International school fees · Chiang Mai · 2026-27
Hana Christian International Kindergarten fees 2026-27: 126,000 THB a year (£2,806)
Nong Kwai, Hang Dong, Chiang Mai · ages 1.5 to 6 · American curriculum (US Common Core Standards, Next Generation Science), Christian values, play-based/modified Montessori methods · checked 6 November 2026
- Tuition, Preschool126,000 THB
- Application fee, paid once2,000 THB
- Registration fee, paid once10,000 THB
- Capital fee, paid once15,000 THB
- Uniform, paid once500 THB
- Student ID card, paid once800 THB
- Melodeon fee, paid once800 THB
- Accompanying Non-O visa, paid once2,000 THB
- First year, not refundable157,100 THB
- Refundable deposit– none on the fee page
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £3,752. At the high of 45.194 it was £3,476.
Source: hcik.ac.th (page), the school’s own fee schedule. Checked 6 November 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.
Hana Christian International Kindergarten charges 126,000 THB a year for Preschool in 2026-27: about £2,806 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 31,100 THB, so the first year at this year group costs about 157,100 THB (£3,499). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 6 November 2026.
Hana Christian International Kindergarten is an international school in Nong Kwai, Hang Dong, Chiang Mai, following the American curriculum (US Common Core Standards, Next Generation Science), Christian values, play-based/modified Montessori methods, taking children aged 1.5 to 6, founded in 2006, run by Independent Christian school (founded by Korean missionaries). 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 hcik.ac.th (page), read on 6 November 2026. Nothing is estimated or taken from a third-party site.
One-off fees and deposits.
Same source and date as the tuition table: hcik.ac.th, checked 6 November 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: hcik.ac.th, checked 6 November 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Annual plan: paid in full on or before the first day of school. Semester plan: first semester due before the first day, second due in the first week of the second semester. Full-year tuition must be paid to obtain a student visa. Late fee 100 THB per day per family.
- The school lists the new-student one-off total (application, registration, capital, one uniform set, ID card) as 28,300 THB. The page describes pricing as all-inclusive of meals, insurance and visa support, yet also lists a separate lunch fee; treat lunch as listed separately. Tae-Kwon-Do (K1-K3) and accident insurance with annual check-up are listed as free. Fees are for the 2026-27 school year as shown on the school's website; the page also links an official tuition flyer image that was not separately read.
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 Preschool fee of 126,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £2,625 |
| 44.9 (today) | £2,806 |
| 42 | £3,000 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £375 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 £112 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 42,000 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 Chiang Mai at a similar fee.
Source: each school’s own fee page; open a school for its source and checked date.
All Chiang Mai schools, cheapest first, with the median and range: international school fees in Chiang Mai. The national picture is on Thailand international school fees 2026-27: the statistics.
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What did you actually pay at Hana Christian International Kindergarten?
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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.
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