Bangkok
Dulwich College Opens Its First Thailand Campus This August
The London school's Bangkok branch begins with Nursery to Year 7, expanding to full Sixth Form by 2029. It is the sixth campus in the Dulwich international network in Asia.
Dulwich College International School Bangkok has opened its doors this month, becoming the first campus the storied London school has launched in Thailand. According to WhichSchoolAdvisor, the school occupies a newly built campus on Soi Ramkhamhaeng 2 in the Prawet district, on Bangkok's eastern corridor, and is accepting students from Nursery through Year 7 for the 2026 to 2027 academic year.
The school's founding head of college, Thomas Banyard, brings experience from launching Dulwich campuses in mainland China and independent schools in Dubai. His brief in Bangkok is similar: establish the school's early and junior years, build community and reputation, then layer in senior provision progressively. Dulwich College International School Bangkok plans to offer Year 12 and Year 13 by the 2029 to 2030 academic year, completing a full 3 to 18 range on a single site.
A campus built for the tropics
The design draws on traditional Thai village architecture, with a central gathering space, extensive shade structures, and landscaped outdoor areas suited to Bangkok's climate. Sustainability targets are embedded from the outset: the school is seeking LEED Gold certification, an ambition that remains unusual among private international schools in Thailand. A 50-metre climate-controlled swimming pool and an indoor sports complex are among the facilities ready for opening day, alongside a FIFA-standard football pitch and maker-space workshops operating under the school's SE21 innovation programme.
The campus is designed for an eventual capacity of around 1,000 students in the early and junior years before the senior school phases open. A Village Centre sits at the heart of the site as a shared civic space, a feature that the school's leadership says is intended to foster the kind of community identity that takes longer to build when a campus is phased in around an existing urban structure.
A crowded moment for British schools in Bangkok
Dulwich College International School Bangkok joins the network's existing Asian campuses in Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, and Suzhou. The Bangkok opening is also part of a broader wave of British-branded schools entering the Thai market this academic year: Highgate School, Wycombe Abbey International School Bangkok, NLCS Phuket, and others have all accepted their first cohorts this term, collectively adding several thousand places to a market that was, until recently, dominated by a handful of long-established operators.
The simultaneous arrival of multiple premium British schools puts pressure on Bangkok's pool of fee-paying expatriate and affluent Thai families. The 2026 to 2027 enrolment figures will give operators a first real read on whether demand is deep enough to sustain the wave. For Dulwich, the Bangkok opening extends a global network that now runs to more than a dozen campuses, and its established brand recognition in Singapore and Shanghai will give it a head start among the region's internationally mobile families.