The Kew-Forest School Admissions Brochure
-
Upload
kew-forest-school -
Category
Documents
-
view
219 -
download
1
description
Transcript of The Kew-Forest School Admissions Brochure
Inspiring tudents to Achieve...
Our students from six continents speak more than 40 languages and represent the cultures, ethnicities, and religions of the world.
Recent graduates flourish and lead at such institutions as Penn, MIT, NYU, Brown, Northwestern, Tulane, Harvard, and Duke.
The Kew-Forest School provides a challenging college-preparatory curriculum from Early Childhood (age 3) through Grade 12.
With low student-Faculty ratios, each student is known and treasured.
Early Childhood — 6:1Lower School — 8:1Upper School — 7.5:1
Nearly 27% of our students receive over $1,000,000 annually in need-based financial aid.
Average award: Over $16,000
We are a community of connection and involve-ment where Faculty, administration, parents, and students collaborate for success.
The Kew-Forest School is an oasis of civility, a safe place to grow and strive while surrounded by Faculty care and concern.
The Kew-Forest School Is Designed In
Its every Detail to Inspire…and to
Provide Students Skills for Success.
With an experienced and gifted Faculty, Kew-Forest creates a warm
community of educators and learners characterized by respect, high
expectations, hard work, and progress. Our core curriculum emphasizes
“the six C’s”: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, Character,
Collaboration, and Cosmopolitanism.
Early Childhood Development
Kew-Forest sparks a love of learning from the earliest years in its ECD program, where 3 and 4 year olds come together in a self-paced model of differentiated learning.
Hands-on materials promote skills and early independence in a specially-designed classroom that responds to the individual needs of each child’s abilities. Healthy socialization is a natural outgrowth of the community experience.
Faculty facilitate key experiences, constantly monitoring progress through a carefully-developed educational sequence provided by this “trio of teachers”—the com-munity of students, the materials-rich classroom environment, and educational professionals.
Lower choolEarly
Childhood Development
The building blocks of reading,
writing, and arithmetic lead to
research, problem-solving,
and project design as the
students lead, team, and
invent.
All of the work of our Lower
School develops creative critical
thinkers who collaborate, care
deeply for one another, and
communicate well.
Effective writing, public speak-
ing, and use of technology form
foundations for lifelong
success, while dedicated
instruction in art, music, world
language, library, and sport,
health, and wellness challenges,
engages, and enriches.
Finally, our Lower School is
characterized by integrity,
empathy, and compassion, and
by an appreciation for inclusiv-
ity and diversity in our global
society.
Students develop special bonds
with teacher mentors who help
them make good decisions,
persevere through challenge,
and achieve.
Students develop a moral com-
pass by taking on responsibility
for younger students, participat-
ing in community outreach, and
being held accountable for their
actions in a community where
grace, courtesy, and civility are
bywords.
As workloads increase, we ask
our young adolescents to be
problem solvers and active
participants in their own learning.
A dedicated English as a Second
Language Program (ESL) helps
non-native speakers achieve.
Middle School is a time of
wonder and vulnerability.
Part-cocoon, part-challenge, our
Middle School helps students try
on adult roles through leadership
in clubs, sports, activities, and
community service while giving
the tools to take ever-greater
responsibility for their own
learning.
Middle chool
Discover for Yourself
…We would love to meet you and discuss your child’s educational future with you.
Please call 718.268.4667 or e-mail
[email protected] to learn more or to
schedule a visit.
Upper chool
A highly-personalized four-year
college counseling process
builds student confidence and
leads to college admission and
success.
With Faculty mentoring and
support, students learn how to
balance the demands of
academics, sport, clubs,
service, peers, and home,
setting priorities and achieving
goals by making tough choices
and pushing their limits with
optimism and grit.
Our oldest students connect to
the rest of the School,
modeling moral behavior,
providing leadership, and
setting the tone for the entire
school community.
In the last four years of Upper School, course work expands to college-level Advanced Place-ment classes in almost every curricular area. Instruction is increasingly Socratic.
Middle chool
Inspiring tudents to Achieve . . . “Kew-Forest is the hidden gem of New York independent schools. The faculty is the most dedicated I have ever encountered, and the environment is positive, healthy and wholesome. What a breath of fresh air!”
- Gina Lipton, Mother of Sara ‘18
“I owe a great deal to the education I received at K-F. What made the school remark-able was the intense focus on the basics—few bells or whistles, either in terms of course selection or facilities or extracurriculars, but a rigorous education in English, Latin, history, science, and math. I have found few people, at Harvard or elsewhere, who had such a solid grounding as I did.”
- David Kessler ‘00
“I look forward to coming to Kew-Forest every day!” - Sidney ‘21
To schedule a visit or learn more about the tradition of excellence at the Kew-Forest School, please call 718-268-4667 or e-mail [email protected]. We also invite you to explore the many resources available at www.kewforest.org.
The Kew-Forest School is incorporated not-for-profit in the State of New York and is tax-exempt under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the Internal Revenue Service. Gifts to the School are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
The Kew-Forest School does not discriminate because of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, or sexual orientation in the administration of its admissions, employ-ment or educational programs or policies.
The Kew-Forest School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the New York State Association of Independent Schools, and the Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation and is approved by the New York State Department of Education. K-F is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools and the Secondary School Admission Test Board.
119-17 Union Turnpike, Forest Hills, NY 11375-6143
. . . ince 1918