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Phone: 031 765 9600 | email: info@kearsney.com
www.kearsney.com

Founded in 1921, Kearsney College is one of the country’s top
independent traditional boys’ schools, renowned for its balance
and all-round excellence. Kearsney’s beautiful 125-acre estate is
located in Botha’s Hill, on the edge of the Valley of a Thousand
Hills, midway between Durban and Pietermaritzburg and a Arts and Culture
thirty-minute drive from either city. The world-famous Kearsney College Choir have been crowned
World Champions on four occasions. Since 2000 Kearsney has
Academics – the top priority won fifteen gold medals and seven silver medals at the World
The College has an outstanding record of academic Choir Games, the largest choir competition in the world. The Choir
achievement in the IEB Matriculation Examinations and enjoys performs on the world’s great stages and has twice been selected
a proud reputation for academic excellence. Kearsney has to represent Africa at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva
invested heavily in establishing Maths and Science as centres and New York. In 2023 the Kearsney College Choir was ranked 26
th
of excellence and consistently achieves outstanding results in out of the Top 1,000 choirs in the world by Interkultur, the world’s
these key subjects. leading organiser of international choir competitions. In keeping
with the College’s commitment to a balanced education, an
Sport extensive club and cultural programme is offered at Kearsney, with
Kearsney has a proud track record of sporting excellence, up to thirty-six clubs available to the boys.
consistently producing provincial and national sportsmen across
the codes. Kearsney pupils enjoy world-class facilities, including
an indoor SportZone that houses seven indoor cricket nets
with four bowling machines, two basketball courts, an indoor
hockey/soccer pitch, two swimming pools and a 280m weights
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gymnasium. Boys on the High Performance Sports Programme
have access to the expertise of a biokineticist, sports scientist,
dietician and physiotherapists and personalised training
programmes are developed to help each boy perform at his peak.

In addition to the SportZone, Kearsney’s spacious campus
boasts seven sports fields, a floodlit, water-based hockey
Astroturf, six tennis courts, six basketball courts, four squash
courts and a mountain bike track through our conservancy.
Kearsney believes that sports are an important part of a Flexible Boarding
healthy lifestyle and balanced education and there are Kearsney offers its 650 boys flexible weekly or termly boarding and
fourteen sporting codes for the boys to enjoy. day scholar options. Transport is provided on Monday mornings
for boarders from Richards Bay, Umtunzini, Ballito, Umhlanga,
Hilton and Pietermaritzburg. Transportation is provided to and
from King Shaka International Airport for holidays and half terms.

KEARSNEY
COLLEGE
1921 to 2021

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