Founded in 1432, Sevenoaks enjoys a global reputation as a centre of academic excellence and a flagship school for the International Baccalaureate. A co-educational day and boarding school, it offers a stimulating, intellectually demanding and balanced education for pupils from the age of 11 to 18.
Inspiring facilities, together with expert, enthusiastic and imaginative teaching, provide rich opportunities for students participating in lessons and a wide variety of sports and the performing and visual arts. The school’ s international student body and outlook promote the principles of tolerance and open-mindedness. About 450 pupils board in the eight boarding houses, and 75 nationalities are represented in the student body.
Sevenoaks was The Sunday Times Co-educational Independent School of the Year 2023. In 2025, Sevenoaks received The Week’ s‘ Best of the best for the IB’ accolade in its Independent Schools Guide. The school’ s pastoral care and work with the Harvard Human Flourishing Program was recognised with the Independent Schools of the Year 2023 award for wellbeing.
Sevenoaks is one of the world’ s most successful IB schools, and is the top performing fully co-educational IB school in the UK. In 2026, IB cohort of 250 students achieved a mean Diploma score of 39.8, around 10 points above the world average, which makes us the largest, most successful IB school in the world this year. Eight students gained 45 points and more than 50 per cent gained 40 points or more.