The two cheapest seats in the directory — and two genuinely different products at nearly the same price. REPS (Pala, Ban Chang) is the floor: ฿79K–฿148K Thai-bilingual from Nursery to Grade 12 with lunch and materials included, plus the only sub-฿150K boarding house in the directory. BJP (Permsub Garden, Banglamung) is the credential play at the budget end: parallel French national and Cambridge IGCSE pathways at ฿92K–฿132K, ending at Year 11. Forty minutes apart, different provinces, different exits — the decision is geography first, then which credential your child actually needs.
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REPS figures from the school's published fees page and the ISD 2025/26 entry. BJP figures from aggregator fee records and the BJP editorial — BJP does not publish an itemised official fee sheet, so treat its ranges as approximate and confirm in writing. Both are Thai MoE-supervised bilingual schools, not accredited international schools.
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| Dimension | REPS Ban Chang | BJP Elite Academy |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | Operating under OPEC/Thai MoE — founding year not published; verify on tour | April 2011 — Thai-French family-run |
| Location | Pala, Ban Chang, Rayong — near the GIS/St Andrews corridor | Permsub Garden, Banglamung — near Siam Country Club, East Pattaya |
| Age / grade range | Age 1 → Grade 12 — full run on one campus | Age 3 → 16 (Year 11 / Seconde) — no sixth form |
| Curriculum | Thai-English bilingual under OPEC/MoE + Cambridge, Oxford, Singapore materials | Parallel French national (maternelle → seconde) + Cambridge IGCSE English pathway |
| Credential at exit | Thai high-school diploma (Grade 12) | Cambridge IGCSE at Y11 or French Brevet/Seconde standing — then transfer |
| Accreditation | Thai OPEC + MoE — not an international school | Thai MoE — NOT AEFE-accredited (the AEFE school is EFIP) |
| Nursery / EY tuition | ฿79,000/yr (N2, age 2) — lunch + materials included | ~฿92,000–฿110,000/yr (maternelle) |
| Primary tuition | ฿99,600 (K1–3) · ฿123,600 (G1–6) — all-in | ~฿100,000–฿120,000/yr (CP–CM2 / Y1–6) |
| Secondary tuition | ฿148,000/yr (G7–12) — all-in | ~฿115,000–฿132,000/yr (collège → Y11 IGCSE) |
| What tuition includes | Lunch, snacks, milk, insurance, learning materials — published as included | Not itemised publicly — ask what is included in writing |
| One-time fees | ฿21,000 enrolment + application · ฿10,000 refundable deposit | Not published — confirm on tour |
| Boarding | Yes — only sub-฿150K boarding in the directory (fees unpublished; get in writing) | None — day school |
| Discounts / payment | Sibling 5% (2nd) / 10% (3rd+) · 50% per semester · instalments available | Not published |
| Transport | Van routes — 9 students + monitor per van · rates by route | Not published — verify on tour |
| Language outcome target | Functional Thai-English bilingualism on a Thai credential | French + English biliteracy with Cambridge or French exit options |
| Full-run cost (entry → exit, band midpoints) | ~฿1.4M (N1 → G12, 15+ years) | ~฿1.3M (maternelle → Y11, 13 years) + sixth-form transfer costs |
| Live editorial | REPS → read editorial | BJP → read editorial |
The headline numbers are closer than the products. REPS' fees are published, itemised, and genuinely all-in — the ฿123,600 Grade 1 figure includes lunch, insurance, and materials that other schools bill separately. BJP's ranges come from aggregator records, not an official published sheet — the real comparison requires a written BJP quote. The structural difference matters more than the ฿10K–฿25K annual gap: REPS carries a child to a Thai Grade 12 diploma on one campus; BJP ends at 16 with an IGCSE or French Seconde standing and a mandatory transfer for A-Levels or Lycée completion — a move whose costs (new school, new fees, possible relocation) dwarf thirteen years of fee differences.
The deepest difference, hiding behind similar prices. REPS ends in a Thai high-school diploma at Grade 12 — the natural runway to Thai universities and Thai-university international programmes, on one campus, no transfer ever. BJP ends at 16 with Cambridge IGCSEs or French Seconde standing — internationally portable credentials that then require a sixth-form move (A-Levels at BPIS, French Terminale at EFIP, or beyond). If the family's honest trajectory is a Thai university, REPS' uninterrupted run is the cleaner product. If the target is international university entry, BJP's IGCSE base is worth the planned transfer — but plan it at enrolment, not at Year 10.
These schools do not share a catchment. REPS serves Ban Chang, U-Tapao, Map Ta Phut, and the Rayong side — the petrochemical and aviation corridor where its boarding house also earns its keep for rotation-schedule families. BJP serves East Pattaya — Permsub Garden, Siam Country Club, the Mabprachan corridor. Cross-commuting between the two is unrealistic daily. For most families, geography answers this comparison before either fee sheet gets read — which is also why both schools can thrive at nearly identical price points.
If yes, the comparison ends at REPS: it operates the only boarding house attached to a sub-฿150K school in this directory — the budget answer for offshore workers, single parents working away, and provincial families. The diligence bar is high precisely because the price is low: boarding fees are unpublished, so get the full cost in writing, and ask directly about overnight supervision ratios, dorm sizes, weekend programming, and the youngest age the school will board. BJP has no boarding and no published plans for any. (Premium boarding is a different product entirely — see Rugby vs St Andrews.)
BJP is one of only two French-curriculum schools in the directory — and the budget one, running parallel French national and Cambridge streams under one roof for roughly half of EFIP's fees. For French, Belgian, Swiss, and Franco-Thai families who want French literacy without AEFE prices, that is BJP's entire reason to exist (know clearly: BJP is not AEFE-accredited — EFIP vs BJP covers exactly what that means). REPS offers no French at all — its second-language pair is Thai-English with Cambridge/Oxford/Singapore materials. If French is irrelevant to your family, BJP's main differentiator evaporates and the comparison collapses to credential, geography, and the boarding question.
Budget schools earn their fees by not building what premium schools build — the question is which omissions your child will feel. At both schools, ask the same five things on tour: class sizes per grade (not averages), teacher turnover last academic year, native-speaker ratio in English (and French at BJP) classrooms, what sports and arts actually run weekly (not what the brochure lists), and where last year's leavers went. REPS publishes more of its money facts than BJP (fees, inclusions, discounts, payment terms) but neither publishes outcomes. At these prices the schools deserve fair expectations — but a written fee schedule and a straight answer about staffing are owed at any price.
You need an accredited international school at the lowest possible price — see BPIS (฿126K–฿158K, Cambridge through A-Levels) or the budget schools hub. You want AEFE French — see EFIP vs BJP. You need English-medium primary with published fees — see BJP vs ISC. You are weighing premium boarding — see the boarding schools hub.
REPS Ban Chang — from ฿79,000/yr (Nursery 2) to ฿148,000 (Grades 7–12), with lunch, snacks, insurance, and learning materials included. BJP is the cheapest international-tier option at ฿92K–฿132K.
REPS does — the only sub-฿150K school in the directory with a boarding house (fees unpublished; get them in writing, along with supervision ratios and minimum boarding age). BJP is a day school.
REPS runs Nursery to Grade 12 under Thai OPEC/MoE supervision. BJP ends at Year 11/Seconde — students transfer for A-Levels, French Lycée completion, or other sixth-form routes.
No — both are Thai MoE-supervised bilingual schools, not accredited international schools. REPS is Thai-English bilingual with a Thai credential; BJP runs parallel French national and Cambridge English pathways under Thai MoE accreditation.
REPS is in Pala, Ban Chang — Rayong province, near the GIS/St Andrews corridor. BJP is in Permsub Garden, Banglamung, near Siam Country Club in East Pattaya. They serve different catchments roughly 40 minutes apart.
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