// Vol. I · May 2026 · 14 schools · 5 areas · 0 paid

฿503,550. ฿357,600. ฿975,000.

Year 1 at Regents Pattaya. Pre-K at ISE in Sriracha. Year 13 IB Diploma at Rugby School Thailand. We toured fourteen schools across Pattaya and the Eastern Seaboard — not one of them knew we were looking. The first honest directory for parents choosing between them.

Browse the 14 schools ↓ How we review →
14Schools indexedHand-verified May 2026
5Areas coveredPattaya → Rayong
5CurriculaIB · British · US · TH-EP · FR
0Paid placementsEver. By design.
// LEAD PIECE · Opening this August
Premium · British · Boarding (2028)

Highgate International Thailand.

London's 460-year-old Highgate School — alma mater of T.S. Eliot and John Betjeman — 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. Olympic-size pool, FIFA-standard pitch, Golf Academy, 450-seat auditorium. 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
Read the editorial (in progress) → First parent visit · July 2026
// 01 · The directory

Thirteen more schools.

Search by name, area, or curriculum. Premium tier first — the four schools most parents shortlist — then established and specialist. Highgate is up top because it's the news; the rest are listed by editorial weight, not by ranking.

// 01 Premium tier · Four schools 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. Full British curriculum 2–18, A-Level Sixth Form, optional weekly or full boarding from Year 11. The acceptance fee — ฿200,000 one-time — is the steepest in the directory. Tuition runs ฿333K (half-day Nursery) to ฿975K (Y12–13).

BritishIGCSE + A-LevelAges 2–18Boarding Y11+
฿333K → ฿975K / yrPremium tier
Read editorial →Vol. II · Q3 2026
RGEst. 1995 · Nord Anglia
Premium · British + IB · Boarding

Regents International Pattaya

Pong · Banglamung

Nord Anglia's Pattaya flagship. The only school on the Eastern Seaboard offering both the IB Diploma and A-Levels at age 16 — a real choice at Sixth Form. Tuition spans ฿436K (Reception) to ฿829K (Y13 IB). First-year families pay ฿503,550 once one-time fees are baked in. Sibling discounts kick in from the third child.

BritishIB DiplomaA-LevelAges 2–18Boarding
฿436K → ฿829K / yrPremium tier
Read editorial →Vol. II · Q3 2026
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. CIS-accredited. British is the default track but Reception through Secondary also runs a full Dutch-medium parallel stream — unique in Thailand and the reason a real Dutch expat community gravitates here. Forest School and eco-literacy are embedded, not bolted on. First-year families pay around ฿485,800.

BritishIB PYP + DPDutch streamAges 2–18CIS
~฿270K → ~฿650K / yrPremium tier
Read editorial →Vol. II · Q3 2026
GREst. 1995 · CIS
Premium · British + IB

Garden International Rayong

Ban Chang · Rayong

The only school in the Pattaya–Rayong region with full Council of International Schools accreditation. 100% IBDP pass rate three years running. Founding member of FOBISIA — meaningful for sport, debate, and Model UN circuits. Tuition runs ฿350K to ฿600K; enrolment is ฿60K at Foundation and ฿120K from Primary up.

BritishIB DiplomaIGCSEAges 2–18CIS · CAIE · IBO
฿350K → ฿600K / yrPremium tier
Read editorial →Vol. II · Q3 2026
// 02 Established + specialist · Nine schools · mid-tier international, bilingual, primary-only · ฿92K–฿720K/yr
TPEst. 2014
Established · British + IB

Tara Pattana International

North Pattaya · Banglamung

One of the few schools running both A-Level and IBDP through Sixth Form. EDT Silver accreditation — a fully audited British international standard. Strong Thai cultural integration through the academic programme.

BritishA-Level + IBDPAges 1.5–18EDT Silver
Read editorial →Vol. II
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
฿357K → ฿646K / yr
Read editorial →Vol. II
MSEst. 2010
Established · British + Montessori EY

Mooltripakdee International

Nongprue · Banglamung · near Mabprachan Lake

Combines British EYFS with proper Montessori methodology in early years — rare for the region. Quiet countryside campus, full STEAM block. The most affordable full British 2–18 in the directory.

BritishCambridge IGCSE + A-LevelMontessori EYAges 2–18
฿226K → ฿517K / yr
Read editorial →Vol. II
BPEst. 2018
Established · British secondary

Burapha Pattanasart International

Nongprue · Banglamung

Spun out of the 25+ year-old Burapha English Programme School (BEST, listed below). The pragmatic Pattaya pathway for Thai-foreign families: bilingual primary at BEST → international secondary here. Roughly half the fees of pure internationals.

BritishCambridge IGCSE + A-LevelAges 11–18Thai MoE · CAIE
Read editorial →Vol. II
ASEst. 1995
Established · American + AP

ASB Green Valley

Banchang · Rayong · shared sub-district with St Andrew's GV

20+ AP courses — the strongest AP catalogue serving the Eastern Seaboard. Registration ฿200K (one of the highest) but tuition includes meals, books, and in-city field trips other schools bill separately. Net cost is closer to peers than the sticker suggests.

AmericanAdvanced PlacementNursery–G12WASC
~฿380K → ~฿720K / yr
Read editorial →Vol. II
BJFR + UK
Specialist · French + British

BJP Elite Academy / EFR Pattaya

Permsub Garden · Banglamung · near Siam Country Club

The only French-curriculum option in Pattaya. Parallel French (maternelle → terminale) and Cambridge English pathways under one roof. Genuinely trilingual. Tuition is roughly a third of the premium internationals — the trade-off is a smaller cohort and no Sixth Form.

FrenchCambridge IGCSETrilingual EN/FR/THAges 3–16
฿92K → ฿132K / yrBudget tier
Read editorial →Vol. II
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 / yr
Read editorial →Vol. II
BEEst. 1998
Premium Thai-bilingual

Burapha English-Programme School

Nongprue · Banglamung

Parent school of BPIS. 25+ 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
Read editorial →Vol. II
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
Read editorial →Vol. II
// 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
// Anonymous visit

No school knows we're coming.

We tour campuses as parents would — booking through the public admissions form, asking the same questions, sitting through the same pitch. No press passes. No "blogger" discount. What you read is what a real parent gets.

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 hello@pattayaschoolguide.com with your school's name, address, curriculum, and accreditations. We'll add you to the next anonymous-visit cycle. Note: a listing isn't a positive review. We'll write what we find, weaknesses and all.

Hand-checked.
Honestly written.
Always free.

We started this directory because we couldn't find one ourselves. Every entry is a hand-written editorial about a real visit, a real fee sheet, a real conversation with the admissions team. Maintained, not abandoned.

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