Singapore
Knightsbridge House Holds Singapore Fees Flat for a Fifth Year Running
The Cambridge-curriculum school is keeping its annual tuition at SGD 13,080 for 2026/27, a rare stand against the upward drift that defines the city's international school market.
At a time when most Singapore international schools treat annual fee increases as a matter of routine, Knightsbridge House International School has quietly announced something unusual: no change to its base tuition for the 2026/27 academic year. According to the school's own website, this marks the fifth consecutive year without a fee increase since the school opened in 2021, with the all-inclusive annual figure holding at SGD 12,000 before GST, or SGD 13,080 with tax.
The announcement lands at a moment when Singapore's premium British and IB schools routinely charge SGD 32,000 to well over SGD 48,000 per year for upper secondary places. Knightsbridge House, which follows the Cambridge curriculum from primary through IGCSE, has built its identity around proving that the gap between affordability and academic rigour need not be as wide as the market suggests.
A deliberate counter-position
The school was founded in 2021 by South African entrepreneur John Fearon, himself a parent who felt the cost of Singapore international schooling was untenable. The KBH model strips back the frills, operates across two campuses in Bukit Merah and Changi Business Park, and keeps class sizes at roughly 1:22. From just five founding students, the school has grown to a community of more than 600 learners across both sites.
The academic credentials are harder to dismiss than the low fee might suggest. The school has claimed the highest average scores globally for the Cambridge Year 7 MidYIS assessment for three consecutive years, a benchmark that tracks cognitive ability and attainment across international schools worldwide. Whether that record holds for 2026 results remains to be seen, but it has given the school credibility beyond what its price point would ordinarily command.
What it means for the wider market
Singapore's international school fee landscape has come under growing scrutiny from parent communities, with premium schools in the Bukit Timah corridor and central districts posting increases that consistently outpace both inflation and local wage growth. The KBH freeze is a conscious challenge to that trend, and one that other operators in the affordable segment will be watching closely.
For British Schools Asia readers, the school's model is a useful data point in a market where the association between a British-curriculum school and high fees has become almost axiomatic. Whether KBH can sustain the freeze into a sixth year, as it continues to expand its extracurricular and academic offering, is a question families and competitors alike will be monitoring.