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Garrison Forest School

Garrison Forest School (GFS) is a college preparatory school, in Owings Mills, Maryland, near Baltimore, with a nationally distinctive educational model.


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Albanian resistance during World War II

Born in 1908 to a Tosk landowner from Gjirokastër who returned to Albania after working in the United States, Hoxha attended the country's best college-preparatory school, the National Lycée in Korçë.

Berwick High School

Berwick Academy, a private coeducational college preparatory/country day school located in South Berwick, Maine, USA

Boys and Girls High School

From 1986 until 2004, the school's principal was Frank Mickens, who dealt with the school's many problems during the 1980s, and turned into an excellent college preparatory institution for poor and marginalized young men and women.

British School of Boston

The British School of Boston (BSB) is a non-sectarian, co-educational college preparatory day school located in the Moss Hill section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston, MA.

Chopticon High School

It offers college preparatory programs and programs that prepare students for business and technical occupations.

Christchurch School

Christchurch School is a college-preparatory boarding school in Christchurch, Virginia, founded in 1921 by the Episcopal Church Diocese of Virginia and highly regarded for its dynamic, place-based Great Journeys Begin at the River program.

Cistercian Preparatory School

The monks of Zirc had a long tradition of teaching in the abbey's college preparatory schools, so in 1962 they started Cistercian Preparatory School to continue their work in secondary education.

Crossroads School

Crossroads College Preparatory School, a college preparatory school, founded in 1974, for 7th to 12th grade in St. Louis, Missouri

Dennis Olshove

Olshove attended De La Salle Collegiate High School, a Catholic, college preparatory high school previously located in Detroit, Michigan, before moving to Warren, Michigan, in 1982.

Douglas Leone

Leone is also a former Trustee of the Menlo School, an independent, coeducational college preparatory day school for grades 6–12.

Florida Central Academy

Florida Central Academy was college preparatory boarding school in Sorrento, Florida.

Girls' School

Girls Preparatory School, an all-female college preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Hampton Academy

New Hampton School, an independent college preparatory high school located in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Howard Florey

He was educated at Kyre College Preparatory School (Now Scotch College) and then St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he was a brilliant academic and junior sportsman.

Island Pacific Academy

The first college-preparatory school located in Kapolei, it saves many parents from the morning rush hour traffic to downtown Honolulu, where most of O'ahu's other college-preparatory schools are located.

Jim Bellows

Following a common practice of families with "aspirations", and with financial assistance from an aunt, he was sent at 13 years of age to attend South Kent School — a private college-preparatory boarding school for boys in South Kent, Connecticut, graduating in 1940.

Lehman Catholic High School

Advanced Placement program in Calculus, English, Foreign Language, Biology, Chemistry, and College-preparatory in all other subject areas for grades 9-12.

Lynn Erickson

During her youth, she attended the all-girls, college preparatory school Agnes Irwin School, which is located in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.

Margaret Murray Washington

Determined to further her teaching career, at the age of nineteen, Murray enrolled in Fisk University, where she completed the college preparatory course in five years and college in four.

Mission High School

San Gabriel Mission High School, an all-girls Catholic College Preparatory high school

Portledge School

Portledge School is an independent college-preparatory day school located in Locust Valley, New York with 414 students in Pre-nursery through 12th grade (2006–2007 school year).

Sixth form

In some American college preparatory schools, such as Woodberry Forest School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Kent School, Pomfret School, The Church Farm School, The Haverford School, Portsmouth Abbey School, and more, sixth form refers to the final year of education prior to college.

St. Matthews, South Carolina

The Calhoun Academy is the private co-educational college preparatory school that is located in St. Matthews.

Tabor Academy

Tabor Academy, Massachusetts, a college preparatory school in Marion, Massachusetts, United States

Texas Christian Academy

Texas Christian Academy is a private college preparatory school in Waco, Texas.

The International Preparatory School

It offers a College Preparatory curriculum and an Architecture & Design academy through University at Buffalo for its high school students.

Torah High Schools of San Diego

The school employs a curriculum of college preparatory as well as Torah studies.

Urban Prep Academies

In 2002, a group of African-American civic, business, and education leaders, organized by former Hales Franciscan High School President Tim King, determined to establish a new high school in Chicago focused on providing a strong, college-preparatory high school option for boys in under-served African-American communities.

Vanguard College Preparatory School

Vanguard College Preparatory School, founded in 1973, is a private, independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school located in Waco, Texas, United States, for students in grades 7-12.

Wayland Academy

Wayland Academy, Wisconsin, a private college preparatory school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, USA

Western Reserve College

Western Reserve Academy, a private, mid-sized, coeducational boarding and day college preparatory school located in Hudson, Ohio, United States.

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

The WELS maintains four schools of ministerial education: two college preparatory schools Michigan Lutheran Seminary and Luther Preparatory School; a pre-seminary and teacher training college, Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota; and a seminary for training pastors, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, located in Mequon, Wisconsin.