A St Paul's Girls' School Affiliate Opens Its First Asian Campus in Bangkok

One of London's most celebrated independent schools is opening its first campus in Asia, with SPGS International School Bangkok set to welcome students from Pre-Nursery through Year 6 in August. According to Bangkok Online, the school sits within a THB 14.4 billion mixed-use development on Rama 3 Road, built in partnership with Thai developer Country Group Development, and is designed for an eventual capacity of around 1,800 students.

The school is co-educational from the outset, a deliberate departure from its London parent, St Paul's Girls' School, which has served young women exclusively for 120 years and has been ranked first for academic results in 13 of the past 14 years. Students at the Bangkok campus will follow an enhanced British national curriculum in the early and junior years, moving through IGCSEs and distinctive School Directed Courses, including strands in Creative Technology, Drama, Music, and Art, before transitioning to the IB Diploma at sixth form. Leigh O'Hara, who spent eleven years as a senior leader at the London school, has been appointed founding headmaster.

Bangkok's crowded British wave

The SPGS opening places it in company. Wycombe Abbey, Dulwich College, and Highgate each opened or are opening Thailand campuses in the same academic year, making 2026 the busiest single period for British-brand school launches in Bangkok's recent history. SPGS Bangkok's Rama 3 location, several kilometres from the expat concentrations of Sukhumvit and central Bangkok, reflects its tie to Country Group Development's luxury residential project in that district rather than any attempt to avoid the competition directly.

The Senior School is due to open in 2027, when Years 7 to 9 will be admitted. Assessments for those places are understood to be running this term. Campus facilities include a 600-seat auditorium, two swimming pools, a black box theatre, a professional recording studio, rooftop tennis courts, a Centre for Design and Innovation, and a dedicated forest school. Co-curricular programming is said to extend to more than 200 activities per week.

Fees and positioning

Tuition fees have not been publicly disclosed. Bangkok's premium British school market is already competitive on both quality and price, with NIST, Shrewsbury, and British International School among the established operators setting the benchmarks any new entrant must respond to.

St Paul's Girls' School carries significant brand weight in markets where British university placements are a central admissions draw, and the Bangkok campus will benefit from an active curriculum partnership with London. Whether that reputational capital translates into strong early enrolment, particularly from a Rama 3 location that is less immediately convenient for many established expat families, is likely to become clearer once the school publishes its fee schedule and the first cohort settles in.