RIS Swiss Section – Deutschsprachige Schule Bangkok
Min Buri, Bangkok · Est. 1963
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- Open jobs at this school
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- Students
- 300
- Established
- 1963
- Curriculum
- Swiss and German curricula (German-English bilingual Swiss Matura; German secondary tracks)
About this school
RIS Swiss Section – Deutschsprachige Schule Bangkok was founded in 1963 as a non-profit school and was the first German-speaking school in Thailand, as well as the first school in the country approved by the Swiss government. It received German government support from 1970 and in 1981 became the German-speaking section of Ruamrudee International School (RIS). In 2022 it received the award for excellent German schools abroad.
The school teaches Swiss and German curricula from nursery to Grade 12, with Early Years, Primary and Secondary sections. Secondary students follow Gymnasium, Realschule or Hauptschule tracks and can switch between them; Grade 12 leads to the bilingual German-English Swiss Matura, first offered in Bangkok in 1995. German and English are the main languages, with Thai, French and Spanish also taught.
About 300 students from some 30 nationalities attend, around 80% of teachers come from German-speaking countries, and about 80% of graduates continue to higher education in German-speaking countries. The school shares the secure 81,600 square-metre RIS campus on Ramkhamhaeng 184 in Min Buri and offers boarding, transport and after-school programmes.
