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Tuition & Financial Aid

Tuition & Financial Aid

Kent is committed to making its education accessible to all families who are drawn to the mission of the School.

Financial aid awards range from $5,000 up to the full cost of tuition, depending upon each family’s individual financial circumstances.

The average financial aid award is nearly $58,300. 32% of Kent students receive financial aid from a school-wide financial aid budget of $9.8 million.



 


 

Comprehensive Tuition

Kent School strives to make the annual cost of education more transparent. Tuition includes certain fees, such as health center, technology, and most textbooks. Tuition does not cover the full cost of providing a Kent education, with a healthy endowment and annual fund donations making up the difference.

 

2025-2026 Tuition and Fees  
Boarding (including room and board) $81,500
Day $60,750
Additional fees may apply for health insurance, international students, tuition refund insurance, and optional trips.   



 


 

A Transformative Investment

A solid educational foundation is one of the highest priorities for parents/guardians. Investing in the future of one’s child is an important decision. Kent’s objective is to create a learning community that allows families who believe in the School’s approach access to the Kent experience, regardless of their ability to afford it.

Our long-standing commitment to ensuring that student experience is not limited by a family’s ability to pay goes well beyond tuition reduction. Depending on level of need, qualifying families may also receive other forms of assistance besides tuition grants:

  • Discretionary spending accounts to help with expenses on and off campus.
  • Fee waivers.
  • Reduced costs for individual music lessons and school trips.
  • Free laundry service.
  • Health insurance.


 


 

An Elite School; Not A School For Elites

When the Reverend Frederick Herbert Sill founded Kent School in 1906, he envisioned an elite school, not a school for elites. This intention expressed itself in ways big and small, from our motto to the jobs program. Materially, this vision resulted in making the school accessible to those who might not otherwise be able to afford a boarding school education.

An Egalitarian Approach

Fr. Sill was ahead of his time, instituting a tuition model that asked families to pay only what they were able to afford. It is in that spirit that Kent approaches financial aid today. The School provides some form of tuition assistance for 35% of its students, with a goal to endow a 10% increase in financial aid by the Fall of 2026.