Srithammarat Suksa School
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Srithammarat Suksa School (Thai: โรงเรียนศรีธรรมราชศึกษา) is a private Christian school in Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand.
[edit] History
Srithammarat Suksa School was the first private school in Nakhon Si Thammarat. The school was built in 1901 by a group of American Presbyterian missionaries who came to Nakhon Si Thammarat in order to teach people about Christianity. Their leader at that time was Mr. Ekkles. In the early days, the school was called “The American School.” It was a small school and only boys were able to attend the classes. In 1941, the old name of the school was changed from “The American School for Boys” to Sithammaratwittaya School in order to suit the local social ethic. Over the course of the last 107 years the school has grown into a co-educational institution of more than 5000 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The school also features the only complete Kindergarten-to-High School English Program in Southern Thailand.
[edit] English Programme
The Srithammarat Suksa School English Program was started in 2000 and is one of the largest English Programs in the south of Thailand with students from Kindergarten 1 to Grade 11. More than 300 students study the majority of their subjects in English under a faculty of 25 native English speaking teachers from a wide variety of Western countries.
