Wycombe Abbey to Open Its First Thailand Campus This August

Wycombe Abbey International School Bangkok is set to open in August 2026, bringing one of Britain's most recognised boarding school names to Thailand for the first time. The school will occupy a 66-acre campus on Bangna-Trad Road near Thana City, approximately ten minutes from Suvarnabhumi Airport, and will offer a continuous British curriculum pathway from nursery through Year 13, according to a press release distributed in April by Media OutReach.

The Bangkok school is a three-way venture between Wycombe Abbey, BE Education, and Rabbit Holdings, a subsidiary of BTS Group Holdings. Students aged 2 to 18 will follow a curriculum leading to IGCSEs and A Levels, with boarding available on full, weekly, and flexi terms. The campus includes an Olympic-standard swimming pool, a FIFA-standard football pitch, a full athletics track, and a 1,000-seat stadium, making it among the most extensively equipped international school sites in the Bangkok metropolitan area.

A crowded but buoyant market

Bangkok is in the middle of a significant wave of premium British school arrivals. Dulwich College Bangkok, Highgate International School Thailand, and Glenalmond Phuket International School are all opening or have recently opened in the same period, as established UK brands compete to build early footholds in Thailand's growing expatriate and aspirational local market.

Fiona Angel, appointed as founding executive headteacher, arrives from Dulwich College London, where she served as acting master and, for seven years, as senior deputy, reportedly the first woman to hold that position in the school's 400-year history. Wycombe Abbey's existing Asian network spans Hong Kong and mainland China, where it reports that 38 percent of students have earned places at QS top-10 universities. The Bangkok campus is part of a broader regional push that also includes new campuses in Singapore and South Korea.