The Kew-Forest School is an independent college preparatory school, located in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, United States, for students in grades Preschool to Grade 12.
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History
What is today the neighborhoods of Forest Hills and Kew Gardens were both created in 1909 as housing developments. The only public school servicing the new developments was P.S. 101, however, it only ran from kindergarten to third grade. A group of wealthy locals engaged with Louis Durant Marriott and Guy Hinman Catlin, both teachers at the private St. Paul's School, to become co-headmasters of the new Kew-Forest School. A 2-acre plot of land was then purchased and three buildings constructed with the school openings its doors on September 25, 1918, offering education from kindergarten through high-school. Unlike many other private schools at the time, the Kew-Forest School started life co-educational.
Headmasters
Guy Hinman Catlin (co) 1918-1933
Louis Durant Marriott: 1918-1941
James L. Dixon: 1941-1960
Wilson M. Johnson: 1960-1973
Philip V. Rogers, Jr.: 1973-1999
Peter S. Lewis: 2000-2009
Mark Fish: 2009-2014
Eric G. Ruoss: 2014-2017
Carla MacMullen: 2017-2022
Tiffany D. Trotter: 2022-present
Notable alumni
Hank Azaria, actor
Maryanne Trump Barry, United States Appellate Judge and eldest sister of U.S. President, Donald Trump
Peter Brant, industrialist
Margaret Wise Brown, author
Derek Bryson Park, Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
Donald Trump, 45th and 47th president of the United States
Katharine Weber, author and professor
Gideon Yago, journalist
James Gray, director