American Pacific International School is a privately owned, for profit boarding school in Chiang Mai, Thailand with a kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, and high school. The school operates on two campuses. American Pacific International Kindergarten (APIK) is in suburban Chiang Mai while the main boarding campus (MBC) is 25 kilometers from the city center. APIK has pre-nursery to grade 1 and the MBC has grades 1-12. It is a fee paying school, that opened in 1997, and makes annual tuition charges of 480,000 baht, or 12,800 USD.
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