King's College Junior School (also known as KCJS) is the preparatory school for King's College School located in Wimbledon, London. It was established in its own right in 1912, and educates boys from ages 7–13. It occupies the same campus as the senior school.
As of the November 2005 Independent Schools Inspectorate inspection report, enrollment in the junior school totaled 444 boys, divided into six year groups with four classes of about 20, except in year 4 where there are three classes. Fees for the Junior School are currently £4,660 per term for years 3-4, and £5,260 per term for years 5-8. The headmaster is Dr G A Silverlock.
The uniform is a red blazer with the emblem in blue on the top pocket. Every boy wears a white shirt and grey shorts or trousers. The ties are similar to the Senior School ties, and prefects in the top year ("Upper Remove") wear Senior School ties. The Junior School has featured very strongly in national competitions too - they were National Rugby Champions at U13 level in 2009. In the same year the Junior School ran away with the team prize on its return to the national Townsend-Warner Competition for History and had twelve pupils qualify for the UK Junior Mathematics Olympiad. They continued to excel in the Townsend-Warner prize, with a record winning streak of three years from 2009 to 2011 and two individual winners in 2011 and 2012.
All boys are allocated to one of the school's four houses when they join (siblings are placed into the same house):
- Norman (Black)
- Stuart (Green)
- Tudor (Blue)
- Windsor (Yellow)
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