Garden International School Bangkok.

The campus, and how you actually get there

Address: 2/1 Yen Akat Soi 2, Yen Akat Road, Chong Nonsi, Sathorn, Bangkok

A small, green city campus in a quiet residential enclave — closer in feel to a large house-and-garden school than a corporate campus. Intimate scale rather than extensive facilities.

Getting there: Close to the centre but not on top of a station. Yen Akat sits between Sathorn and Rama III; BTS Chong Nonsi and the Lumphini/Sathorn area are the nearest access points and most families make a short drive or feeder trip rather than walking.

Bangkok school runs are decided by traffic, not distance. Cross-check with the Bangkok getting-around guide and the BTS and MRT network before you commit to a neighbourhood.

The curriculum pathway

How a child progresses through the school, stage by stage:

• English Early Years Foundation Stage from age 2
• A modified British National Curriculum through primary and lower secondary
• Cambridge IGCSE at Key Stage 4, then Cambridge A-levels in the Sixth Form

Accreditation & memberships

Accreditation is the closest thing to an objective quality signal in international schooling — it means an outside body has inspected governance, teaching and safeguarding. BAANLYY does not rank schools, so this is what Garden International School Bangkok and its accrediting bodies publish, not our verdict:

• Education Development Trust accredited
• Cambridge International examination centre
• Oxford AQA examination centre
• FOBISIA member

Boarding and the size of the school

Boarding: Day school — no boarding.

Scale: One of the smaller through-schools in central Bangkok; families choose it for class size and the personal scale rather than for facilities. Roll and nationality figures move every year and schools report them differently — treat these as indicative and ask the admissions office for the current numbers.

Who this school tends to suit

Central-Bangkok families who want a British through-school to A-level in a small setting, and children who do better outside a 2,000-pupil environment.

This is our editorial read for relocation planning, not a ranking or a recommendation — and no school pays to appear on BAANLYY. Visit shortlisted campuses before you decide.

Living near Garden International School Bangkok

Yen Akat, Sathorn and the Lumphini fringe are the practical catchment — and Yen Akat itself is a quiet, low-rise pocket many expats never discover.

Check the school's bus catchment before you sign — a home that looks close on a map can sit outside the route, and a home on the route can be twenty minutes further away and still be the easier morning.

What to confirm directly with the school

BAANLYY deliberately does not publish per-school tuition figures: they change annually, schools publish their own current schedules, and a stale number is worse than none. Take this list to the admissions office:

• The current fee schedule — tuition, application and registration fees, any refundable deposit or capital/development levy, uniforms, lunches, the bus and trips.
• Whether the year group you need has a place, or a waitlist, for your intended start date.
• School bus routes, catchment zones and pick-up times for the neighbourhood you are considering — these matter more than straight-line distance in Bangkok traffic.
• Entry requirements: assessments, interviews, English-language support and the school reports or transcripts you must supply.

Visit the official Garden International School Bangkok website →

Sources & References

• Ministry of Education, Thailand

Primary and official sources are cited above. Government rules, fees and procedures in Thailand change over time and vary by office; always confirm current requirements with the relevant authority before relying on them. BAANLYY never takes paid placement in editorial content.