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About Our School
02 | ABOUT OUR SCHOOL
King’s College School, The Bahamas is part of Inspired, the leading global group of premium schools.
Opening in August 2022, King’s College School, The Bahamas, brings to Nassau the strongest heritage of academic excellence combined with proven best practice from Inspired schools across five continents. The school will offer state-of-the-art facilities on an expansive 10-acre campus. At King’s College School, The Bahamas, your child receives an international education that creates open-minded, creative and dynamic individuals. Students at our school will be encouraged to be creative in their thinking and to work hard. This attitude, combined with the Inspired approach, ensures academic excellence and a rewarding experience for every student. We believe in creating open-minded, dynamic individuals; students will learn from first-hand experience, not just textbooks.
MATTEO ROSSETTI
FOUNDING HEADTEACHER
What Makes Us Special
Access to the Inspired global group of over 70 premium schools providing unrivalled opportunities including exchanges and summer camps. 50-year heritage of academic excellence from the Inspired and King’s College Schools. Specialised subject teachers from primary onwards.
Hand-picked teachers from the Inspired group. Guaranteed entrance into any Inspired boarding school for secondary education. Specialist coaching and counselling for entrance into US and UK universities.
Why Join Us
Access to Inspired’s premium schools across 20 countries, spanning five continents providing unrivalled global opportunities, including exchanges and summer camps. Students from King’s College School, The Bahamas uniquely benefit from meaningful global connectivity with over 70 Inspired premium schools, across 20 countries, spanning five continents. From extraordinary curriculum collaborations to global student leadership networks, partnerships and exchanges, teachers and students alike in Nassau will join one of the largest professional learning communities in the world, the like of which has not been seen in the region before. Students will enjoy the opportunity to participate in the Inspired Global Summer Camps programme, staying at some of Europe’s top boarding schools and taking part in programmes delivered by worldclass partners. The camps are a wonderful opportunity to travel, meet peers from other countries and get involved with inspiring activities, from sports and fashion to learning a language. For students wanting to experience life in another school, our Inspired Exchange Programme is available for stays from four weeks to a year. Every exchange offers a unique opportunity to explore new places, improve language skills, make new friends and experience new cultures. Exchanges are available in Spain, UK, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, South Africa and New Zealand.
A heritage of academic excellence
50-year heritage of academic excellence from Inspired and the King’s College School group, providing proven excellence in premium education to over 55,000 students worldwide.
For over 50 years, the King’s College group has characterised learning as interdisciplinary, with a strong emphasis on exploratory and practical learning and respect for the individuality of each and every child. Supported by this heritage, our new private school in Nassau, The Bahamas will leverage the group’s long history of academic excellence and performance for the benefit of all our students.
Specialised subject teachers from Primary onwards
Students are taught by specialised subject teachers in the areas of Maths, English, Spanish, French, Science, Music, Physical Education, Public Speaking and Drama. Research shows that strong subject knowledge impacts on the effectiveness of teaching and learning. All our students, from Primary years upwards, benefit from this team of specialist staff, who bring deeper and broader subject knowledge, and have greater insight into the subject that they teach.
Hand-picked teachers from the Inspired group
Our hand-picked teachers provide best in-class teaching and the deepest learning from Inspired’s global network of premium schools around the world.
With access to the very best teachers, hand-picked from Inspired’s global network of premium schools around the world, our students will experience best-in-class teaching and the deepest learning, enabling them to fulfil their highest aspirations and achieve their true potential.
Guaranteed entry to Inspired boarding schools
Students are guaranteed a place at any of Inspired’s premium boarding schools around the world for their secondary education. By choosing to study at King’s College School, The Bahamas, students are guaranteed a place at any of Inspired’s premium boarding schools around the world, if they choose to pursue their secondary studies outside of The Bahamas. Our boarding schools offer a transformative experience that promises roundthe-clock education and exciting weekend enrichment activities.
Specialist coaching to ensure top university destinations
With access to Inspired’s specialist counselling, over 90% of graduates go on to their first-choice university. One in three Inspired graduates attends Russell Group and Ivy League universities – some of the most prestigious universities in the world. King’s College School, The Bahamas students will access Inspired’s specialist counselling for top US and UK universities – provided by Arete Educational Consulting, a full-service tutoring and educational consulting company who help students to gain admission to an Ivy League university by providing coaching and counselling.
Our exciting purpose-built campus will open to students in August 2023. Whilst this is under construction, our temporary campus will be based in high-quality leased facilities a short distance away, on Western Road. We have ensured that the temporary facilities meet all the expectations and needs of students to provide a first-class learning environment. They offer eight classrooms, an art room, dining room, well-stocked library and a multi-purpose room. From August 2022, we will be able to use the outdoor field on the new campus. This is only a few hundred metres away and will have two five-a-side football pitches and a running track. Both campuses will offer the highest quality facilities and a learning environment that has been designed for how students learn today. They will also facilitate a great range of co-curricular enrichment activities.
Brand New Facilities in a Purpose-Built Campus
Facilities at the new site opening in August 2023 will include football pitches, tennis courts, padel courts as well as dance, drama and art studios. There will also be state-of-the-art science labs, a multi-purpose hall, a 25m swimming pool, an adventure park playground, and plenty of green spaces and shaded areas for students to enjoy.
