Read this first: it stops at around age six
Satit RTU is an early years school, not a K–12 school. Its recorded age range runs to roughly six, which means every family who enrols here will change school again — and in Ubon Ratchathani that onward choice is unusually narrow. The province has exactly one international school running the full span to Grade 12, Ubon Adventist International Mission School, and it is a Seventh-day Adventist school. If that is not the right fit for your family, the realistic alternatives at age six are a Thai private school with an English programme such as Assumption College Ubonratchathani, or relocating. Plan the second school before you commit to the first.
Key facts
| Also known as | Satit Ratchathani University Demonstration School — the demonstration school of Ratchathani University (RTU) |
| Location | On the Ratchathani University campus, Mueang Ubon Ratchathani district. Directory listings place it opposite Central Plaza Ubon Ratchathani. No street address is published here — see the flags below |
| Curriculum | Cambridge Early Years Centre programme, English-medium, learning through play with the child as the centre of learning |
| Age range | Recorded as approximately birth to six years. No primary years, no secondary years, no leaving qualification |
| Classroom staffing | Three teachers per classroom as published: a native English speaker, a foreign teacher and a Thai teacher |
| Accreditation | None published. No CIS, WASC, NEASC or ONESQA record was found. Normal for an early years setting; stated so you know what does and does not exist |
| Religious character | None published |
| Fees | Not published by BAANLYY as a policy — school fees change annually and directory figures for Ubon Ratchathani schools are demonstrably stale. Request the current schedule from the school |
| Official site | satit.rtu.ac.th — the domain resolves, but returned no readable page content when we fetched it |
Overview
Satit RTU International School is the demonstration school attached to Ratchathani University, a private university in Mueang Ubon Ratchathani that BAANLYY already covers in its Ubon Ratchathani universities directory. It teaches an English-medium Cambridge early years programme with an emphasis on learning through play, English communication, imaginative thinking and emotional and social development, and its published staffing model puts three adults in each classroom — a native English speaker, a foreign teacher and a Thai teacher. For a provincial capital with a very thin international-school field, a university-attached early years setting with that staffing is a genuine option, and it has been invisible on this site until now.
The honest caveat is the sourcing. We could not read the school's own website, so everything above comes from its international-schools directory record rather than from the school itself. That is a weaker footing than we hold for Begins International School, whose own site publishes its age bands and address directly. Treat this page as a reliable pointer to a school that exists and is worth calling, not as a verified specification.
Who it's for
Families with a child under six who want an English-medium early years setting in Ubon Ratchathani and value the three-teacher classroom model, or who are already connected to Ratchathani University. It suits a family who expects to be in Ubon for a defined period and is comfortable planning a school change at around age six — or who intends to continue at UAIMS afterwards. It does not suit a family arriving with a primary or secondary-age child, or one that wants a single school for the whole of a long posting.
What we could not verify
- The school's own website did not render. satit.rtu.ac.th resolves but returned no readable body content, so nothing on this page is sourced from the school directly.
- No street address. Directories place the campus opposite Central Plaza Ubon Ratchathani and inside Ratchathani University. Rather than publish a guess, we publish the district and tell you to confirm.
- The “first Cambridge international kindergarten in Thailand” claim is unverified and appears in identical wording across multiple directories, which points to a single upstream source rather than independent corroboration.
- The age range is directory-reported. “Birth to six” is a wide band that in practice usually means a nursery plus two or three kindergarten years. Ask which year groups are actually staffed and enrolled this term — in a small city, an advertised year group and a running class are not the same thing.
- No accrediting body and no leaving qualification. Expected for early years, but it means there is no inspection report to read before you enrol.
Location & getting there
Ubon Ratchathani has no urban rail of any kind — no BTS, no MRT, no monorail, and none planned — so the school run here is a drive, full stop. Families use a car or motorbike, songthaew, or a private transport arrangement; ask the school what it can offer rather than assuming a bus network exists. The Ratchathani University campus sits in the Mueang district within reach of the central rental corridor, so most families relocating for this school will look at central Mueang stock. See where to live in Ubon Ratchathani and getting around.
FAQ
What curriculum does Satit RTU International School follow?
A Cambridge early years curriculum, delivered in English. The school is recorded in international-school directories as following the Cambridge Early Years Centre programme. It publishes no whole-school accreditation from a body such as CIS, WASC or NEASC, which is normal for an early years setting but means no inspected report exists to read.
What ages does Satit RTU International School take?
Early years only. Directory records put the range at roughly birth to six years old. This is the single most important fact about the school for a relocating family: it does not run primary or secondary years, so a child will need a second school at around age six.
Where is Satit RTU International School?
On the Ratchathani University (RTU) campus in Mueang Ubon Ratchathani district — the school is RTU's demonstration school, and is also referred to as Satit Ratchathani University Demonstration School. Directory listings place the campus opposite Central Plaza Ubon Ratchathani. We do not publish a street address because the school's own site did not return one on fetch.
How many teachers are in each classroom?
Three, according to the school's directory record: a native English speaker, a foreign teacher and a Thai teacher. That staffing ratio is the school's main published differentiator and is worth confirming for your child's specific year group, since a ratio described in marketing is not the same as a ratio staffed this term.
Is Satit RTU International School really the first Cambridge international kindergarten in Thailand?
That claim appears in its directory listings, but it is a school-reported superlative that we could not verify against Cambridge International's own records, and the identical wording appears across several directories — which usually means one upstream source rather than several independent ones. We report it as a claim, not as an established fact.
Sources & References
- Ministry of Education, Thailand
- Satit RTU International School — official site (resolves; returned no readable body content on fetch)
- Satit RTU International School — SeriousTeachers international schools directory record
School facts are drawn from the school's own official website where reachable, plus independently verified public sources. Where the school's own site could not be read, the page says so. BAANLYY is not affiliated with this school and takes no paid placement in this content -- always confirm current fees, admissions and enrolment details directly with the school.
See the full Ubon Ratchathani schools guide for how Satit RTU International School compares with the province's other schools.
