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16 unusual facts about preparatory school


American University Preparatory School

American University Preparatory School (commonly referred to as AUP) is a private four-year, co-educational boarding and day college preparatory high school for grades 9-12 located in Los Angeles, California, at the center of downtown Los Angeles.

Benson Everett Legg

After receiving his education at the preparatory school Gilman School in Baltimore, graduating in the class of 1966, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1970.

Brooks Bowman

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from University School in that city, but had completed his first three years of preparatory school at Asheville School in Asheville, North Carolina.

Cabell R. Berry

He was raised on a plantation and educated at Higginbotham Academy, a preparatory school of the University of Virginia.

Daeil Foreign Language High School

The private, coeducational, college preparatory school was founded in 1983 as the first foreign language high school to be established in South Korea aiming the goal of nurturing future global leaders with remarkable foreign language abilities.

Hadaf Educational Group

The main objective of the Group was to offer high quality education from elementary to high school, comparable to that of American preparatory schools.

John M. Gaver, Sr.

Born in Mount Airy, Maryland, John Gaver graduated from Princeton University then worked as a prep school language teacher before eventually embarking on a career in Thoroughbred racing.

Kenny Noble Cortes

He graduated from the USAF Academy Prep School and received an appointment to the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.

Kuso Miso Technique

Masaki Michishita, a "typical guy" enrolled in preparatory school, is running to the park washroom when he spots a man wearing a jumpsuit sitting on a nearby bench.

Lillias Rumsey Sanford

Lillias Rumsey Sanford (1850-1940) was the founder of Rumsey Hall School, the second private nondenominational pre-preparatory school in the United States, originally located in Seneca Falls, New York.

Preparatory school

University-preparatory school, a secondary school in North America, either private or public, designed to prepare students aged 14–18 for higher education at a university or college

The Chocolate War

Jerry Renault is a self-determined and solitary first-year student at a preparatory, all-boys, Catholic high school called Trinity.

The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm is set on the campus of a boys' University-preparatory school in upstate New York.

The Hotel New Hampshire

He then returns to Derry and teaches at the local second-rate boys' prep school he attended, the Derry School.

William Albrecht

After attending the local school he progressed via preparatory school to the University of Illinois where he obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts.This led to a position teaching Latin and other subjects at Bluffton University, Ohio.

Ygnacio Sepulveda

His early boyhood was spent in Los Angeles, but when older he was sent to prep schools in Boston, Massachusetts.


Bad Kids Go to Hell

Six unruly prep school students are forced to serve Saturday detention for eight hours at Crestview Academy, where psychologist Dr. Day (Jeffrey Schmidt) conducts psychological testing on the students to examine their personalities and trigger their demeanors, recording each session in the process.

C. J. McCoy

McCoy got his start as a football coach at the Sewanee Military Academy, a preparatory school affiliated with the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Caterham School

The school has an exchange-based relationship with Western Reserve Academy, an American prep school.

Death of Edmund Perry

At the time of his death, Perry was a recent graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, one of the most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States.

Dwight School London

The school initially developed from the Holmewood Boys’ preparatory school founded in 1885 at North Finchley, which in 1985 was acquired by the Dwight Franklin Foundation and the family of the then Chancellor of the Dwight School, New York, which remains the sister school of Dwight School London.

Friends University

A college of liberal arts and a preparatory department offered classes in Literature, History, Mathematics, Astronomy, Bible, German, Elocution, and oratory.

Jackie Butler

He later enrolled at Laurinburg Institute, then transferred to Coastal Christian Academy prep school in Virginia Beach.

Keith Country Day School

Keith Country Day School is a private, fully accredited, independent, nonsectarian, college-preparatory school located in Rockford, Illinois, USA.

Laurence G. Leavitt

Laurence Gillelan Leavitt (1903–2000) was the longtime headmaster of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont, United States, where he succeeded in steering the preparatory school from dire financial straits to financial health by strengthening its curriculum and building its extracurricular activities.

Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz

Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz is a private preparatory school and international boarding school located in the village of Zuoz in the Engadin valley in Switzerland.

Martin Carver

He was educated at Ladycross School, a Catholic preparatory school in Seaford, East Sussex, and then Wellington College, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Mike Iggulden

Undrafted, and after five seasons playing for Canada's Ridley College prep school, Iggulden came to Cornell University in 2001, where he enrolled in Cornell's school of hotel executive administration management studies.

Native American Preparatory School

The Native American Preparatory School was a residential preparatory school located in Rowe, New Mexico.

Nower Lodge School

Nower Lodge School was a co-educational independent preparatory school based in Coldharbour Lane, Dorking, Surrey, England for students aged 2 to 11.

Sandy Woodward

He was educated at Stubbington House School, preparatory school in Stubbington, Hampshire.

Sissal Kampmann

After finishing the Faroese University-preparatory school (in Faroese called Studentaskúli, in Danish: Gymnasium) in Tórshavn, she moved to Denmark to study Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen.

Sompting

The Sompting Abbotts building, designed by Philip Charles Hardwick and completed in 1856, is a preparatory school.

St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford

St Michael's Preparatory School is a coeducational preparatory school in Otford.

Stanway School, Dorking

Stanway School, Dorking was a co-educational independent pre-preparatory and preparatory school based in Chichester Road, Dorking, Surrey, England for students aged 2 to 11.

Westminster, Texas

The college, a preparatory school for prospective ministers, was named after Westminster, Maryland, a Methodist stronghold in an otherwise predominantly Catholic state.

Woolhampton

Between Douai Abbey and the village is the historic Woolhampton House, which now houses Elstree School, a preparatory school that moved to Woolhampton from the London suburb of Elstree during the Second World War.