Lanna International School Thailand (LIST).

The campus, and how you actually get there

Address: 166 Moo 10, Ban Waen, Hang Dong, Chiang Mai 50230

An established suburban campus in the Hang Dong belt, with the full Nursery-to-Year-13 age range on one site — which means a child can complete the entire British pathway without changing school, unusual outside the two largest Chiang Mai schools.

Getting there: No urban rail. Lanna sits in Ban Waen, Hang Dong, south of the city — typically 20–30 minutes from the Old City, quicker from Mae Hia, Hang Dong village and the Canal Road corridor, and a long haul from Mae Rim or San Sai in the north. If you want a British curriculum in Chiang Mai, the southern suburbs are effectively where you live.

Chiang Mai has no urban rail — no BTS, no MRT, no commuter metro. The city's railway station serves intercity trains to Bangkok, and the long-discussed Chiang Mai light-rail scheme remains unbuilt, so every school run here is a car, a motorbike, a red songthaew, a Grab or the school bus. Read the Chiang Mai getting-around guide and the Chiang Mai area guides before you commit to a neighbourhood.

Smoke-season air quality at this campus

Lanna International School Thailand (LIST) does not publish detailed smoke-season filtration information that we could verify from primary sources, so we are not going to imply provision that may not exist. That is not a criticism of the school — most Chiang Mai schools handle this well and simply do not document it publicly — but it does mean you must ask directly. The due-diligence list below tells you exactly what to ask.

Northern Thailand's burning season runs roughly February to April, when agricultural burning and forest fires push Chiang Mai high into the global air-quality rankings — IQAir placed the city among the ten most polluted in the world on 4 March 2026, with AQI above 150 and PM2.5 the dominant pollutant. For a family with young children this is a legitimate school-selection criterion, not a footnote. Our Chiang Mai air-quality guide covers the season in full.

The curriculum pathway

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

• Early Years and Primary — National Curriculum of England
• Lower secondary — Years 7–9
• Cambridge IGCSE — Year 11
• Cambridge AS and A-level — Years 12–13, examined through Cambridge International and Edexcel

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 Lanna International School Thailand (LIST) and its accrediting bodies publish, not our verdict:

• Cambridge International examination centre since 2005
• Delivers the National Curriculum of England and Wales
• Edexcel (Pearson) examinations also administered
• Registered with the Thai Ministry of Education

Boarding and the size of the school

Boarding: A day school — Lanna does not operate boarding.

Scale: One of the larger Chiang Mai international schools by longevity and roll, reporting students of around 31 nationalities speaking approximately 17 languages, and long noted locally for comparatively small class sizes. 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

Families on a British pathway — particularly those moving from the UK or from another Cambridge school elsewhere in Asia — who want IGCSEs and A-levels rather than an American diploma or the IB. Its thirty-plus years in the city make it the established British option.

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 Lanna International School Thailand (LIST)

The southern corridor is the catchment. The BAANLYY area guides for this run:

Check the school's bus catchment before you sign. Chiang Mai's international schools cluster in two distinct belts — the northern one around Mae Rim and San Sai, and the far larger southern one through Hang Dong, Mae Hia and Saraphi — and picking a home in the wrong belt turns a fifteen-minute run into a daily hour.

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:

• Which A-level subjects are running in the year your child enters sixth form — A-level option blocks in smaller schools depend on cohort numbers.
• Whether the school holds an external accreditation (such as CIS, NEASC or BSO) in addition to its Cambridge examination-centre status. We could not verify one from primary sources and we would rather say so than imply it.
• Smoke-season filtration building by building — Lanna does not publish detailed air-quality provision.
• 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.
• Smoke-season provision in detail: which buildings are filtered, whether the sports halls and canteen are included as well as classrooms, whether indoor and outdoor AQI readings are published to parents, and the school's written policy for cancelling outdoor activities. This is the single most important Chiang Mai-specific question a family can ask, and provision varies enormously between campuses.
• School bus routes, catchment zones and pick-up times for the specific neighbourhood you are considering — several Chiang Mai schools sit well outside the ring roads, and a home ten minutes further out but on the route can be the easier morning.
• Entry requirements: assessments, interviews, English-language support and the school reports or transcripts you must supply.
• How far the school takes your child, and on which exam pathway — Chiang Mai mixes American/AP, Cambridge IGCSE and A-level, and IB Diploma routes, and switching between them mid-secondary is disruptive.

Visit the official Lanna International School Thailand (LIST) 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.