The short version
Korat is a working commercial and industrial city rather than an established expat base, so its international-school field is genuinely small: 4 schools in the whole province, 3 of them in the city. Both independent censuses agree on that number. What no guide to Korat says — including, until this update, ours — is that those 4 schools finish at 4 different qualifications, and that the differences between them are not really about curriculum or price. They are about where each school stops and which of them is secular. Start with the table below, not with the fee question. For day-to-day budgeting pair this with the Nakhon Ratchasima cost-of-living guide, and use the Nakhon Ratchasima hub to match a neighbourhood to your school.
Where each school stops — and what a leaver holds
This is the first table for a reason. A curriculum label tells you how a child is taught; the finishing point tells you whether they can stay. Of the 4 schools in the province, 1 runs to Cambridge A Level, and it is not in Korat city.
| School | Where it stops | What a leaver holds | Religious character | Boarding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo Singapore International School — Korat Campus | Cambridge IGCSE, around age 16 | Cambridge IGCSE | Secular | None |
| Wesley International School (WIS) | Disputed — see the section below. Grade 11 or Grade 12, around age 17–18 | IB Diploma — but authorisation status is disputed | Christian | Yes — a purpose-built boarding house on campus, 5-day and 7-day options |
| Korat Adventist International School (KAIS) | Grade 12, around age 18 | The KAIS Diploma — 33 credits and a 2.5 CGPA, recognised by the Thai Ministry of Education as equivalent to the Thai secondary school certificate | Seventh-day Adventist | None |
| St. Stephen's International School, Khao Yai | A Level, age 18 | Cambridge A Level | Secular | Yes — purpose-built boarding accommodation inside the main school |
Two consequences worth stating plainly. First, the only secular school in Korat city ends around age 16 — a secular family with a young teenager is choosing between a change of school at 16, a Christian-founded school, or the Khao Yai campus 84 km west. Second, a “British curriculum” in Korat and a “British curriculum” at Khao Yai lead to different qualifications: IGCSE in the city, A Level at Pak Chong.
The schools relocating families choose
All 4 international schools in Nakhon Ratchasima province. This is a starting point, not a ranking — the right fit depends on curriculum, religious character, how far the school takes your child and how far you are willing to drive.
| School | Where it is | Curriculum | What it's known for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo Singapore International School — Korat Campus | 1688/18 Mittraphap Road, City Link Community — roughly 4 km west of the old city | Singapore-curriculum foundation, Cambridge IGCSE at secondary | Korat's largest and best-known international school, and the only secular one in the city — its own directory answer to whether pupils practise a religion at school is 'No, we respect all religions'. Anglo's group opened its third campus in Korat in August 2014 and moved into the current 16-rai City Link site for the 2018 school year. It is also the school families most often misunderstand: it does NOT run a sixth form here. Its own secondary page states that pupils completing the secondary stage are 'eligible to progress to the Junior College (JC) programme offered in our Bangkok campus'. |
| Wesley International School (WIS) | 306, Khok Kruat — roughly 13 km south-west of the old city | American-influenced early and primary years, then IB Middle Years Programme | A small evangelical Christian school founded in August 2015, roughly 120 pupils, average class size around 10. It is an authorised IB World School for the Middle Years Programme, and it is the only school in Korat city with a boarding house — a three-floor building on its own campus, which BAANLYY's guide never mentioned while telling readers the nearest boarding was 84 km away. It is also mid-expansion into a sixth form, and its own website contradicts itself about how far that expansion has got. |
| Korat Adventist International School (KAIS) | 862 Moo 2, Nonmaydang Soi 13, Suranaree — roughly 11 km north-west of the old city | American curriculum within a Seventh-day Adventist framework | Founded 2009 and licensed upward in stages — Grades 1–3 in 2009, Kindergarten in 2010, Grades 4–6 in 2011, Grades 7–9 in 2015 and Grades 10–12 in 2018. Its most useful and least-published fact is what its diploma is worth: the school states that the Thai Ministry of Education recognises the KAIS diploma as equivalent to the Thai secondary school certificate, which means its graduates can sit Thai university entrance examinations. That is a genuinely different proposition from the other three. Religious character is substantial, not nominal: Bible is a taught subject with its own head of department. |
| St. Stephen's International School, Khao Yai | Thanarat Road, Nong Nam Daeng — roughly 84 km west of Korat city, still inside Nakhon Ratchasima province | British international — EYFS, IPC, Cambridge IGCSE and A Level | The only school in Nakhon Ratchasima province running a full sixth form to A Level on its own campus, and the only one that takes a child from age two to university entrance without a change of school. It is in the province, at Pak Chong on the Khao Yai road — not, as our own guide previously implied, somewhere outside it that nobody lives. Ownership is published openly: the school's footer links Ocean Glass, Ocean Property, Ocean Life Insurance and Bandara Group, and its philosophy page is signed by the late Kris Assakul, ex-chairman of Ocean Life Insurance. |
Read the full profiles: Anglo Singapore International School — Korat Campus → Wesley International School (WIS) → Korat Adventist International School (KAIS) → St. Stephen's International School, Khao Yai →
What tuition costs
We no longer publish a per-school fee table for Korat, and this city is the clearest illustration of why. The doris directory’s itemised annual fee totals for Korat Adventist International School are identical to the International Schools Database’s published range for Adventist International Mission School in Saraburi — a different school, roughly 100 km away, in the same Adventist network. A fee sheet has been copied onto the wrong school, and the same directory’s own summary band for KAIS contradicts its own itemisation further down the same page.
2 of the 4 schools publish fee figures on their own websites; the rest ask you to make contact. Wesley International School links a current tuition and boarding schedule from its admissions page. St. Stephen’s Khao Yai publishes a 2026/2027 fee page. Anglo Singapore Korat publishes payment methods and bank details but no figures, and asks you to contact admissions. KAIS publishes its financial information as an image on its own site. Ask each school for its current schedule in writing, and expect application, registration, bus, uniform and activity charges on top of headline tuition at any of them.
Accreditation, authorisation, affiliation — or none named
Four different claims, routinely collapsed into one word. A whole-school accreditation assesses the school itself. An examination-board authorisation means it may enter pupils for those exams. A membership is neither. And “names none” is a fourth state, distinct from “not accredited” — it means we looked and the school does not make the claim.
| School | Whole-school accreditation | Exam-board authorisation | Memberships & unresolved claims |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo Singapore — Korat | None named on its Korat pages | Cambridge International and Pearson Edexcel exam-centre pages exist, but both are titled '@Campus64' and route every instruction to the Bangkok address | Directories assert WASC, ONESQA, Thai MoE and ISAT for this campus; none appears on the school's own Korat pages |
| Wesley (WIS) | ACS WASC — stated in the school's own words as its accreditation | IB — authorised IB World School for the Middle Years Programme. Diploma Programme status is disputed (see below) | EARCOS, correctly described by the school as membership. ONESQA and ISAT logos appear in the footer with no supporting statement anywhere on the site |
| KAIS | WASC, and the Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools (AAA). The school's own history page dates its WASC award to 2017 with a six-year term — that term would have run out around 2023 and no renewal is published | None named — KAIS awards its own diploma rather than entering pupils for an external board | ISAT, which the school lists under its 'accredited by' heading although it is a membership body. Licensed separately by the Thai Ministry of Education and ONESQA |
| St. Stephen's Khao Yai | None named on the campus's own pages. What it does publish is a dated third-party quality review: its own 'SSKY ISQM Report 2025' (International Schools Quality Mark, Education Development Trust), linked from its main navigation | Cambridge International — dedicated pages at both Key Stage 4 and Sixth Form | FOBISIA lists 'St. Stephen's International School — Bangkok & Khao Yai Campuses' as a member. Third parties also assert CIS, WASC, EASA and ACSI; we found none of those four on the campus's own pages |
Where to live for Korat’s schools
Korat has no rail transit, so where you live is shaped almost entirely by which school you choose. The important correction: the three city schools are not clustered in the centre. Anglo Singapore is about 4 km west of the old city; KAIS is about 11 km north-west at Suranaree; Wesley is about 13 km south-west at Khok Kruat. KAIS and Wesley sit on opposite approaches, roughly 8 km apart. Distances are straight-line, computed from the coordinates the International Schools Database publishes for each campus — the road distance is longer in every case, and we publish no drive times because we have not measured them.
| Area | School | Why families live there |
|---|---|---|
| Mittraphap Road / City Link corridor (west of the old city) | Anglo Singapore International School | The only school cluster that is genuinely close to town — about 4 km west of the old city, near The Mall Korat, Terminal 21 and Central Plaza, with the widest rental choice of modern condos and houses in Nakhon Ratchasima. The catch is the age ceiling, not the commute. |
| Suranaree / north-west approach | Korat Adventist International School (KAIS) | KAIS is not in the city centre. It moved out to Nonmaydang Soi 13 in Suranaree on 8 August 2019, from a former campus on Mittraphap Road in Nai Mueang — which is where the 'city centre' description in every older guide, including ours, comes from. It is roughly 11 km north-west of the old city, out toward the Suranaree University side, and it publishes no school bus at all. |
| Khok Kruat / south-west approach | Wesley International School (WIS) | Wesley is roughly 13 km south-west of the old city — the opposite side from KAIS, about 8 km from it in a straight line. Families sometimes shortlist Wesley and KAIS together as 'the two small Christian schools in town' and assume one address serves both. It does not: they are on opposite approaches to the city. Wesley's on-campus boarding house is the alternative to that drive. |
| Pak Chong / Khao Yai (western province) | St. Stephen's International School, Khao Yai | A real and well-developed place to live, not a last resort — the Khao Yai belt is one of Thailand's largest second-home and resort markets. Families choosing St. Stephen's either board a child or relocate to this side of the province. Daily commuting from Korat city is not a normal arrangement over 84 km. |
Before you accept “drive to Bangkok”: look west along Highway 2
When a provincial city runs out of schools, every guide points the family at the nearest metropolis. For Korat that means Bangkok, 250 km south-west. Before accepting that, look at what is on the same road much closer.
Highway 2 (Mittraphap) runs west out of Korat. At roughly 84 km it passes Pak Chong, where St. Stephen’s Khao Yai offers the province’s only A-Level sixth form and a boarding house. Continue along the same road and at roughly 150 km you reach Saraburi, which holds a cluster of four international schools — three of them with boarding, at published fees far below Bangkok’s. BAANLYY already profiles that cluster, filed under Ayutthaya because that is the other city it serves: the Saraburi schools. One of them, Adventist International Mission School, is KAIS’s own network sibling — the obvious next call for an Adventist family whose year group is not running in Korat, and it boards where KAIS does not.
A name-collision warning, because these two are easy to confuse: Korat Adventist International School was formerly named Adventist International Mission School Korat. That is a former name of the Korat school, not the Saraburi one. They are two different campuses in the same Adventist network, roughly 100 km apart, and at least one directory has already imported one’s fee sheet onto the other.
A school in the listings that does not exist
A directory listing for “Nakhon Ratchasima International School”, also called “Korat International School”, circulates online and claims the website korat-is.ac.th. A literal search for that domain string returns nothing at all. The listing has no street address, hides its phone and email behind a reveal that resolves to nothing, and pins its map at rounded placeholder coordinates for the city rather than a building. It appears in neither census. We name it here because a family wasting a week chasing a school that does not exist is a real cost, and because the rate at which auto-generated listings invent schools is rising — we have now found fabricated schools in Pattaya, Hua Hin, Udon Thani and Ayutthaya as well.
The four-part test. Before you shortlist any school you found in a listicle: (1) does it have its own domain, not just a directory profile? (2) does it publish a findable street address? (3) does the telephone number answer? (4) does its own homepage carry a closure, rebranding or ownership-change notice? The fourth was added after a school in Samut Prakan turned out to have ceased operating six weeks before we checked, while directories still listed it as enrolling.
Admissions & relocation tips
Capacity is rarely the constraint in Korat that it is in Bangkok — Wesley reports around 120 pupils and an average class of about 10 — so the real work is confirming that the year group your child needs is actually running this academic year. Two of the four schools are mid-expansion and their own websites are not fully caught up with them. Ask for the current year-group list in writing. Ask whether a post-16 stage is taught on that campus by that school’s own staff. If a school advertises the IB Diploma, ask whether it is authorised or a candidate, and check the answer against the IB’s own register. Ask what the religious character means on the timetable, not in the prospectus. And ask about transport early: one Korat school publishes no bus at all, and none publishes a route map. Gather school reports, immunisation records and references before you leave your home country, and confirm whether an employer relocation package covers tuition before you commit to a lease or a school.
Nakhon Ratchasima international school questions
How many international schools are there in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat)?
4 in the province, of which 3 are in Korat city itself and one is at Pak Chong on the Khao Yai road. Both independent censuses — the International Schools Database and doris — agree on the same 4 schools. doris displays five records, but two of them are the same school: it carries a stale and a current profile for Wesley International School, both showing the same roll and the same pair of telephone numbers, and neither claimed by the school.
Does Anglo Singapore International School in Korat offer A Levels?
Not at the Korat campus. This is the most consequential misunderstanding about schooling in the city. Anglo Singapore's own Korat secondary page states that pupils who complete the secondary stage are 'eligible to progress to the Junior College (JC) programme offered in our Bangkok campus' — the JC stage is where A Levels are taught, and it is in Bangkok. Directory listings that show 'Cambridge IGCSE, AS Levels and A Levels' for the Nakhon Ratchasima campus appear to have inherited a group-level curriculum string. A family relocating with a fifteen-year-old should ask the school directly, in writing, which year groups run in Korat this academic year.
Is there a secular international school in Korat?
Yes — but only 1, and it stops at IGCSE. Of the 3 international schools in Korat city, Anglo Singapore is the only one without a religious character; Wesley is an evangelical Christian foundation whose stated mission is to transform Thailand's future leaders 'through the Gospel', and KAIS is a Seventh-day Adventist school that teaches Bible as a subject under a head of department. Both of those run to 18. Anglo Singapore, the secular option, ends around 16. St. Stephen's Khao Yai publishes no statement of faith or religious requirement on any page we read, but it is 84 km west of the city.
Does Wesley International School offer the IB Diploma?
This is genuinely unsettled and we will not pretend otherwise. Wesley's own 'Who We Are' page describes it as an IB World School offering the Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme. Its own mission page — on the same website — still says it 'currently' runs to IB MYP 5 (Grade 10) and plans to start Grade 11. The doris directory's current record describes Wesley as an authorised MYP school and a candidate for the Diploma Programme for 2026–2027, and says the school now runs to Grade 11 with Grade 12 planned for 2026–2027. The International Schools Database's school-verified record lists ages 2 to 18 with the IB Diploma and AP as leaving qualifications. Candidate status is not authorisation and carries no guarantee that authorisation follows. Ask the school for its authorisation date, and check it against the IB's own school register, before enrolling a child who needs the Diploma.
Are there boarding schools in or near Korat?
Yes — 2 of the 4, and one of them is in the city, which no guide to Korat says. Wesley International School runs a purpose-built boarding house on its own campus at Khok Kruat: a three-floor building with a cafeteria, a study room on each floor and 5-day or 7-day options. St. Stephen's Khao Yai, 84 km west at Pak Chong, describes itself as 'the first boarding school in Thailand' and boards inside the main school. Korat Adventist International School and Anglo Singapore publish no boarding at all.
Where should families live for schools in Korat?
It depends entirely on the school, because the three city campuses are on three different approaches. Anglo Singapore is about 4 km west of the old city on the Mittraphap / City Link corridor, which has the best rental stock. KAIS is about 11 km north-west at Suranaree. Wesley is about 13 km south-west at Khok Kruat — roughly 8 km from KAIS in a straight line, on the opposite side. Only one of the four schools publishes any transport information at all, and none publishes a route map, so drive your intended commute at 07:00 on a weekday before you sign a lease. See the Nakhon Ratchasima hub for the full area breakdown.
Is 'Nakhon Ratchasima International School' or 'Korat International School' a real school?
We could find no evidence that it is. The name appears on one directory, dailyschools.com, which asserts the website korat-is.ac.th — a literal search for that domain string returns no pages at all. The listing publishes no street address, hides both phone and email behind a 'click to reveal' that resolves to nothing in the page source, and pins a map at rounded placeholder coordinates that describe the city rather than a building. It is unclaimed and monetised, and neither the International Schools Database nor doris returns it. Before shortlisting any school you find in a listicle, apply the four-part test below.
This guide is general information for relocation planning, not admissions or financial advice. BAANLYY does not rank, endorse or accept payment from schools. School curricula, year groups, campus locations, accreditation status and admissions rules change — confirm current details directly with each school.
International schools near Nakhon Ratchasima
International schools in and around Nakhon Ratchasima, 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.
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Sources & References
- Ministry of Education, Thailand
- International Schools Database — Nakhon Ratchasima listing
- doris — international schools in Nakhon Ratchasima
- Anglo Singapore International School — Korat campus
- Wesley International School — official site
- Korat Adventist International School — official site
- St. Stephen's International School, Khao Yai — 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.
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