International school fees · Chonburi · 2026-27
Tara Pattana International School fees 2026-27: 574,000 THB a year (£12,783)
Pattaya, Chonburi · ages 6 months to 18 · English National Curriculum, IGCSE, AS/A Level · checked 10 November 2026
- Tuition, Year 7-9574,000 THB
- Application fee (Nursery to Foundation), paid once3,000 THB
- Application fee (Reception onwards), paid once5,000 THB
- Enrolment fee (all year groups), paid once90,000 THB
- First year, not refundable672,000 THB
- Plus damage and loss deposit, refundable10,000 THB £223
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £16,047. At the high of 45.194 it was £14,869.
Source: tpis.ac.th (pdf), the school’s own fee schedule. Checked 10 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.
Tara Pattana International School charges 574,000 THB a year for Year 7-9 in 2026-27: about £12,783 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 98,000 THB, plus 10,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 672,000 THB (£14,965). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 10 November 2026.
Tara Pattana International School is an international school in Pattaya, Chonburi, following the English National Curriculum, IGCSE, AS/A Level, taking children aged 6 months to 18, run by International Schools Partnership (ISP). 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 tpis.ac.th (pdf), read on 10 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: tpis.ac.th, checked 10 November 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: tpis.ac.th, checked 10 November 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Payable by term (three instalments) or in full for the year; 5% off tuition for annual payment. Late payment penalty 100 THB per day. Card payments carry a surcharge of 2.5% (Thai cards) or 3.8% (international cards).
- Tuition includes textbooks for Primary and Key Stage 3, exercise books, standard stationery, lunch and snacks, and on-site accident insurance. Charged separately: IGCSE/AS/A Level textbooks (about 25,000 THB invoiced at start of Year 10 and Year 12), external exams (IGCSE 30,000-50,000; AS/A Level 30,000-40,000; IPQ 5,000), ELD programme where required, uniforms and kits, residential trips, transport, and visa support (actual visa cost plus 3,000 THB per year admin; family visa assistance from 5,000 THB per year). Sibling discount: 5% off tuition for second child, 10% for third. Tara Tots Playgroup (6 months to 3 years) is listed separately on the site, with no fee in the PDF. Founding year not stated on the fees pages.
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 7-9 fee of 574,000 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £11,958 |
| 44.9 (today) | £12,783 |
| 42 | £13,667 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £1,709 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 £511 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 191,333 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.
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What did you actually pay at Tara Pattana 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.