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

admission@kewforest.org 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 admission@kewforest.org. 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.

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