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Definition of prep school in English: prep schoolnoun 1British A private school for pupils between the ages of seven and thirteen. Example sentencesExamples - Mrs Kordon said the class would prepare younger children for life in the prep school and help them to develop confidence, independence and self-esteem.
- ‘The days when children wanted to be astronauts or fighter pilots is long gone,’ the head teacher of a Surrey prep school told me.
- I was at Harrow County grammar where I'd arrived two years earlier from a private prep school to be bullied because my accent was too posh.
- The house then became a prep school and later a language school.
- Little Johnny was in his prep school class when the teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living.
- He was, briefly, the head teacher of a prep school in Surrey.
- He arrived at Pocklington in 1951 as a boarder aged 13, after attending a prep school in Nottingham, and stayed until he was 17.
- Sometimes the system includes a middle school, which covers more-or-less the same years as the prep school.
- And she added that there had been some pressure for The Atherley to become a mixed school from parents of boys who attend their prep school, Grove Place.
- There would be a pre-prep school for 350 and a prep school for 450.
2North American A private school that prepares pupils for college or university. Example sentencesExamples - Just a few miles off the highway, Blair is a distinguished prep school with a picturesque campus that rivals most colleges.
- He went to a prep school here in America, and he's very pro-Western.
- He was preparing to attend a college prep school, something he had mixed feelings about.
- As a teenager, he was sent to a Massachusetts prep school, and he spent the rest of his life in the States.
- A prep school offers an environment which focuses on college after high school.
- My first job in the United States was as a schoolteacher - at a prep school in Virginia.
- What are they doing that's so different from the typical public school, Christian school, or prep school?
- They develop ‘areas of excellence,’ and have portfolios to get into the best prep school.
- For a dependent to be eligible for the prep school, he or she must be the son or daughter of a career military member.
- He's the lone black student in an all-white prep school, but he has a good heart, is smart, and is unstoppable on the court.
- She had been educated in an old-fashioned prep school where such things were considered ordinary.
- His parents have relocated to Los Angeles from back east, where Morgan got into some kind of trouble at his prestigious prep school.
- I know it's hard to believe, but I used to go to a little prep school where they made you wear a tie every day.
Definition of prep school in US English: prep schoolnounˈprep ˌsko͞olˈprɛp ˌskul 1North American A private school that prepares students for college. Example sentencesExamples - She had been educated in an old-fashioned prep school where such things were considered ordinary.
- His parents have relocated to Los Angeles from back east, where Morgan got into some kind of trouble at his prestigious prep school.
- He went to a prep school here in America, and he's very pro-Western.
- A prep school offers an environment which focuses on college after high school.
- My first job in the United States was as a schoolteacher - at a prep school in Virginia.
- I know it's hard to believe, but I used to go to a little prep school where they made you wear a tie every day.
- Just a few miles off the highway, Blair is a distinguished prep school with a picturesque campus that rivals most colleges.
- For a dependent to be eligible for the prep school, he or she must be the son or daughter of a career military member.
- What are they doing that's so different from the typical public school, Christian school, or prep school?
- He's the lone black student in an all-white prep school, but he has a good heart, is smart, and is unstoppable on the court.
- They develop ‘areas of excellence,’ and have portfolios to get into the best prep school.
- As a teenager, he was sent to a Massachusetts prep school, and he spent the rest of his life in the States.
- He was preparing to attend a college prep school, something he had mixed feelings about.
2British A private school for students between the ages of seven and thirteen. Example sentencesExamples - He was, briefly, the head teacher of a prep school in Surrey.
- The house then became a prep school and later a language school.
- I was at Harrow County grammar where I'd arrived two years earlier from a private prep school to be bullied because my accent was too posh.
- There would be a pre-prep school for 350 and a prep school for 450.
- And she added that there had been some pressure for The Atherley to become a mixed school from parents of boys who attend their prep school, Grove Place.
- ‘The days when children wanted to be astronauts or fighter pilots is long gone,’ the head teacher of a Surrey prep school told me.
- Little Johnny was in his prep school class when the teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living.
- Sometimes the system includes a middle school, which covers more-or-less the same years as the prep school.
- Mrs Kordon said the class would prepare younger children for life in the prep school and help them to develop confidence, independence and self-esteem.
- He arrived at Pocklington in 1951 as a boarder aged 13, after attending a prep school in Nottingham, and stayed until he was 17.
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