Kent Place School Profile: 2024-2025

SCHOOL PROFILE: 2024–2025 MISSION: KENT PLACE EMPOWERS GIRLS TO BE CONFIDENT, INTELLECTUAL, AND ETHICAL LEADERS WHO WILL ADVANCE THE WORLD.

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

674

founded in

1894

20

26

miles from New York City

acre campus

42 Norwood Avenue Summit, NJ 07901 CEEB: 311425 www.kentplace.org HEAD OF SCHOOL

Dr. Jennifer Galambos ASSISTANT HEAD OF SCHOOL

Julie Gentile

70

students in preschool to grade 12

98%

of students enroll in at least one AP course

80

seniors in the Class of 2024

66%

59

faculty have a master’s degree

of students identify as students of color

117

7:1

teachers, counselors, & administrators

student to teacher ratio

203

154

students in the Primary School

of the Class of 2024 are AP Scholars

54%

communities represented

students in the Middle School

23

number of AP courses

317

students in the Upper School

10%

faculty & administrators hold a doctorate

DIRECTOR OF THE UPPER SCHOOL

Dr. Evelyn Hanna DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE ADVISING

OUR COMMUNITY

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

STUDENT BODY

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% o f students intend to continue studies in the STEM fields (national average for girls is 25%) 72% o f Upper School students participate in athletics 86% of Upper School students participate in the arts

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 9 9

9 9

English 9–12 Mathematics World Language (completion of third year) cience (three years S of laboratory Science) History (minimum of three years)

5

Visual and/or Performing Arts 5–9 Electives 1 Computer Science 1 Ethics Non-credit Requirements Leadership Health and Physical Education

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS 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+ A AB+

97–100 93–96 90–92 87–89

B BC+ C

83–86 80–82 77–79 73–76

CD+ D D-

70–72 67–69 63–66 60–62

A cumulative grade-point average is not calculated.

Kent Place does not rank its students.

CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS AND COURSES 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, DEIB, 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.

THE CLASS OF 2024 (80 STUDENTS)

ACT SCORES

Middle 50% - 50 students tested ENGLISH

MATHEMATICS

READING

SCIENCE

33-36

26-32

33-36

28-33

COMPOSITE SCORE

30-34

SAT SCORES

Middle 50% - 45 students tested

EVIDENCE-BASED READING AND WRITING

665-760

MATHEMATICS

610-755

TOTAL

1285-1515 HONORS 1

National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist

13

National Merit Commended Students

ADVANCED PLACEMENT • K PS earned a score of 95%

on the College Board’s AP Excellence and Equity report for the Class of 2024.

• 4 89 AP exams were taken in 24 subjects by the Class of 2024.

• 9 4% of students earned a 3 or higher on at least one exam in their junior year.

UPPER SCHOOL COURSE OF STUDY Detailed and updated course information is available in the Kent Place Course of Study and on our website, www.kentplace.org/academics.

ENGLISH Selected World Literature Selected British Literature Selected American Literature 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 AP English Language and Composition AP English Literature and Composition 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 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

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

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) Chorale Orchestra Chamber Orchestra Instrumental Instruction AP Music Theory

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING App Development Introduction to Computer Programming (trimester) Advanced Computer Programming

*Courses beyond the AP level offered on-site **One Schoolhouse: Girls’ and Coed Courses

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)

THEATER Acting Workshop Acting Seminar (full year) Performance Company (full year) Courses are supplemented by a series of productions.

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, Graphic Design, Film Art I, II, Photography I and II

CLASS OF 2024 - WHERE THEY ATTEND (80 STUDENTS TOTAL) American University Amherst College Barnard College Bates College Boston College (7) California Institute of Technology Case Western Reserve University Colgate University (2) College of Charleston College of William & Mary Cornell University (4) Dartmouth College (2) Emory University Georgetown University

Howard University Johns Hopkins University (3) Lehigh University (2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Northeastern University (2) Oberlin College Pace University Princeton University Providence College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3) Southern Methodist University Stony Brook University Swarthmore College

Syracuse University Tufts University (4) University of California, Los Angeles University of Georgia University of Maryland, College Park University of Miami University of Michigan University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania (6) University of Richmond University of Southern California (2) University of St Andrews (2)

University of Virginia University of Wisconsin, Madison (2) Vassar College Villanova University Wake Forest University (4) Wesleyan University Williams College Worcester Polytechnic Institute

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor* University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Monmouth University Montclair State University* Muhlenberg College New Jersey Institute of Technology New York University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill* Northeastern University* Northwestern University* University of Notre Dame Oberlin College* Oberlin Conservatory of Music Occidental College* Ohio State University* Pace University* Emory University-Oxford College* Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus* University of Pennsylvania* Pepperdine University University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus* Princeton University Providence College* Purdue University* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute* University of Richmond* Rochester Institute of Technology University of Rochester* Rutgers University-Camden* Rutgers University-New Brunswick* Rutgers University-Newark* Santa Clara University* Savannah College of Art and Design Scripps College Seton Hall University* Skidmore College

University of South Carolina-Columbia University of South Florida University of Southern California* Southern Methodist University* Spelman College St. John’s University-New York St. Lawrence University Stevens Institute of Technology Stony Brook University Swarthmore College Syracuse University* Temple University* University of Tennessee-Knoxville Texas Christian University University of Texas-Austin University of Toronto* Trinity College* Tufts University* Tulane University of Louisiana Union College (NY) University of St Andrews* Vanderbilt University Vassar College* University of Vermont* Villanova University* Virginia Tech* University of Virginia* Wake Forest University* Washington University in St Louis Wesleyan University* Western Carolina University William & Mary* William Paterson University Williams College* University of Wisconsin-Madison* Worcester Polytechnic Institute Yale University

CLASS OF 2024 - WHERE THEY WERE ACCEPTED University of Alabama* American University* American University of Paris Amherst College Auburn University Bard College Barnard College* Bates College Binghamton University Boston College* Boston University* Brandeis University* Brown University Bucknell University* California Institute of Technology University of California-Berkeley* University of California-Davis* University of California-Irvine* University of California-Los Angeles* University of California-San Diego* University of California-Santa Barbara* University of California-Santa Cruz* Carnegie Mellon University* Case Western Reserve University* Chapman University University of Chicago Clark University* Clemson University* Colby College Colgate University* College of Charleston* University of Colorado Boulder* Colorado College* University of Connecticut Cornell University* Dartmouth College* University of Delaware* Denison University Drew University*

Drexel University* Duke University Durham University Elon University* Emerson College* Emory University* Fairfield University* Fairleigh Dickinson University University of Florida* Fordham University* George Washington University* Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology* University of Georgia* Gettysburg College* Hamilton College Harvey Mudd College Hobart and William Smith Colleges* Hofstra University College of the Holy Cross Howard University* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign* Indiana University-Bloomington* Ithaca College* James Madison University Johns Hopkins University* Kean University* Kentucky Wesleyan College Lafayette College* Lehigh University* Louisiana State University* Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Maryland University of Maryland-College Park* Marymount Manhattan College Massachusetts Institute of Technology Miami University, Oxford University of Miami*

*Multiple graduates accepted

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