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Kent School’s campus has an area of about 79,000 square feet. Kent School has first-class teaching facilities and an excellent teaching team. Facilities include more than 50 classrooms, two large multi-functional gymnasiums and a one thousand seater grand theatre. Culinary classrooms, beauty classrooms, dance & drama classrooms, piano rooms, computer classrooms, laboratories and other facilities are also available. The campus is equipped with a self-contained student dormitory building, which offers one of the best boarding experience in Canada.
Kent School is a full-time private high school registered with the Ontario Ministry of Education (BSID 667656), which issues Ontario Secondary School Diplomas.
Foreign Team (Teaching): we select and employ local senior teachers with high teacher qualifications and ESL certification to teach;

Chinese Team (Life): Professionals majoring in pedagogy who graduated from well-known universities and have many years of experience in education management.

Ruth Milne, coordinating principal of Kent School, has 35 years of education experience in Canadian public school education. She has served as a teacher, vice principal, principal, director of the Peel District School Board and Dean of the School of Continuing Education at the University of Toronto.

Karen Gough, the current principal, is an outstanding educator who has served as a teacher, counselor, Deputy principal and principal in three different schools affiliated to Ontario Ministry of Education. She also served as Dean of the School of Education at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York.
Boys’ and girls’ dormitories are distributed in different areas. Advanced electromagnetic lock anti-theft doors are installed in the dormitory area. Each person has a key card and can only have access to their own area. The dormitory is 2-3 rooms, equipped with custom solid wooden beds, desks, refrigerators and other learning and living necessities.

The 1000 square meter restaurant can accommodate 400 people at a time. All meals are made from fresh ingredients purchased by professional chefs on the same day. Breakfast includes: milk, bread, noodles, dumplings, eggs, side dishes, two kinds of porridge; lunch and dinner, four dishes and one soup (two meat and two vegetarian dishes) with fruit, the staple food is mostly rice. Our meals are provided from Monday to Saturday to ensure that students eat healthily and nutritionally, which is not available at many Canadian public and private schools.
OSSD is one of the highest quality and authoritative non-exam-oriented secondary education systems in the world. It is called the best education system in North America and one of the most advanced secondary school curriculum systems in the world.

OSSD not only uses credit system to teach students, but also uses scientific scoring and assessment method, 70% homework + 30% test results. It pays more attention to students’ learning process rather than test results, and gives students more room for development.

Complete the OSSD course and apply for University as Ontario local graduate. The application channel, admission academic standards and admission ratio are exactly the same as those of Canadian students. It is easier to get into a famous university.

OSSD scores are widely recognized in the world. OSSD graduates apply to most famous schools in Canada, Britain, Australia and the United States. They can apply directly with the average scores of six courses in Grade 12, without taking any unified examination or college entrance examination.
OSSD courses are closely linked with foreign university courses to maximize students’ adaptability to study abroad.
We have Chinese teachers on campus to help students adapt to life in Canada. From the moment they land in Canada, our Chinese teachers are in with contact their parents (Wechat, e-mail or telephone).

The school maintains close contact and communication with students’ parents via telephone and e-mail. At the same time, parents receive regular reports of students’ academic progress, so that they can keep abreast of their children’s learning and living conditions.

For non-native English speakers, ESL (English as a Second Language) courses are offered at the school, students are assessed before classes are arranged for them. Appropriate courses are arranged according to students’ English level to help students improve their English proficiency in an all-round way so that they can study and they can quickly adjust to the new environment.
Registered as an Ontario student with the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) which can be used to apply to universities in English speaking countries. This makes applying to world leading universities much easier. The application is just based on the average score of the best six courses in grade 12.

Applying to similar universities based on your own country’s national college entrance examination has numerous limitations. You may be required to take various supplementary examination by the universities you wish to apply to as well as English proficiency examinations among others. In terms of admission, your own country is based on the college entrance examination.
Compared with British Columbia, Ontario has more universities, and is home to a large number of world famous universities such as the University of Toronto, McMaster University, Western University and the University of Waterloo. Ontario students have more advantages in choosing better universities and advancing to higher education.

The education system in British Columbia is relatively strict and rigid. At present, high school graduates in BC must take provincial examinations, and international students are required to take two-year courses before they can enter the university. However, Ontario education is more flexible in serving international students and students do not need to take provincial examinations when applying for university.
While Canadian school a bastion of cultural exchange, students get of school at 3 PM and teachers have no obligation to go an extra mile in their students’ education. Many a time students have to deal with their life challenges by their own.
Kent School is equipped with quality student dormitories and a diverse staff; day courses are taught by Canadian local teachers, and Chinese teachers are responsible for students’ living after five o’clock; at night, tutors organize review lessons and IELTS courses. Therefore, compared with public schools, Kent School teaching staff takes a keen interest in the student’s wellbeing, guarantying safety and guidance when applying to universities.

The dormitory administrator will arrange the room placement of freshman and a tour of the public facilities around the school and dormitory, including stores, libraries, science and technology museums, etc.

At the beginning of the academic year, the school will invite bank professionals to help freshmen open individual accounts.

Organize recreational and sports activities to enable students to get to know each other and adapt to the new environment and develop a sense of belonging.

Full-time dormitory wardens are fully responsible for students’ accommodation and catering arrangements, and help to deal with students’ emergencies, such as illness, accidents and so on.

If a student is under 18 years of age, the school assumes the responsibility of guardian.

Medical and health insurance for students and follow-up services.

If students want to leave Canada on vacation, the school will issue relevant certificates for students’ tourist and entry visa applications.