified as needed–
Source: dbsbangkok.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Three termly instalments; 2% discount if full year paid by Term 1 due date; interest 1.25% per month on late fees.
- Also published at https://www.dbsbangkok.ac.th/fees-and-promotions/ (same figures). Late withdrawal notice penalty THB 150,000. Learning support THB 750 per hour after free 4-week assessment. Instrumental music: THB 350 per small-group session, THB 750 individual. Uniform must be bought from the school shop. The policy PDF does not list what tuition includes. Enrolment promotions (waived admission fee for 'before one' reservations and Year 12 entry) exist on the page.
- How the figures were read: matches the HTML page table..
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 6-8 fee of 909,300 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £18,944 |
| 44.9 (today) | £20,250 |
| 42 | £21,650 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £2,706 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 £810 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 303,100 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 Denla British 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.