Preparatory school (UK)
In English language usage in the former British Empire , the present-day Commonwealth , a preparatory school (usually abbreviated to prep school ) is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for fee-paying, secondary independent schools, some of which are called public schools . While many prep schools prepare their students for entry to a range of senior schools, some are closely associated with a single school, as Colet Court is with St Paul's School . Most British prep schools are primarily day schools, but many also take boarders .
Some maintained grammar schools which are otherwise free have a fee-paying prep department . Examples include Sullivan Upper School in Holywood and Bangor Grammar School , Bangor, County Down , both in Northern Ireland .
This use of the term in the UK is in contrast to that in the United States and Canada , where "prep school" means a university-preparatory school .
Boys' prep schools are generally for eight to thirteen year olds, when most pupils take the Common Entrance Examination for entry into a secondary independent school. Before the age of eight, the term "pre-prep school", parallel in the UK with a maintained primary school , is often used. Thus, most independently educated boys will go to a pre-prep school from the age of four or five until eight, then from eight to thirteen to a prep school, and from thirteen to an independent secondary school.
Girls' private schools in England tend to follow the age ranges of maintained schools more closely than those for boys. A girls' preparatory school will usually admit girls from the age of five, and they will continue to another independent school at eleven. However, as more girls now go on to boys' schools which have become co-educational , the separation is less clear.
The Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS) is the prep schools' heads' association serving the top 500+ independent prep schools in the UK and worldwide, with a total of 130,000 pupils. The IAPS is one of seven affiliated associations of the Independent Schools Council (ISC).
List of British Preparatory schools
Abbotsford Preparatory School [1] Urmston , Manchester Aberdour School , Surrey Abingdon Preparatory School , Frilford , Oxfordshire Aldwickbury School , Hertfordshire Alleyn Court Preparatory School , Westcliff on Sea All Hallows Preparatory School , Shepton Mallet Aldro School , Shackleford , Surrey Alton Burn , Nairn . Invernessshire .Altrincham Preparatory School , Cheshire Amberley House School , Clifton , Bristol Andean House School, [2] Ardvreck School , Crieff , Perthshire Ashfold School , Dorton , Buckinghamshire Ashdown House, East Sussex Aysgarth School, North Yorkshire Bancroft's Preparatory School , Woodford Green Beaudesert Park School , Minchinhampton , Gloucestershire Bedford Preparatory School , Bedfordshire Beechenhurst School, Liverpool
Beechwood Park Preparatory School , Markyate , Hertfordshire Belmont Mill Hill Preparatory School ,Mill Hill , London Belmont Preparatory School [3] Holmbury St Mary , Surrey Bilton Grange [4] Rugby, Warwickshire Blue Coat School , Edgbaston, Birmingham Brentwood Preparatory School , Brentwood, EssexBrockhurst and Marlston House School , Hermitage, BerkshireBrooklands Preparatory School [5] Broughton Manor Preparatory School [6] Burys Court School [7] Leigh , Surrey Carleton House Preparatory School, Liverpool
Caldicott School [8] Bucks Cheam School Cheltenham College Junior School [9] Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Chinthurst School , Tadworth , Surrey Christ Church Cathedral School , Oxford Clifton College Preparatory School, BristolClifton Lodge , Ealing, LondonColet Court , London Copthorne School [10] West Sussex Cothill House [11] Abingdon Cottesmore School , Crawley , West Sussex Coworth-Flexlands Preparatory School & Nursery [12] Chobham , Surrey Cranleigh Preparatory School , Cranleigh, SurreyCrowstone Preparatory School [13] CPS Website ,Rochford, EssexCrowstone Preparatory School [13] CPS Website , Westcliff on-Sea, EssexCulford Preparatory School , Culford School , Bury St. Edmunds Cundall Manor School North Yorkshire Davenies [14] Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire Downsend School , Leatherhead , Surrey Downs School , Colwall , Hertfordshire Dover Court Preparatory School , Singapore [15] Dragon School , Oxford Duke of Kent School , Ewhurst, Cranleigh, Surrey [16] Dulwich Prep. [17] London Dulwich Prep. , Kent [18] Dumpton School , Dorset [19] Durham Choristers School , Durham Durston House , London Durlston Court , Barton-on-Sea , Hampshire Eastcourt School , Ilford, London Eagle House School , Crowthorne Eaton House The Manor School , London Edge Grove , Aldenham , Hertfordshire Edgeborough School , Farnham , Surrey Elm Green Preparatory School , Essex The Elms School , Colwall , Herefordshire Elstree School , [Woolhampton], [newbury], Berkshire Exeter School , Exeter , Devon Fairfield Preparatory School , Loughborough Farleigh School , Andover , Hampshire Feltonfleet , Cobham , Surrey Foremarke Hall School , Repton , Derbyshire Forest Preparatory School , Walthamstow Fulham Preparatory School , [20] London Gayhurst School , Buckinghamshire [21] Glebe House School & Nursery , Hunstanton , Norfolk Gracefield Preparatory School , BristolGreat Ballard Preparatory School , Chichester Godstowe Preparatory School , High Wycombe .Grace Dieu Manor School , Leicestershire Great Walstead School , Haywards Heath Gresham's Preparatory School , Holt , Norfolk Haddon Dene School Broadstairs kent The Hall School ,[22] Hampstead , London Hall Grove School , Bagshot , Surrey Hampshire School , knightsbridge, LondonThe Hamlets School , Liverpool Haslemere Preparatory School , Haslemere Hazelwood Preparatory School , Limpsfield , Surrey Heath Mount Preparatory School , Stevenage Hereward House School , Hampstead Highfield School [23] Liphook , Hampshire Hilden Grange School , Tonbridge, KentHill House International School , Knightsbridge , London Holland House School , Edgware , London Holmewood House School , Kent Holmwood House School , Colchester , Essex Homefield School , Sutton , Surrey Horris Hill School , Berkshire Hurstpierpoint College Preparatory School, Sussex Kensington Preparatory School , Kensington , London Kew College , Surrey Kimbolton Preparatory School , KimboltonKingswood House School , Epsom , Surrey King's House School , Richmond The King's School, Ely Junior School[24] Cambs Kings School, Plymouth [25] Plymouth, Devon Knighton House [26] Knightsbridge School Lennox Gardens, Knightsbridge London SW1 [27] Lancing College Preparatory School at Mowden, Hove Liverpool College , Liverpool Lockers Park Prep School [28] Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire * Ludgrove [29] Wokingham Lyndon Preparatory School [30] Colwyn Bay Maidwell Hall , NorthamptonshireMalsis School [31] North Yorkshire The Manor Prep School [32] Abingdon Marlborough House School , Hawkhurst , Kent Milbourne Lodge School [33] Esher Millfield Preparatory School , Street, SomersetMilton Keynes Preparatory School [6] Moor Park [34] Ludlow Moreton Hall Prep School , Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk [35] Mowden Hall School [36] Northumberland The New Beacon Preparatory School [37] Sevenoaks , Kent New College Preparatory School , Oxford Newland House Preparatory School Norman Court Preparatory School , Salisbury , Wiltshire Northcote Lodge , Wandsworth , London Norwich School Lower School , Norwich , Norfolk Notre Dame Preparatory School Oakfield Sch. West Dulwich Old Buckenham Hall (OBH )Orley Farm School , Harrow , Middlesex Orwell Park School , Nacton , Suffolk [38] The Old Malthouse , Langton Matravers , Dorset [39] Packwood Haugh School [40] Shrewsbury Pennthorpe School , RudgwickThe Perse Preparatory School [41] Cambridge The Portsmouth Grammar Junior School [42] Portsmouth , Hampshire The Pilgrims School [43] Winchester , Hampshire St Dunstan's Abbey School - The Plymouth College Junior School , Plymouth Port Regis [44] Pownall Hall School , Wilmslow , Cheshire Prebendal School , Chichester Prestfelde School , Shrewsbury The Priory School, Banstead , Banstead , Surrey Quainton Hall School , Harrow , Middlesex Ranby House School , Ranby Ripley Court Preparatory School [45] Surrey Rossall Junior School Royal Masonic School , Rickmansworth Rudston Preparatory School , Rotherham Runnymede St Edward's School, Liverpool
Rydes Hill Preparatory School , Guildford [46] The Royal School Armagh [47] Armagh The Ryleys School , Alderley Edge, Cheshire S Anselm's School , BakewellSalisbury Cathedral School , Salisbury Shernold School , Maidstone , Kent .Shrewsbury House School St Bede's Preparatory School , ManchesterSt Catherine's Preparatory School , BramleySt Cedds School [48] Chelmsford St Christophers School [49] Hove St Edmunds School , Canterbury St Edmunds School, Hindhead St Faith's School , Cambridge St Ives School [50] Haslemere St John's Beaumont Preparatory School [51] Windsor St John's College School , Cambridge [52] St Joseph's Preparatory School [53] Stoke-on-Trent Stoke Brunswick School , Ashurst Wood, SussexSt Martin's Ampleforth [54] North Yorkshire (formerly Ampleforth College Junior School and Gilling Castle )St Martin's Preparatory School [55] Grimsby , North East Lincolnshire Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (formerly "St Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst"; "Hodder Place")St Piran's School , Maidenhead St. Ronan's School , Hawkhurst , Kent.The Schools at Somerhill , Tonbridge Sevenoaks Prep School : [56] Sevenoaks , Kent.Springmead Preparatory School [57] Beckington , Bath Staines Preparatory School ,Staines Streatham and Clapham High Prep Department [58] Summer Fields School , Oxford [59] Sunningdale School [60] Sussex House School , London Sutton Valence Preparatory School , Kent [61] Thorpe House School , Buckinghamshire [62] Vinehall School RobertsbridgeWarminster Preparatory School , Warminster , Wiltshire Wellesley House School , Broadstairs ,Kent Wellingborough Preparatory School [63] Westbourne House School , Chichester, Sussex West Hill Park School , Titchfield, Hants Westminster Abbey Choir School , London Westminster Under School , London Winchester House School , Brackley, NorthantsWindlesham House School , Washington, West Sussex [64] Witham Hall School , LincolnshireWilmslow preparatory school , Wilmslow, CheshireWoodford Green Preparatory School , Woodford Green, LondonWoodleigh School , Langton, Malton, North Yorkshire[65] Worksop College , WorksopWycombe Abbey
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