ABOUT CREDRADAR

The school search I wish my mother had had.

My name is Thomas W. When I was eleven, my mother took me out of our old life and brought me to Thailand to find a school. We had tried Malaysia first. Then we landed in Bangkok — no Thai between us, no one we knew, one phone running translation software, and a notebook of school names that never quite matched what we found at the gate.

We spent weeks going from campus to campus. Fees that weren't published anywhere. Curricula we had to decode word by word. Deadlines that lived only in someone's office. We got there in the end, and I was lucky — but luck is not a plan, and no family should need it just to choose a school.

Luck is not a plan, and no family should need it just to choose a school.

Parents still arrive in Bangkok every month and do exactly what we did. So I built the thing we needed back then: every international school in Thailand in one place, with the fees schools actually charge, the source behind every number, and the date it was last checked. If a figure can't be verified, the page says so — no decoration, no guesses.

CredRadar is an independent project I run in my spare time. It is not affiliated with any school, and no school can pay to be listed or ranked higher. Corrections from parents and schools are not just welcome — they are the point.

— Thomas W., founder