Schools & universities in Kamphaeng Phet.

The province's higher-education anchor, with its main campus in Nakhon Chum on the western bank of the Ping and a second campus at Mae Sot in neighbouring Tak province. Strong in education, humanities, management and applied fields, KPRU drives the local student rental market and café culture on the western side of the river. It is the province's only university in its own right — but not the only place here you can take a degree, which is the part most guides miss.

A constituent Buddhist college of MCU, at 15 Moo 3, Tambon Nakhon Chum, Mueang Kamphaeng Phet (055-799455) — the same sub-district as KPRU, a few minutes apart on the western bank. Its own site publishes two teaching units: the Faculty of Social Sciences, offering a Bachelor of Public Administration, and the Faculty of Buddhism, offering Buddhist Management. Admission rules for lay students differ from those for monastics and change between intakes, so ask the college directly rather than assuming. We could not establish its founding date: the college's own site carries administrator, structure and philosophy pages but no history page, and we would rather say so than borrow a date from elsewhere.

At 50 Pin Damri Road, Tambon Nai Mueang (055 711 090) — the same road as Kamphaeng Phet Pittayakom School. Its own published levels run further than most people expect: the vocational certificate (ปวช.), the higher vocational certificate (ปวส.) and, above them, a Bachelor of Technology (ทล.บ.) on the technology and practice track for students who already hold a ปวส. The degree exists because the college is one of six member colleges of the Institute of Vocational Education: Northern Region 4, whose office sits outside the province at 155/1 Moo 1, Phahonyothin Road, Tambon Nakhon Sawan Ok, Mueang Nakhon Sawan (056-255163). The institute's own site lists three bachelor's subjects at this college: Mechanical Technology, Manufacturing Technology and Electrical Technology. Teaching departments on site include motor vehicles, machine shop, welding, electrical power, electronics, construction, architecture, industrial technique, accounting, marketing, office management, business computing, home economics, information technology and a mechatronics and robotics centre. Intakes are set year by year, so confirm which degree subject is actually running before you plan around it.

The province's leading government secondary school, on Pin Damri Road in Nai Mueang — and a genuinely remarkable setting, inside the old city walls with Wat Phra Kaeo in front of it and the Kamphaeng Phet National Museum alongside. Beyond the standard Thai track it runs selective special-classroom programmes, including an Intensive English Program on the science–maths stream, an Intensive Chinese Program, and a computer-science stream. For a family committed to Thai-medium schooling this is the strongest local option, and the IEP is the closest thing the province has to an English-medium secondary route.

Mueang district's other main government secondary school. Its own published admissions for the 2569 (2026) year name three special-classroom rounds at M1 — the English Program (EP), E-SMAT, and the IPST science and maths programme — and, at M4, an E-SMAT round only. Read that carefully if you are planning a whole school career: on the school's published rounds the English Program is an entry point at M1 rather than a separate upper-secondary intake, so ask the school what happens to an EP child at M4 before you commit. Entry to every special stream is selective and the intake is set year by year.

The province's newest and most academically selective school, and one most relocation guides have not caught up with. It sits at 339 Moo 3, Kamphaeng Phet–Sukhothai Road, Tambon Nong Pling, Mueang Kamphaeng Phet (064 354 8000), on the provincial scout camp inside the Mae Raka national reserved forest — 89 rai 1 ngan 14 square wa, released by the Royal Forest Department on 20 December 2022. Cabinet approved its creation on 5 October 2021 and the Ministry of Education established it in the Royal Gazette on 11 May 2023. Its first cohort entered on 16 May 2024: one M1 class of 24 and one M4 class of 24, 48 pupils in all. Every student boards, and the school draws from four provinces — Kamphaeng Phet, Phichit, Nakhon Sawan and Uthai Thani — through a national selection exam rather than a catchment. One honest caveat: because the buildings were still going up, that first intake was taught at Princess Chulabhorn Science High School Phitsanulok, the mentor school, and the school's own site does not publish the date teaching moved to Nong Pling. Ask the school where your child would actually be taught next year.

The province does have a demonstration school, and it has a name and an address: Satit School, run under a standing cooperation agreement between Kamphaeng Phet Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 and Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University, at 99/8 Moo 1, Ban Wang Yang, Tambon Nakhon Chum, Mueang Kamphaeng Phet (0-5584-0682). It is small — 3 rai 100 square wa — and teaches from anuban 2 to prathom 6, with 544 pupils recorded for the 2566 academic year. Its own history is unusual: it was Wat Wang Yang School until falling rolls made it a branch of Wat Phra Borommathat School in 2543, the provincial primary education office and the then Rajabhat Institute agreed in 2544 to rebuild it as a teaching model, and it became a full demonstration school in 2547. It is Thai-medium, and it is a primary school — it does not solve secondary schooling for a foreign family.

Below secondary, schooling is otherwise the standard Thai government and municipal network — anuban (kindergarten) and prathom schools across Mueang and each district, Thai-medium throughout. That is the normal route for local families and works well for a family already settled in Thai; a child arriving with no Thai will need real support to enter it.

There is no international school in Kamphaeng Phet. We checked in Thai as well as English and found no โรงเรียนนานาชาติ operating in the province, and Kamphaeng Phet does not appear on national listings of Thailand's international schools. That check reached national and regional listings rather than a province-level register, so read it as our best search rather than a certified nil return. The nearest international-curriculum option we can identify is in Phitsanulok — New Cambridge International School, a British-curriculum day and boarding school founded in 2011 at 458/1 Moo 3, Phitsanulok–Uttaradit Road, Tambon Samo Khae, Mueang Phitsanulok, teaching Years 7 to 12 across Key Stage 3, IGCSE and AS level. Chiang Mai is the nearest city with real depth and choice of curricula. So the honest shape of the decision here is not the usual one: the most academically selective school in the province is a fully-boarding Thai-medium state science school entered by national exam, and the nearest English-medium route is an hour and a half east. If an international track through to A Level or IB is non-negotiable for your family, Kamphaeng Phet will not meet it, and we would rather say that plainly than pad this page. Verify current provision and admissions directly with any school before you commit.