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Royal English Programme School — REPS, also recorded in OPEC's English field as Rayal English Programme School — is a private coeducational day and boarding school at 188/46 Moo 4, Pala-Ban Chang Road, in Ban Chang, Rayong. OPEC registry code 1121100039 confirms the registered school. It takes children from Nursery through Grade 12 (Mattayom 6) in a bilingual English-Thai programme. Its own 2026/27 sheet publishes tuition of ฿84,800–฿153,800 per year, annualised from two semesters.
The pitch in one line: genuine bilingual education at Thai-school prices for Ban Chang and Rayong families — with the directory's only budget boarding option — for families whose target is Thai fluency plus strong English, not an international diploma. Read that twice, because both halves matter. REPS says its students outscore local peers in English, Thai, maths, and science. It does not claim to be an international school, and neither do we on its behalf.
The curriculum follows Thai Ministry of Education guidelines, delivered in parallel English and Thai — the school's stated goal is students who are bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural, switching comfortably between languages on the same concept. The English side is supplemented with international materials the school names specifically: Cambridge, Oxford, Singapore maths, and Reading Eggs (Australia). The credential at the end is a Thai MoE Mattayom 6 certificate, not IGCSEs, A-Levels, or an IB Diploma. University pathways from REPS lead naturally to Thai universities (including international programmes at Thai universities, where strong English helps); a UK or US university application would require independent qualification planning — SAT, IELTS, foundation year — that the school does not advertise.
REPS operates a boarding house alongside day places and now publishes its price directly. Weekly boarding is ฿80,000 per semester; full boarding is ฿85,000 per semester, or ฿160,000 and ฿170,000 across two semesters, plus a ฿10,000 refundable boarding deposit. That makes it a rare sub-Premium boarding option. Price transparency does not answer the pastoral questions: get supervision ratios, dorm arrangements, weekend provision and the youngest accepted boarding age in writing.
For a school this size, REPS publishes more operational detail than several schools triple its price: drop-off from 7:00am free of charge, kiss-and-go lane, lanyard-controlled access to the Nursery/Kindergarten building, CCTV and 24-hour on-site security, maximum two extra lessons of paid after-school classes (3:40–4:30pm), and van transport capped at nine students per van with a driver and a monitor. Lunch for Nursery–Kindergarten includes daily fruit; Kindergarten up gets milk included. Payment terms are publicly stated: 50% before each semester starts, balance before semester end, with payment plans and sibling discounts (5% second child, 10% third onward). This is what operational transparency looks like at the budget end — credit where due.
The natural comparison is the directory's other budget bilingual school:
The honest answer: for a Ban Chang family wanting affordable bilingual education with a Thai credential — or needing budget boarding — REPS is the obvious tour. For families needing an international diploma, it is the wrong product at any price, and the ฿270K+ tier (St Andrews, GIS) is the real comparison set.
Tuition starts at ฿42,400 per Nursery semester and reaches ฿76,900 per Secondary semester. The school's public page specifically lists lunch, afternoon snacks, milk and learning resources with Kindergarten tuition; the current fee image does not repeat that inclusion set for every grade, so do not assume it travels unchanged through the school. Sibling discounts of 5% and 10% matter for larger families. The honest comparison still depends on the qualification destination: this is a Thai national pathway with international supplementary materials, not an IGCSE, A-Level or IB Diploma route.
Budget boarding in a provincial bilingual school is a different product from Rugby's pastoral-care houses, and pretending otherwise helps nobody. REPS now gives families a real starting number—฿160,000 weekly or ฿170,000 full boarding per year—but pricing is only one piece. Ask directly about overnight supervision ratios, dorm sizes, weekend programming, medical cover and the youngest age the school will actually board. A school that boards a six-year-old and one that boards from twelve are different institutions wearing the same label.
Ban Chang is the directory's most interesting micro-market: within a few kilometres sit Garden International (CIS-accredited British + IB), St Andrew's Green Valley (Cognita IB through-school), and REPS at ฿84.8K–฿153.8K. The price ladder maps onto different credential outcomes: Thai MoE certificate versus IGCSE and IB Diploma routes. A family targeting a Thai university may rationally choose the lower-cost national path; a family planning direct overseas entry must verify what external qualifications will be needed.
REPS claims its students "outscore local peers" in English, Thai, maths, and science. No published O-NET score breakdowns, external assessment data, or inspection reports back that claim on a channel we can cite, so it stays in the school's-own-words column. Similarly unverified: current enrolment, foreign-teacher headcount and qualifications, and boarding occupancy. What the public record does support: the OPEC licence, the published fee and payment structure, the inclusions list, the transport and security arrangements, and the boarding house's existence. That is a meaningfully better documentary file than most sub-฿150K schools produce, and the gaps are the ordinary gaps of a small provincial school rather than red flags. Ask for the O-NET numbers on tour — a school confident enough to claim outperformance should be willing to show the scores.
One: what percentage of weekly timetabled hours are English-medium, by grade? Two: what exactly do weekly and full boarding include, and what are the supervision ratios and weekend programme? Three: where did the last three Mattayom 6 cohorts go—which universities and programmes? Four: which tuition inclusions shown for Kindergarten also apply in Nursery, Primary and Secondary? The bilingual promise and the real family budget both depend on precise answers.
REPS's own 2026/27 fee image publishes every tuition band, its entry charges, optional classes, bus routes and both boarding structures. All annual figures below are two published semester amounts added together; no secondary directory is used. The guide previously showed a ฿79K–฿148K 2025/26 range from a secondary fee listing; this primary schedule replaces it with ฿84.8K–฿153.8K.
| Year group | Annual fees | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Annual tuition · two semesters | ||
| Nursery | ฿84,800 (฿42,400 × 2) | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Kindergarten 1–3 | ฿105,400 (฿52,700 × 2) | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Primary 1–6 | ฿129,400 (฿64,700 × 2) | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Secondary 1–6 | ฿153,800 (฿76,900 × 2) | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| One-time + optional | ||
| Application | ฿1,000 | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Enrolment | ฿10,000 Nursery/Secondary · ฿20,000 Kindergarten/Primary | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Damage deposit | ฿10,000 refundable | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Waiting-list booking fee · if used | ฿10,000 non-refundable | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Extra classes | ฿9,900/semester | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Visa documentation | ฿15,000/family | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Bus | ฿18,100–฿27,700/semester by route | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Boarding | ||
| Weekly boarding | ฿160,000/year (฿80,000 × 2) | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Full boarding | ฿170,000/year (฿85,000 × 2) | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Boarding deposit | ฿10,000 refundable | Official 2026/27 sheet |
| Discounts (published) | ||
| Sibling discount | 5% (2nd child) · 10% (3rd+) | Official school page |
| Payment terms | 50% before semester · 50% before semester end · plans available | Official school page |
Context: a full Nursery-to-Grade-12 run at REPS costs roughly what two years at a mid-tier international school costs. That is the scale of the price gap between Thai-bilingual and international education on the Eastern Seaboard — and why being precise about which product you are buying matters more than any discount.
If you live in Ban Chang, Pala, U-Tapao corridor, or Rayong, want your child genuinely fluent and literate in both Thai and English, and your endpoint is a Thai university (including international programmes) rather than a UK or US one, REPS delivers the core product at a price no international school approaches. The right family is typically Thai or mixed Thai-foreign, values the included lunch/insurance/resources arithmetic, may need the boarding house for work-rotation reasons, and is clear-eyed that the credential is a Thai MoE certificate. Foreign families on short assignments who need internationally portable schooling should look at GIS or St Andrews up the road — different product, different price, different passport.
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Royal English Programme School (REPS) offers Thai MoE bilingual, Cambridge + Oxford supplementary materials. Ages 1-18. Verify current pathways with the school's admissions office.
Published annual tuition is approximately ฿85K–฿154K per year (Jul 2026 verification). One-time fees, boarding, transport, and supplementary charges are additional — see the editorial fee table.
Yes. REPS publishes 2026/27 boarding at ฿80,000 per semester for weekly boarding or ฿85,000 per semester for full boarding, plus a ฿10,000 refundable boarding deposit.
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