Schools in Lampang.

Cranberry International School

Cranberry International School (CIS) is Lampang's best-documented international school and the only one in the province with a conventional, currently-reachable official website. It was founded in 2013 as an international preschool and grew into a full English-immersion primary school; its own current site emphasises small class sizes, a close-knit culture and individually tailored instruction rather than a named curriculum. As of 2026-08-20 the school is plainly trading and contactable, but its website has been restructured and the pages that used to set out the curriculum, the Thai Ministry of Education licensing position and the top grade taught have been removed. Our earlier review (2026-07-08) recorded a US Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards core with AERO and California State Standards elsewhere, Thai language and culture, supplementary Chinese from Kindergarten 1, an OPEC licence rather than an outside accreditation such as CIS or WASC, and a Nursery-to-Primary-Grade-6 range. None of that is currently confirmable from the school, so it is reported here as dated. The practical point for a relocating family is unchanged and is the single most important fact on this page: Cranberry has no secondary programme, so a child enrolled here will need a follow-on school, and you should establish the exact top grade and the licensing position in writing before you commit to a lease near the campus.

Evidence status: PARTLY DATED. Verified live 2026-08-20: the school is trading, was founded in 2013, and describes itself as a small-class "boutique" school; address, telephone (+66 90 674 3899), email (cisoffice@cranberry.ac.th) and Mon-Fri 08:00-16:00 office hours are current. NOT re-verifiable 2026-08-20: the US Common Core / NGSS and AERO-California curriculum description, the OPEC licence, the Thai language and culture and Kindergarten-1 Chinese components, and the Grade 6 ceiling. All four came from pages that now 404.

St. Helier-Brelade International School

St. Helier-Brelade International School was permitted to operate in 2021 and is Lampang's newest international school, founded by the same leadership as the longer-established BISN and, per a Bangkok Post trade-press interview with that school's deputy director, deliberately positioned as a restart against BISN's maturing business cycle. It teaches the British National Curriculum with a Montessori-influenced early-years programme across Early Childhood, Primary and Lower Secondary levels. Lower Secondary matters more than it sounds: it makes St. Helier-Brelade the only school in the province documented to teach past primary at all, and it is the reason a family with a nine- or ten-year-old has a genuinely different set of options here than they did before 2021. It is also, just as importantly, still not a route to eighteen. Plan the upper-secondary step separately and early. Note too that the same leadership stands behind both BISN and St. Helier-Brelade, so the two schools are not the independent alternatives a directory listing makes them look like -- a point worth raising directly if you are comparing them.

Evidence status: CURRENT but thin. The school has a reachable official website and a 2021 operating permission. Enrolment, staffing and class sizes are not published.

British International School of Northern Thailand (BISN)

The British International School of Northern Thailand (BISN), previously Nawattaphume International School (NIS), opened in May 2003 as Lampang's first international school, on a spacious riverside site just outside the town centre. Directory listings describe a Montessori-method kindergarten feeding a primary department on the British national curriculum with a core focus on maths, English and science, and variously advertise provision continuing to secondary level. That secondary claim is the problem: it is dated, it is inconsistent between directories, and no source we can reach carries it in the school's own words. A Bangkok Post trade-press interview with the school's own deputy director described BISN as having reached a mature and, by his own account, declining stage of its business cycle -- which is the reason he separately founded St. Helier-Brelade International School in Lampang as a newer alternative under the same leadership. A family should read that as what it is: the leadership's own published assessment of the older school. BISN may well be operating perfectly normally, and we make no claim that it is not. But of Lampang's three international schools this is the one where independent verification is thinnest, and it is the one where you should insist on seeing the current year groups, class sizes and teaching staff in person before enrolling.

Evidence status: WEAKEST OF THE THREE. BISN has no conventional official website -- its public presence is a Facebook page plus third-party directory listings. We could not verify current enrolment, staffing, grade range or even continued operation as of 2026-08-20.

Bunyawat Witthayalai School -- English Program (EP)

โรงเรียนบุญวาทย์วิทยาลัย · Hua Wiang Road, Mueang Lampang -- a roughly 18-acre campus adjacent to central downtown Lampang

Bunyawat Witthayalai is the first public and the largest secondary school in Lampang, and is described as the largest school in Thailand's northern region; a 2009 national survey placed it fifth-largest in the country by student body, at 4,869 pupils. It set up its English Program in 2003 with the guidance of the then Department of General Education. What makes the school genuinely unusual for a provincial capital is the senior-level structure: eight distinct study plans, of which six are language-paired -- Mathematics-English, English-French, English-German, English-Chinese, English-Japanese and English-Thai-Social Science -- alongside Sciences-Mathematics and Sciences-Mathematics-Japanese. A family that wants a child to keep a second European or East Asian language while schooling in Thailand has more choice here than the city's international sector offers at any price.

Years taught: The school teaches Matthayom 1-6 (Grades 7-12). The EP's own current year coverage within that range could not be confirmed -- see sourceState.

Entry: Competitive selection in Thai, at Matthayom 1 and Matthayom 4 intakes. A newly arrived foreign child with no Thai transcript should ask early and directly how they would be assessed.

Exit qualification: Thai. A leaver takes the Thai upper-secondary certificate, not an international qualification -- which is the trade-off against cost and class quality.

Evidence status: MIXED, and stated plainly. The school's own site (bunyawat.ac.th) sits behind a bot-verification wall we did not attempt to bypass, and the English Program's dedicated site (epbunyawat.com) did not resolve at all on 2026-08-20. The structural facts above are from the school's English Wikipedia entry, read 2026-08-20, whose enrolment figure is dated 2009 and several of whose sections are unwritten stubs. That entry also contradicts itself on the founding year -- its infobox says 1898, its text describes the school being officially opened by the future King Vajiravudh on 26 November 1905, and its own categories say 1905 -- so we publish no founding year. Confirm the EP's current year groups, subject coverage and foreign-teacher staffing with the school.

Lampang Kanlayanee School -- Mini English Program (MEP) and IEP

โรงเรียนลำปางกัลยาณี · Mueang Lampang

Lampang Kanlayanee (LKS) is a large government secondary school in Mueang Lampang and a designated World-Class Standard School. It runs two separate English-medium streams rather than one -- a Mini English Program and an Intensive English Program -- which is a distinction worth pressing on, because MEP and IEP are not the same thing and typically differ in how many subjects are actually taught in English. The school is visibly and currently active: announcements on its own site are dated to within days of this review, its 2026 academic-year selective-stream admissions are running, and it publishes its examination timetables, reserve-list calls and a direct line to the school director. For a family weighing cost against curriculum, this is the realistic high-quality English-medium option in Lampang that is not an international school.

Years taught: Matthayom 1-6, with selective-stream intakes at Matthayom 1 and Matthayom 4.

Entry: Separate admissions tracks for selective streams (ห้องเรียนพิเศษ) and general classrooms, with advance registration and ThaID identity verification, and a competitive entrance examination. Reserve lists are published and called in order.

Exit qualification: Thai upper-secondary certificate.

Evidence status: SCHOOL VERIFIED CURRENT, PROGRAMME DETAIL NOT. lks.ac.th was read on 2026-08-20 and is actively maintained -- it carries announcements dated 18 August 2026, a named director (นายวิโรจ หลักมั่น), a direct telephone line (054-019664 ext. 1150) and live 2026 admissions systems, and it lists MEP and IEP among its special-classroom programmes. The MEP's own dedicated website (lksmep.com) did NOT resolve on 2026-08-20, so the specific subjects taught in English, the class size and the foreign-teacher staffing are NOT verified here and are deliberately not stated. Ask the school which subjects each of MEP and IEP delivers in English, and by whom.

Is there an international school in Lampang?

Yes — three. Cranberry International School (founded 2013, nursery through primary), St. Helier-Brelade International School (permitted to operate 2021, Early Childhood through Lower Secondary) and the British International School of Northern Thailand (BISN, open since May 2003). It is a genuinely small market next to Chiang Mai's, and the three are not fully independent of one another: BISN and St. Helier-Brelade share leadership. Note that our own Lampang hub page previously said there was only one — that was wrong and has been corrected.

Which Lampang school teaches the oldest children?

On documented provision, St. Helier-Brelade International School, which publishes Lower Secondary as its top level — roughly age 14. Cranberry has no secondary programme at all. BISN's listings advertise secondary provision and even Grade 12, but we have never seen that confirmed by the school and the copy is dated, so we do not treat it as established. The practical consequence is that no Lampang international school is documented to teach to eighteen, and a family relocating with a teenager needs an upper-secondary plan that is not on this list.

Are there cheaper bilingual or English-Programme options in Lampang?

Yes, and they are named, large and currently operating — which earlier versions of this guide wrongly said we could not verify. Bunyawat Witthayalai School, the oldest and largest public secondary school in Lampang, has run an English Program since 2003. Lampang Kanlayanee School runs both a Mini English Program (MEP) and an Intensive English Program (IEP), alongside science-maths and music streams. Both teach Matthayom 1 to 6, both select by competitive examination in Thai, and both lead to a Thai qualification rather than an international one. They cost a small fraction of an international school.

Why did no international-school directory show me those two schools?

Because they are not international schools, and directories index the category rather than the capability. Bunyawat and Lampang Kanlayanee are Thai government schools teaching the Thai national curriculum with selective English-medium streams inside it. A search for "international schools in Lampang" returns three results and gives the impression the city has almost no English-medium capacity. Most of Lampang's English-medium teaching is in fact public, selective and cheap — it simply issues Thai qualifications.

What do Lampang's schools cost?

BAANLYY does not publish per-school fees, because they change, they vary by year group, and a single headline number reliably misleads. What we will say structurally: the government English-medium streams cost a small fraction of the international schools, and the international schools here are cheaper than their Chiang Mai equivalents. Ask each school for a written schedule covering tuition plus one-time and annual extras, for the specific year group your child would enter, before you commit to a lease near the campus.

Should families with older children choose Lampang?

It depends on which qualification you need. If your child must finish on an international curriculum, Lampang does not currently document a route to eighteen and Chiang Mai — about 1.5 hours away by road — is the realistic base. If a Thai upper-secondary certificate is acceptable, Lampang is much stronger than its international-school count suggests: Bunyawat alone offers eight senior study plans, six of them language-paired, including English with French, German, Chinese or Japanese. That is more language choice than the city's international sector offers at any price.