International school fees · Bangkok · 2026-27
Storytime Preschool Kindergarten fees 2026-27: 204,000 THB a year (£4,543)
Sukhumvit, Bangkok · ages 1 to 6 years · checked 5 November 2026
- Tuition, Kindergarten 2 / Kindergarten 3, full day, 5 days a week204,000 THB
- Application fee, paid once2,500 THB
- Registration fee, paid once25,000 THB
- Accident insurance, compulsory, each year3,000 THB
- First year, not refundable234,500 THB
- Plus refundable deposit, refundable15,000 THB £334
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £5,600. At the high of 45.194 it was £5,189.
Source: storytimepreschool.com (schedule sent by the school), the school’s own fee schedule. Checked 5 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.
Storytime Preschool Kindergarten charges 204,000 THB a year for Kindergarten 2 / Kindergarten 3, full day, 5 days a week in 2026-27: about £4,543 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 27,500 THB, plus 15,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 234,500 THB (£5,222). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 5 November 2026.
Storytime Preschool Kindergarten is an international school in Sukhumvit, Bangkok, taking children aged 1 to 6 years. 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 storytimepreschool.com (schedule sent by the school), read on 5 November 2026. Nothing is estimated or taken from a third-party site. Where a row says so, the annual figure is the school’s termly fee multiplied by the number of terms.
One-off fees and deposits.
Same source and date as the tuition table: storytimepreschool.com, checked 5 November 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: storytimepreschool.com, checked 5 November 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Fees per term; two terms (17 August to 18 December 2026, 12 January to 25 June 2027). Withdrawal before attending: 85% refundable; after attending: 50% within 30 days, none after 30 days.
- 2026-2027 School Fee Structure for the Sukhumvit Soi 4 preschool. Tuition includes two meals a day and all classroom supplies. All school fees are subject to 7% VAT (figures shown exclude it). 15% sibling discount on tuition and 10% on the school van, for the younger sibling. Uniforms 700 per set (school and PE), backpack 550, tote bag 450. After-school clubs 550 to 650 per class. Summer school June to August 2027; holiday camps in February, April, October and December. Early-years only, so not in the Year 7 comparison.
- How the figures were read: Figures from the school's fee schedule (2026-2027 School Fee, PDF), sent to The Baht by the school on 5 November 2026 in reply to a request; the schedule was not on the school's website when it was checked on 3 November 2026..
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 Kindergarten 2 / Kindergarten 3, full day, 5 days a week fee of 204,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £4,250 |
| 44.9 (today) | £4,543 |
| 42 | £4,857 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £607 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 £182 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 68,000 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 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 Storytime Preschool 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.