History of Ampornpaisarn

Ampornpaisarn Anusorn school was founded in 1957, but actually,the school was initiated on the 26th November 1956 at the sudden decease of Major Luang Ampornpaisarn (Krishna Puranasamriddhi) the spouse of Than Phu Ying Yoswadi Ampornpaisarn, the present owner and director of Ampornpaisarn school in Pakkred Nontaburi, to commemorate the memory of the owner's husband and while away the grief of the unexpected loss and also to resume her teaching career as she started to teach English at the age of nineteen. She decided to buy Voravuth Vitayalai school which had just come on sale, from M C Suntharnthida Voravuth situated at Pra-arthit Road Bangkok with a small compound of 928 square metres.In 1957 the old school was replaced by three storied buildings accommodating about five hundred students.In the same year the school was licensed by the Ministry of Education to open Mathayom I (Grade four) and Triam Udom I, at the same time, as there were class-rooms available because there was a gap of classes between Mathayom I and Mathayom VI and onwards to Triam Udom I. There were approximately four classes of Triam Udom of both faculties, Art and Science. Most of the Mathayom VI students from prestigious schools came to enrol (girls only). It was a great success, as those who passed Triam Udom II could continue their study in the state universities.The school had become so well known that it could not meet the application demands, so in 1957 another school was built in Soi Rambutri, Bangkok, the owner's property about ten minutes' walk from the former school and the area covered about 3224 square metres. The new school simultaneously provided thirty-nine classrooms, a cafeteria and assembly hall, above this there were two floors providing spacious rooms for the boarders (girls only). At that time there were about eighty boarders and the school accommodated 1500 students. That was why the school provided about ten classes of Triam Udom.

The former school at Pra Arthit Road retained only Prathom I to III and registered to enrol kindergarten, both boys and girls. Mathayom I to Triam Udom II were transferred to Ampornpaisarn at Soi Rambutri but the Education Ministry cut off the word Anusorn, giving the reason that the schools should not be registered in the same name. The school was so crowded that the owner tried to find a new site in the suburbs of Bangkok

In 1975 the owner bought a large piece of farm land about 12,000 square metres in dimension at seventy Bhat per square waa (four square metres). At that time there existed only rice fields.

In 1977 the owner challengingly borrowed money from Thai Dhanu Bank, friends, relatives and students' parents at a reasonable rate of interest and also from the income of the saw mill she owned. She then started to build a new campus little by little, year by year, according to the financial capacity. The foundation stone was laid by the late Supreme Patriach Somdej Pra Arivongsa Katayarn (Vasna Vasna Thera). It took four years to build six three-storied buildings, one six storied building for boarders (all girls), study-room and library, a large cafeteria for students, with a mezzanine for the teachers to have their lunch. The premises were completed and ready for occupation in May 1973. The campus was auspiciously opened by the Permanent Secretary of the Education Ministry, Mr Apai Chantavimol and Ampornpaisarn school at Soi Rambutri moved to the new campus while Ampornpaisarn Anusorn took its place and its former site has been rented as a guest house.

In 1986 the owner sold a valuable estate at Asoke Road in Bangkok, the sale of which cleared all the debts and financed the construction of a big auditorium with a stage for various uses, a swimming pool (half the Olympic size) and a residence for the owner.

So this is the complete history of the present Ampornpaisarn school in Pakkred, Nontaburi. The two schools in Bangkok have now become commercial areas for tourists.