The Best International Schools in Bali (2026 Fees and Comparison)
Bali has more than thirty international schools, ranging from a bamboo campus in the jungle to a forty-year-old IB school in Sanur. Annual fees run from about $800 at the smallest local schools to more than $18,000. The established international schools mostly sit between $4,500 and $17,950, and fees rise steeply with year group at every one of them. Here we try our best to set out for each school the cost, curriculum, and how to narrow down a few to a reasonable short list.
Where the schools are
You probably already know that along with Bangkok and Jakarta, Bali's traffic is one of the most congested in Asia. So schools and neighbourhoods are like their own little town. Happy people live near their school. The schools cluster in five areas.
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Canggu
Canggu Community School
The densest concentration of newer international schools, and the centre of gravity for younger foreign families. Traffic on the shortcut roads is a standing complaint.
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Denpasar
AIS (Australian Independent School)
The administrative centre, and home to several of the island’s longest-running schools. Denpasar schools draw a higher proportion of Indonesian families.
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Sanur
Bali Island School
Quieter, more established, older-skewing. Roughly 30–40 minutes from the airport outside peak hours.
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Ubud
The British School of Bali · Green School Bali
Inland, cooler, greener — increasingly popular with families who want distance from the coastal resort strip. Green School sits about 10 km south-west at Sibang.
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Uluwatu & the Bukit
A handful of small schools
The southern peninsula, with a small number of schools serving a spread-out surf and remote-work community.
School positions from OpenStreetMap and school addresses; area outlines are indicative, not administrative boundaries. Denpasar and the inland schools draw more Indonesian families; the coastal clusters skew foreign. Hover or tap an area to highlight it.
The schools
The profiles below cover the schools most commonly shortlisted by families relocating to Bali. For the full list see the comparison table.
The British School of Bali
Ubud. English National Curriculum, running from Pre-Nursery to Year 7. Class sizes are capped at 16 in Pre-Nursery and Nursery and 20 through Lower and Middle School. Annual fees $12,900 for Nursery and Reception, $13,450 for Years 1 to 6 and $15,150 for Year 7. Governed by The Schools Trust, with more than twenty years opening British schools all over the world.
Bali Island School
Sanur. Founded 1986. The island's oldest international school. It runs the complete IB continuum - PYP, MYP and the IB Diploma. Its published 2026–27 schedule runs from $4,300 for half-day Preschool to $18,500 for Grades 11 and 12, inclusive of the capital levy.
Green School Bali
Founded 2008. The bamboo campus on the Ayung river is quite unique. It teaches its own very progressive, sustainability-led curriculum. Fees $9,950–$18,250. The right school for a particular kind of family. Founded by John and Cynthia Hardy, it is now owned by EiM, a Singapore-based education group.
Canggu Community School
Accredited by CIS and WASC, offering the IB Diploma in the senior years. Its 2024 Diploma cohort averaged 32.23 points. Fees $8,250–$17,450. One of Bali's larger international schools.
AIS
Part of the AIS group with a sister campus in Jakarta. Teaches the Australian curriculum alongside IB. Preschool to Year 12. Fees $4,600–$14,200.
Compare every school
| School | Area | Curriculum | Ages | |
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| Green School Bali | Abiansemal | School-designed | 3–18 | $9,950–$18,250 |
| Bali Island School | Sanur | IB (PYP/MYP/DP) | 3–18 | $4,300–$18,500 |
| Canggu Community School | Canggu | British / IB | 3–18 | $8,250–$17,450 |
| AIS Indonesia Bali | Denpasar | Australian / IB | 3–18 | $4,600–$14,200 |
| The British School of Bali | Ubud | British | 2–12 | $12,900–$15,150 |
| ProEd Global School | — | British | 3–19 | $4,950–$11,750 |
| Montessori School Bali | — | Montessori | 1–15 | $8,150–$10,900 |
| Uluwatu School | Uluwatu | International | 6–14 | $8,350–$10,100 |
| Future Human School Bali | Ubud | Project-based | 9–17 | $10,000 |
| Gandhi Memorial Intercontinental | — | British / IB | 3–18 | $4,250–$9,900 |
| Lycée Français de Bali | — | French | 2–18 | $3,300–$8,800 |
| Marigold Community Learning | — | British | 3–12 | $4,600–$8,250 |
| Dyatmika School | Denpasar | International / Indonesian | 3–18 | $2,650–$8,250 |
| Spark Bali | Ubud | British / project-based | 12–18 | $5,900–$7,950 |
| Grow in Kedungu | Kedungu | British | 4–12 | $6,450–$7,850 |
| Bhumi Bali School | — | British | 3–12 | $3,650–$7,150 |
| Sunrise School Bali | — | International | 2–14 | $3,100–$7,100 |
| Pelangi School | Ubud | International | 2–14 | $3,900–$6,550 |
| Sekolah Montessori ERDKINDER | Ubud | Montessori | 3–15 | $3,900–$6,550 |
| Amed Honeycomb School | Amed | British | 2–16 | $3,050–$5,300 |
| Skyhawk Academy | Buwit | British | 4–18 | $4,550 |
| Sanur Independent School | Sanur | British | 2–15 | $1,250–$4,400 |
| Sekolah Stella Mundi | — | British | 2–15 | $1,650–$4,200 |
| Bilingual Community School | — | British / Indonesian | 1–12 | $3,050–$3,750 |
| Joglo Clubhouse School | — | International | 4–11 | $3,450 |
| Singaraja Montessori School | Singaraja | Montessori | 3–12 | $900–$1,050 |
| Enlight Christian School | — | American / Christian | 2–15 | $800–$1,300 |
Fees are the most recent published by each school at time of writing and include compulsory annual levies. Obviously do check directly with individual schools. Converted at Rp 17,845 to US$1. Some schools set different fees for Indonesian nationals.
Curriculum options
Six curricula are taught on the island.
British - The English National Curriculum
Like most of the (international school) world the most popular curriculum is the English National Curriculum. This is of course the curriculum taught at The British School of Bali and around a dozen smaller schools. It leads to IGCSEs and A Levels, and is probably the most popular avenue for overseas pupils to enter universities in the UK, USA, Australia and other destinations.
International Baccalaureate
The full IB continuum runs Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma. Bali Island School offers all three. Canggu Community School offers the Diploma in the senior years.
Australian
AIS Indonesia teaches the Australian curriculum alongside IB.
Bilingual and dual-curriculum
Dyatmika, SLK, Gandhi Memorial and Bilingual Community School run an international programme alongside Indonesian national provision. Their intake leans local and bilingual rather than expat.
Montessori
Montessori School Bali, Singaraja Montessori and Sekolah Montessori ERDKINDER.
School-designed programmes
Green School runs its own curriculum, built around sustainability. It is deliberately loose compared with a British or IB school.
