International school fees · Chonburi · 2026-27
Rugby School Thailand fees 2026-27: 868,000 THB a year (£19,331)
Pattaya, Chonburi · ages Pre-Nursery to Year 13 · British (IGCSE, A Level per fee schedule) · checked 27 October 2026
- Tuition, Years 7 and 8868,000 THB
- Application fee, paid once5,500 THB
- Acceptance fee, paid once200,000 THB
- First year, not refundable1,073,500 THB
- Plus student deposit, refundable100,000 THB £2,227
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £25,635. At the high of 45.194 it was £23,753.
Source: rugbyschool.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.
Rugby School Thailand charges 868,000 THB a year for Years 7 and 8 in 2026-27: about £19,330 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 205,500 THB, plus 100,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 1,073,500 THB (£23,907). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 27 October 2026.
Rugby School Thailand is an international school in Pattaya, Chonburi, following the British (IGCSE, A Level per fee schedule), taking children aged Pre-Nursery to Year 13. 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 rugbyschool.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: rugbyschool.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Termly (invoices 22 Jul 2026 due 13 Aug; 26 Nov due 18 Dec; 11 Mar 2027 due 7 Apr) or annual; 3% discount for annual tuition paid in full by 13 Aug 2026.
- Tuition includes the standard four-day-per-week extracurricular programme, annual residential trips, textbooks, lunches, twice-daily snacks and all common internal and external exam fees (incl. IGCSE and A Level, one retake per unit). Boarding (Years 6-13, optional): part 285,100, weekly 417,700, full 493,800 per year; expenses deposit 20,000. EAL/SFL 5,500-70,000 per term by tier. One-to-one music 25,000/yr. Sibling discount: 2nd child 5%, 3rd 10%, 4th+ 15%. Fee page https://www.rugbyschool.ac.th/admissions/fees shows only ranges and links the PDF (page states no academic year; the PDF is headed 2026-2027). the site pages read give no street address.
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 Years 7 and 8 fee of 868,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £18,083 |
| 44.9 (today) | £19,330 |
| 42 | £20,667 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £2,584 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 £773 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 289,333 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 Chonburi at a similar fee.
Source: each school’s own fee page; open a school for its source and checked date.
Side by side: Rugby Thailand vs Regents Pattaya · Rugby Thailand vs ISE · Rugby Thailand vs Wells Chonburi · Rugby Thailand vs TPIS.
All Chonburi schools, cheapest first, with the median and range: international school fees in Chonburi. The national picture is on Thailand international school fees 2026-27: the statistics.
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What did you actually pay at Rugby School Thailand?
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.