HAND-CHECKED·SOURCE-VERIFIED EVERY TERM·REAL TUITION FEES·0 PAID PLACEMENTS
// THE PATTAYA SCHOOL DIRECTORY · MAY 2026 EDITION

Every international school
in Pattaya. Honestly reviewed.

14 schools verified. Thirty-one head-to-head comparisons. Annual tuition from ฿92,000 to ฿975,000. Every fee cross-checked against the school's own admissions sheet. Source-verified every term against primary school admissions pages; honest trade-offs, zero paid placements. — By Tim Paemi, Pattaya Authority. From the team behind seven other Pattaya editorial properties.

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฿357,600 Pre-K · ISE Sriracha ฿604,200 Year 1 · Regents Pattaya ฿975,000 Year 13 A-Level · Rugby Thailand
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14Schools indexedHand-verified May 2026
31Head-to-headsCompare pages live
5Areas coveredPattaya → Rayong
0Paid placementsEver. By design.
// LEAD PIECE · Opening this August
Premium · British · Boarding (2028)

Highgate International Thailand.

London's 461-year-old Highgate School — where T.S. Eliot briefly taught and John Betjeman was one of his pupils — opens its first international campus this August on a purpose-built site near Siam Country Club. Pre-Prep + Junior land in 2026, Senior in 2027, boarding in 2028. The school's announced facilities: Olympic-size pool, FIFA-standard football pitch, Golf Academy, 450-seat auditorium, STEM and Arts centres. Fees haven't been published yet. Admissions are open right now.

British IGCSE + A-Level Phased ages 2–18 Banglamung · 30 min from Pattaya Opening Aug 2026

Fees not published yet — confirm with admissions before shortlisting.

Read the full pre-opening editorial → ✓ Live · pre-opening
// 01 · The directory

Thirteen more schools.

Premium tier first, then established and specialist. Tap any card to open the full page. Use + Shortlist to build a shareable list for your partner or agent.

// PREMIUM Tier · Four schools that families shortlist · ฿270K–฿975K/yr

RTEst. 2017 · UK sister
Premium · British · Boarding

Rugby School Thailand

Bang Lamung · 20 min from Pattaya · 80-acre campus

Sister school of the UK's Rugby — where the sport was invented. The biggest campus on the Eastern Seaboard (80 acres) and the steepest acceptance fee in the directory (฿200K one-time, non-refundable).

BritishIGCSE + A-LevelAges 2–18Boarding Y7+
฿333K → ฿975K / yrPremium tierFees verified May 2026
Read editorial →✓ Source-verified
RGEst. 1995 · Nord Anglia
Premium · British + IB · Boarding

Regents International Pattaya

Pong · Banglamung

Nord Anglia's Pattaya flagship. The only Eastern Seaboard school offering both IB Diploma and A-Levels at age 16 — a real choice at Sixth Form. Year 1 tuition ฿604,200; Pre-Nursery first-year all-in ฿503,550.

BritishIB DiplomaA-LevelAges 2–18Boarding
฿436K → ฿829K / yrPremium tierFees verified May 2026
Read editorial →✓ Source-verified
SAEst. 1997 · Cognita
Premium · British + IB · Dutch stream

St. Andrews Green Valley

Banchang · Rayong · 30 min from Pattaya · 30-rai campus

Cognita's Eastern Seaboard campus, EDT Gold accredited. Runs a full Dutch-medium parallel stream from Reception — unique in Thailand and the reason a real Dutch expat community gravitates here. Forest School ethos.

BritishIB PYP + DPDutch streamAges 2–18EDT Gold
~฿270K → ~฿650K / yrPremium tierFees verified May 2026
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GREst. 1995 · CIS
Premium · British + IB

Garden International Rayong

Ban Chang · Rayong

CIS-accredited British + IB school. Published a 100% Diploma pass rate in 2023. Founding member of FOBISIA — meaningful for sport, debate, and Model UN circuits.

BritishIB DiplomaIGCSEAges 2–18CIS · CAIE · IBO
~฿147K → ~฿500K / yrPremium tierFees verified May 2026
Read editorial →✓ Source-verified

// ESTABLISHED + specialist · Nine schools · mid-tier international, bilingual, French, primary-only · ฿92K–฿646K/yr

TPEst. 2010
Established · British · A-Level

Tara Pattana International

Nongprue · Banglamung

British EYFS → IGCSE → A-Level under Cambridge + Edexcel dual exam-board. Joined ISP global group in 2025. Unusual fee curve — A-Level (G11-12) at ฿543.9K is cheaper than Y9-10 IGCSE-prep. Runs the Ror Dor Army Cadet Programme — the only school in the directory with this Thai military prep option.

BritishIGCSE + A-LevelAges 1.5–18EDT · CAIE · Edexcel
฿264K → ฿606K / yrFees verified May 2026
Read editorial →✓ Source-verified
ISEst. 1993
Established · American + IB

International School Eastern Seaboard

Bowin · Sriracha · Chonburi

The premier American-curriculum school in the region. Tiny by design — around 150 students across 50+ nationalities. MAP, PSAT, SAT, and TOEFL testing built in. Trade-off: small cohorts can mean fewer extracurriculars at any one age band.

AmericanIB DiplomaAges 3–18WASC · IBO
฿358K → ฿646K / yrFees verified May 2026
Read editorial →✓ Source-verified
MSEst. 2010
Established · British + Montessori EY

Mooltripakdee International

Nongprue · Banglamung · near Mabprachan Lake

British EYFS layered with proper Montessori methodology — unique in the directory. Most transparent fee structure (tuition + supplementary split out separately). The most affordable full British 2-18 in the directory at ฿210K Preschool through ฿518K A-Level.

BritishCambridge IGCSE + A-LevelMontessori EYAges 2–18
฿210K → ฿518K / yrFees verified May 2026
Read editorial →✓ Source-verified
BPEst. 2018
Established · British secondary

Burapha Pattanasart International

Nongprue · Banglamung

Secondary-only sister of the 28-year-old BEST Thai-bilingual primary. The published pathway: bilingual primary at BEST → international secondary here. Most affordable Y7-13 international in the directory at ฿126K/yr (Y7-10) → ฿157.5K (A-Level). 2-semester year, all-inclusive tuition claim.

BritishCambridge IGCSE + A-LevelAges 11–18Thai MoE · CAIE
฿126K → ฿158K / yrFees verified May 2026
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EFEst. 2018 · AEFE
Specialist · French · AEFE

École Française Internationale de Pattaya

Huai Yai · east of Pattaya

The only AEFE-accredited French school in the Pattaya region (establishment No. 885A02 since 2013). Purpose-built 2018, ~2 hectares, maternelle → terminale, official French baccalauréat pathway. FLSCO bridge for non-French speakers at primary. AEFE scholarships for French nationals.

French nationalBaccalauréat généralAges 3–18AEFE No. 885A02
฿175K → ฿235K / yrSpecialist tierFees verified May 2026
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BJEst. 2011 · FR + UK
Specialist · French + British (non-AEFE)

BJP Elite Academy / EFR Pattaya

Permsub Garden · Banglamung · near Siam Country Club

The bilingual French + Cambridge IGCSE option (the AEFE-accredited French school is EFIP — above). Parallel French national + English Cambridge pathways under Thai MoE accreditation. ~500 students, ages 3-16. Cheapest tuition in the directory at ฿92K-฿132K/yr.

FrenchCambridge IGCSETrilingual EN/FR/THAges 3–16
฿92K → ฿132K / yrBudget tierFees verified May 2026
Read editorial →✓ Source-verified
ICPrimary only
Specialist · Primary only

International School of Chonburi

Banglamung Soi 39 · Banglamung

Primary-only school using Reggio Emilia in Early Years — rare for Pattaya. Best fit: families who want a small, caring primary and plan to transfer to a secondary at Year 7. 3% discount if the full year is paid in Term 1.

Reggio Emilia EYBritish (Primary)Ages 2–11 only
฿244K → ฿349K / yrFees verified May 2026
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BEEst. 1998
Premium Thai-bilingual

Burapha English-Programme School

Nongprue · Banglamung

Parent school of BPIS. 28 years in the bilingual EP track. The pragmatic Pattaya pathway for Thai-foreign families: BEST primary → BPIS secondary, at roughly half the cost of a pure international education.

Thai-English Bilingual EPPre-K – Y6Thai MoE

Fees not published — confirm with admissions before shortlisting.

Read editorial →✓ Documentary
PWEst. 2006
Premium Thai-bilingual

Phoenix Wittaya School

Pattaya City

Cambridge International Primary layered onto the Thai MoE framework. Primary only — families transfer to an international or Thai secondary at Year 7. Fee structure significantly below the international tier.

Thai MoECambridge InternationalAges 2–12

Fees not published — confirm with admissions before shortlisting.

Read editorial →✓ Documentary
// 02 · Editorial standards

Four rules. Applied to every school.

Most "best schools in Pattaya" articles online are press releases dressed up as reviews — same five names, same affiliate links, same brochure prose. This site exists to be the opposite of that. Four rules apply to every school in the directory, and a school can fall off the list if it stops meeting them.

01
// Primary sources

Every fee traced to the school's own page.

We cite admissions sheets, accreditation registries, and published fee schedules — not aggregator scrapes or brochure PDFs. Each editorial is re-verified every academic term; when a school has no public web presence, we say so plainly.

02
// Real tuition

Every fee, year by year.

Annual tuition in THB. Registration. Building fund. Refundable deposit. Bus, lunch, uniform. The total a family actually pays — not the headline number a brochure prints. Stamped with the verification date and refreshed each term.

03
// Honest take

Strengths AND weaknesses.

Every school is good at something and worse at something else. We write both. The school strong at IB but light on sports gets that said. The one that's beautiful but ฿200K over the local average gets that said too.

04
// 0 paid placements

No "featured school" tier.

No school can pay to climb the rankings. No school can pay to be listed. No sponsored tags. No affiliate links to admissions consultants. The directory ranks the way a friend ranks — by which school fits which family.

฿500,000 a year per child
deserves better
than a brochure.
— Pattaya School Guide, Issue I · May 2026
// 03 · Frequently asked

Straight answers.

Six questions parents ask before they trust us. Real answers — no "depends on the school," no small print.

Are you affiliated with any of the schools?

No. We're not owned by a school, an admissions consultant, or a parent-Facebook-group operator. The site is run by Pattaya Authority, a Pattaya web studio that operates seven other editorial properties in the city. Schools don't pay us. Ever.

Why don't you rank the schools 1–10?

Because the "best" school depends on your child. A student who thrives at Regents' IB rigour would struggle in a project-based American programme, and vice versa. We rank by fit, not by quality. Every editorial has a "Best for:" line that names the family the school actually suits.

How do you verify tuition fees if schools don't publish them?

Three ways: we request the fee sheet through the school's public admissions form (as any parent would), we cross-check with the most recent fee circular issued to current parents, and we publish the year the figure was verified next to every number. If we couldn't verify it, we don't print it.

How often is the directory updated?

Every academic term. Fees change at the start of each year, accreditations renew on their own cycles, and schools occasionally close or rebrand. We re-verify every school's data each term and stamp the page with the verification date. Closed schools are archived, not silently removed.

Do you cover Thai-only schools?

No. Our focus is international schools (English-medium, IB / British / American / Australian curriculum) and premium Thai-bilingual programmes. Pure Thai-curriculum schools are outside our scope.

I run a school you missed. How do I get listed?

Email [email protected] with your school's name, address, curriculum, and accreditations. We'll add you to the next source-verification queue (reviewed every term). Note: a listing isn't a positive review. We'll write what we find, weaknesses and all.

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Hand-checked.
Honestly written.
Always free.

We started this directory because we couldn't find one ourselves. Every entry is a hand-written editorial built from primary public sources — official fee sheets, accreditation registries, and cited admissions pages. Maintained, not abandoned.

Edited by Tim Paemi, Pattaya Authority — from the team behind Pattaya Restaurant Guide, Pattaya Gym Directory, Pattaya Visa Help, and four other in-house editorial properties.

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