About Kent Place School

List of 10 items.

• Student Body

  Each year Kent Place welcomes more than 650 students, 51 percent of whom are students of color, from about 70 different communities. Here is the breakdown by school division (all numbers are approximate):
  Preschool – 31
  Primary School – 172
  Middle School – 148
  Upper School – 316

• Faculty

  Kent Place's 170 faculty and staff members personify our commitment to professional development, multiple perspectives, equity, and inclusion. Providing academic rigor in a supportive environment, our teachers — 80 percent of whom hold advanced degrees — value and reward independent thinking, creativity, and grit. Our student to faculty ratio is 7:1, giving teachers the opportunity to carefully, thoughtfully guide each girl's academic, personal, and social growth. Twenty percent are faculty and staff of color. Eighty percent of KPS faculty have 10 years or more of teaching experience and 100 percent of KPS faculty receive professional development.

• Traditions

  From Opening Convocation's candle-lighting ceremony to Graduation's Daisy Chain, from Global Perspectives Day, Spirit Week, Primary School Field Day, the Science Expo, and more, long-held and deeply valued traditions keep our Kent Place community close and connected.

• Honor Code

  The Kent Place Honor Code, with its guiding principles of respect, ethical behavior, and good judgment, lies at the core of student life. Upon completing any project, assignment, or test, students write and sign the Kent Place Honor Code Pledge: This is my own work.

• Ethics

  The Ethics Institute at Kent Place School is a first-of-its-kind institute at the primary and secondary school level. We believe that promoting the process and practice of ethical thinking and decision-making prepares people of all ages to be effective leaders and compassionate citizens. We partner with numerous organizations to provide comprehensive and context-based ethics programming. Our programming for Kent Place students includes ethics in the disciplines, electives, clubs, advisory, lunch and learn events, summer programs, field trips, and Ethics Bowl competitions. Recently, we have begun developing a Primary School ethics program called "Be Ethical Everywhere" (BEE). We also lead professional workshops for all types of educators interested in incorporating ethics into their unique contexts. issues. For families and community members, we offer workshops, chats, and speaker series that provide a platform to learn, practice, and promote ethical dialogue.

• Visual and Performing Arts

  Central to a Kent Place education and emphasized in all grades, students can choose from a broad array of visual art, dance, theater, and music offerings. The learning is enhanced by professional performers and artists who come to Kent Place to share their work and their insights. Our students have been selected for state and national choirs; they have won awards in tri-state competitions for their theatrical productions; and they have exhibited visual artwork in museums and galleries beyond Kent Place.

• Athletics

  Kent Place places a high value on athletics, giving every girl a chance to challenge herself physically while developing leadership and teamwork skills. Our Middle School's popular interscholastic teams prepare our athletes for our competitive Upper School program. Junior Varsity teams prepare our scholar-athletes with the skills needed to compete at the varsity level. Our elite Varsity teams — a great source of pride for the school — enjoy winning seasons, triumph at county and state championships, and send numerous athletes on to successfully compete at the college level.
  
  Middle School: Basketball, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Volleyball
  
  Upper School: Basketball, Cross Country, Fencing (coed), Field Hockey, Golf, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Squash, Swimming, Tennis, Spring Track and Field, Volleyball, Winter Track

• STEM Education at KPS

  STEM education at KPS is defined as opportunities that enhance understanding of, confidence in, and positive attitude towards science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by cultivating connections across our course of study. Curricular and co-curricular pathways diversify participation, unleash creativity, encourage learning through play, support risk-taking, and promote collaboration across the sciences, engineering, mathematics, the arts, and the humanities. Our unique, state-of-the-art STEM spaces inspire creativity, innovation, and collaboration. In these spaces, students have the resources to enhance their STEM knowledge and skills, design and build without too many constraints, and explore connections across seemingly different academic disciplines. The spaces include the Fabrication Lab, Innovation Lab, Math Studio, STEM Lab, Technology labs in each division, Wonder Lab, and flexible math and science classrooms.

• Technology

  We infuse technology throughout the learning environment, beginning in our Preschool and up through the Primary, Middle, and Upper School years, to emphasize technology as an essential interdisciplinary academic tool for learning and building community. Every Middle School and Upper School student is equipped with a laptop. The Innovation and STEM labs provide space for our computer science and robotics programs to prepare our students to be nimble, adaptable leaders and engineers.

• Global Learning

  Our multipronged Global Program, emphasizing leadership, multicultural competency, language proficiency, and global service, truly sets Kent Place apart from our peers. A rigorous Global Education curriculum — including world geography and cultures, multiple foreign languages, and Hispanic and Francophone literature — is joined by travel, global partnerships, exchanges, and community service to give our students hands-on, real-time experience living, learning, and leading in an increasingly interconnected world.