Brookhouse Schools: Curriculum, Fees, and Accreditation in Kenya

Nov 06, 2025 0

Brookhouse School is an independent, co-educational day and boarding school in Kenya that offers early years, preparatory, and secondary schooling. The first and main campus is located in Karen, a suburb of Nairobi. Brookhouse follows the National Curriculum for England, and students take IGCSE and A-Level at 16+ and 18+, respectively. The school admits students from 2 to 18 years old.

Brookhouse is proud of its global membership in the Round Square group of schools worldwide. The school caters to a diverse age range, and a comprehensive selection of subject choices is available.

Why Choose Brookhouse?

Brookhouse is a British curriculum school in Kenya on two campuses with international accreditation through both the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS), ensuring a quality education.
Strong academic results. Students gain entry to leading UK, USA, Australian, Canadian, South African, and Kenyan universities.
Highly qualified teachers who are committed to their students. Many staff members have been teaching at Brookhouse for ten years or more, ensuring essential continuity in the education process and an excellent basis for pastoral care.
A truly multi-cultural environment, mixing students from over 40 countries.
A friendly atmosphere, with discipline based on mutual respect.
A well-developed pastoral care program, with emphasis placed on the Global Citizenship course of Personal, Health, and Social Education (PHSE), General Studies, and Critical Thinking lessons each week.
The support of a team of professional school counselors as part of the pastoral network within the school.
A Learning Centre, catering to students who have specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, and for students for whom English is an additional language (EAL). Qualified specialist staff work in this key area of the school.
An Academic Extension Program (AEP) for students to explore and extend particular talents.
Outstanding sporting facilities and an impressive history of team and individual sporting achievements. Opportunities abound for students to develop their sporting interests across twenty or more different sports.
A major commitment to The Arts, with music and drama productions of the highest caliber, and an impressive Fine Arts department that mounts regular exhibitions.
A vast array of extra-curricular activities, ranging from outdoor pursuits to community involvements, including a flourishing President‟s Award Kenya scheme, the annual East African Model United Nations, and an extensive Service Learning program.
An array of field trips and social and educational expeditions within Kenya, the East African region, and internationally.
The relaxed and friendly atmosphere created by having beautifully landscaped campus environments only a short distance from the city of Nairobi.
A strong sense of discipline focused on developing self-discipline in each pupil.
Science, IT/computing, and food science laboratories, impressive library facilities, and an extensive careers center.
Several levels of opportunity for active student and parent involvement through the student „rika‟ councils and a board advisory group, who liaise with the school management teams of senior staff.
Outstanding boarding facilities in a purpose-built boarding compound at the Karen Campus, which provides caring supervision and a safe and secure living environment. Brookhouse boarding is a major regional provider of quality boarding.
A truly international outlook that fosters global citizenship through Round Square conferences, student exchanges, and service learning projects.

Brookhouse School Karen Nairobi

Accreditation by CIS and IAPS

Brookhouse Schools is accredited by both the Council of International Schools (CIS) and the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS).

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What does this mean to you as a parent?

What are these organizations?
The Council of International Schools (CIS) is an association of international schools from all over the world. The organization was first established in Europe; however, today it is a major worldwide accreditation agency. It bases membership on the school achieving the highest standards and structures to deliver world-class international education for its pupils.
IAPS or the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools is a UK-based organization designed to ensure that a quality learning environment is maintained at the preparatory school level to enable young learners to be nurtured through their crucial early years in the education process.

Why did Brookhouse seek such accreditations?

Any school can tell its parents and community that it is wonderful. What we want at Brookhouse is for external and independent agencies to come into the school regularly to inspect us and tell us what they think. We want an ongoing and objective analysis of how effective we are at providing quality educational opportunities for the young people under our care.

Why choose CIS and IAPS?

Within the educational world, a CIS inspection is regarded as extremely rigorous. It involves a two-year period of preparation in which the school goes through a self-study. Every five years, a team of highly regarded international educationalists visits the school and looks at every single area of school life, including curriculum and assessment, teaching and learning, governance and management, philosophy and objectives, health and safety, and student services and facilities. The visiting team meets with management, staff, students, parents, and the school Board before writing their report. Gaining full accreditation with CIS is an achievement any school can be very proud of.

IAPS inspection provides a focused opportunity for the preparatory section of the school to undergo a rigorous self-study, followed by an accreditation visit. Since much of the most crucial learning for a child takes place during their earliest years of formal education, Brookhouse is keen to have specialist external evaluation of learning in the classroom for our preparatory school. Again, we take great pride in our IAPS accreditation as it affirms the level of excellence provided in our preparatory school classrooms.

What did these reports say specifically were good features about Brookhouse?

The reports contain many positive points. The inspection teams were particularly impressed by:

The friendly student-centered atmosphere and excellent relationships which prevail at all levels within the school
The pervasive evidence of the school striving for excellence
The teachers‟ commitment and loyalty to the students
The Board‟s vision in developing the school so successfully
The attractive, spacious, safe, secure, and clean school environment
The school‟s helpful pastoral system and extensive extra-curricular program.

Regular visits make sure that our standards remain high, and we will know further visits are always just around the corner, so we cannot afford to relax our high standards.

Financial Matters and Fees

At Brookhouse, we are proud of the high quality of education that we offer, and we can only maintain our standards if fees are paid promptly. Therefore, the following fees policy applies:

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Each year, the school has a limited number of places available for new students. To reserve a place, the following fees must be paid: the registration fee, caution money (refundable), and 50% of the total first-term fees for the child.

All Brookhouse fees are quoted in Kenyan Shillings and can be paid in Kenyan Shillings or US Dollars at the current exchange rates quoted by the school. There are two standard payment options available to parents: a single annual payment or three-termly payments at the commencement of each term. There will be a two-week window of payment time at the beginning of each term, constituting the “standard payment period”. Payments made after the end of the second week of term will attract a “late payment penalty charge,” a monthly cumulative % surcharge.

If fees have not been cleared by half-term, students may not be allowed back in school after the half-term break until all outstanding monies are cleared. Although it is never the intention of the school to impede the academic progress of any pupil, unfortunately, such a measure may be necessary until fee payment issues are resolved. The school reserves the right to return a pupil home should fees not be paid by the due date.

A limited number of partial scholarships are awarded by the School for academic, sporting, and artistic excellence. As a standard policy, all scholarships are reviewed annually and are dependent on continued maintenance of high standards by the pupil concerned.

Due to the high demand for boarding places, if parents wish to reserve a boarding place, then boarding fees should be paid in advance.

Once a student has a confirmed offer of a place at Brookhouse, the registration fee and caution money must be paid in order for the child to commence classes. It is also required that at least 50% of the first term‟s fees be paid as a deposit for new children joining the school.

Any parent whose check is dishonored will be required to make payments by cash or by banker’s check. However, if there is a reason for the dishonored check, parents are asked to produce a letter of explanation from the bank. Any costs incurred by the School in pursuing recovery of any outstanding fees shall be borne by the Parent.

Upon leaving Brookhouse, the refunding of caution money should be obtained within three months of departure from the school (the original receipt must be produced for processing of the caution money refund). This requires the clearance process to be completed within three months of leaving the school.

Caution money is refunded without interest when the pupil leaves school at the end of his/her school career.

There is no refund for students who are excluded or expelled from Brookhouse.

Remission of school fees is not made in cases where the School returns the pupil home because of illness, infections, discipline, or absence through any other cause.

Examination fee deadlines must be adhered to; a late payment penalty fee may be levied for exam fees paid after the published deadlines. Only those examination candidates who have cleared both their total school fees for the year and their examination fees are allowed to sit their examination papers at Brookhouse.

In all matters relating to the payment of fees, communication is the key to this policy. Parents are requested to keep the school informed of any problems that arise with payment at the earliest opportunity to avoid misunderstandings. As can be seen from the above policy, although it is never the wish of the school, failure to make payments by the stated deadlines may result in children being excluded from the school.

All correspondence regarding fees should be addressed to the Deputy Director.

Fees Schedule

Please note: fees are determined as a total figure for the academic year and billed on a 3-term basis, as outlined below.