Thread: schools in bali

Along with everyone else, we are looking to relocate to bali. hubby fi/fo worker.

I have two children, one of which will be starting year 11 next year, I am getting a little disheartened by the school fees!!! does anyone have any info on the schools in the sanur area???

thank you

Originally Posted by freetofly

Along with everyone else, we are looking to relocate to bali. hubby fi/fo worker.

I have two children, one of which will be starting year 11 next year, I am getting a little disheartened by the school fees!!! does anyone have any info on the schools in the sanur area???

thank you

you see by the quantity...of answers that this is a serious issue here in bali.


we all have kids and need playgroups and good schools.

school fees here make people move back to their own countries.......

for a good school, you need min 1000 dollar a month for a up to 10 year old child, no way avoiding this.

this does of course not including enrollment fees, books, food and uniforms.......


anybody who can opening a good and reasonalbe priced s chool here...???
Please no Montessori-Chic, we have already and they do not even reply phone calls, please no Steiner- Attitude, we have already close to Ubud and the school fee would kill normal people...please no sanur international with all people who think they are better than others.
a normal, nice friendly, western education based school with safe playground and gym hall would do.
anyone who would like to invest.._ do it,k school is going to be THE business HERE. just be fair...

I just started working at an International School in the Jimbaran area. While it's from perfect, we have a great team of experienced teachers from Canada, US, Scotland, Hungary, Australia and Indonesia. The fees are around $5000 a year for primary grades and slightly less for older ages.

I have 5 children from 6 - 16. Any ideas about cheaper schools? We have used local national schools in other countries. Has anyone had experience of using local schools in Bali (ie not international schools). I can not find any information on whether foreigners can enrol and what fees are?

Hi i have two kids 1-4 years old, a bit to go to school but Kindergarten would be nice, why we can not found our owen school and Kindergarten? Hire 1 or 2 Teacher and build a class with 4-5 kids.
Honestly i have no idea what is necessqary that kids later can study international, first we would need to understand the law i think. for example in germany kids have to go to school" in fance its allowed to teach kids yourself at home.

So how about indonesia? is it possible to hire private teacher? Cause one of the reasons we leave Germany is tha ti not want my kids in a public school, learning all this nonsens, I preffer, steiner way, but even this not enough, but better than the public schools in germany.
So any idea about this-. a school were kid can be kid..and use most time to play and do what is fun in live and what we made for not stress and pressure for getting mark a or 1.
thanks in advance

It sounds like there are some parents who are thinking about the schooling thing in the same regards as us. We have a nine and nearly 4 year old. It is likely we will send the nine year old to school, however the expected full time week and enormous fees are a big turnoff for kindergarten. The thing is I am a teacher and I can homeshool but I do not want my children to be isolated. However, in the younger years - the preschool years - I think it would be perfectly reasonable to run a little kindergarten from home for 5 or so children. I would be happy to do so - BUT I cannot even begin to understand the Visa logistics associated with this at this point - as I do not have a KITAS. If any one is interested please post. We arrive in january and in fact have not even decided which part of the island we are going to stay, but it is likely to be in the south. I will start making some general enquiries. Obviously it is a very loose idea at this point. I have experience teaching kindy to early highschool, I have also been involved with steiner a bit over the years - and I think that is lovely in the early years - but I'm pretty much two feet planted firmly on the ground type teacher.

By the way I am absolutely about play for children.

Hi noodle, i have just enrolled my 2 year old daughter in the West Coast Steiner School in Perth. What is your opinion of the Steiner methods?
I think you are on the right track in getting something happening in Bali, but paperwork and corruption might be the problem. Anyway, goodluck, hope it works out for you.

yes goldminer - that paper work thing looks incredibly complicated.....
As for steiner - I began my association with them when my nine year old son was two. We went to the playgroup at Bibra Lake Steiner and I loved it. Nine years ago my parenting style was a bit different - but I still think it is a beautiful magical reverent space that they create for younger children - and the whole point is not to hurry them in to a world of chaos - they'll get there soon enough! I am still involved with a steiner inspired playgroup with my younger son - in Geraldton. I have watched that grow from a once a week arrangement to having enough parents interested that it operates 5 days a week with a waiting list in just a few years!! Stieiner is wonderful in theory - keep level headed about it. Remember that if Mr Steiner was writing his philosphies today and he was Australian! his ideas might be a little different - avoid the cultish aspect that some people get immersed in. - it always bothered that all the animal toys were only european!
And if I did it all again I would still send my young children to steiner - just not sure it meets mine and my sons needs as they older. It is a very personal decision though.
Have a lovely time together at playgoup!