Wycombe Abbey International School Bangkok.

What has changed here recently

Samut Prakan is the one province in this guide where the school field is genuinely unstable — a school closed in July 2026, another changed its leaving qualification, a third opened a secondary campus. This section records what a directory listing is most likely to be wrong about.

This entire entry is the change, and it is the reason Samut Prakan needed this update more than any other province in the rotation. VERSO International School operated here from 2020 on a 168-rai campus and concluded operations on 31 July 2026; its own website carries a closure announcement. BTS Group elected to close it after five years and hand the site to Wycombe Abbey, with BE Education and Rabbit Holdings, and the new school opened in August 2026. Third-party directories still list VERSO as a live, enrolling school with a student roll and WASC and ONESQA accreditation. Every one of those listings is now wrong, and any shortlist that includes VERSO should be rebuilt.

Where this school stops

Year 13 (age ~18), as advertised. See flags on whether those years are running yet.

What a leaver actually holds

The curriculum label and the leaving qualification are different things, and in this province they diverge more than anywhere else covered. For a family that may move country again, this line is the decision.

A Level, following IGCSE. This is the school's stated intention rather than a delivered result — no cohort has yet sat exams here.

Where the campus actually is

198 Moo 4, Soi Sarasetthasiri, Suvarnabhumi 3 Road, Bang Chalong, Bang Phli, Samut Prakan 10540 — adjacent to Thana City Country Club

At Bang Chalong beside Thana City, off Suvarnabhumi 3 Road — the most easterly of the province's school sites and closest to the airport. No rail at the campus.

Area guides families use for this school run: Bang Na (Samut Prakan side)

The curriculum pathway, stage by stage

• Nursery through Year 6 — English national curriculum.
• Years 7 to 9 — lower senior school.
• Years 10 to 11 — IGCSE.
• Years 12 to 13 — A Level.

Accreditations & authorisations

Worth separating: an examination-board authorisation (Cambridge, IB, College Board) means a school may enter pupils for those exams. A whole-school accreditation (WASC, CIS, NEASC, Cognia, ISQM) assesses the school itself. A membership is neither. Both matter; they are not the same claim — and in Samut Prakan three of the ten schools publish no accrediting body at all.

• NONE PUBLISHED. The school names no accrediting body — no CIS, COBIS, NEASC or WASC — and no Cambridge or other examination-board centre authorisation.
• This is normal for a school in its first term and is not in itself a criticism. It does mean there is currently no independent third-party assessment of this school, and a family enrolling now is buying a brand and a plan rather than an inspected record.

Religious character

Publishes nothing.

Boarding

Yes — the school publishes family-style boarding houses with housemasters and housemistresses and a tutor system, offering flexi, weekly and full boarding, plus a boarding exchange from Year 7. That would make it the province's second boarding school alongside ASB Green Valley. As with everything else here, it is a stated offer in the school's first term rather than an established operation.

Who it suits

Families who want a British boarding-school model near Suvarnabhumi and who are comfortable being part of a founding intake — which means small year groups, a staff body still forming, and no exam results, inspection report or accreditation to inspect. Families who need certainty this year should look at the established schools and revisit this one in two or three years.

What we could not verify — and where sources disagree

We publish these openly rather than smoothing them over. A school guide that hides its uncertainty is not much use to a family making a decision this big.

• No accreditation and no examination-board authorisation is published. Ask what the school is applying for and on what timetable.
• Whether Years 12 and 13 are actually enrolled and staffed for the 2026–27 year could not be verified. A senior school page exists; a running sixth form is a different claim. Ask how many students are in each of Years 10 to 13 this year before assuming the A Level route is live.
• The school's own naming is inconsistent across its site metadata, its domain and its social and contact addresses.
• No fees, roll size, class size or staff ratios could be verified from primary sources at the time of writing.
• Because the campus is inherited, photographs and campus descriptions circulating online may show VERSO's operation rather than the current school.

Ask every Samut Prakan school this

• Is this school still operating, under this name, this year? Samut Prakan is the one province in this guide where a school on families' shortlists closed — VERSO ceased operations on 31 July 2026 — and directories still list it as enrolling. Check the school's own homepage for a closure or rebranding notice before you do anything else.
• What qualification does a Grade 12 or Year 13 leaver actually hold? Not the curriculum label — the qualification. Raffles moved from Advanced Placement to the IB Diploma without the directories noticing, TCIS displays an IB logo while holding only candidate status, and D-PREP names no leaving qualification at all.
• Where does this school stop? SISB Suvarnabhumi ends at Primary 6 and awards nothing, despite being marketed across the Bang Kaeo property corridor as an international school.
• Is the school ACCREDITED, or AUTHORISED, or a MEMBER? Ask for the body, the status word and the expiry date. Three of the ten schools here name no accrediting body at all, one is disputed between WASC and NEASC, and one is somewhere between CIS membership and CIS accreditation.
• If boarding matters, is it a boarding house on this campus? SISB's boarding is real but sits at a different campus in Bangkok, and Concordian's residency programme cannot be confirmed as currently operating. ASB Green Valley and Wycombe Abbey are the ones publishing houses on site.
• Which province is the campus actually in, and which campus am I contacting? Almost every school here markets itself as Bangkok. Several groups run a Bangkok campus and a Samut Prakan campus under one brand with different provision — ASB, SISB, TSI and D-PREP all do.
• How long is the drive at 7am, from the address you are actually considering? The school belt spans kilometre 7 to kilometre 15 on Bangna-Trad plus a separate Samrong cluster. Those are not interchangeable at rush hour.
• Does the school publish a bus route that reaches you — or only a catchment claim? Only D-PREP publishes actual routes. Everyone else has a bus with no published coverage, which cannot be planned around.

Sources & References

• Ministry of Education, Thailand

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