Bangkok - School Report Question and Answers
Aside from school fees, are there required expenses such as uniforms, laptops/tablets, musical instruments, or field trips that parents are expected to cover? What are the approximate costs?
There are fees for uniforms, residential sleepaways, extracurricular activities and their requective equipment (such as a gymnastics practice leotard and separate competition leotard or the school's swim suit), summer activities, and the annual fun day event. Uniforms- A full set of uniforms includes your uniform tops, uniform bottoms, PE kit (top and bottom), swimsuit( the students all receive weekly swim classes as part of the curriculum), and house shirt. Rule of thumb is that each item will run about the equivalent of $10-12 USD. Extracurriculars- depends on the sport. Soccer- cleats and a personalized soccer jersey or in gymnastics- practice leotard and competition leotard. Prices can vary. The most expensive items for me were soccer cleats and the gymnastics performance leotard (about equivalent to $80-90 USD). Annual Residential- 2 night class trip to iCamp- around US$350 (11,000 Thai Baht) Fun day- US$400 Thai Baht ($11-12USD) per student ages 4 and up; 300 THB for parents. Summer activities- you pay by the day, so if each day of camp is about $12-15 USD (400- 500 THB per day), then the week at camp will be about $60-75 USD - Aug 2023
You must pay for uniforms, all musical instruments used in after-school activities and for most after school activities. - Mar 2023
need to buy uniforms and all after-school activities require an additional fee. Costs depends on how many you sign up for. The school teams sports are typically free. - Jan 2023
Uniforms, year five needs to provide their own laptop, some ECAs, some instruments, and field trips. Uniforms are inexpensive compared to other places in Europe or the US. Field trips are also inexpensive, perhaps because we are in Thailand. - Apr 2019
There is an additional fee for uniforms, ID card, costumes for school performances, lunch and snack and school bus (if requested). - Jun 2018
For my elementary child the required additional fees were: uniforms approx (3,000 baht); school lunch plan (25,000 baht for the year). There is a secondary account where you can add money for snacks in the cafeteria or library that the child can use their student number of finger print to order with. We added 2,000 baht per semester. School trips did not cost anything extra but there are a number of programs and sales that cost money throughout the year - Jun 2018
