International school fees · Bangkok · 2026-27
Thai-Chinese International School fees 2026-27: 489,439 THB a year (£10,900)
Samut Prakan · checked 27 October 2026
- Tuition, Grade 6489,439 THB
- Application fee, paid once5,000 THB
- One-time registration fee, paid once100,000 THB
- First year, not refundable594,439 THB
- Plus campus development fund, refundable100,000 THB £2,227
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £14,195. At the high of 45.194 it was £13,153.
Source: tcis.ac.th (image), 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.
Thai-Chinese International School charges 489,439 THB a year for Grade 6 in 2026-27: about £10,900 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 105,000 THB, plus 100,000 THB of refundable deposits, so the first year at this year group costs about 594,439 THB (£13,238). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 27 October 2026.
Thai-Chinese International School is an international school in Samut Prakan. 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 tcis.ac.th (image), read on 27 October 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: tcis.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: tcis.ac.th, checked 27 October 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Two semesters; Semester 1 due around the last three weeks of May, Semester 2 around the first three weeks of November. New students pay full tuition by the published deadline to secure the seat. Credit card surcharge 1.5% to 5%. Payment in THB.
- Figures are the 'New Student' table for 2026-27. Annual = Semester 1 + Semester 2 (derived). Students who enrol in the 2nd semester pay the 1st-semester amount. Limited family, alumni and group (10+) discounts pending Chairman review. Insurance included: up to 60,000 THB per accident, up to 650,000 THB death. Table lists Grade 10-11 only; no Grade 12 column shown. Cross-checked against the school's 2026-27 Admissions Policies & Placement PDF (same figures).
- How the figures were read: same table also read as text from the school's Admissions Policies & Placement PDF (https://www.tcis.ac.th/sites/default/files/2026-06/English-2026-2027%20Admissions%20Policies%20%26%20Placement%20-%20Google%20Docs.pdf)..
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 Grade 6 fee of 489,439 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £10,197 |
| 44.9 (today) | £10,900 |
| 42 | £11,653 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £1,456 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 £436 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 163,146 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 0 open vacancies on its own careers page and states a pay figure; benefits listed: housing allowance of 20,000 baht per month, one-way economy flight to Bangkok for new hires and a return ticket on contract completion, yearly airfare home after the first contract, two weeks of hotel accommodation on arrival. See jobs and pay at Thai-Chinese International School.
What did you actually pay at Thai-Chinese 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.