Dulwich College Opens Its First Thailand Campus in Bangkok

Dulwich College Bangkok opened this month in the Dok Mai neighbourhood of eastern Bangkok, according to WhichSchoolAdvisor, making Thailand the latest country entered by the Education in Motion (EiM) network. The school launches in Phase 1, taking students from Nursery through Year 6, with capacity for up to 1,000 pupils. A Senior School phase, extending provision from Year 7 through Sixth Form, is planned for completion by 2029, bringing total capacity to 1,800.

The partnership that built the school brings together EiM, the Singapore-based group that owns and operates Dulwich College International campuses across China, South Korea, and Singapore, and Sakol Sathapat, a Thai real estate developer. That combination of international curriculum expertise and local market knowledge is the template EiM has used across several recent expansions. Fraser White, EiM's founder and chief executive, described the Bangkok opening as "a testament to our unwavering commitment to excellence in education."

A campus built around a Thai village

Architects took inspiration from the traditional Thai village, clustering buildings at a human scale around a Village Centre intended as the school's social and community core. The campus includes a 50-metre climate-controlled swimming pool, an indoor sports complex, FIFA-standard football pitches, shaded outdoor learning areas, and SE21 innovation workshops designed to combine STEAM subjects with entrepreneurship and digital skills.

The school is pursuing both LEED Gold and WELL Gold certification simultaneously, a dual accreditation that no other international school in Thailand has previously attempted. LEED addresses the environmental performance of the physical building; WELL covers the health and wellbeing of the people inside it. For a school whose leadership describes the campus as "the third teacher," the twin certification signals that the built environment is being treated as a deliberate pedagogical choice.

Leadership and early demand

Thomas Banyard, the Founding Head of College, leads a team that includes nine teachers drawn directly from other Dulwich schools worldwide. The school reportedly received more than 100 applications for every teaching post, suggesting that the stability and scale of an established international network is itself a significant draw for candidates in a competitive hiring market.

At Sixth Form level, the school plans to offer students a choice between A Levels and the IB Diploma, a dual pathway that remains uncommon in Bangkok's British-curriculum sector, where most operators have settled on one or the other. It positions the school to serve both the families whose eyes are on Russell Group universities and those prioritising American or broader international university admissions.

Tuition fees for the 2026 to 2027 academic year have not been published. Dulwich College, which traces its London foundation to 1619, is the most historically established British school name to enter the Thai market in this academic year, joining Wycombe Abbey Bangkok and Highgate International School Thailand, both of which also opened or began classes in 2026.