The New Beacon Preparatory School
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The New Beacon Preparatory School is a fee-paying preparatory school, or prep school, located in Sevenoaks, Kent, United Kingdom, which caters both for day-boys and boarders. The school's principle function is to prepare boys for the Common Entrance examination, used by British public schools to select pupils, and each year many of the school's pupils succeed in gaining places either at Sevenoaks School or Tonbridge School - both consistenty ranked amongst the top fee-paying secondary schools in the country in terms of A-Level/IB performance and Oxbridge entrance. Over the years ex- Beacon Boys have gone on to attend a wide range of institutions including Eton College, Harrow School and Westminster School.
Famous alumni of the school include Siegfried Sassoon and Timothy Laurence (second husband of Anne, Princess Royal).
