Dulwich College Preparatory School
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Dulwich College Preparatory School (DCPS) is a private preparatory school in South London, UK and in Cranbrook, Kent for children aged 3-13 years. It was founded in 1885.
The current Headmaster is Mr George Marsh, who is also the Chair of the Incorporated Association of Prep Schools. DCPS is not officially affiliated with the prestigious Dulwich College; however, it does provide a large proportion of the 13+ entrants to the public school.
In 1938, John Leakey, the then Headmaster, established an evacuation camp in the orchard on his father-in-law's land at Coursehorn, near Cranbrook, Kent where it still is today. Despite the danger in 1940 the School in London was reopened and run along with the school in Cranbrook. There were plans to move the school to the West Country, but when these fell through the Cranbrook school was evacuated to Betws-y-Coed in Snowdonia (there remains a memorial planting of trees in that village in memory of this period). Meanwhile, Coursehorn was being used as a camp for the troops, and in 1944 soldiers had been gathered there in preparation for D-Day.
Robin David Peverett was headmaster of DCPS in Cranbrook for 30 years until 1990. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, after admitting nine charges of indecently assaulting seven pupils (six girls and one boy, between the ages of 10 and 13) in the 1960s and 1970s.
