Welcome to Kenton College Preparatory School. Located in the leafy suburb of Kileleshwa in Nairobi, pupils at Kenton College Preparatory School enjoy 35 acres of excellent facilities and an outstanding education in a friendly and welcoming international school community. Kenton College aims to provide a purposeful and happy environment, with opportunities for children of all races and cultures between the ages of 6 and 13 years to discover and develop talents and strengths, and so thrive academically, culturally, physically, socially and spiritually. The caring and supportive character of the school enables children to flourish in a community where values of honesty, courage, respect for and consideration of others are nurtured. Our well balanced curriculum ensures that every child leaving Kenton will gain access to a secondary school of their choice, in Kenya or overseas, and move on in the world as a well rounded, self assured individual. Aims: To provide high quality all round education by developing the ‘whole child’ educationally, socially, emotionally, behaviorally and morally. To provide an environment that enables pupils to feel safe, valued and listened to. To enable pupils to be challenged and supported, fulfilling their own potential across the curriculum and beyond. To provide a broad curriculum with many opportunities both inside and outside the classroom that is stimulating, creative, challenging, enjoyable and innovative. To make learning irresistible for all pupils. Ethos: We are a Christian school and reflect Christian values whilst welcoming families of all faiths. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all members of the school community. Our core values of Honesty, Courage and Respect are pillars of our ethos. These are coupled with half termly character strengths used to equip our pupils for life beyond Kenton. Our positive behaviour management strategy encourages the pupils to embody our core values, becoming kind, empathetic, well-mannered, resilient and respectful pupils. We want our pupils to put effort into all that they do and take risks in a supportive and understanding environment. We want them to become lifelong learners who are curious about the world around them and experience a wide range of opportunities both inside and outside the classroom.

Kenton College was founded at Kijabe in January 1924, taking its roots from a school called Kenya Grange at Lumbwa.The original owner, Finlay Cramb, who was originally joint Headmaster with William Jesse, took over an empty building which had been a German sanatorium on a saddle of Kijabe Hill overlooking Mt. Longonot and Lake Naivasha. The school was very isolated. This isolation led to our existing school being built in 1934 on open land in Kileleshwa, five kilometres from Nairobi city centre. The school moved, lock, stock and barrel, to re-open its doors once more in January 1935 on the present site. Kenton College was the first building in the area. One more move was necessitated by the onset of World War II. Kenton was taken over as a military Headquarters and subsequently as a Hospital, while the school transferred to the Westwood Park Hotel at Ngong for the duration of the war. Shortly after the War, Kenton returned to its proper home in Kileleshwa. The founder Headmaster retired and was replaced, in 1947, by Rev Cyril Birks from South Africa. Kenton College was, and always had been, an all boys, all boarding school. Originally built for less than 100 pupils, the school continued to grow and flourish so that, when the Rev Birks retired in 1966, over 100 boys were being educated at Kenton. The majority of these boys continued their education in Britain at well known Public Schools, many of which established close links with Kenton. These links were preserved by the new Headmaster, the Rev. Roy Stagg, who was responsible for running Kenton for the next 14 years. During this time there were more changes: the swimming pool was built; front pitch was carved out of the sloping hillside; extra classrooms were added and the number of pupils rose. Day boys were admitted for the first time towards the end of Rev Stagg’s tenure and, as the racial character of the school changed, so more pupils remained in Kenya for their secondary education. Kenton College became a Trust shortly after the next Headmaster, Mr Neville Usher-Wilson, took over in 1980. Considerable expansion followed, with additions and alterations to existing buildings, together with the construction of the Roger Owles Hall in 1989. The number of boys reached the 200 mark and continued to grow into the nineties as Mr. Usher-Wilson retired, to be replaced by Mr Henry Searle in 1991. Mr. Searle was responsible for the radical change which brought girls to Kenton for the first time in 1992. Further classrooms, the changing rooms and science labs were built as the school population stabilised at around 225 pupils. Mr Searle’s time at Kenton was very short: he moved on in July 1993 to be replaced by Mr Roger Hartley who remained as Head until 2005, at which point Kenton's first Headmistress, Mrs Maureen Cussans took over the leadership of a fully co-educational school with a roll of some 245 pupils. As one of ten IAPS Preparatory Schools in Kenya, Kenton can rightfully be regarded as one of the top 500 Preparatory Schools in the World.