International school fees · Phuket · 2026-27
HEI Schools Phuket fees 2026-27: 459,000 THB a year (£10,222)
Thalang, Phuket · Finnish-inspired early years and primary curriculum; IB Primary Years Programme (authorised) · checked 6 November 2026
- Tuition, Grade 5-6459,000 THB
- Application & placement fee, paid once2,000 THB
- Entrance fee, paid once60,000 THB
- Meals (snacks, Thai and international lunch), compulsory, each year– not published
- First year, published parts only521,000 THB
- Plus endowment fee, refundable50,000 THB £1,114
The school lists Meals (snacks, Thai and international lunch) 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 £12,441. At the high of 45.194 it was £11,528.
Source: phuket.heischools.com (pdf), 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.
HEI Schools Phuket charges 459,000 THB a year for Grade 5-6 in 2026-27: about £10,222 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 62,000 THB, plus 50,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 521,000 THB (£11,603). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 6 November 2026.
HEI Schools Phuket is an international school in Thalang, Phuket, following the Finnish-inspired early years and primary curriculum; IB Primary Years Programme (authorised), run by Kajonkiet Group (HEI Schools licensee). 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 phuket.heischools.com (pdf), 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: phuket.heischools.com, checked 6 November 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
- Meals (snacks, Thai and international lunch)–Amount not stated · Compulsory, in the first-year total · Described as compulsory; amount not stated in the fee schedule–
Source: phuket.heischools.com, checked 6 November 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Three terms, billed in advance (Term 1 due 31 Jul 2026, Term 2 due 15 Nov 2026, Term 3 due 31 Mar 2027); late payment charge 1% per month; bank charges apply to card payments
- The 2026-27 fee schedule lists tuition for Pre-K to Grade 6 only. 10% sibling discount on tuition for the second child while both are enrolled; promotional discounts may apply. Late entrants are prorated by weeks remaining. Educational residential trips (Grade 6-10) cost 15,000-20,000, at actual cost. Extra-curricular activities are invoiced separately. Free school accident insurance up to 20,000 per accident. Fees reviewed annually. VAT treatment not stated. The schedule PDF is linked from the school's admission page and hosted on Google Drive.
- How the figures were read: PDF linked from the school's admission page, read as text.
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 Grade 5-6 fee of 459,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £9,563 |
| 44.9 (today) | £10,222 |
| 42 | £10,929 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £1,366 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 £409 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 153,000 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 Phuket at a similar fee.
Source: each school’s own fee page; open a school for its source and checked date.
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What did you actually pay at HEI Schools 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.