| Kent College Senior School | |
| Coordinates: | 51.1635°N 0.3254°W |
| Motto: | Respice Finem - Look to the End |
| Established: | 1886 |
| Type: | Private day and boarding |
| Head Label: | Head |
| Head: | Katrina Handford |
| Founder: | Wesleyan Methodist Schools' Association |
| Address: | Old Church Road |
| City: | Tunbridge Wells |
| County: | Kent |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | TN2 4AX |
| Local Authority: | KENT |
| Dfeno: | 886/6009 |
| Urn: | 118946 |
| Staff: | c. 100 Full time, 25 Part time |
| Enrolment: | c. 400 (Senior) |
| Gender: | Girls |
| Lower Age: | 11 |
| Upper Age: | 18 |
Kent College is a private girls' day and boarding school for pupils aged 3-18. Forest Explorers Nursery is for girls and boys from rising 3 years, boys can join Reception Class and Year 1, and from September 2023 Year 2 as the Prep School becomes a co-ed school. The Senior School and Sixth Form are girls only from 11-18.
Set in a 75-acre rural parkland estate in Pembury just outside Tunbridge Wells, the school consists of a Victorian manor house and with facilities including The Countess of Wessex Theatre, science centre, two indoor sports halls, music centre, astro, library and art centre, forest school, dance studio and two boarding houses. The grounds are adjacent to Pembury Old Church, and the nearest railway stations are in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
In 1886, the school was established in Bouverie Road, Folkestone with twelve female pupils. John Stainer was one of the founders. The original site of the school is now occupied by apartments, which are named after heads of the school. In 1939, the school moved to its current location in Tunbridge Wells because of the danger to girls being too near the coast during World War II.[1] During the war, the school was hit by a V-1 flying bomb, a German aircraft was shot down inside the school's grounds,[2] and a pilot of a Hawker Hurricane died when his aircraft crashed inside the school's grounds.[3] In 1945, the Prep School was established in Tunbridge Wells, and in 1989 it moved to the same location as the Senior School.[4] [5]
| Kent College Prep School | |
| Coordinates: | 51.1635°N 0.3254°W |
| Motto: | Repice Finem - Look to the End |
| Established: | 1886 |
| Type: | Private preparatory day and boarding |
| Religious Affiliation: | Methodist |
| Head Label: | Head |
| Head: | Salli Hall |
| Local Authority: | Kent |
| Dfeno: | 886/6071 |
| Urn: | 119022 |
| Enrolment: | c. 150 |
| Gender: | Girls and boys/Girls |
| Lower Age: | 3 |
| Upper Age: | 11 |
| Website: | http://www.kent-college.co.uk |
The Prep School is located on the same site as the main school and is housed in its own buildings and shares many of the facilities at the Senior School. Full, weekly and flexi boarding are available to Prep School pupils aged 10 and above.[6]