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Da Nang school fees: which costs belong in a family budget?

By the Vietnam Expat team. Last reviewed 2026-09-22

Da Nang school fees run from 50,000 to 100,000 dong a month at a public school before any tuition waiver is applied [2], to 663,575,000 dong a year at an international school [8]. Extra fees sit on top, and most family budgets we checked never price any of it.

Key facts

Who this is for: Families in Da Nang weighing public school, now carrying a tuition waiver for many households, against international schools such as SIS, HAIS, Odyssey and APU.
Cost: 50,000 to 100,000 dong a month in public school tuition before any waiver is applied, with Da Nang's 100 percent support voted for 2023 to 2024 and a national waiver for Vietnamese citizens from 2025 to 2026. International tuition runs 130,000,000 dong a year per child at Hoi An's HAIS to 663,575,000 in Da Nang itself, 420 to 2,142 US dollars a month, before one-time and yearly extras.
Time: A full school year to see every recurring extra a fee sheet does not itemize.
Documents: Each school's own 2026 to 2027 fee sheet for the exact tuition and fee lines. We found no published list of enrollment documents, for public or international school; ask the specific school what it requires.
What changed recently: Da Nang reset its public fee schedule under Resolution 47/2025/NQ-HDND for school year 2025 to 2026. Every international school fee sheet cited here is dated for 2026 to 2027.
What is still unverified: Whether a child with only a foreign passport qualifies for the tuition waiver, what Vietnamese-language level a specific public school requires before admission, and Da Nang's own current student health insurance premium.

What do Da Nang school fees cover, beyond tuition?

Three kinds of money make up a Da Nang school budget: tuition, one-time fees due before the first day, and yearly extras that never appear in the headline tuition figure. We priced each kind below, from fee sheets and government sources, because one tuition number rarely tells the full school-year cost.

The Dragon Bridge in Da Nang lit up at night over the Han River

Public school and international school sit at opposite ends. A ward-level public tuition rate is 60,000 to 100,000 dong a month under Da Nang's current fee schedule [2].

An international school runs from 130,000,000 dong a year at Hoi An's HAIS to 663,575,000 in Da Nang itself, before deposits, registration and fees a sheet does not itemize [7][8][9][10][11][12].

Is public school free for a family in Da Nang?

For most Vietnamese citizen households, close to it. Da Nang's People's Council voted 100 percent tuition support, at that year's public fee schedule, for public and non-public general education in the 2023 to 2024 school year, two years before a national policy matched it [3].

The national tuition waiver, Resolution 217/2025/QH15, joined it from school year 2025 to 2026, funded from the state budget with central support for provinces that cannot cover it alone [5].

That national resolution states who it covers: Vietnamese citizens and persons of Vietnamese descent with unidentified nationality, living in Vietnam [5]. The underlying framework funds full exemption at public institutions and only a support level, not full tuition, at non-public and private ones [4].

SIS, HAIS, Odyssey and APU publish their own tuition, shown in the tables below, and we found no source stating how much of that support, if any, reaches a family paying it [7][8][9][10][11][12].

Da Nang's own resolution setting the local fee schedule, Resolution 47/2025/NQ-HĐND of 11 December 2025, defines who it covers by school type and level, not by a nationality test, in the portion we read [2].

We found no source stating plainly whether a foreign-passport child pays the standard 50,000 to 100,000 dong schedule or nothing at all [2]. That gap is worth confirming with the specific school and a licensed adviser before a family budgets around it.

Without any support, Da Nang's standard public tuition schedule looks like this.

Level [2]	Ward rate, dong a month	Commune rate, dong a month
Preschool and primary.	95,000	50,000
Lower secondary.	60,000	50,000
Upper secondary.	100,000	100,000

Source: Da Nang city government portal, Resolution 47/2025/NQ-HĐND, read 2026-09-22 [2]. Rates apply from school year 2025 to 2026, and the national ceiling behind them may rise up to 7.5 percent a year from 2026 to 2027 [4].

Even at the full standard rate, with no support at all, Da Nang public primary school's monthly rate runs about 235 times lower than SIS's cheapest integrated tuition band works out to per month: 95,000 dong against 22,333,250 dong for SIS's Year 1 to 3 price [2][7].

Can a foreign child enroll in a Da Nang public school?

Enrollment and the fee waiver are two different questions, and we could confirm only the second one from official sources. A school placement guide reports that foreign children join as self-financed students under a Ministry of Education circular, and that a child without Vietnamese proficiency completes a pre-enrollment language course before a formal assessment.

We read that claim on a secondary guide, not the circular's own text, so treat it as a starting point rather than a confirmed rule. A specific Da Nang public school, or the city's Department of Education and Training, is the only reliable source for whether a given child qualifies and what language level that school requires.

What does a Da Nang international school charge in yearly tuition?

Published tuition across the five programs we checked, four in Da Nang and HAIS in Hoi An, spans from 130,000,000 to 663,575,000 dong a year [7][8][9][10][11][12], and the band names differ by school, so compare the lowest and highest published figure at each one rather than assuming the levels line up.

School	Lowest published band, dong a year	Highest published band, dong a year
HAIS [9].	130,000,000	510,000,000
SIS integrated [7].	267,999,000	306,697,000
APU [11][12].	249,480,000	597,366,000
Odyssey [10].	208,000,000	598,000,000
SIS international [8].	528,283,000	663,575,000

Source: each school's own fee sheet for 2026 to 2027 [7][8][9][10][11][12], read 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-22. Bands are the lowest and highest full-year prices we found on each sheet, at whatever grade they sit.

SIS runs an integrated program, taught alongside a Vietnamese partner school, and a fully international one. The gap is large: 528,283,000 dong buys the international program's Year 1 to 3 seat, against 267,999,000 for the same years in the integrated program [7][8].

SIS's integrated sheet also lists 32,866,000 to 37,941,000 dong a year collected on behalf of its Vietnamese partner school, and does not say whether tuition already includes it [7].

What one-time fees hit before the first day?

SIS, Odyssey and APU each publish charges due before day one, on top of the first year's tuition, and the total differs sharply by school.

School	One-time fees	Total, dong
SIS international.	Placement test 2,940,000, registration 21,500,000, deposit 15,000,000 [8].	39,440,000
SIS integrated.	Placement test 2,940,000, registration 8,600,000, deposit 8,000,000 [7].	19,540,000
Odyssey.	Application 5,000,000, enrollment 20,000,000 from Grade 1 [10].	25,000,000
APU, middle and high.	Application 4,500,000, deposit 30,000,000 [12].	34,500,000

Source: each school's own fee sheet [7][8][10][12], read 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-22. We recorded no one-time fee line for HAIS, so ask the school directly.

SIS's integrated program's one-time total, 19,540,000 dong, equals 87.5 percent, just under a full month, of that program's own monthly tuition rate [7]. A family choosing SIS's international program instead pays roughly double the one-time total for a program that also costs about twice as much a month.

What extra fees repeat every year on top of tuition?

These yearly extras showed up on the fee sheets we read, and none of them is folded into the headline tuition figure. SIS's integrated sheet also lists a partner-school collection, covered above, without saying whether tuition includes it [7].

Fee	School	Amount, dong a year
English as a Foreign Language.	SIS international [8].	38,700,000
Campus and school development.	Odyssey [10].	25,000,000
English as an Additional Language support.	Odyssey [10].	25,000,000
Facility fee.	APU, middle and high [12].	15,000,000
School bus, by distance band.	Odyssey [10].	13,000,000 to 26,000,000

Source: each school's own fee sheet [8][10][12], read 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-22. SIS's own sheet prices no meal, uniform, book pack or transport fee, and tells parents to ask the school office directly [8].

Outside international schools, student health insurance follows a national formula: 4.5 percent of the government's base salary a year, shared between the student and a state subsidy. A September 2022 explainer put the student's 70 percent share at 563,220 dong, using that year's 1,490,000 dong base salary and a 30 percent state subsidy [6].

Both inputs have since changed: the base salary rose to 2,530,000 dong a month from 1 July 2026, and a 2025 decree raised the state's minimum share to 50 percent [15][16]. The same formula now gives a 1,366,200 dong premium for 2026 to 2027, the student's share 683,100 dong [17].

The 2022 explainer also treats a uniform as a parent-organized purchase with no set fee [6]. We found no Da Nang-specific premium published, so a family should confirm the current figure with its own school rather than assume the national number applies unchanged.

Does paying by term cost more than paying for the year?

At all four schools we checked, yes. SIS's international program costs 581,112,000 dong across four termly payments against 528,283,000 for one payment, a 10 percent gap that repeats on its integrated program [7][8].

HAIS adds 5 percent for two payments and 10 percent for four. APU adds 8 percent for two semester payments [9][11]. Odyssey's own Grade 11 and 12 table adds up to 627,900,000 dong across four termly payments against 598,000,000 for one annual payment [10].

School	Cost of paying by installment
SIS, both programs [7][8].	10 percent more than one annual payment.
HAIS [9].	5 percent more for two payments, 10 percent for four.
APU [11].	8 percent more for two semester payments.
Odyssey [10].	5 percent less for annual, 2 percent less for semester, against termly.

Source: each school's own fee sheet [7][8][9][10][11], read 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-24. Odyssey's sheet is the one that markets the gap as a discount off the termly rate instead of a surcharge on the annual rate, the same direction as the other three schools.

HAIS also ran early bird discounts on top of its installment rules for the 2026 to 2027 year: 10 percent off tuition for enrolling by 15 May 2026, and 5 percent by 30 June 2026 [9], both dates already past. Ask HAIS directly whether a similar window opens for the next school year before ruling it out.

Do Da Nang international schools discount a second child?

Odyssey publishes a sibling discount, at 7.5 percent off a second child's tuition and 20 percent off the third and later [10]. HAIS and APU's pages carry no sibling line, which shows what each page prices, not whether a school might negotiate privately.

Without a discount, a second child doubles the line. Two children at SIS's integrated program, Year 1 to 3, add up to 44,666,500 dong a month between them [7].

Is the advertised Da Nang family budget missing school fees?

Usually, yes. A Da Nang cost of living for family estimate you find online rarely folds a school cost into its headline number, so we checked two general Da Nang cost of living guides against their own numbers. Nomads.com lists a nomad figure first, then expat, then family, and prices its school line separately from all three [13].

BaseDanang also leads with a solo digital nomad's budget, adding only an open-ended range for families with no school line of its own.

Guide	What it leads with	What it says about family and school
Nomads.com [13].	A nomad figure first, about 919 dollars a month, then expat, then family.	Family figure about 2,180 dollars a month. Prices "international school" separately at about 15,133 dollars a year, with no line joining it to any of the three.
BaseDanang [14].	A solo digital nomad's budget, 750 to 2,000 dollars a month across three tiers.	Its opening line only says families should budget 2,500 to 4,000 dollars or more, "depending on school fees," with no tier breakdown of its own.

Source: Nomads.com [13], rechecked 2026-09-29 against its own live currency conversion, and BaseDanang [14], read 2026-09-22, against the fee sheets and Vietcombank's rate. Dollar figures for the schools use 25,820 dong per dollar [1].

Add Nomads.com's own school figure to its own family figure and the monthly total rises from 2,180 to about 3,441 dollars, a jump of roughly 58 percent that its family figure alone never shows [13].

BaseDanang's own family caveat spans 2,500 to 4,000 dollars or more a month, a 1,500 dollar swing it attributes to school fees, without breaking that swing into tiers the way its solo budget does [14].

Treat any advertised Da Nang family budget the way we treat these two: check whether its headline number carries a school line at all, and if not, add one of the figures on this page before comparing it with your own household.

What is still unclear about a Da Nang school budget?

Two questions matter most and neither has a clean public answer yet. First, whether a child holding a foreign passport qualifies for Da Nang's tuition support or the national waiver, since the national resolution names Vietnamese citizens and persons of Vietnamese descent with unidentified nationality, and Da Nang's own resolution does not repeat that test in the portion we read.

Second, what Vietnamese-language level a public school requires before admitting a foreign child, since our only source there is a secondary guide, not the underlying circular. Confirm both questions directly with the school, and bring in a licensed adviser if the school cannot give a clear answer, before you commit.

For the rest of a Da Nang household's monthly numbers, from rent to groceries to getting around, the rest of our Da Nang cost breakdown lines them up with the same tariffs and fee sheets used here.

What we could not verify

Whether a foreign passport holder's child qualifies for Da Nang's tuition support or the national waiver. The national resolution names Vietnamese citizens and persons of Vietnamese descent with unidentified nationality. Da Nang's own resolution, which sets the fee schedule and the support level together, defines coverage by school type and level in the text we read, not by nationality. Confirm your child's status with the school and a licensed adviser.
Whether a foreign child can be admitted to a specific Da Nang public school, and what Vietnamese-language level or preparation course that school or the city's education department requires. Our only source describing a language condition is a secondary guide, not the underlying circular text.
SIS's meal, uniform, book pack and transport prices. Its fee sheets price none of them and direct parents to the school office instead.
Whether SIS's integrated program tuition already includes the 32,866,000 to 37,941,000 dong a year collected on behalf of its Vietnamese partner school, or whether that sits on top.
HAIS and APU's bus fees. Neither publishes one that we could find, and neither does SIS, whose fee sheet tells parents to ask the school office instead of listing a price.
Da Nang's own current student health insurance premium. We found the current national formula, a 1,366,200 dong a year premium split evenly between the student (683,100 dong) and a state subsidy for school year 2026 to 2027, but no Da Nang-specific figure published.
Whether HAIS or APU offer a sibling discount. Neither publishes one, which does not confirm that neither has one.

Frequently asked questions

How much is Da Nang public school tuition if a family does not qualify for the waiver?

Da Nang's own fee schedule, set in December 2025, charges 95,000 dong a month for preschool and primary in wards, 60,000 for lower secondary and 100,000 for upper secondary. Communes charge 50,000 across the younger levels. That is the standard rate before any tuition support is applied.

Does every child in Da Nang get free public school?

Not automatically. Da Nang's People's Council voted 100 percent tuition support, at that year's public fee schedule, for public and non-public general education in the 2023 to 2024 school year, and the national waiver joined it from 2025 to 2026. The national resolution names Vietnamese citizens and persons of Vietnamese descent with unidentified nationality as who it covers.

Can a foreign passport holder's child get Da Nang's tuition waiver?

We could not confirm this either way. The national resolution's test is Vietnamese descent with unidentified nationality or Vietnamese citizenship, while Da Nang's own resolution defines coverage by school type and level instead. Confirm your child's status directly with the school and a licensed adviser before counting on it.

Which is the cheapest Da Nang international school we found?

Hoi An International School, in Hoi An not Da Nang, is lowest at the two bands we compared: 130,000,000 dong a year for Discovery, and 255,000,000 for Year 1 to 2, below SIS's integrated program at 267,999,000 for Year 1 to 3. Match the same grade, and weigh HAIS's commute against its lower tuition.

What is the most expensive tuition band at a Da Nang international school?

The second A Level year in SIS's international program costs 663,575,000 dong a year, the highest single figure we found on any published Da Nang fee sheet. Odyssey's Grades 11 and 12 and APU's Grade 11 and 12 both sit closer to 598 million.

What one-time fees does SIS charge to enroll a child?

SIS's international program totals 39,440,000 dong in compulsory one-time fees: a 2,940,000 placement test, 21,500,000 registration and a 15,000,000 deposit. Its integrated program totals 19,540,000, with the same placement test but lower registration and deposit amounts.

Is health insurance included in a Da Nang school's tuition?

SIS's international sheet does not price insurance, and we found no insurance line on the other schools' fee sheets. A base salary rise lifted the 2026 to 2027 national premium to 1,366,200 dong; a 2025 rise in the state's share cut the student's part to 683,100. Da Nang's own figure is unpublished, so confirm with the school.

Are school uniforms part of the tuition price?

No. Vietnamese rules leave uniforms to parents to buy or arrange, and a school may not charge for one without agreement. SIS's international fee sheet prices no meal, uniform or book pack fee and sends parents to the school office instead.

Does paying SIS tuition by term cost more than paying for the year?

Yes, by 10 percent. SIS's four termly payments for its international program add up to 581,112,000 dong against 528,283,000 for one annual payment, and its integrated program shows the same 10 percent gap. HAIS and APU also charge more for installments, by 5 to 10 percent and 8 percent.

Does any Da Nang international school reward paying in one payment instead?

Yes, every school does, in effect: paying the year at once costs less than installments everywhere we checked. Odyssey prices its annual tuition 5 percent below the termly total and 2.8 percent below the semester total, framed as a discount. SIS, HAIS and APU instead add a surcharge for installments: the same direction, a different label.

Do Da Nang international schools discount a second child?

Odyssey publishes one: 7.5 percent off a second child's tuition and 20 percent off the third and later. HAIS and APU publish none on the fee pages we read, which is not the same as confirming neither offers one, and we recorded no sibling line for SIS either way.

How much does Odyssey charge for its school bus?

Odyssey prices its bus by distance, from 13,000,000 dong a year up to 5 kilometers to 26,000,000 for 15 to 20 kilometers. SIS prices no bus fee at all and tells parents to ask the school office directly. HAIS and APU publish no bus price we could find either.

Does an advertised Da Nang family cost of living figure include school fees?

Often not. One guide lists a family's cost of living at about 2,180 US dollars a month and, separately, an international school line at about 15,133 dollars a year, with no line connecting the two. Another only warns that families should budget 2,500 to 4,000 dollars or more, depending on school fees.

How much more does a second child at an international school add to a Da Nang budget?

At SIS's integrated program, a second child in the same Year 1 to 3 band adds another 22,333,250 dong a month, doubling that single line to 44,666,500. Odyssey is the only school here we found publishing a sibling discount.

Sources

Vietcombank, published exchange rate feed, 2026-09-21. US dollar transfer buying rate 25,820 dong, feed stamp 22 September 2026, 05:39 Vietnam time.
Da Nang city government portal (danang.gov.vn), report on Resolution 47/2025/NQ-HDND, 2026-09-22. Resolution 47/2025/NQ-HDND, dated 11 December 2025, sets Da Nang's public preschool and primary tuition at 95,000 dong a month in wards and 50,000 in communes, lower secondary at 60,000 and 50,000, and upper secondary at 100,000 in both, from school year 2025 to 2026. The resolution's stated scope names school type and level, not a nationality test.
Vietnam Government News (Chinhphu.vn), report of 20 July 2023, 2026-09-22. Da Nang's People's Council voted 100 percent tuition support, at the 2023 to 2024 public fee schedule, for preschool children and students at public and non-public general education schools, from the 2023 to 2024 school year, two years before the national policy.
Vietnam Government News (Chinhphu.vn), explainer on Decree 238/2025/ND-CP, 2026-09-22. The tuition ceiling framework funds full exemption at public institutions and a support level, not full tuition, at non-public and private ones. From school year 2026 to 2027, the ceiling itself may rise by up to 7.5 percent a year.
VietnamNet, reporting the National Assembly's Resolution 217/2025/QH15, 2026-09-22. Resolution 217/2025/QH15 takes effect from the date the National Assembly passed it, 26 June 2025, and applies from the 2025 to 2026 school year. It waives tuition for Vietnamese citizens and persons of Vietnamese descent with unidentified nationality studying in the national education system, funded from the state budget, with central support for provinces that cannot balance their own budgets.
Vietnam Government Portal, explainer on start-of-year school fees, 2026-09-22. Published 14 September 2022: student health insurance is calculated as that year's 1,490,000 dong base salary times 4.5 percent times 70 percent times 12 months, 563,220 dong a year, a figure since superseded by base salary and subsidy changes; uniforms carry no set fee and schools may not force a purchase, under Circular 26/2009/TT-BGDDT; meals, boarding and dual-session classes are local, voluntary fees that must be agreed with parents in writing.
Singapore International School at Da Nang, fee structure for the integrated program, school year 2026 to 2027, 2026-09-21. Yearly tuition 267,999,000 dong in Year 1 to 3, 269,254,000 in Year 4 to 5 and 306,697,000 in Year 6 to 9; placement test 2,940,000, registration 8,600,000 and deposit 8,000,000 dong; a further 32,866,000 to 37,941,000 dong a year is collected on behalf of the Vietnamese partner school.
Singapore International School at Da Nang, fee structure for the international program, school year 2026 to 2027, 2026-09-21. Yearly tuition from 528,283,000 dong in Year 1 to 3 to 663,575,000 in the second A Level year; placement test 2,940,000, registration 21,500,000 and deposit 15,000,000 dong; termly payment totals 581,112,000 dong, 10 percent more than paying the year in one payment; English as a Foreign Language fee 38,700,000 a year; meals, uniform, books and transport are priced only on request to the school office.
Hoi An International School (HAIS), tuition and fees page, 2026-09-21. Annual payment for 2026 to 2027 runs from 130,000,000 dong for Discovery to 510,000,000 for Year 12 and 13; two payments carry a 5 percent surcharge and four a 10 percent surcharge; early bird discounts of 10 percent by 15 May 2026 and 5 percent by 30 June 2026.
Odyssey International School, Da Nang, tuition and fees page for school year 2026 to 2027, 2026-09-21. Annual tuition, marked 5 percent below termly payment, runs from 208,000,000 dong for Junior Kindy to 598,000,000 for Grades 11 and 12; application fee 5,000,000, enrollment fee 20,000,000 from Grade 1, campus and school development fee 25,000,000 a year; sibling discount 7.5 percent for a second child and 20 percent from the third; bus service 13,000,000 to 26,000,000 dong a year by distance band.
APU International School, pre and elementary tuition and fees 2026 to 2027, 2026-09-22. Annual tuition paid in full: pre-school 249,480,000 dong; two semester payments cost 8 percent more than paying the year in full.
APU International School, middle and high school tuition and fees 2026 to 2027, 2026-09-22. Annual tuition paid in full, Grades 11 and 12, 597,366,000 dong; application fee 4,500,000, facility fee 15,000,000 a year and deposit 30,000,000 dong.
Nomads.com, Da Nang cost of living page, 2026-09-29. Its cost of living table lists a nomad figure first, about 919 US dollars a month, then expat, then family, about 2,180 US dollars a month. A separate International school line, priced at about 15,133 US dollars a year, sits later in the same table with no line connecting it to any of the three. All figures come from the page's own live currency conversion, so they move day to day, not fixed prices.
BaseDanang, Da Nang cost of living guide, 2026-06-23. Its quick answer states families should budget 2,500 to 4,000 dollars a month or more, depending on school fees, while its lean, comfortable and upgraded tiers price a solo digital nomad's budget at 750 to 2,000 dollars a month, with no family or school line inside them.
Vietnam Government News (Chinhphu.vn), report on Decree 161/2026/ND-CP, 2026-09-29. Decree 161/2026/ND-CP, dated 15 May 2026, raises the national base salary used in benefit formulas to 2,530,000 dong a month, effective 1 July 2026.
Vietnam Government Portal, explainer on Decree 188/2025/ND-CP, 2026-09-29. Decree 188/2025/ND-CP raises the state's minimum health insurance subsidy for students from 30 to 50 percent of the premium, effective 1 July 2025, which set the school year 2025 to 2026 student premium at 631,800 dong.
Suc Khoe va Doi Song, explainer on the school year 2026 to 2027 student health insurance rate, 2026-09-29. Using the 2,530,000 dong base salary, the school year 2026 to 2027 premium is 1,366,200 dong a year; the student's 50 percent share is 683,100 dong, matched by an equal state subsidy.