Garden vs Regents

Checked Rayong-specific materials list IBDP at Sixth Form; a separate A-Level page is branch-ambiguous. Regents offers both IB Diploma and A-Level after IGCSE. Regents Years 10–11 standard tuition is ฿890,000 and Years 12–13 is ฿899,000; its former 5% offer would have reduced those rows to ฿845,500 and ฿854,050, but required payment before 31 July 2026.

Garden is in Ban Chang, Rayong; Regents is in Pong, Banglamung. The journey depends on your home address, traffic and the school's transport route. Test both trips at arrival and collection times before comparing the Year 1 and Year 10 fee differences against daily travel.

Garden pairs CIS accreditation with current FOBISIA membership (the federation says it joined in 2002 or earlier) and publishes IBDP examination results — 100% Diploma pass rate in 2023 (89% in 2022, 100% in 2021 on its official results page). Verify latest cohort size and average points on tour. Garden also offers broader language exposure (Spanish + French + Mandarin vs Regents' three-language offering). Regents sits inside Nord Anglia Education — about 90 schools across 37 countries (corporate page checked 23 September 2026), MIT for STEM and Juilliard for performing arts partnerships, cross-network teacher exchanges and relocation portability. Structural fit for globally mobile families who may transfer mid-course.

Both schools publish boarding. Garden offers weekly boarding from Year 5 at ฿297,000/year or full boarding at ฿345,000/year, plus a ฿20,000 deposit. Regents boards from Year 3 at ฿447,000 standard, plus a ฿30,000 retainer. The former 5% offer was ฿424,650 and required payment before 31 July 2026.

On standard published tuition, Garden runs from ฿147,000 in half-day Nursery to ฿609,800 in Years 12–13, while Regents runs from ฿464,000 in Pre-Nursery to ฿899,000 in Years 12–13. Regents’ expired 5% annual-payment offer is shown separately (31 July 2026 deadline passed). Add each school’s published entry, transport and boarding charges before comparing total cash due.

For a different age span, curriculum, boarding option or location, browse Rugby vs Regents · ISE Sriracha · Garden vs St Andrew's · MIS vs TPIS. Check the linked source’s date and fee conditions before shortlisting.

Garden’s latest published tariff in the published information reviewed is 2026/27; Regents publishes 2026/27. That makes the table useful for understanding the schools’ structures, but it is not permission to assume Garden’s published amount will remain the enrolling family’s price. Ask Garden for a dated quote for the intended start year and keep its published 2026/27 figure visible beside it. At Regents, use standard term-total tuition for the current comparison. The former 5% full-year-payment offer required payment before 31 July 2026 and is historical context.

Build a first-year column and a later-year column for each school. Include application, enrolment or registration, refundable deposits, tuition, compulsory support, meals, transport, books, uniform, trips, activities, examinations and boarding where relevant. Mark every item as mandatory, optional, refundable, annual, termly or one-time. If either school has not published a price, leave it “quote required”; an empty public line is not evidence that the family will pay nothing.

Garden’s published weekly and full-boarding options begin from Year 5, while Regents publishes boarding from Year 3. Parents should compare the actual residential pattern, not only the annual charge. Ask which nights are included, how weekends and holidays work, what transport is provided, how medical care and guardianship are handled, which activities carry extra charges, and what happens when a pupil wants to move between weekly and full boarding. Request the current boarding handbook and a dated invoice alongside the day-school offer.

Visit the boarding house during an ordinary school week if residence is part of the decision. Ask to see the age-appropriate sleeping, study and recreation areas; understand phone rules, prep supervision and contact with families; and meet the adult responsible for the relevant age group. A published minimum year does not tell parents whether the daily routine suits this particular child.

Regents’ IB Diploma-or-A-Level choice is valuable to a family that genuinely wants to preserve both routes. Ask when pupils choose, which subjects run for the expected cohort, minimum entry requirements, timetable constraints and what happens when a low-demand subject cannot open. Garden’s listed IBDP route still requires subject-level checking: request the intended IB subjects, prerequisites, counselling timetable, examination charges and recent cohort context. Published pass rates should be read with cohort size and average points, not as a guarantee for an individual pupil.

For a younger child, compare what leads into those senior options. Ask both schools how the English curriculum is assessed, which IGCSE subjects are compulsory or elective, how pupils are advised before Year 10, and how learning or English-language support affects subject access. Network names, accreditation and facilities are meaningful context, but the decisive evidence is the child’s written route through the years they are likely to attend.

Run both routes at morning drop-off and afternoon collection, then ask for a bus quote to the exact address. Garden’s Ban Chang location can be logical for a Rayong-based family and exhausting for a household on the other side of Pattaya; Regents’ Pong location reverses some of that geography. Confirm pickup windows, ride duration, after-activity returns and whether a boarding pattern would reduce or complicate travel. Add the route to the weekly timetable before deciding that a tuition saving compensates for distance.

The final shortlist should contain two child-specific documents: proposed year group, curriculum and later qualification route, required support, complete first-year total, recurring annual estimate, transport or boarding arrangement and payment conditions. The better school is the one whose whole package remains workable, not the one with the strongest single headline.