Hillcrest School (Nairobi, Kenya)
Coordinates: 1°20′19″S 36°44′32″E / 1.338487°S 36.742148°E
Hillcrest Secondary School, Nairobi, Kenya, was founded in 1965, and was owned by politician Kenneth Matiba. It is situated on a 35-acre (140,000 m2) site in the Nairobi suburb of Karen. The school caters for the international, professional, and local business communities.
The preparatory school's facilities include 32 general classrooms, two laboratories, a library, two art rooms, a multipurpose hall, a swimming pool, a music centre with four practice rooms and a teaching/rehearsal space, an open-air amphitheatre, two computer laboratories, and a learning-support Center, Design and Technology center and an art room.
The secondary and preparatory school share facilities such as a twenty five metre pool, canoes, basketball courts and netball courts. There is a conserved area commonly known as 'The Nature Trail' which mainly consists of indigenous trees and hosts animals such as jackals, snakes, birds and hares.
There is also a boarding house, Toad Hall, which sits on the school site, capable of housing 16 girls and 16 boys.
The school year runs from September to July and IGCSE/'O' and 'A' level exams are set and marked by CIE (Cambridge International Examinations), AQA and Edexcel.
The school, of about 440 students, has its largest groups coming from Kenya and Britain. The staff are recruited from Britain and Kenya.
The sixth form has 60 to 75 students in each year, most of whom continue to university, mainly in the UK, but also in the USA, Canada, Europe and South Africa.
Alumni include Zain Verjee (anchor woman at CNN international) and Jo Theones, a DJ at Fox FM in Oxford.