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Phnom Penh is home to 42 international schools, offering families a range of curricula and price points to choose from.
Compare 4 international schools in Phnom penh, Cambodia. Filter by curriculum, fees (average KHR 30,331,605), location, and more to find the right international school now.
The École Française Internationale de Phnom Penh (EFI) Bassac Garden Campus provides a bilingual education for early learners, blending the French Ministry of National Education programs with Cambridge International standards. Set in a quiet neighborhood within the Tonle Bassac area, this campus focuses on Nursery and Pre-Kindergarten students. The school operates a unique "two teachers per class" co-teaching model, where students learn simultaneously in French and English from native speakers. Children explore their surroundings in an outdoor garden equipped with age-appropriate obstacle courses, a sandbox, and a dedicated shallow swimming pool. In addition to daily language immersion, students are introduced to a third language, either Khmer or Mandarin from age four. By sharing this campus with the Canadian International School, EFI offers a highly international environment with over 30 nationalities, ensuring students receive highly customized attention through strictly maintained low-enrollment classes.
École Française Internationale de Phnom Penh (EFI) operates its primary, middle, and high school cycles on the Koh Pich campus. The school is distinct for its bilingual immersion program utilizing two native-speaking teachers simultaneously per classroom, delivering lessons in both French and English. Parents select between the International stream, which features a sixty-forty language ratio, or the French stream. The academic structure merges the French National Education framework alongside Cambridge Assessment International Education, preparing older students directly for the French National Diploma, Cambridge IGCSEs, and A-Levels. Located on a three-hectare site, this specific campus provides an amphitheater with six hundred seats, a twenty-five-meter swimming pool, two full sports halls, a fitness room, two school restaurants, and two libraries. Co-curricular options offer basketball, badminton, swimming, judo, philosophy, and drama club, ensuring structured opportunities for student exploration outside regular lessons. For students who achieve dual-language fluency, a third elective path in Khmer or Mandarin Chinese is officially provided.
Lycée Français René Descartes (LFRD) is an AEFE‑homologated French school in Phnom Penh, founded in 1951. It provides French national curriculum teaching from maternelle through terminale and runs a Section Internationale Américaine (SIA) with options leading to the Baccalauréat Français International (BFI). The school's language pathways include daily Khmer lessons and instruction/support in English, Spanish and Chinese; the SIA offers additional English‑language instruction. In September 2023 LFRD opened a small internat (boarding house) for élèves de 3ème à terminale (capacity up to 15); boarders are transported to/from school each day by the internat shuttles. Annual tuition (2025–2026) ranges from USD 5,526 (primary, French/Cambodian nationality rate) up to USD 9,855 (lycée, other nationalities). The school publishes details on fees, language pathways, SIA and the internat on its website.
NIRA International School is an international day school in Phnom Penh at 17B Street 105, Sangkat Toul Sangke, Khan Russey Keo. The Early Years Centre uses the International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC) while Primary and Lower Secondary follow the Cambridge Pathway; the school states its Cambridge programme is integrated with Cambridge IGCSE and A Level programmes and, from Grade 1, families may choose a dual route combining Cambridge with either the Cambodian national curriculum or the school's French programme (Label FrancEducation). The campus is arranged around a central garden and lists a swimming pool, sports court/complex, library, music room, computer suite (with a lunchtime computer club) and a science laboratory. The school publishes an admissions process that includes an observational assessment and orientation support for new families, and it offers personalised campus tours by appointment.
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