Bangkok
St Paul's Girls' School Brings Its Name to Bangkok This August
SPGS International School Bangkok, the second overseas campus linked to the celebrated London institution, opens its doors in Rama 3 this summer as Thailand's most-watched new arrival.
Bangkok's international school landscape is about to gain one of its most high-profile additions in years. SPGS International School Bangkok, developed in close partnership with St Paul's Girls' School in London, is set to open in August 2026, according to the London school's own international division. The campus, on a 9.1-acre site near the Rama III residential estate in Yan Nawa, is the second overseas partner school that St Paul's Girls' School has established, following the Chengdu campus that launched in 2021.
The school is co-educational and will serve students aged 3 to 18. In its first year, admissions run from Nursery to Year 6, with around 300 founding students expected. Secondary years from Year 7 onwards follow in 2027 to 2028, with the school eventually expanding to a capacity of roughly 1,700 pupils.
A curriculum unlike any other in the city
What distinguishes SPGS Bangkok from its British-curriculum neighbours is not simply the brand. The school will be the only institution outside London authorised to deliver St Paul's own School Directed Courses, bespoke qualifications developed in-house that sit alongside iGCSE at Key Stage 4. The courses span Creative Technology, Computer Science, Drama, Music, and Art, and are designed to push beyond standard GCSE specifications towards deeper understanding and creativity.
The full academic programme blends an enhanced English National Curriculum in the lower years with the IB Diploma Programme at Sixth Form. The campus itself was designed by the same firm behind the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River, and its facilities include a 600-seat auditorium, two swimming pools, professional recording studios, an Innovation Centre, and expansive outdoor sports fields.
Leadership and local partnership
The founding headmaster is Leigh O'Hara, who spent eleven years at the London campus as Deputy Head and Director of School. Country Group Development PCL, the Thai property group behind a THB 14.4 billion mixed-use development on Rama 3 Road, is the local operating partner. Its CEO has said Bangkok already has a strong international school community, but that the SPGS model aims to offer something genuinely distinctive through its deep ties to the London original.
St Paul's Girls' School has been ranked number one in the United Kingdom for academic excellence in 13 of the past 14 years. Whether that reputation translates directly to a founding cohort in Bangkok will be the question families and the wider market ask through 2026 and into 2027, as the senior school phase begins to take shape.