Schools in Chonburi.

Which Chonburi?

“An international school in Chonburi” is close to a meaningless phrase, and acting on it costs families months. Chonburi province contains Pattaya, so its 8 schools sit in two clusters with essentially nothing between them. 4 are in the industrial corridor — Sriracha, Bo Win and Ban Bueng — where the corporate relocation population actually lives. The other 4 are in Bang Lamung, the Pattaya hinterland around Pong and Mabprachan reservoir, 40–60km south, on the far side of a road that does not move at 07:30.

The reason nobody tells you this is that the major international-school directories file the entire province — and, as we established when we rebuilt the Rayong guide, Rayong province’s schools as well — under a single “Pattaya” heading. One directory’s Chonburi comparison page, checked while writing this, also listed a school whose own website says it is in Hua Hin, four hundred kilometres away. Treat every directory location for this province as a starting point, not a fact. Pair this with the Chonburi cost-of-living guide and the Chonburi hub.

The industrial corridor — Sriracha, Bo Win, Ban Bueng

These are the schools a family posted to Amata Nakorn, Laem Chabang or the Sriracha estates can realistically use. Only one of them — ISE — is a full international school running to age eighteen.

The Bang Lamung cluster — the Pattaya side

Administratively Chonburi; practically Pattaya. Three of these four sit within a few kilometres of each other in Pong, inland from Pattaya near Mabprachan reservoir. If you are basing yourself in the industrial corridor, this table is here so you can rule them out with confidence — not so you can plan around them. For this side of the province see our Pattaya schools guide.

Where each school stops

Build this table before you compare anything else. Chonburi’s 8 schools end at wildly different points, and three of them cannot currently tell you where they end at all. Most families here will change school at least once.

Accreditation & religious character

Two separate things families conflate. A whole-school accreditation (WASC, NEASC, CIS) covers the institution; a programme authorisation (IB, Cambridge, Pearson) covers one pathway inside it. And a badge in a website footer may belong to a group rather than the campus you are looking at — which is exactly the situation at Wells Chonburi, where the IB World School and WASC marks appear site-wide while the school’s own navigation places IB and Advanced Placement under its Bangkok campus only.

Corrections we have made to this page

We would rather publish our own errors than quietly fix them. St Andrews International School Green Valley has been removed from this guide: we listed it as a Chonburi school in Bang Lamung, “roughly 30–40 minutes from Sriracha”. It is in Ban Chang district, Rayong province — its owner Cognita publishes the Rayong address and the IB’s own school record is titled for Rayong — and it is a cross-province drive from the corridor. Assumption College Sriracha’s English Programme does not stop at Mathayom 2, as we claimed; it runs through Mathayom 3 and English-language tracks continue to Mathayom 6, and the school also boards, which we never mentioned. ISE does not offer the IB Diploma as an “option”; its own site says all students work toward both the IB Diploma and a US high school diploma. We no longer assert that TJAS admission is restricted to Japanese nationals — we could not verify it, so we have stopped saying it. The tuition table is gone, along with a hardcoded exchange-rate note; several of its figures came from a school website that has since moved domain. And Wells International School’s Chonburi campus was missing from this guide entirely, despite being the only international school in the province outside the two clusters everyone writes about.

Where to live for Chonburi’s schools

There is no urban rail anywhere in this province and no commuter service anybody uses for a school run, so where you live is dictated entirely by which school you choose and where you work.

Japanese, Thai-EP, British & American — which curriculum?

TJAS follows Japan’s national curriculum, built for families who expect to return to Japan’s school system — not a fit for a non-Japanese-speaking family, and it has no senior high school. ACS layers English-medium streams over the Thai national curriculum: genuine immersion, a much lower price point, a Catholic character, boarding, and a Thai Mathayom 6 leaving certificate rather than an international one. ISE is the corridor’s only full international school and the only one anywhere in the province currently delivering an examined post-16 qualification on its own campus — the IB Diploma alongside a US high school diploma. Wells Chonburi adds an American-curriculum option inland at Ban Bueng, with the important caveat that its top grade is unresolved and the IB and AP marks on its website belong to its Bangkok campus. On the Bang Lamung side, ISC is a NEASC-accredited British primary that stops at Year 6, Highgate is a brand-new British school whose sixth form does not open until 2027, and Odyssey and Hastin are small settings for which no external leaving qualification is evidenced.

One honest gap worth naming: there is no IB Primary Years Programme anywhere in Chonburi province’s industrial corridor. If a full IB continuum from early years is your requirement, it is not available where the estates are, and the nearest options are on the Pattaya side or in Rayong — a relocation decision, not a commute.

Admissions & relocation tips

Ask every school for its tambon and amphoe in writing, then drive it from your own address at 07:00 — not at the weekend, and not on a map. ACS’s English-medium streams have limited seats and fill ahead of the Term 1 intake, so apply as early as your relocation timeline allows. ISE and ISC both expect recent school reports, an assessment or interview, and the immunisation and transcript records typical of any international admission. For any school that is new or expanding — Highgate and Wells Chonburi both qualify — ask specifically how many children are enrolled in your child’s year group, and what the plan is if the year above does not open on schedule. Because most families arrive in this corridor through an employer, confirm whether your relocation package covers tuition before you commit; our corporate housing team can coordinate school choice with your housing search.

Full school profiles

Deep-dive profiles for all 8 schools — where the campus really is, the pathway stage by stage, accreditation, boarding, and what we could and could not verify.

Chonburi school questions

International schools near Chonburi

International schools in and around Chonburi, ordered by distance from the city centre and sourced live from Google Maps. Ratings and review counts update automatically — tap any name for directions, hours and contact details.

Distances are straight-line from the city centre, for rough comparison only. Listings are provided by Google and are not endorsements. BAANLYY does not manage these businesses.

Sources & References

• Ministry of Education, Thailand
• International School of the Eastern Seaboard (ISE) — official site
• ISE — accreditation descriptions
• Assumption College Sriracha — official site
• Assumption College Sriracha — Integrated English Program (M1-3)
• Thai-Japanese Association School Sriracha — official site
• International School of Chonburi — official site (formerly isc.ac.th)
• Wells International School — Chonburi Campus
• Wells International School — Chonburi campus background
• Highgate International School Thailand — official site
• Highgate School (London) — first overseas campus announcement
• Odyssey International School — official site
• Hastin International School — official site

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.