page_title: Samsenwittayalai School
section_title: Building
hierarchical_section_title: Samsenwittayalai School / Building
caption_attribution_description: English: Building 8 (taken May 2015)
context_page_description: Samsenwittayalai School is a high school located at Bangkok's Phaya Thai District. The number of students in this school approximately 3,600 students from Matthayom 1 to Matthayom 6.
  Samsenwittayalai School is one of 283 very selective schools in Thailand. It admits about 240 Matthayom 1 students yearly, but has more than three applicants for each place. The is led to some dubious practices. In 2017, the school director was removed from his position when he was accused of demanding a 400,000 baht payment for admitting a student. He was subsequently found guilty and fired from his position. He was found to be involved in other bribery cases worth a total of about eight million baht. "His guilt was obvious as he took the money but failed to put it in the school's coffers", said an official of the Office of Basic Education Commission.
context_section_description: The first building (Building 1) was constructed in 1954. This building consists of an agriculture classroom, greeting room, meeting room, old Samsenwittayalai student association room, infirmatory, office of finance and asset management and office of student affairs.
  The Science and Mathematics Building (Building 2) was all wooden, but it was rebuilt in 1969 into a 4-story concrete building. This building consists of science and math classrooms, science and math teachers' office, academics office and student record office. The flag pole is also located here, which the length was lengthen on June 2017. 
  The third building (Building 3) was first built in 1954 and rebuilt in 1974 into a 5-story building. This building consists of an audiovisual room, ICT room, language classrooms, social studies classroom, teachers' office and learners' development activities office. Minimart, parents and teachers association's office and student council office. The extension of this building (meeting rooms, administration office and more classrooms) was done in 2001 and a school bank was established (sponsored by Government Savings Bank (GSB)) in 2011.
  The Art Building (Building 4) was first built in 1963 and rebuilt in 1989 into a 5-story building. It has a library on the first floor and consists of an art and music classrooms. In 2017, 2 classrooms (room 4201 and 4202) was renovated and changed to be arts exhibition hall. The library is also renovated in the same year.
  The Home Economics Department (Building 5) is a 2-story building. It has a cooking class and a lounge on the first floor and The home economics class on the second.
  The Gym (Building 6) is used for physical education class. The building itself is a badminton court and a P.E. teachers' office. Next to the building there is a tennis court, which was built in 2002. It functions as tennis court, basketball court, volleyball court, indoor futsal field and other ball games. Now this building is demolished and will be rebuilt with building 7 to be a 6-story multipurpose building.
  Industrial Arts (Building 7) was built in 1964 for home economics classes. The first floor is industrial work study. The second floor has both the architecture class, handcrafting class and business classroom. Now this building is demolished and will be rebuilt with building 6 to be a 6-story multipurpose building.
  The English Program Building (Building 8) was built in 1964 as an asset of Ministry of Educaition and handed over to Samsenwittayalai School in 2002. The exterior was renovated and now it is the building of all English Program Students. It has its own computer lab, science labs, dance classroom, music classroom, English Program Office and management office. 
  Building 9 is an extension of building 4 for art-language students and the library. The first and second floor is an extension of the library, and the third and fourth is the language classrooms for higher secondary students.
  Multipurpose building was built in 1977. The cafeteria is located here on the first level and the grand multipurpose room on the second.
caption: Building 8 (taken May 2015)
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