ABOUT CREDRADAR
The school search I wish my mother had had.
What CredRadar is
CredRadar is an independent directory of Thailand's international schools — 189 schools now enrolling, from Bangkok and its metropolitan provinces to Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Hua Hin and Phuket, with a small number of closed schools kept as clearly marked historical records. It is free to read, and it is published in five languages — English, Chinese, Thai, Japanese and Korean — because the families comparing these schools do not all read the same one.
Independent
No school pays for inclusion or ranking.
Verified
Every fee carries a source and a check date.
Personal
Built and maintained in my spare time.
Who it is for
CredRadar is for two kinds of family: those searching from another country, trying to shortlist schools before a relocation trip, and those already living in Thailand who suspect there is a better fit — or a lower published fee — across town. Both need the same thing before they ever speak to a school: comparable facts they can check.
How the data works
Every fee in the directory is captured from the school's own published documents wherever they exist, and carries a source label: [O] for the school's official document, [A] for a named third-party aggregator, and [NV] where no figure could be verified — in which case we publish the label, not a guess. Each record shows the date it was last checked, and the school page quotes the published wording so you can audit any number back to its origin. Of the 189 schools listed, 111 publish fees we could verify against their own documents. Corrections from schools and parents are welcomed — and are published only after we have verified them against the school's own documents. A school cannot edit its own entry.
Every source, on the record.
School websites change. Fee pages get edited, PDFs get replaced, and last year's numbers are replaced. So whenever we record a figure, we archive the exact page it came from with the Wayback Machine — and keep our own copy. That record protects everyone: parents can see exactly what a school published, and schools are protected from outdated copies and second-hand errors circulating as fact. When a school updates its fees, we update ours and say so in our public changelog. Our corrections & right-of-reply policy explains how to report an error and how a school can reply.
Independence
Listing on CredRadar is free, and inclusion and ranking are never sold — to anyone, at any price. No school sponsors this site, and no school can pay to soften, move or remove a figure. CredRadar is a personal project and is not affiliated with any school, school group or government body.
My name is Thomas W. I was eleven years old when my mother brought me to Thailand to find me a school.
We came the long way round — Malaysia first, and Malaysia was the same ordeal in miniature: school by school, website by website, going in circles. Then Bangkok, and the same again, only bigger. We arrived with two suitcases, no Thai, nobody waiting for us, and a plan that fitted on a single page of a notebook: a list of school names copied off the internet, which we would visit one by one until one of them said yes.
The notebook turned out to be fiction. Schools had moved, or were spelled three different ways, or had become different schools. Most published no fees; the figure lived on a printed sheet in an office drawer, and you learned it standing at a desk with your child beside you, doing the arithmetic in your head while everyone politely waited. My mother did all of it through a translation app, phone held up like a shield — smiling, nodding, understanding perhaps half of what was said, and terrified of choosing wrong with no way to check.
The internet, which was supposed to settle the questions, added a second confusion. Information was everywhere, and it contradicted itself: parent comments split down the middle, one family praising a school that another family condemned, every school with something to recommend it. Piled together, it made your head want to explode. And language was a double wall — our English was weak too, not only our Thai — so most communication was effortful guesswork: half understood, half inferred, never certain which half mattered.
We spent weeks going from campus to campus. In the end we landed well, and I was lucky — lucky in the school, lucky in the teachers, lucky that my mother's stubbornness outlasted the confusion. But luck is not a plan, and a child's schooling should not depend on one parent's stamina.
Luck is not a plan. No family should need it just to choose a school.
Families still arrive in Bangkok every month and start the same rounds we made — the same office drawers, the same printed sheets, the same arithmetic at the desk. Nothing about it is secret, exactly. The information simply lives in documents that nobody had gathered into one place, side by side, where a parent can compare them.
So I gathered it. CredRadar is the directory we needed in that arrivals hall: every international school in Thailand we can verify, with the fee each school actually publishes — taken from the school's own documents rather than from anyone's opinion, labelled with its source, and stamped with the date it was checked. Where a school publishes nothing, the page says so, plainly. A gap you can see is honest; a guess dressed up as a number is not. That is why every figure on this site carries its evidence: eleven-year-old me could not check a school's claims, and no parent standing at that desk should have to take them on trust.
Contact
Write to [email protected] — corrections, questions and school news all land in the same inbox, and all of it gets read. Schools can also claim or correct their listing through the claim form, and parents can send an enquiry to any school from its page.