British Family Moving to Malaysia - Looking for Affordable Schools

The British International School in KL is about the best fit academically. Check their busing arrangements to get an idea where it's possible to live. Pupils will come from a wide area in the Klang Valley to attend schools.

Just to put it in perspective, the https://www.expat.community in KL is 0.3% of the population so most schools are made up of Malaysian children. However there are plenty of British-trained teachers working in KL but they are spread around the top-ranking (most expensive) schools. The majority of international schools in Malaysia are British curriculum. Having said that, it's not exactly the same curriculum as in schools in the UK.

This article may help eliminate schools on cost-basis https://www.imoney.my/articles/10-most- … ang-valley

You may have found this website https://schooladvisor.my/

Do be aware there can be waiting lists at some schools for certain years. The terms have just begun here.

You may want to check out the international school at Desa Park City https://isp.edu.my/ and not on the most expensive list Sri KDU (which has had a lot of British teachers working there) https://schooladvisor.my/schools/sri-kd … al-school/

Together with Mont Kiara, DPC is another expat favourite area.

I would suggest thinking about your stay in Malaysia as a chance for your boys to learn Mandarin if possible

Member KiwinKL might be an interesting member here to DM https://www.expat.com/en/search/asia/malaysia/

KiwinKL wrote:

Hi - I recently put together a map showing the locations of (most) international schools in the city. This might be helpful to you?

https://goo.gl/Q6yt3k

Alice Smith is superb and certainly up there with the strongest British schools in the country. ISKL is also excellent. I'm sure your daughter would thrive in either school - I wouldn't probably consider BSKL due to the distance.

Feel free to PM me if you have any specific school questions or if I can help in any other way!

Thank you for the information Gravitas, I will look at these more closely.

What's affordable? Average International school fees in Asia are 30,000 usd per year per child. A decade ago expat contracts included school fees but now there is a growing market for self paid schools. Most are rubbish though. Anything under 10,000 usd per year in Malaysia will be a risky proposition. Most of the higher rate schools now have growing numbers of locals as expats thinning out.