International school fees · Bangkok · 2026-27
Topsy Turvy International School (BSB British International Primary School) fees 2026-27: 413,400 THB a year (£9,207)
Sukhumvit, Bangkok · ages 2 to 11 · British curriculum (Early Years, Key Stage 1-2) · checked 28 October 2026
- Tuition, Years 3-6413,400 THB
- Application fee, paid once4,000 THB
- Registration fee, paid once65,000 THB
- Development Fund, compulsory, each year10,500 THB
- First year, not refundable492,900 THB
- Refundable deposit– none on the fee page
At the 12-month low of 41.876 this first year was £11,770. At the high of 45.194 it was £10,906.
Source: bsbangkok.ac (pdf), the school’s own fee schedule. Checked 28 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.
Topsy Turvy International School (BSB British International Primary School) charges 413,400 THB a year for Years 3-6 in 2026-27: about £9,206 at 44.9 baht to the pound. Non-refundable one-off fees add 69,000 THB, so the first year at this year group costs about 492,900 THB (£10,977). Figures are from the school's own fee schedule, checked 28 October 2026.
Topsy Turvy International School (BSB British International Primary School) is an international school in Sukhumvit, Bangkok, following the British curriculum (Early Years, Key Stage 1-2), taking children aged 2 to 11, founded in 1992, run by Independent (The British School of Bangkok Ltd). 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 bsbangkok.ac (pdf), read on 28 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: bsbangkok.ac, checked 28 October 2026.
Recurring extras the school lists.
Source: bsbangkok.ac, checked 28 October 2026. Amounts are per year as the school states them.
What the fee schedule says.
- Payment. Three terms; term fees due 17 Jul 2026, 2 Dec 2026 and 12 Mar 2027. New students pay in full 14 days before start. Late payment Bt 150 per day; credit cards surcharged 2% (Thai banks) or 5% (international banks).
- Primary school only (Nursery to Year 6), so there is no Year 7 figure; Tuition includes snack, art and craft materials, exercise books, textbooks and classroom stationery. Compulsory one-time purchases: uniform Bt 600 (Foundation Stage) or Bt 800 (Years 1-6) per set; PE kit Bt 500 per set (Years 1-6). Optional extras: lunch Bt 4,700 per term (Nursery) or Bt 8,500 per term (Early Years to Year 6); ESL support Bt 20,000 per term (Foundation Stage) or Bt 22,000 per term (Years 1-6), assessed on entry; school bus Bt 25,000 per term round trip or Bt 14,000 one way; after-school activities charged extra each term. Refund policy: 85% of tuition refunded if withdrawing before school opens; 50% of unused tuition within 30 days of opening; none after 30 days. The school's fee PDF is headed BSB British International Primary School; the Topsy Turvy name does not appear on the school's site.
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 3-6 fee of 413,400 THB is:
| GBP/THB | Annual fee in pounds |
|---|---|
| 48 | £8,613 |
| 44.9 (today) | £9,206 |
| 42 | £9,843 |
Between a strong-pound year and a weak one the sterling cost of this school moves by about £1,230 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 £368 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 137,800 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 Topsy Turvy International School (BSB British International Primary 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.