International school fees · Bangkok · 2025-26
NIVA American International School fees 2025-26: 284,000 THB a year (£6,325)
Khan Na Yao, Bangkok · ages Nursery to Grade 12 · American (California Common Core standards) · checked 27 October 2026
- Tuition, G6284,000 THB
- Application fee - Nursery, paid once2,000 THB
- Application fee - K1-K3, paid once3,000 THB
- Application fee - G1-G12, paid once5,000 THB
- Admission fee - K1 to G12, paid once100,000 THB
- Initial setup fee - Nursery, paid once20,000 THB
- Grade 12 graduation fee, paid once5,000 THB
- Miscellaneous fee, compulsory, each year60,000 THB
- Catering fee - Nursery to K3, compulsory, each year22,000 THB
- Catering fee - G1 to G5, compulsory, each year24,000 THB
- Catering fee - G6 to G12, compulsory, each year26,000 THB
- First year, not refundable551,000 THB
- Plus accountability fee, refundable10,000 THB £223
- Plus ongoing enrollment deposit, refundable10,000 THB £223
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £13,158. At the high of 45.194 it was £12,192.
Source: niva.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.
NIVA American International School charges 284,000 THB a year for G6 in 2025-26: about £6,325 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 135,000 THB, plus 20,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 551,000 THB (£12,271). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 27 October 2026.
NIVA American International School is an international school in Khan Na Yao, Bangkok, following the American (California Common Core standards), taking children aged Nursery to Grade 12. The figures on this page are the school's own published fees for 2025-26, 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 niva.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: niva.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: niva.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. One payment for the year: 1.5% discount; two semester payments: 1.0% discount; four quarterly payments: no discount (discounts apply to tuition and miscellaneous fees; none if paying after the period starts).
- School's 'Total Annual Fee' (tuition + miscellaneous + catering) for G6 is 370,000, G7 378,000; Nursery 273,000; G12 412,000. Sibling discount: 2 children 40,000 baht off per child; 3+ children 60,000 off per child. Transport on request (priced by distance). The document is headed '2nd Sem. 2025-2026 & A.Y. 2026-2027' and 'Updated: 27/11/25'. The school's /fees page shows the same schedule as two page images; the PDF at /fees/pdf has the same figures (checked against the first page image). Fee year note: 2nd Sem. & A.Y. 2026-2027 (document updated 27/11/25.
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 G6 fee of 284,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £5,917 |
| 44.9 (today) | £6,325 |
| 42 | £6,762 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £845 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 £253 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 94,667 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.
Report a figure, read the method.
Working here: the school lists 5 open vacancies on its own careers page and states a pay figure; benefits listed: 8-10 weeks paid holiday per year, medical insurance, provident fund (retirement). See jobs and pay at NIVA American International School.
What did you actually pay at NIVA American International 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.