Earlscliffe is a ‘boutique’ day and boarding school in Folkestone, Kent, on the British heritage coast. The school has gained an international reputation for its ‘gold-standard’ A-level programme and the quality of its university pathways provision. In its recent Ofsted inspection in June 2017, Earlscliffe was rated ‘Outstanding’ in all six areas.

Earlscliffe enrols students aged 15 to 19 from all nationalities. The school provides a personalised education experience in a family-style environment. Staff at Earlscliffe draw on teaching methods inspired by Oxbridge colleges, top schools, and other world-leading universities.

The school’s enriching environment emphasises academic rigour while offering high levels of pastoral care. Students thrive in a close-knit and safe community where they are encouraged to achieve their highest academic goals. Once students begin their university applications, every applicant benefits from one-to-one support with the Director, Tim Fish, who has worked in teaching and leadership roles at well-known international schools for over thirty years. Students achieve outstanding exam results and win places at competitive universities, such as Durham, St Andrews, University of the Arts, London, and UCL, Imperial, Warwick, and even Stanford.

Rochester Independent College focuses on the highest levels of academic achievement while retaining a creative buzz.

Rochester’s Mathematics, Science, English Literature, and Film Studies teaching have all won awards from The Good Schools Guide in recent years who also say: “It would be hard to find better provision for an artist.”

Located in Kent, the school occupies a historically distinctive site. Listed Georgian buildings are linked by award-winning wildlife gardens, creating a unique sense of place in which to live, work, and study. The campus is as unique as the school itself, with an underground theatre space, an outdoor classroom shaped like an igloo, and steel sculptural musical gates that form a landmark piece of public art. All boarding is on-site, in single rooms, some with ensuite facilities.