Thailand international school fees 2026-27: the statistics.

Headline figures, 2026-27

This is a sample of schools that publish fees, weighted towards the English-medium schools British families consider, not a census of Thailand's roughly 280 international schools. Quote it as "across 64 Thailand international schools that publish fees, 2026-27", with the date.

Fee bands

By city

The ten cheapest published fees

The ten dearest published fees

What the median means in pounds

At 44.9 baht to the pound the median fee is £12,444 a year. At 42 it is £13,304; at 48 it is £11,641. For a family with two children at the median school the swing between a weak-pound and a strong-pound year is about £3,326 a year before any fee rise. The Baht's fee inflation dispatch puts the regional rise at 5 to 8 per cent a year on top.

Method

Every figure comes from the school's own website or fee document, recorded with its URL and the date it was checked. The comparison figure is annual tuition at Year 7 (or Grade 6) where the school lists it, otherwise the nearest band the school publishes; the band is named on each school's page. A school whose nearest published year group is more than two years from Year 7 (kindergarten or primary-only schools) has its own page but is left out of the statistics. Termly-only schedules are annualised by multiplying by the number of terms and marked as derived. One-off fees are the non-refundable application, assessment, registration, entrance, placement or development fees as listed; refundable deposits are excluded. Compulsory annual extras (capital levies, development fees billed yearly, mandatory meal plans) are included in the first-year outlay only where the school labels them compulsory. Medians are used rather than averages so that one very expensive school does not move the figure. Pound conversions use the mid-market GBP/THB rate on the day the page was built and are rounded to the nearest pound. Schools that do not publish fees, or whose sites could not be read, are listed on their city page with no figure and no estimate. Dataset generated 10 November 2026; the whole set is re-read when schools publish new schedules, mostly between March and July.

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.