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Try it free →The one-line version: Sing Buri has no international-curriculum school and no university campus — but it does have state bilingual classrooms, and one published degree-level programme out at Tha Chang, and those are the two distinctions most families never get told. Anuban Sing Buri School runs a Mini English Program entered at kindergarten year 2 and again at Prathom 1; Singburi School runs one entered at Mathayom 1. Roughly ages four, six and twelve — and nothing published in between. Underneath that sits a state and vocational system that is complete and unusually well resourced for a province of about 206,000 people: 61 primary schools, 42 lower secondary, 18 upper secondary and six vocational colleges, with education making up 14.3 per cent of the provincial economy.
Where a child can be taught in English, and at what age
| Entry point | Approximate age | School | What is published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anuban 2 (kindergarten year 2) | About age 4 | Anuban Sing Buri School | Published admission and selection round for the bilingual MEP classroom, most recently for academic year 2568. This is the earliest English-medium entry point in the province. |
| Prathom 1 | About age 6 | Anuban Sing Buri School | A second published MEP intake at the start of primary, with its own eligible-candidates list. A child who missed the kindergarten round has one more chance here. |
| Mathayom 1 | About age 12 | Singburi School | The province's only secondary MEP intake, run as a full published cycle for academic year 2569 — admission regulations, eligible-candidates list, selection examination, results, then a reserve-list call. That last step is the useful signal: the programme fills. |
| Any other year | Ages 5, 7–11, 13–18 | No published route | We found no published mid-stream MEP entry at either school, and no international-curriculum alternative anywhere in the province. Arriving in Sing Buri with a nine-year-old or a fifteen-year-old means Thai-medium state schooling, a private tutor arrangement, or a commute to Lop Buri, Ayutthaya or Bangkok. Ask the schools whether an off-cycle place exists — it may — but do not plan on one. |
Two clarifications, because this is the point where families are most often misled. First, a Mini English Program is a Thai state school teaching part of the Thai core curriculum in English — it is not an international curriculum, it does not award an international qualification, and a child leaving it at eighteen leaves with a Thai secondary certificate. Second, and more usefully: it exists, it is inside the province, and it is competitive. Singburi School's 2569 admissions cycle ran the full sequence — regulations, eligible-candidates list, selection examination, results, and then a call to the reserve list. A school does not publish a reserve-list call for a programme nobody applies to.
The schools themselves, by name
| School | Type | Where & how to reach it | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singburi School (โรงเรียนสิงห์บุรี) | State secondary, M.1–M.6, co-educational | 118 Moo 1, Bang Man subdistrict, Mueang Sing Buri 16000 · 0-3650-7171 | The province's first secondary school, founded 16 May 1906 as Wat Phrom Sakhon School and raised to provincial-school status in 1909. Today it is classed an extra-large secondary school: 2,915 students across 72 classrooms — twelve per year group from M.1 to M.6 — with more than 150 teaching and support staff on a 121-rai campus. It became co-educational in 1972, when the boys' Singhawatthanaphah and the girls' Satri Sing Buri were merged into one school under the present name. It runs two special-classroom tracks: the Mini English Program at M.1, and an IPST science–mathematics–technology–environment stream at both M.1 and M.4. The provincial secondary education area office (SESAO Sing Buri–Ang Thong) sits on the same campus. |
| In Buri School (โรงเรียนอินทร์บุรี) | State secondary, co-educational, with a vocational certificate track | 109/22 Moo 1, In Buri subdistrict, In Buri district 16110 · 036-581528 | The second town's own secondary school, roughly 15km north of the capital on the Sing Buri–Chai Nat road beside Wat Bot. Founded 17 May 1952 by the abbot of Wat Bot, opening with a single M.1 class of 36 students — 31 boys and five girls — and two teachers. It now carries 1,377 students with 107 teachers and staff. The detail that matters for this province: since 1995 it has been authorised to teach the Wor Chor (vocational certificate) programme at upper-secondary level, so the vocational majority described further down is not only a college phenomenon — a mainstream academic school runs a technical track inside its own timetable. It took the Royal Award for medium-sized secondary schools in 1996, and its original school building is now the In Buri branch of the National Library. |
| Anuban Sing Buri School (โรงเรียนอนุบาลสิงห์บุรี) | State primary with kindergarten, under the Sing Buri primary education area office | 999 Bang Phutsa subdistrict, Mueang Sing Buri 16000 · 036-511040 | The capital's flagship state primary, and the reason a family with young children has an English-medium option here at all. It runs the Ministry's bilingual-school programme — Mini English Program — with its own published admissions rounds at kindergarten year 2 and again at Prathom 1, and it sends MEP pupils to the Central Region English-programme competition. Announcement documents are posted as scanned images, so seat counts and fees could not be read off them; ask the school directly. |
| Bang Rachan Wittaya School (โรงเรียนบางระจันวิทยา) | State secondary, co-educational | Moo 3, Sing subdistrict, Bang Rachan district 16130 · 036-591470 | The district secondary school for Bang Rachan, the province's second town municipality, also under SESAO Sing Buri–Ang Thong. Named for the district and its 1765–66 defence, and it teaches that history as a local-studies subject with fieldwork around the province. Listed here because it is the school a family living in the Mae La or Bang Rachan country would actually be posted to, rather than commuting into the capital. |
Four institutions rather than a directory, and each one is here because we could read its own site or its own encyclopaedia entry rather than a listing site's summary of it. Between them they cover the shape of the province: the big capital secondary school, the second town's own secondary school fifteen kilometres north, the capital's flagship state primary — which is where the youngest bilingual entry point sits — and the district school out in the Bang Rachan country. What is not here is every school in Sing Buri; there are 61 primary schools alone.
The system, tier by tier
| Tier | Provision | As of | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary schools | 61 schools, 11,751 pupils | Academic year 2023 | The base of the system, distributed across all six districts. Sing Buri's schools are administered through the regional education structure covering the province rather than by a single municipal authority. |
| Lower secondary schools | 42 schools, 6,444 students | Academic year 2023 | A wide network for a province of roughly 206,000 people — 42 schools means most district towns and several large subdistricts have one. |
| Upper secondary schools | 18 schools, 3,423 students | Academic year 2023 | The narrowing point. The cohort roughly halves between lower and upper secondary, which is the ordinary Thai pattern as students move across to vocational tracks. |
| Vocational colleges | 6 colleges, 4,070 students | Academic year 2023 | The number to notice: Sing Buri has MORE vocational students than upper-secondary ones. The provincial vocational education office names five state colleges — Singburi Technical College, Singburi Technical College 2 at Tha Chang, Singburi Vocational College, the Sing Buri College of Agriculture and Technology and In Buri Industrial and Community Education College — plus two further colleges on the same provincial list. They are set out one by one in section 04 below. |
| Degree-level study | One published programme; no university campus | September 2026 | There is no university campus in Sing Buri: no Rajabhat, no Ramkhamhaeng regional branch, no private university, and none of the provincial institutions we checked runs one. What the province does have — and what this page previously missed — is a bachelor's-level route inside the vocational system. Singburi Technical College 2 at Tha Chang publishes a Bachelor of Technology (continuing) section on its own website with a civil technology major: the standard Thai arrangement of a two-year top-up taken after a vocational diploma, conferred by the Institute of Vocational Education the college belongs to rather than by the college itself. For a full undergraduate degree, a campus and a library, the answer is still Lop Buri, Ayutthaya or Bangkok. |
| International-curriculum schools | None identified | August 2026 | No IB, Cambridge, British or American curriculum school surfaced anywhere in Sing Buri. Again: none identified rather than none existing. Families needing an international curriculum are looking at Lop Buri, Ayutthaya or Bangkok, which makes this a commuting or boarding decision rather than a local one. It does not, however, mean there is no English-medium schooling in the province — see the Mini English Program section below, which is a different thing and a real one. |
| State bilingual (MEP) streams | Two schools, three published entry points | Academic years 2568–2569 | Sing Buri runs Ministry of Education Mini English Program special classrooms at Anuban Sing Buri School (kindergarten year 2 and Prathom 1) and at Singburi School (Mathayom 1). This is partial English-medium teaching inside the Thai core curriculum, not an international curriculum — but it is the only English-medium classroom option inside the province, and it is oversubscribed enough that Singburi School published a reserve-list call for its 2569 intake. |
The line worth reading twice is the fourth one. Sing Buri's six vocational colleges carry 4,070 students; its 18 upper-secondary schools carry 3,423. More young people in this province are in technical and agricultural training than in academic sixth-form study, which is not the national pattern and tells you exactly what the local economy recruits for: manufacturing is 29.7 per cent of gross provincial product and 21.5 per cent of employment, and agriculture still employs 22.3 per cent of the workforce. And the tilt runs deeper than the college count suggests — In Buri School, an ordinary academic secondary school, has been authorised to teach the vocational certificate inside its own timetable since 1995. In Sing Buri the technical track is not a separate building you are sent to. It is an option on the corridor.
The vocational tier, college by college — and where a degree is actually taught
| Institution | Type | Where & how to reach it | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singburi Technical College (วิทยาลัยเทคนิคสิงห์บุรี) | State · certificate and diploma | 4 Wilaichit Road, Bang Phutsa, Mueang Sing Buri 16000 · 098-872-9117 | The largest single institution in the province by enrolment: 1,686 students in academic year 2568, taught by 144 teaching and support staff, across 11 certificate trades and 10 diploma programmes. The trade list is the clearest statement anywhere of what this province trains people for — automotive and electric-vehicle work, machine tools, welding, electrical, electronics, construction, industrial maintenance, mechatronics and robotics, computer technique and information technology. Electrical trades take the biggest certificate intake at 200 students, mechatronics and robotics the second at 142, and civil engineering runs 67 at diploma level. The provincial office's record for this college lists no degree-level programme. |
| Singburi Technical College 2 (วิทยาลัยเทคนิคสิงห์บุรี แห่งที่ 2) | State · certificate, diploma and the province's one published degree-level programme | 49 Moo 1, Pho Prachak subdistrict, Tha Chang district 16120 · 036-510857 | The overflow campus, and the most consequential institution here for anyone asking about degrees. The Ministry of Education announced it on 28 July 1997 because the original technical college had run out of land; it sits about 14km from that college on Highway 3454, the Sing Buri–Chai Nat road, on 147 rai 2 ngan 40 square wa of former religious-property land — the disused Wat Maprang Wan — with the Noi River along its eastern boundary and Tha Chang Hospital on its southern one. Its departments are automotive, electrical, electronics, construction and civil, accounting, marketing, business computer and computer technique, and its own website carries a Bachelor of Technology (continuing) section with a civil technology major. |
| Singburi Vocational College (วิทยาลัยอาชีวศึกษาสิงห์บุรี) | State · certificate and diploma, commerce and service trades | 643 Nai Chan Nuat Khiao Road, Bang Phutsa, Mueang Sing Buri 16000 · 0-3651-2515 | The commercial and service-side counterpart to the technical college, ten minutes' walk from it in the same subdistrict, with ten teaching departments: accounting, marketing and retail business, food and nutrition, fine arts, digital graphics, hotel studies, fashion and textiles, digital business technology and information technology, food-processing technology and innovation, and general education. Its own published curriculum data, revised for 2567, covers the certificate and diploma levels only. A commercial listing site advertises a bachelor's in accounting here; the college's own curriculum page does not show one, so we are not publishing it as fact — ask the college. |
| Sing Buri College of Agriculture and Technology (วิทยาลัยเกษตรและเทคโนโลยีสิงห์บุรี) | State · agricultural | Sing Buri province · sbcat.ac.th and kasetsing.ac.th | The agricultural college, teaching crop cultivation, machinery repair and agribusiness — the training arm of the sector that still employs 22.3 per cent of the provincial workforce while producing 11.3 per cent of output. We did not confirm a street address or an enrolment figure for it and are not inventing either. |
| In Buri Industrial and Community Education College (วิทยาลัยการอาชีพอินทร์บุรี) | State · certificate and diploma | In Buri district · icc.ac.th | The fifth state college, and one this page did not previously name. It appears on the provincial vocational education family list published by Singburi Vocational College and carries its own icc.ac.th domain. We took its district from its name and that list rather than from a confirmed street address, so treat the location as indicative and the college itself as confirmed. |
| Two further colleges on the provincial list | Status not verified | Named without links on the provincial vocational family list | Singburi Business Administration and Technology College (วิทยาลัยบริหารธุรกิจและเทคโนโลยีสิงห์บุรี) and Singburi Commercial College (วิทยาลัยพาณิชยการสิงห์บุรี) both appear on that provincial list alongside the state colleges, with no website beside either. We could not verify their programmes, their enrolment or whether they are private or state institutions, and we are naming them for one reason only: this page used to imply the provincial roll was four institutions long, and it is not. |
| The Science-based Technology College | A programme, not a separate campus, on the evidence we have | Re-checked September 2026 | Earlier versions of this page named a Singburi Science-based Technology College in In Buri district as one of the province's institutions. On re-checking, Thai sources describe it as a project — โครงการวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีฐานวิทยาศาสตร์ — and it does not appear as its own college on the provincial vocational office's family list. Until that is settled, read it as a science-based technology stream hosted inside an existing college rather than as a campus you can move a child to. |
This is the section that changed most this year, and the correction is ours rather than anyone else's. This page used to say that no degree-granting campus could be identified in Sing Buri and leave it there. That is still true of universities — there is no campus, no Rajabhat, no regional branch — but it was the wrong question. In Thailand a vocational college can teach a two-year top-up degree conferred by the Institute of Vocational Education it belongs to, and Singburi Technical College 2 at Tha Chang publishes exactly that: a Bachelor of Technology (continuing) with a civil technology major, on its own website. What we verified is the programme's place in the college's own published curriculum structure and its title; the page body would not open to our reader, so we have no intake dates, seat count or fee to give you. Ring the college on 036-510857 before you plan anything around it. The practical read for a family: a school-leaver in Sing Buri who takes the vocational route can reach a certificate, a diploma and — in one named subject, at one named campus — a bachelor's degree without leaving the province, which is more than this page previously credited it with.
Education in context
| Line | Figure | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Education as a share of the provincial economy | 14.3% of gross provincial product — ฿4.001 billion in 2022 | The second-largest sector in Sing Buri after manufacturing (29.7%), and ahead of trade (11.8%) and agriculture (11.3%). That is an unusually high weight for education in a small rice province, and it is consistent with a vocational sector larger than the academic upper-secondary one. |
| Education employment | 4,276 people, 3.9% of the employed workforce | Note the asymmetry: education produces 14.3% of output from 3.9% of employment, the highest output-per-worker ratio of any large sector in the province. Manufacturing, by contrast, produces 29.7% from 21.5%. |
| Temples as an educational institution | 193 Theravada temples — 177 Maha Nikai, 16 Dhammayut | By district: In Buri 55, Mueang Sing Buri 40, Bang Rachan 35, Phrom Buri 30, Khai Bang Rachan 25, Tha Chang 8. Wat Amphawan in Phrom Buri is a nationally known Vipassana meditation centre associated with Luang Pho Charan, and draws retreatants from across Thailand — a form of education this province genuinely exports. |
| The museum | In Buri National Museum, founded 1940 at Wat Bot | Established by a high-ranking abbot of the temple, holding Thai and Chinese ceramics, traditional Thai musical instruments, folk-theatre exhibits, looms and traditional fishing nets, plus the most significant artefacts from the Ban Khu Mueang Dvaravati site. A real local resource for anyone schooling children with an interest in Thai history. |
What we could not verify, and are not publishing
We publish no fee figures for any school in the province, and no seat counts for either Mini English Program — both schools post their admission announcements as scanned images, so we could confirm that the rounds ran and at which year groups, but not what they cost or how many places they carried. We publish no count of private schools in Sing Buri: the licensed-school register did not return a clean provincial result, and an empty search facet is not evidence of an empty province. We publish no total for the secondary schools supervised by the education area office, because that office covers Sing Buri and Ang Thong together and every figure we saw was ambiguous between the two. And the two negatives are now stated differently from one another. "No international-curriculum school identified" means exactly that — we searched, found nothing, and did not achieve a clean filtered negative against an official register, so verify it with the provincial education office if it would be decisive for your family. The higher-education line has changed: there is no university campus, but there is one published degree-level programme, the Bachelor of Technology (continuing) in civil technology at Singburi Technical College 2, whose place in that college's own curriculum structure we could confirm and whose intake details we could not read. We publish no seat count, fee or entry route for it. The tier counts and economic figures come from the published provincial statistical compilation for the 2023 academic year and 2022 economic year; the named schools and their entry points come from each school's own site.
Frequently asked
Is there an international school in Sing Buri?None that we could identify. We searched for IB, Cambridge, British and American curriculum provision in the province and found nothing, and we did not achieve a clean filtered negative against an official register — so the honest phrasing is none identified rather than none exists. Practically, treat Sing Buri as a province without an international-curriculum option. The realistic destinations are Lop Buri immediately east, Ayutthaya to the south, and Bangkok about 140km down Highway 32. If an international curriculum is non-negotiable for your family, that is a commuting or boarding decision, and it should be settled before you choose an area rather than after. But read the next answer before you conclude there is no English in a Sing Buri classroom, because that is not the same question and it has a different answer.
So is there any English-medium schooling in the province at all?Yes — two state schools run Ministry of Education Mini English Program classrooms, and this is the single most useful thing on this page for a relocating family. Anuban Sing Buri School, the capital's flagship state primary at 999 Bang Phutsa, runs the bilingual MEP with published admissions at kindergarten year 2 and again at Prathom 1. Singburi School, the provincial secondary school at 118 Moo 1 Bang Man, runs an MEP special classroom entered at Mathayom 1, with a full published cycle for academic year 2569 that ran to a reserve-list call — which tells you it fills. Be precise about what MEP is: partial English-medium delivery of the Thai core curriculum by a Thai state school, not an international curriculum and not a route to an overseas university on its own. It is, however, the difference between a child sitting in an entirely Thai-language classroom and a child being taught a real part of the week in English, in the province, without a commute.
What ages can my child actually start in?Three published entry points: roughly age four at kindergarten year 2, roughly age six at Prathom 1, both at Anuban Sing Buri, and roughly age twelve at Mathayom 1 at Singburi School. That is the whole ladder, and the gaps in it are the part that catches families out. We found no published mid-stream MEP entry — nothing at Prathom 3, nothing at Mathayom 3. If you arrive in Sing Buri with a nine-year-old, the options as published are Thai-medium state school, private tutoring alongside it, or a commute out of province. Ask both schools directly whether an off-cycle place can be made; the answer may well be yes, and it will not be on a website. Just do not plan a move around a place that has not been confirmed to you in writing.
Is there a university in Sing Buri, and can you take a degree here?Two different questions, and they have different answers. There is no university campus in the province — no Rajabhat, no Ramkhamhaeng regional branch, no private university, nothing you could call a campus. But a degree is taught here. Singburi Technical College 2, out at Tha Chang on Highway 3454, publishes a Bachelor of Technology (continuing) section on its own website with a civil technology major: in the Thai system that is a two-year top-up after a vocational diploma, conferred by the Institute of Vocational Education the college belongs to rather than by the college itself. We verified that the programme sits in the college's own published curriculum structure; we could not open the page body, so we have no intake dates, seat numbers or fees, and you should ring the college on 036-510857 rather than rely on this paragraph. Beyond that one route, Sing Buri's higher education is vocational — five state colleges named in section 04, carrying 4,070 students as of the 2023 academic year, more than the province's 18 upper-secondary schools carry between them. For a conventional undergraduate degree, the nearest campuses are in Lop Buri, Ayutthaya and Bangkok.
Why does education make up 14.3% of the provincial economy if there is no university campus?Because the state school and vocational network is large relative to a small and shrinking population, and because education is a high-output-per-worker sector: it generates 14.3 per cent of Sing Buri's ฿27.932 billion gross provincial product from 3.9 per cent of the employed workforce. A province with 61 primary schools, 42 lower secondary, 18 upper secondary and six vocational colleges serving roughly 206,000 people is carrying more educational infrastructure per head than a growing province would need. That is a real strength for residents and a structural cost for the province.
What is the state school system like for a foreign family?Complete in coverage and entirely Thai-language in delivery, as everywhere outside the international sector. Sing Buri's network is genuinely dense for its size — 61 primary schools across six districts means a school within reach almost anywhere — and the vocational tier is unusually strong, which matters for a teenager who might otherwise face a long commute for technical training. What it will not do is teach in English or deliver a curriculum recognised for university entry outside Thailand. Families choosing Sing Buri with school-age children are choosing Thai-language state or private-Thai schooling, or a commute to another province.
What did you not verify on this page?Four things, stated plainly. We publish no fee figures for any school in Sing Buri, state or private — including the MEP streams, whose admission announcements are posted as scanned images rather than text, so we could read that the rounds happened but not what they cost or how many seats they carried. We publish no count of private schools in the province, because the licensed-school register did not return a clean provincial result and an empty facet is not evidence of an empty province — though the provincial vocational family list does name two further colleges beyond the five state ones, and they are in section 04. The international-curriculum negative remains 'none identified' rather than 'none exists', because we could not achieve a clean filtered negative against an official register. The university negative has been rewritten: there is no university campus, but a Bachelor of Technology (continuing) programme is published by Singburi Technical College 2, and we could verify its existence in that college's own curriculum structure without being able to read its intake details. And we do not publish a total for how many secondary schools the Sing Buri–Ang Thong education area office supervises, because that office covers two provinces and every figure we saw was ambiguous between them. The tier counts come from the published provincial statistical compilation for the 2023 academic year; the named schools, their enrolments and their entry points come from each school's own website or its Thai-language encyclopaedia entry, cited below.
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Sources & References
- Sing Buri province (education & economic statistics) — Wikipedia
- Singburi School — Mini English Program (MEP) admission regulations, academic year 2569
- Singburi School — MEP reserve-list call, Mathayom 1, academic year 2569
- Singburi School — school profile & contact details
- โรงเรียนสิงห์บุรี (Singburi School: founding, enrolment, classroom plan) — Thai Wikipedia
- In Buri School — school history, enrolment & vocational certificate track
- Anuban Sing Buri School — bilingual Mini English Program admissions (kindergarten year 2)
- Anuban Sing Buri School — MEP eligible-candidates list, Prathom 1
- Bang Rachan Wittaya School — official site & contact details
- Sing Buri preserves legend of brave Thai heroes at Bang Rachan (In Buri National Museum) — TAT Newsroom
- Singburi Provincial Vocational Education Office — Singburi Technical College record: programmes, 2568 enrolment by trade, staffing
- Singburi Technical College 2 — college profile, site, boundaries and founding history (own website)
- Singburi Technical College 2 — published curriculum structure, including the Bachelor of Technology (continuing) civil technology major
- Singburi Vocational College — published curriculum data (certificate and diploma, 2567) and the provincial vocational college list
- Singburi Technical College — curriculum-data index and college contact details (own website)
- Ministry of Education, Thailand
- National Statistical Office, Thailand
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.
General information, not educational or admissions advice. Provincial tier counts and enrolment reflect the 2023 academic year as published; named-school enrolments and Mini English Program entry points reflect each school's own published pages as read in August 2026; the vocational colleges, their programmes and the 2568 enrolment figures reflect the provincial vocational education office's records and each college's own site as read in September 2026. Admission rounds, entry year groups, curricula, fees and provision change every year — confirm with the school directly before relying on them. Hero photograph via Pexels.
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