Student groups at KO range from a newspaper (the KO News), a literary magazine called epic and a student-run yearbook to multicultural and community-service organizations. Kingswood Oxford students also continually score well within the National Merit Scholarship Program Extracurricular activities The school has also been voted the best prep school in the West Hartford area for the ninth consecutive time in the May 2017 edition of the Hartford Courant. KO students continually score well on Advanced Placement exams the school is one of the top achievers on AP tests among Connecticut high schools. The current Head of School, Thomas Dillow, joined Kingswood Oxford in 2018. In 2010, the School dropped the hyphen from its name, making it Kingswood Oxford School.
Kingswood's motto had been "In via recta celeriter" (In the right direction swiftly). At the time of the merger, Kingswood Oxford adopted the Oxford School motto: Vincit qui se vincit (One conquers by conquering oneself). Upon the merger in 1969, the combined institution took the name Kingswood-Oxford School, as originally hyphenated. The wyvern is a mythical creature said to have two legs, two clawed wings and a serpent's tail. The new Kingswood School inherited some of the traditions of the English school, including the School's crest, motto, colors (black and crimson) and distinctive symbol, the wyvern. He named the School for his alma mater, the Kingswood School based in Bath, England. Nicholson established the Kingswood School seven years later. In 2008 construction began on the new Chase-Tallwood Science Math Technology Center, which was completed at the commencement of the 2009 school year coinciding with the School's Centennial Celebration. In the summer of 2007 KO expanded and improved the dining facility and added the multisport (football, lacrosse, soccer, field hockey and softball) artificial turf field. The Prospect Street site became the permanent home of Oxford and served as the home for Kingswood Oxford's Middle School until the new Estes Family Building for the Middle School opened on the same campus as the Upper School in 2003.
In 1924, the School moved to 695 Prospect Ave. Martin opened Oxford School in 1909 in her home on Oxford Street in Hartford's West End.
Martin and Nicholson founded their schools on the premise that "wise parents know they must share with teachers the shaping of the minds and character of young people" as first expressed by The American Country Day School Journal in the early 1900s. Kingswood Oxford School was formed by the merger of two independent schools: Oxford School for girls, founded in 1909 by Mary Martin, and Kingswood School, founded by George R.H. ( July 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification.
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