PLACE
42 Norwood Avenue
Summit, NJ 07901
CEEB: 311425 www.kentplace.org
HEAD OF SCHOOL
Dr. Jennifer Galambos
ASSISTANT HEAD OF SCHOOL
Julie Gentile
DIRECTOR OF THE UPPER SCHOOL
Deborah Fermo
DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE ADVISING
Jennifer Simpson simpsonj@kentplace.org
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE ADVISING
Anne Marie Ferriere ferrierea@kentplace.org
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE ADVISING
Latoya Gadsden gadsdenl@kentplace.org
An independent, nonsectarian K–12 school for girls in Summit, New Jersey, Kent Place is a highly selective college preparatory school with a strong national reputation for providing a dynamic education and leadership development through its comprehensive curriculum. Kent Place also has a coeducational Preschool.
Kent Place School is accredited by the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. KPS is an honor code school.
KPS BY THE NUMBERS
students in preschool to grade 12
of students enroll in at least one AP course by graduation
of the Class of 2025 are AP Scholars
OUR COMMUNITY
student to teacher ratio
STUDENT BODY
students in the Primary School
75+ communities represented
15 grades on one campus
156 students in the Middle School
20 miles from New York City
125 teachers, counselors, & administrators
324 students in the Upper School
13% faculty & administrators hold a doctorate
White/Caucasian 42% Asian 28% Black/African American 10% Hispanic/Latinx 6% Middle Eastern 1%
Multiracial 9%
Other or prefer not to respond 4%
54% of students identify as people of color 33% of faculty and staff identify as people of color 40% of students intend to continue studies in the STEM fields (national average for girls is 25%)
KENT PLACE SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY
We believe the best education for girls and young women takes place in an environment in which all students discover their strengths and are empowered to see themselves as leaders. We believe that girls achieve their best potential in an environment that prioritizes interdisciplinary learning; that is proactive, responsive, and flexible; and that promotes self-confidence, self-advocacy, and healthy risk-taking. We strive to meet the intellectual, emotional, and social needs of our students through a dynamic curriculum that promotes curiosity, creativity, and a growing sense of self-discipline.
We energize students with a challenging and relevant course of study in an environment attuned to best practices that inspire girls. We know that students learn best when curricula, pedagogy, and content honor their identity and support them as they grow in that identity. We are striving to build an inclusive, anti-bias community in all aspects of our program. We are a community of enthusiastic and motivated learners and educators who value fair-mindedness, mutual concern, and honesty.
Our curricula and programs are rich in opportunities for students to develop ethical decision-making, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills. We promote integrity, initiative, and inclusion throughout the schooling years in our conversations, actions, reflective moments, and commitment toward understanding and including different perspectives. Our students take on increasingly profound leadership opportunities that foster collaboration, initiative, and self-awareness and cultivate compassion and empathy.
We believe the lessons and values encouraged by our multitalented faculty prepare every student to be an active contributor to the world beyond Kent Place.
PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE
This portrait outlines 10 goals we strive for as we shape our students’ educational experiences. In our rapidly changing world, as our young women’s needs evolve, we revisit our aspirations for them.
• She will have a breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding in all disciplines.
• She will be able to express herself with confidence and a sense of purpose in written, oral, and digital forms.
• She will be able to apply quantitative, scientific, and technological methods to gather and evaluate data that will inform her opinions and decisions about historical and contemporary issues.
• She will be proficient in more than one language.
• She will have developed an ethical framework and learned how to navigate complex ethical dilemmas.
• She will have developed, practiced, and showcased her own unique leadership style, advocacy skills, and voice.
• She will have developed cultural competency in either travel, service, communication, or another form that will expand her global presence and make a positive impact.
• She will recognize the value of artistic expression as an essential part of contemporary life.
• She will value involvement and action utilizing creativity, collaboration, problem-solving, invention, and innovation.
• She will have established a plan for lifelong health, wellness, and fitness.
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
Students are required to take five classes a trimester, four of which must be academic core courses (English, Math, History, World Languages, and Science). KPS requires 60 credits for graduation; one trimester = 1 credit.
12 English 9–12
9 Mathematics
9 World Language (completion of third year)
9 Science (three years of laboratory Science)
9 History (minimum of three years)
ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS
5 Visual and/or Performing Arts
5 Elective Credits
1 Computer Science
1 Ethics
Non-credit Requirements
Leadership
Health and Physical Education
Academic Distinctions are awarded to seniors at Commencement. The only exception is the Cum Laude Society, which occasionally inducts outstanding juniors.
HONOR SOCIETIES: Cum Laude Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Science National Honor Society, National Chinese Honor Society, Société Honoraire de Français, National Junior Classical League Society, Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica
GRADE SCALE
A+ 97–100
A 93–96
A- 90–92
B+ 87–89
B 83–86
B- 80–82
C+ 77–79
C 73–76
A cumulative grade-point average is not calculated. Kent Place does not rank its students.
CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS AND COURSES
60–62
In addition to Advanced Placement classes, all Upper School courses in core academic subjects are at the honors level. On-site, Kent Place offers five courses that extend beyond the AP level and more through One Schoolhouse: Girls’ Courses. KPS demonstrates its commitment to providing lifelong learning experiences and leadership development within and beyond the school through its signature programs, such as the Girls’ Leadership Institute, the Ethics Institute at Kent Place School, Economic & Financial Literacy, and STEM. Classes successfully completed through One Schoolhouse: Girls’ and Coed Courses, a consortium founded in 2009, earn KPS credit.
During their 11th-grade year, all students carry out sustained research in an interdisciplinary assignment called the Cumulative Humanities Project (CHP). This project provides students the opportunity to engage with a topic of their choice over time, gain college-level research and writing skills, and present to an audience in a seminar-style Academic Symposium.
LEADERSHIP CURRICULUM: Learn. Live. Lead. Kent Place students experience an integrated approach to the development of leadership skills. Part of a missionbased priority to “empower girls to advance the world,” our leadership curriculum comprises the areas of ethics, health and wellness, IMPACT/PREPARE self-defense training, and Project Adventure. Collaboration, social-emotional intelligence, ethical decision-making, and cultural competence are Kent Place leadership competencies that our program bolsters in every student.
UPPER SCHOOL COURSE OF STUDY
THE CLASS OF 2025 (72 STUDENTS)
SAT SCORES
ADVANCED PLACEMENT
• 471 AP exams were taken in 28 subjects by the Class of
• 94% of students earned a 3 or higher on at least one exam in their junior year.
Detailed and updated course information is available in the Kent Place Course of Study and on our website, www.kentplace.org/academics .
ENGLISH
English 9: World Literature
English 10: British Literature
English 11: American Literature
AP English Language and Composition
AP English Literature and Composition
Seniors choose three trimester electives: Conscience and Consequence; Women in Literature; Displacements: The Latinx Experience; Dramatic Literature; Contemporary Fiction; Voices of the Black Diaspora; The Books They Told You Not to Read; Medicine and Literature; Literature of Creativity; Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop; Revisionist Literature; Short Story; Supernatural Literature; Poetry; Local Literature: New York & New Jersey; Women’s Studies; Identity and Graphic Novels
Media Literacy
HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCE
History 9: Global Perspectives
History 10
History 11: 1812-Present
Black Studies
Contemporary History
AP Macroeconomics
AP U.S. Government and Politics: U.S./Topics in Law
AP U.S. History
AP World History
MATHEMATICS
Math 1
Math 2
Math 2 & 3
Math 3
Math 3 & 4
Math 4
Statistics
Calculus
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
Research in Advanced Mathematics*
Linear Algebra**
Multivariable Calculus*
Intro to Cryptography
*Courses beyond the AP level offered on-site
**One Schoolhouse: Girls’ and Coed Courses
WORLD LANGUAGES
Chinese I, II, III, IV, V
French I, II, III, IV, V, VI*
Latin I, II, III, IV/V
Spanish I, II, III, IV, V, VI*
AP Chinese Language
AP French Language
AP Latin
AP Spanish Language
AP Spanish Literature
Advanced Topics in Women’s
Voices in Latin America
SCIENCE
Biology
Chemistry
Human Anatomy and Physiology
The Design & Innovation of Medicine
Visual Representation of Medicine
Marketing Medicine to the World Physics
Student-designed Research* Bioethics Project*
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Environmental Science
AP Physics 1
AP Physics C**
MUSIC
KP Singers (auditioned)
Chamber Singers (auditioned)
Listening to Music, Music Theory I, II (trimester courses)
Wind Ensemble
Latin Jazz Ensemble
String Orchestra
Chorale
Orchestra
Chamber Orchestra
Instrumental Instruction
AP Music Theory
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
App Development
Introduction to Computer Programming (trimester)
Advanced Computer Programming
AP Computer Science Principles
(3 trimester classes below)
App Development I: User Experience
App Development II: Ethical Entrepreneurship
Computer Science: Global Impacts
AP Computer Science A (full year)
Engineering and the Arts (trimester)
Engineering and the Lived Experience (trimester)
Engineering, Ethics, and Entertainment (trimester)
Advanced Engineering Design
Introduction to Cryptography
DANCE
Foundations of Dance Technique (trimester)
Fundamentals of Dance Technique
Dance Ensemble (intermediate-level)
Chamber Dancers (advanced-level)
Jazz & Musical Theater
Modern and Contemporary Choreography
THEATER
Acting Seminar (full year)
Performance Company (full year)
Musical Theater
Improvisational Theater
Character & Scene Development
Fall Musical
Winter Play
VISUAL ARTS
Studio Art
Portfolio
Art History
AP Art History
AP Portfolio
Trimester courses: Visual Art
Workshop, Architecture, Animation, Drawing, 2D Design I, 2D Design II, Engineering and the Arts, Ethics and the Visual Arts, 3-D Design/ Sculpture, Ceramics, Film Art I, II, Photography I and II
CLASS OF 2025 - WHERE THEY ATTEND (72 STUDENTS TOTAL)
Amherst College (2)
Babson College
Barnard College (3)
Boston College (3)
Brown University (3)
Bucknell University
Colgate University (2)
Cornell University (2)
Duke University (2)
Elon University
Emory University
Fordham University
Georgetown University
Haverford College (2)
Howard University
King’s College London
Lehigh University (2)
Northeastern University (2)
Northwestern University
Occidental College
Princeton University
Providence College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
CLASS OF 2025 - WHERE THEY WERE ACCEPTED
American University*
Amherst College*
Arizona State University
Auburn University*
Babson College*
Barnard College*
Bates College*
Boston College*
Boston University
Bowie State University
Brown University*
Bucknell University*
Case Western Reserve University*
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Clark University*
Clemson University*
Colby College
Colgate University*
College of Charleston*
College of the Holy Cross
Cornell University*
Dartmouth College
Delaware State University
Dickinson College*
Drexel University*
Duke University*
Elon University*
Emory University
Fairfield University*
Fordham University*
Franklin and Marshall College
Georgetown University*
Georgia Institute of Technology*
Gettysburg College
Hampton University
Haverford College*
Hobart and William Smith*
Howard University
Indiana University-Bloomington*
Ithaca College*
Johns Hopkins University
King’s College London
Lafayette College*
Lehigh University*
Lincoln University
Louisiana State University*
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Maryland
Macalester College
Monmouth University
Montclair State University
Morgan State University
Mount Holyoke College
Muhlenberg College
New Jersey Institute of Technology*
New York University*
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A&T State University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Northeastern University*
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Ohio State University-Main Campus
Pace University
Pennsylvania State University*
Princeton University
Providence College*
Purdue University*
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
COLLEGE MATRICULATION 2022-2025
American University
Amherst College (4)
Babson College (2)
Barnard College (5)
Bates College (2)
Boston College (16)
Bowdoin College (3)
Brown University (5)
Bucknell University (5)
California Institute of Technology (2)
Carnegie Mellon University (2)
Case Western Reserve University
Chapman University
College of Charleston
University of Chicago
Clemson University
Colby College
Colgate University (4)
Columbia University (3)
Cornell University (14)
Dartmouth College (3)
Duke University (8)
Elon University
Emerson College (2)
Emory University
Florida A&M University
Fordham University
Franklin and Marshall College
Georgetown University (5)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Hamilton College (3)
Hampton University
Harvard University (2)
Haverford College (2)
Howard University (2)
Indiana University-Bloomington
Johns Hopkins University (4)
King’s College London
Lafayette College
Lehigh University (4)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3)
Middlebury College
Montclair State University
The College of New Jersey
New York University (4)
Northeastern University (9)
Northwestern University (2)
Oberlin College (2)
Occidental College
Pace University
Princeton University (4)
Providence College (2)
Syracuse University
The College of New Jersey
The University of Texas, Austin
Tufts University (2)
Tulane University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Delaware
University of Georgia
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame (3)
University of Pennsylvania (4)
Rutgers University-New Brunswick*
Rutgers University-Newark*
Salve Regina University
Santa Clara University
Sarah Lawrence College
Seton Hall University*
Skidmore College
Spelman College
St. John’s University-New York
Stony Brook University*
Syracuse University*
Temple University*
Texas Christian University
The College of New Jersey
The George Washington University*
The University of Alabama
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville*
The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Jefferson University
Trinity College*
Tufts University*
Tulane University of Louisiana*
Union College*
University at Buffalo
University of California-Berkeley*
University of California-Davis*
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-San Diego*
University of California-Santa Cruz*
University of Colorado Boulder*
University of Connecticut*
University of Delaware*
University of Edinburgh
University of Georgia*
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (5)
Rice University
Rutgers University-New Brunswick (5)
Santa Clara University
Scripps College
Skidmore College
Southern Methodist University
Spelman College
Stony Brook University
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University (3)
Temple University
The University of Texas at Austin
The George Washington University
Trinity College
Tufts University (11)
Tulane University (6)
Union College (2)
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Davis
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Delaware
University of Geneva
University of Georgia (2)
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Richmond (2)
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of Virginia (3)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3)
Villanova University
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest University (2)
Washington University in St. Louis
Wellesley College
Yale University (2)
University of Maine
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of Maryland-College Park*
University of Massachusetts-Amherst*
University of Miami*
University of Michigan*
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of New Hampshire
University of New Haven
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill*
University of North Florida
University of Notre Dame*
University of Pennsylvania*
University of Pittsburgh*
University of Rhode Island
University of Richmond*
University of Rochester*
University of San Diego
University of South Carolina-Columbia*
University of Vermont*
University of Virginia*
University of Washington-Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison*
Villanova University*
Virginia Tech*
Wake Forest University*
Washington University in St. Louis*
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
William & Mary*
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale University*
University of Miami (2)
University of Michigan (4)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (3)
University of Notre Dame (9)
University of Oxford (2)
University of Pennsylvania (19)
University of Richmond (6)
University of San Francisco
University of South Carolina-Columbia
University of Southern California (3)
University of St Andrews (2)
University of Virginia (9)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (6)
Vanderbilt University (2)
Vassar College
Villanova University (3)
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest University (7)
Washington & Lee University
Washington University in St. Louis (5)
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University (2)
William & Mary (2)
Williams College (2)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Yale University (6)