Director of Banglamung School, Noppadol
Luangonn, explains the criteria for students to apply to the school for
the 2014 academic year.
Urasin Khantaraphan
Banglamung School will reserve up to 20 percent of its seats to
impoverished children and those with exceptional talent in sports,
technology and the arts when applications open again in March.
Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome chaired the Feb. 10 meeting of the
Banglamung Basic Education Commission to set entrance guidelines for the
next school term. The committee set quotas for how many district
children will be taken, as well as levels of “special-consideration”
applicants.
Banglamung School is highly competitive as it has been selected for
international-level testing. Students graduating from Banglamung School
have been accepted in Thailand’s top 4 universities and the school has
maintained leading scores on the annual Ordinary National Education
Test.
Applications for the coming term will be taken March
20-24, with 500 new students taken for each Mattayom 1 and 5.
All applicants will have to pass the school’s entrance exam and meet
requirements. At least half the students will be taken from Banglamung
District while the balance of the desks will be open to non-residents.
Class sizes are extremely large, by international standards. Each of
Banglamung’s 10 classrooms will be filled by 50 students.
Up to 10 of the 50 desks can be filled by special-consideration
applicants. While students still need to meet all entrance requirements,
priority will be given to applicants with special skills in sports,
music, music, classical dance and technology. School officials argue
that such pupils will bring fame to the school from national and
international competitions.
Special consideration also will be given to
applicants who finished last in their class, who are impoverished, who
are children of teachers or school staff, or who are under the care of
the school’s financial benefactors.
Students in Mattayom 3 with grade-point averages higher than 2.0 will
pass to Mattayom 4. Those between 1.5 and 2.0 will be evaluated with
their talents in sports or other areas taken into consideration.
Mattayom 3 students from other areas wanting to apply to Banglamung
School will be selected thorough examinations, talent evaluation and
special conditions, which also applies for Mattayom 1 applicants.
Parents interested in sending their children to continue Mattayom 1 and
Mattayom 4 at Banglamung School located on Sukhumvit Road can call
038-221620-1, fax. 038-223500, 038-221377; email: banglamung2012@
gmail.com.
