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Bangkok, Thailand · est. 2025 · Private
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Brighton College Bangkok Vibhavadi is the second Brighton College school in Bangkok, sister to Brighton College Bangkok on Krungthep Kreetha; it opened in August 2025 in new buildings on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road in the Chatuchak district, between the Mo Chit, Chatuchak and Wat Samian Nari stations, 15 minutes from Don Mueang airport. The school takes girls and boys from 2 to 18 and is divided into three parts: the Prep School with the early years under the English EYFS programme (Pre-Nursery, Nursery, Reception) and Year 1-6, the Senior School with Year 7-11 and the Sixth Form with Year 12-13. In Year 1-6 the school teaches by the thematic IPC programme, in Year 7-9 it runs a Key Stage 3 course with its own humanities subject 'Story of our Land', in Year 10-11 it prepares for IGCSE under the English National Curriculum, and in the Sixth Form it offers 27 A Level subjects, of which a pupil takes four. Teaching is in English: that is how the school describes its programmes, and all its pages for parents and pupils are written in English. Thai and Chinese are taught by specialist teachers, and Chinese in the Sixth Form is taught by native speakers. The campus: a double-sized air-conditioned sports hall with 2 basketball courts, a full-size all-weather field with a 100-metre track, an external rooftop pool with 8 lanes of 25 metres, a 370-seat theatre, laboratories for biology, chemistry and physics, and separate Prep and Senior School libraries. Pastoral care is led by a deputy head, all pupils belong to houses, and there is a full-time school nurse. After lessons there is a clubs programme, in the Prep from Lego robotics and chess to taekwondo and swimming; every Prep pupil swims once a week with a coach. The school publishes its fees itself, in baht, and for 2026-2027 they match in figures the fees of the sister school on Krungthep Kreetha. The school does not yet publish its own examination results or a list of university destinations: the figures on its pages belong to the sister school. The founding head master is Crispian Waterman.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $18 386–31 705 a year
609 200–1.1 million THB
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English
Languages taught
Thai, Chinese
About the fees The school publishes its fees for 2026-2027 itself, as a file on its Fees pages, in baht. A year of tuition: Pre-Nursery 609200, Nursery 689600, Reception 733800, Year 1-2 849900, Year 3-4 881900, Year 5-6 923400, Year 7 928400, Year 8-9 945900, Year 10-11 1016600, Year 12-13 1050500. Payment is in three parts, the first larger than the other two: for Year 12-13, for example, 420200, 315150 and 315150 baht. Invoices are issued before each term, and late payment is charged at 1.25 per cent a month. The sibling discount is 5 per cent for the second child, 10 per cent for the third (and it extends to the first and second), and 15 per cent for the fourth and further children; for payment of the whole year before the start of the school year the discount is 2 per cent. The fee does not include day and residential trips, transport, examination fees, uniform and activities run by staff other than Brighton teachers; meals are paid for separately.
Admissions The school describes itself as international: in its words, its community brings together pupils and parents from many countries, cultures and languages, and for families choosing a school in a country new to them it keeps pages in other languages, Korean among them. The application is made through an online form linked from the admissions pages; before that the school offers an enquiry, a visit and open days. Age: the early years from 2, then Year 1-13 up to 18. One-off payments on entry: an application fee of 5000 baht, an admission fee of 200000 baht (neither is refundable) and a refundable security deposit of 150000 baht. The school does not publish on its pages any entrance tests, English requirements, list of documents or procedure for entry to the Sixth Form.
Stages and year groups Grades Pre-Nursery (age 2) - Year 13. The Prep School: the early years under the English EYFS programme for children from 2 to 4 (Pre-Nursery, Nursery, Reception), then Year 1-6 under the IPC programme with English and mathematics as the core subjects. On its home page the school describes the Prep as a school for children from 3 to 11, while on the early years page and in the fee table it starts with Pre-Nursery and age 2. The Senior School: Year 7-9 under Key Stage 3, Year 10-11 under IGCSE, where three optional subjects are added to English, mathematics and science. The Sixth Form: Year 12-13, 27 A Level subjects, a pupil takes four and from the second term may keep three. The school names no class sizes and no number of classes per year group; for the early years it speaks only of small groups.
Address 998/1 Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Lad Yao, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · authorised programmeBrighton College International · school is part of the networkschool 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), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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Brighton College International - a family of schools grown out of the British Brighton College in East Sussex. It includes schools in the United Kingdom (Brighton College itself, the London campus in Kensington, preparatory schools in Handcross and Hove), in Europe (Rome, Lisbon, Madrid), in Asia (Singapore, Bangkok Krungthep Kreetha, Bangkok Vibhavadi, Hanoi) and in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Dubai). The head of the British Brighton College, Richard Cairns, leads the Brighton College Group. The common framework of the group is the British curriculum leading to A-Level and IGCSE, and the Bangkok campuses also have the IB.
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Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
✓Swimming pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Playground
Campus: A new campus on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, opened in August 2025. A double-sized air-conditioned sports hall: 2 full-size basketball courts marked for badminton, volleyball, tennis, netball and indoor football, a fitness suite, a gymnastics room and classrooms. A full-size all-weather field with a 100-metre running track. An external rooftop saltwater pool with 8 lanes of 25 metres. A 370-seat theatre for productions and concerts. Laboratories for biology, chemistry and physics with preparation rooms. Separate Prep and Senior School libraries, a dining hall, early years play areas with a mud kitchen and play structures, green spaces. The school names no school bus: it writes about the metro and skytrain nearby and about paths for cyclists and pedestrians.
Clubs and activities (9): Lego robotics · Chess · Tennis · Taekwondo · Drama · Reading club · Swimming · Art · Yoga
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 is led by the founding head master Crispian Waterman, who, the school says, has more than 20 years in international education, including senior posts in the UK, Switzerland, Hong Kong, South Korea and Thailand; the Prep School is led by Gemma McCarron. In the Prep, Thai, Chinese, PE, PSHE, health and music are taught by specialist teachers, swimming is taught together with swimming coaches, and Chinese in the Sixth Form is taught by native speakers. The school does not publish the number of teachers, their qualifications, class sizes or the pupil to teacher ratio; of the staff it says only that the teachers are passionate and highly qualified.
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
Pastoral care in the Senior School is led by a deputy head, all pupils belong to houses, and each house has its own head. There is a full-time school nurse. In the Prep the school names a pastoral team and wellbeing practitioners, and for parents it runs workshops on emotional regulation, online safety and study strategies. In the morning teachers meet the children brought by car and see them to their classroom. The site has a policies page, but no documents are posted on it; the school names no designated safeguarding lead, no video surveillance, no security, no access control and no anti-bullying programme.
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Academics and programmes (16%)85 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 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 data90 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 "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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