International school fees · Bangkok · 2026-27
Kensington International School (Kensington International Kindergarten) fees 2026-27: 643,400 THB a year (£14,329)
Taling Chan, Bangkok · ages 2 to 11 · British curriculum, Early Years Foundation Stage · checked 29 October 2026
- Tuition, Year 3 - Year 5643,400 THB
- Application fee, paid once4,000 THB
- Registration fee (Toddler - Year 2), paid once100,000 THB
- Registration fee (Year 3 - Year 5), paid once50,000 THB
- First year, not refundable797,400 THB
- Refundable deposit– none on the fee page
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £19,042. At the high of 45.194 it was £17,644.
Source: kensington.ac.th (pdf), the school’s own fee schedule. Checked 29 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.
Kensington International School (Kensington International Kindergarten) charges 643,400 THB a year for Year 3 - Year 5 in 2026-27: about £14,329 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 154,000 THB, so the first year at this year group costs about 797,400 THB (£17,758). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 29 October 2026.
Kensington International School (Kensington International Kindergarten) is an international school in Taling Chan, Bangkok, following the British curriculum, Early Years Foundation Stage, taking children aged 2 to 11, founded in 2012, run by Independent. 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 kensington.ac.th (pdf), read on 29 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: kensington.ac.th, checked 29 October 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: kensington.ac.th, checked 29 October 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Payable in advance in three termly instalments. 10% tuition discount for paying the full year in advance and 5% for paying Terms 2 and 3 in advance (5-day programme only). Credit card termly payment carries a 2% surcharge. Late payment charge THB 150 per day.
- Tuition includes student group accidental insurance (capped at THB 20,000), books and equipment. Excludes meals, uniform, school trips, extra-curricular activities and photographs. Sibling discounts: 2nd child 35% off registration and 5% off tuition; 3rd and later children 50% and 10%. Learning Support is charged per session (group THB 360, individual THB 460). The fee schedule lists Toddler to Year 5 only, although the school describes itself as running to Year 6
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 3 - Year 5 fee of 643,400 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £13,404 |
| 44.9 (today) | £14,329 |
| 42 | £15,319 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £1,915 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 £573 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 214,467 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 Kensington International School (Kensington International Kindergarten)?
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.