Bangkok
St Paul's Girls' School Brings Its Brand to Bangkok This August
SPGS International School Bangkok will open on Rama 3 Road in August 2026, making it the first overseas campus of the celebrated London girls' school to serve Southeast Asia.
Bangkok's crowded British-school market is about to gain one of its most distinctive entrants. SPGS International School Bangkok, developed in partnership with Thai property developer Country Group Development PCL, will open its doors in August 2026 as a co-educational school for children aged three to eighteen. According to Kaohoon International, the campus sits at the heart of a THB 14.4 billion mixed-use development on Rama 3 Road, integrating the school into one of central Bangkok's most ambitious new residential precincts.
The school is the second overseas partner campus established by SPGS International, a wholly owned subsidiary of St Paul's Girls' School in West London. The first was SPGS International School Chengdu, which opened in 2021. Bangkok marks the brand's first foothold in Southeast Asia, and the school's founding headmaster, Leigh O'Hara, spent eleven years as a senior leader at the London campus before taking the role.
A deliberately selective curriculum offer
For the 2026 to 2027 academic year, admissions run from Nursery to Year 6 only, with the secondary school opening from Year 7 in 2027 to 2028. Full build-out is projected to reach around 1,700 students. The curriculum follows an enhanced English National Curriculum through primary, before transitioning to IGCSEs and a suite of School Directed Courses at Key Stage 4, then the IB Diploma Programme in Years 12 and 13. Those School Directed Courses, developed in-house at the London school and covering subjects such as Creative Technology, Computer Science, Drama, Music, and Art, will be exclusive to SPGS campuses: Bangkok will be the only school outside London to deliver them.
The 9.1-acre campus includes a 600-seat auditorium, two swimming pools, professional recording studios, an innovation centre, and FIFA-standard sports facilities. Families in Bangkok's premium catchment area will note that the school is positioning itself not as a replica of the familiar British-curriculum offer already available in the city, but as a values-led institution with a direct institutional link to one of England's most academically selective day schools.
What it means for the Bangkok market
SPGS joins a wave of UK independent-school brands opening Thai campuses in 2026, alongside Dulwich College Bangkok, Highgate International School Thailand, and Wycombe Abbey International School Bangkok. But unlike those schools, which carry established international-school track records, SPGS Bangkok arrives with no prior international school data, making its differentiated curriculum and the strength of its London brand the primary selling points at launch. How quickly it can fill classrooms and build its own record will determine whether the partnership model proves as durable in Southeast Asia as it has in China.