Schools & universities in Chachoengsao.

The province's university, on a 43-rai city campus at 422 Marupong Road, Na Mueang, Mueang Chachoengsao 24000 — a short walk from Wat Sothon Wararam Woramahawihan. Its own history runs deeper than the name suggests: opened in 1940 as the Provincial Teacher Training School at certificate level, then a teacher training school for women; in 1951 it ran the first provincial elementary-teacher programme for women; renamed Chachoengsao Teachers College in 1955 when men were admitted; promoted on 1 October 1970 and lifted to higher-certificate and then bachelor's level in Education, Science and Liberal Arts. King Bhumibol Adulyadej granted the name Rajabhat Chachoengsao Institute on 14 February 1984; Princess Galyani Vadhana gave her royal name to it on 19 February 1998, making it Rajabhat Rajanagarindra Institute; it became a university on 10 June 2004. A second campus operates at Bang Khla, up the Bang Pakong River, and hosts the university's Sufficiency Economy Institute. Understand what a rajabhat is: a regional teaching university with a public-service mandate, not a research flagship — an accessible, genuinely local route to a Thai-medium bachelor's degree, and not a substitute for Chulalongkorn, Burapha or Kasetsart.

The province's best-known state secondary schools, both in the provincial capital. Benchamaratrungsarit 2 — Ben 2 — teaches roughly 1,900 students across Mathayom 1 to 6 (grades 7-12) on a nine-subject core, and is part of the government's Lab School Project, which pushes student-centred, learning-by-doing teaching. Two things there matter to a foreign family. Ben 2 runs an English Programme in which English, science, mathematics and computer science are taught in English by foreign teachers — the closest thing in the province to an English-medium academic track. It also carries a Mandarin programme staffed under the Thai-Chinese government scheme that posts qualified Chinese teachers into screened Thai schools, open across the upper grades and examinable for university entry.

A girls' school named by King Vajiravudh (Rama VI), with its opening ceremony on 22 February 1915 — the oldest institution on this page. It began as a mixed school teaching kindergarten through secondary, dropped its primary years as numbers grew, and now teaches only girls, Mathayom 1 to 6. Upper-secondary students choose a science-mathematics or an arts stream. Its English provision has been progressively rebuilt — an Intensive English Programme developed into a Mini-English Programme (MEP) for Mathayom 1-3, alongside an Intensive Science Programme and an English for Integrated Studies track.

The province's principal private school, at 128 Suppakit Street, Na Mueang, Mueang Chachoengsao, and part of the St Gabriel Foundation of Thailand — the same Catholic teaching order behind Assumption College and Saint Gabriel's College in Bangkok. It runs kindergarten through Grade 12 and teaches Thai, English and Mandarin. It admitted boys only until 1979, when girls were taken into kindergarten, and has been co-educational since. Its motto is Labor Omnia Vincit. It is a Thai-curriculum Catholic school, not an international school, and the distinction is not cosmetic: the language of instruction, the qualification at the end and the admissions process are all Thai.

At 99/9 Moo 3, Lat Khwang, Ban Pho — out toward the western commuter belt rather than in the city. Sujipuli markets itself as a new-concept school built on a competency-based curriculum in three languages, and layers in the Leader in Me / 7 Habits leadership programme. It is the most distinctive private option in the province and worth a visit for families drawn to progressive Thai schooling. It is not an international school and does not claim to be one; ask directly what proportion of the timetable is actually taught in English, and what qualification a student leaves with.

A trilingual Thai / English / Mandarin school for nursery, kindergarten and the early primary years in Mueang Chachoengsao. It is the school most often surfaced when people search for an international school in Chachoengsao, so be clear about what it is: an early-years and lower-primary school, not a route to IGCSEs, A-levels, the IB Diploma or an American high-school diploma. For a family with a three-year-old it can be a good few years; for a family with an eleven-year-old it does not answer the question.

Set up in Chachoengsao in 1995 and, on the evidence, the single most distinctive educational institution in the province. TATC takes students who have finished Mathayom 6 or a vocational certificate and trains them for the automotive industry, sharing curriculum with Toyota's headquarters in Japan and sending teachers and students there for hands-on work. It is deliberately small — enrolment is capped at around 200 students a year. Its own executives reported in September 2023 that roughly 40% of students go on to work at Toyota's operations in Thailand or Japan and about 30% continue to a bachelor's degree, and that around 70% of intake arrives from Mathayom 6 rather than the vocational stream. An EV-technology expansion was announced at the same time for around April 2024, subject to approval by the Office of the Vocational Education Commission; we could not confirm from a primary source that it launched, so treat it as announced, not established, and ask the college.

Chachoengsao Technical College appears on the government's list of institutions taking part in the Eastern Economic Corridor personnel skill-development scheme. The relevant strand, EEC Model Type A, is a dual-system arrangement in which a college and an employer train jointly, aimed at producing corridor-ready technicians rather than generic graduates. Chachoengsao is one of the three EEC provinces, alongside Chonburi and Rayong; the Eastern Seaboard carries the highest robot density in Thailand. If someone in the household is building a career in automotive, electronics, automation or logistics, this is a real and underrated local strength — and it is the answer to "what is education here actually good at".

American curriculum with the IB Diploma in high school, WASC accredited. The nearest full international school running to 18, and the one most Chachoengsao-based expatriate families actually use.

A second Chonburi option on the same southbound run.

Japanese-curriculum school serving the corridor's large Japanese manufacturing community — relevant because a great many Chachoengsao industrial postings are Japanese.

Ten international schools, including Concordian, Raffles American School, Thai-Chinese International School, D-PREP and Wycombe Abbey International School Bangkok. From Bang Pakong and the western districts this is often a shorter drive than central Bangkok.

Garden International School and St Andrews Green Valley sit further down the corridor — a long run from Chachoengsao, listed for completeness rather than as a daily commute.