ELC International School, The City School
Bangkok, Thailand · est. 1984 · PrivateKey facts
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
CIS · accreditationACS WASC · accreditationELC International Schools · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
It accredits international schools and is a paying association at the same time. It examines governance and ownership, the curriculum, teaching, student wellbeing, staff and premises; a team of volunteers from other CIS accredited schools visits the school. Membership and accreditation are different things here, and schools confuse them more often than anything else.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →An American regional accreditation of the institution, working since 1962 and covering some 5,500 schools in California, the Pacific and Asia. It judges the whole school: a self-study, then a team visit. It gives the same status to supplementary and virtual programmes, so the category of an entry is worth checking separately.
What the badge means for this school. The school has been through this organisation's accreditation. It was judged as a whole: governance, safeguarding, staff, premises, teaching. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →ELC International Schools Bangkok - a Thai group of early years and primary schools, founded in 1984. It includes five campuses: The City School on Sukhumvit 49/4, The Purple Elephant 39 in Phrom Phong, The Purple Elephant 49 and The Purple Elephant 55 in Thonglor, and The Purple Elephant Samakee in Nonthaburi. Four campuses are in central Bangkok, the fifth next to Nichada Thani. The group takes children from 18 months to 11 years old, works to an approach inspired by the Reggio pedagogy, and keeps a single admissions service and a single head office at the address of The City School. The teachers are recruited from almost twenty countries. Head office: 18 Soi Sukhumvit 49/4, Khlong Tan Nuea, Watthana, Bangkok 10110. The site of the group is elc.ac.th.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.