A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a fee-charging private primary school that caters for children up to approximately the age of 13. The term "preparatory school" is used as it prepares the children for the Common Entrance Examination in order to secure a place at an independent secondary ...
Prep schools in England. In the UK, a preparatory school is an independent primary school for children up to age 13.
Prep (preparatory) schools educate younger children up to the age of 13 to prepare them for entry to the public schools and other private schools. Some former grammar schools converted to a private fee-charging model following the 1965 Circular 10/65 and the subsequent cessation in 1975 of government funding support to direct grant ...
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Preparatory school or prep school may refer to: Schools. Preparatory school (United Kingdom), a fee-charging private primary school; College-preparatory school, a type of secondary school in the United States and Japan; Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles (Higher school preparatory classes), part of the French post-secondary ...
A preparatory school (or prep school) is a term in school education. Its use varies in different parts of the world. In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries, it is a fee -paying private school which prepares students for the entrance exam to public schools .
A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school. The term refers to public, private independent or parochial schools primarily designed to prepare students for higher education.
Separate preparatory schools (or "prep schools") for younger boys developed from the 1830s, with entry to the senior schools becoming limited to boys of at least 12 or 13 years old. The first of these was Windlesham House School , established with support from Thomas Arnold , the headmaster of Rugby School between 1828 and 1841.
En los países pertenecientes a la Commonwealth una escuela preparatoria (normalmente abreviado como "prep school") es una Independent School que prepara a sus estudiantes hasta la edad de once o trece años para las Secondary Independent Schools de pago. Algunas de estas escuelas reciben también el nombre de Public Schools.
Private schools in the United Kingdom; Preparatory schools; Schools in the United Kingdom by type
An preparatory school (usually abbreviated as prep school) is an independent school that educates children up to the age of eleven or thirteen. Prep schools provide high quality education from primary one to secondary two. It is the best choice for parents who wish their younger children to enter UK primary or junior secondary schools.