← Back to homeSiriwat Wittaya School
Bangkok, Thailand · est. 1964 · Private
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Siriwat Wittaya is a private all-day school in the Sai Mai district of Bangkok which runs the Thai programme alongside the Cambridge one. A single stream runs from the nursery to Year 13: in the school's words, from eighteen months to eighteen years. In the kindergarten lessons are about eighty per cent in English and twenty in Thai, and the English requirement rises from year to year: from Year 4 of the primary stage at least a basic level is needed, and in Years 8 and 9 children without English are not usually taken. The campus has a robotics laboratory, science laboratories, a computer room, a library with a quiet area, a workshop, music and art rooms, indoor and outdoor play areas, a futsal pitch, a hall and a medical room. The school gives scholarships for academic work, music and sport on entry from Year 7 to Year 10, runs a four-week summer session for the kindergarten and the primary school in the summer, and has no boarding. It does not publish its fees, its charges, its number of pupils or a list of its leavers' universities, and its site is at present closed with a notice that a new version is being prepared.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE
Admits from
18 months · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Thai
About the fees The school does not name its fees in text: the fees section comes down to an attached file, and at present every page of the site serves a notice that a new version is being prepared.
Admissions Admission is open to children of any nationality and runs through the whole school year. From Year 1 applicants sit tests in English and aptitude, sometimes with mathematics and science; for children below Year 1 there are no tests, and in their place there is a conversation with the head of the kindergarten. Once a place has been offered the school asks for a birth certificate or a passport with visa, a medical certificate and photographs of the child and the parents. Scholarships for academic work, the performing arts and sport are given on entry from Year 7 to Year 10, on the strength of the tests, reports from the previous school and an interview.
Stages and year groups Grades Nursery - Year 13. The school runs one stream of four stages: nursery, kindergarten, primary and secondary school. The Cambridge line the school takes in from Year 7 to Year 13.
Address Siriwat Wittaya School, 4/6 Moo 7, Permsen-Orgern Road, Sai Mai, Bangkok 10220
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Went on to university
100% of leavers
Exam results All pupils sit the official Cambridge English examinati, and the school says that its pupils in Years 6 to 8 hold levels B1 and B2 on the CEFR scale. The scores themselves for three years, alongside the figures for Thailand and for the world, the school shows as a picture.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: Classrooms, a robotics laboratory, science laboratories, the Maclab computer room, a library and a quiet area beside it, music and art rooms, an indoor and an outdoor play area, a separate covered play area for the kindergarten, a workshop, a futsal pitch, a hall and a medical room. What the school does not have: The school describes its setting as the centre of the quiet and handsome Permsin neighbourhood in the Sai Mai district and offers a virtual walk round the campus.
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The summer session runs for the kindergarten and the primary school, begins after Songkran and lasts four weeks: lessons together with games and weekly outings. In the secondary school there is intensive English for new pupils in its place, and catch-up courses on Saturdays, while Years 11, 12 and 13 have a camp preparing for university entrance.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school calls its staff mixed: foreign teachers from English-speaking countries and Thai teachers work together, and in the kindergarten there is one assistant with them. The school does not publish a named staff list, a number of teachers or a ratio to pupils - only the heads of the stages are named on the site. Foreign and Thai teachers, plus one assistant in the kindergarten.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
For five years running the school has received the "สถานศึกษาปลอดภัย" award - "Safe Educational Institution" - from Thailand's Department of Labour Protection and Welfare. There is a medical room on the campus. Safe School Award, five years running.
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data90 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data75 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median65 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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