King's Edgehill School

“Be More” at King’s-Edgehill School, an IB Plus school since 1979 and Canada’s first independent school. Surrounded by the unparalleled beauty of our 75 acre campus in the safe and friendly province of Nova Scotia, study at a school that offers more at every turn and expects that by doing more and giving more, you will become one of the School’s highly successful graduates – graduates who attend the world’s top universities and earn more than $1 million in university scholarship annually.

King's-Edgehill School is a private boarding school in Windsor, Nova Scotia. The school offers programs for grades 6 to 12 with enrolment of 140 day students and 220 boarding students. King's-Edgehill School has an average class size of 15 students and is the oldest private school in Canada founded in 1788.

Our Mission

KES inspires academic, athletic and artistic excellence with a commitment to the traditional community ideals of gentleness and learning, dignity and respect, so that students may discover and cultivate their unique potential, prepare for post-secondary education and develop a life-long enthusiasm for the spiritual and intellectual growth necessary to flourish in the contemporary world.

Our Values

KES considers itself an “oasis of kindness”, believing that it is essential for students to be emotionally and physically safe for them to excel. Our core values of “Gentleness, Dignity, Learning, and Respect” are well known amongst the students and staff, and are foundational elements in our school culture.

Our biggest differentiator is our people!  King's-Edgehill School is full of kind, healthy, happy, empathetic and motivated students and staff.  Everybody belongs at KES!  New students quickly make friends and feel happy and welcome at King's-Edgehill and this is perhaps the most important key to a successful school experience.

Program Details:

KES offers the choice between studying the full IB Diploma or studying individual IB courses combined with regular curriculum courses.  Students who study individual IB courses will write the individual IB certificates in those subjects.  KES was one of the first school's in the world to become an IB school in 1979.

Community Service is one of the four pillars of the KES experience.  Our students are very involved in meaningful community service within our local community.  Our students volunteer weekly at the local hospital, seniors home and elementary school and this is just a small sample of the volunteer activity performed each year by our students.

Educational, cultural and community service trips happen on an annual basis during both the short and long breaks in the School year.  These include a 3 week community service trip to Africa that includes building classrooms for African children and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, annual cultural tours of European cities such as Italy and Greece, and Canadian trips to explore ski resorts and other attractions within Canada.