Kent School

Kent School is a private, co-educational, college preparatory boarding school in Kent, Connecticut. Frederick Herbert Sill established the school in 1906. It is affiliated with the Episcopal Church of the United States. It has a long history as an "elite school, not a school for elites," and innovated the sliding-scale tuition model in the early 20th century. Academics Kent School follows a trimester system, where a school year is trisected into three terms—fall, winter, and spring. Classes are held from Monday to Saturday. Wednesdays and Saturdays are half days where classes run from 8:30–11:45 am. The remaining days hold classes from 8:30 am–2:50 pm. Classes are held in a two-week rotating block system. This is done to allow classes that would not have met on Wednesdays and Saturdays an opportunity to meet the following week during the full academic days. The school refers to students by form instead of grades—as is customary in the United States. 9th grade is 3rd form and 12th grade is 6th form. 3rd and 4th formers are referred to as underformers and 5th and 6th are referred to as upperformers. Students who stay a fifth year are referred to as PGs (i.e. Post Graduate). PGs are often transfer students from other schools for a variety of reasons. Many courses are year-long, while others last only one or two terms. Courses are denoted as major or minor. Minor courses count for only half as much credit as major course. Most students take four courses each trimester; the course load limit is five. Four year students are required to take courses in English, Mathematics, Modern or Ancient Languages, Laboratory Sciences, Visual or Performing Arts, and Theology.