Sarasas Witaed Suksa School

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Sarasas Witaed Suksa School is a private school in Thailand and the 12th school in the Sarasas group. It was started by Mr. Piboon and Mrs. Pen Sri Yongkamol. The school began on 5 rai 48 square wah of land. Construction ran from October 1996 to May 1997. At first, there was a single 72-meter building, and in 1999 six more floors were added.

The campus was later expanded to 8 rai 378 square wah to build a swimming pool. Indoor parking, a canteen, and a second building were added in 2006. The area in front of the first building was turned into a pond to make space for a third building, a football field, and an outdoor car park to serve more students and staff. Today the school covers a total area of 13 rai 1 ngan 26 square meters.

Sarasas Witaed Suksa School is the third Sarasas school to offer a Bilingual Program. This program teaches English, mathematics, life experience, music, and computing using English materials and foreign teachers, along with Thai. It follows the Ministry of Education’s child-centered approach and now offers an international education program (IEP) for Kindergarten 3 and grades 1–6.

Since 1996, the school has tested bilingual methods with Sarasas Prachauthitpittayakhan School for Kindergarten 3 to grade 2. Three classrooms for about 90 students were built at Sarasas Witaed Suksa. In 1997, there were 469 bilingual students (K3–Grade 5) and 360 in the general department, totaling 829 students, with 35 Thai teachers and 12 foreign teachers.

Building 1, completed in 1997, is a 6-storey building used for grades 1–5. It has a computer room, music rooms, a laboratory, a library, and rooms for the director, hospital, cafeteria, and a meeting hall on the sixth floor. Building 2, completed in 2000, is a 5-storey building for Kindergarten to Grade 3, with halls, dining rooms, teachers’ rooms, laboratories, and cooking rooms. The fifth floor has a large meeting room that runs the length of the building and is used for storage and activities.