Garden Rayong vs
Wells Chonburi.

Shared early years.
Different runway.

Garden’s latest fee record is 2025/26 despite its published 2026/27 calendar; Wells publishes dated 2026/27 tuition, development, lunch, bus and support rows. Compare only after Garden supplies the child’s current-year written offer.

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The fee years do not match, so no current price ranking is defensible. Request Garden’s 2026/27 tuition, entry, bus, support and boarding rows alongside Wells’s dated tuition, development fee, lunch, bus, support and live-grade confirmation.

British and IB.
American pathway.

Both schools begin in early years and publish a route toward age 18. Garden’s British pathway leads through IGCSE to the IB Diploma; Wells states an American route whose current upper-grade delivery needs confirmation.

Match the actual attendance offer

Ask both schools to state the child’s proposed class, start date, age cut-off, core hours and next class. Garden publishes Nursery, Foundation and Years 1–13; Wells publishes Nursery, K1–3 and Grades 1–12 fee rows. Similar ages do not guarantee identical placement.

Garden operates through Year 13 and offers weekly or full boarding from Year 5. Wells’s campus, home and enquiry pages indicate different upper grades. Ask which classes are operating, accepting pupils and expected to progress next year, then put that answer in the offer.

Make language exposure visible

Garden records English as the medium alongside Thai and additional languages. Ask how EYFS transitions into primary, how pupils prepare for IGCSE and how subject choices lead into the IB Diploma.

Wells records English and an American curriculum. Ask for Thai provision, the standards used in each subject, current upper-grade options and evidence that classroom work maps to the stated programme.

At both visits, request anonymised current work and the report format. Watch how teachers explain unfamiliar tasks, differentiate work and support pupils new to English. Curriculum labels matter only when the school can demonstrate daily implementation.

Build complete first-year totals

Garden’s latest published 2025/26 tuition runs from ฿147,000 Nursery half-day to ฿609,800 in Year 13. It publishes a ฿5,000 application fee, ฿60,000–฿120,000 enrolment and ฿40,000 refundable deposit. Bus was ฿18,000–฿32,100 per term and boarding ฿297,000–฿345,000 a year plus deposit.

Wells’s 2026/27 tuition runs from ฿320,000 Nursery to ฿760,000 Grades 11–12. Registration is ฿5,000 from K1, development is ฿150,000–฿220,000 and the Grade 1–12 deposit is ฿35,000.

Wells prices lunch at ฿15,000 per semester, support at ฿30,000–฿80,000 per semester and round-trip bus at ฿36,000–฿80,000 per semester. Garden needs a 2026/27 replacement for every older row before comparison.

Create totals for cash before attendance, complete first year and normal recurring year. Mark refundable, one-time and optional sums. Do not inflate an old Garden tariff into a current figure or treat Wells’s senior fee rows as proof that those grades operate.

Plan both transfer points

Garden publishes IGCSE and IB Diploma routes. Ask for current subject availability, cohort sizes, examination preparation and the school’s explanation of any conflicting A-Level wording.

Wells publishes an American route while official pages disagree on its upper-grade ceiling. Ask what completion credential the Chonburi campus offers, which courses run and whether any provision belongs only to another Wells campus.

Rehearse an international relocation after two years. Request the transcript, curriculum map, language evidence and teacher references each school would supply, then ask a likely receiving school how placement would be decided.

Audit support without assumptions

Wells publishes support bands of ฿30,000–฿80,000 per semester; Garden’s latest tariff does not publish a comparable learning-support price. Ask what assessment triggers support, whether it is required for admission, how often provision runs and which lessons pupils miss.

If support matters, request the responsible staff member, group size, minutes per week, review date, progress measure and exit criteria. Compare the plan for this child rather than assuming boarding, a longer pathway or a higher fee guarantees broader provision.

Resolve the evidence gaps before paying

Ask Garden to attach its 2026/27 fee schedule to the offer and identify every line that replaces the 2025/26 public table. Check tuition, enrolment, deposit, bus, boarding, visa documents, examinations, trips, devices, uniforms and support individually. If a charge is unchanged, the written offer should still state the current amount rather than asking the family to rely on last year’s page.

Ask Wells to reconcile its campus page, homepage, enquiry selector and Grade 12 fee rows in one written answer. Record the highest grade operating now, the highest grade accepting a new pupil, subjects actually timetabled and the next grade planned for the present cohort. A future expansion plan is useful context but must not be described as an operating class.

Compare senior outcomes without borrowing claims

Garden’s established IGCSE and IB Diploma route gives parents a named senior sequence, but the relevant questions remain subject choice, class size, examination support and recent campus-level outcomes. Wells belongs to a wider school brand, yet families should not inherit accreditation, courses or results from Bangkok campuses. Ask only what the Chonburi campus can evidence for the child’s likely graduation year.

For a younger pupil, write two pathway scenarios: staying through the advertised endpoint and transferring after primary. List the documents, curriculum change, likely application calendar and fee exposure for both. This makes the longer-term difference visible without pretending either route is guaranteed for a child enrolling today.

Test the real family week

Garden is in Ban Chang, Rayong; Wells is in Ban Bueng, Chonburi. Drive both routes at intended arrival and collection times, including work and sibling stops. Record normal and rainy-day door-to-door time.

Garden’s older bus tariff needs a current quote; Wells publishes route-dependent semester bands. Ask for pickup windows, vehicle time, supervision and late-bus rules. Garden offers boarding from Year 5 while Wells records none, so compare the lived residential week only if boarding is genuinely needed.

Finish the offer meeting

1. Placement: exact class, live operation and next class.
2. Learning: programme map, subjects, current work and reports.
3. Cost: matched fee year, acceptance cash, first year and recurring year.
4. Support: named provision, staffing, review and price.
5. Transition: Garden’s IGCSE/IB evidence or Wells’s American credit and completion evidence.

Save offers, fee schedules, calendars and placement answers together. Keep every missing charge or grade commitment open until admissions confirms it in writing.