Kent College, Canterbury is a co-educational private school for boarding and day pupils between the ages of 3 months and 18 years.

Originally established as a boys' public school, it admitted girls into the sixth form in 1973 and since 1975 it has been fully co-educational.

The senior school occupies a semi-rural site of some 70 acres (280,000 m2) on the edge of the city of Canterbury, and also owns the nearby Moat Estate, where there is a farm, managed by staff and pupils, and sports pitches.

[1] An increase in the number of pupils through the twentieth century, attributable in part to the admittance of girls, necessitated the construction of, among other buildings, three boarding houses.

In 1938 a fire, which broke out when the master on duty was at the cinema in Canterbury, caused substantial damage to the Main Building; the central spire collapsed and was not replaced during reconstruction.

It is recorded in the "Kent College Centenary Book" that during the construction of the Prickett Building, difficulties arose because of the presence of an underground spring.

Before Kent College acquired the house it had been rented for convalescence by Virginia Woolf, who complained in one of her letters that "we had our windows prised open.

The rain falls, and the birds never give over singing, and hot sulphur fumes rise from the valleys, and the red cow in the field roars for her calf...".

The school badge shows the three black choughs taken from the arms of Thomas Beckett and 'invicta' the white horse of the county of Kent.

Kent College administers the Old Canterburian Club, which puts on events throughout the year to which O.C.s are invited, and encourages former pupils to maintain contact with the school.

ISBN 978-0-7134-4777-4 10,001 Facts about Kent College was the official supplement to Christopher Wright's Centenary Book, and was published in the same year.

The Kent College Times: This takes the place of the "Bulletin", and communicates news from the preceding term, with an introduction by the headmaster.