What is "prep schools"

Usage examples of "prep schools".

She had not thought about her own culture in any detailed way after the first year or so in the Fleet prep schools.

But, even second-rate among New England prep schools, it was far better than the area public schools and especially better than the only high school in the town of Dairy.

These youngsters were adopted by good families and slotted to eventually receive Raymond La Barrett scholarships to elite Eastern prep schools.

I'm told that this happened several times in various prep schools and during his first two years at college.

He came in mid-term without an interview, late May it was though no one would have thought it from the weather, employed through one of the shiftier agencies specialising in supply teachers for prep schools, to hold down old Dover's teaching till someone suitable could be found.

Academically it was one of the finest prep schools in the country.

He'd done time in the hallowed halls of three of New England's top prep schools.

The practical nurses who dressed and undressed us took a childish delight, even though we never went anywhere, in costuming us for imaginary social events for millionaires - for tea dances, for horse shows, for skiing vacations, for attending classes at expensive prep schools, for an evening of theater here in Manhattan and a supper afterwards with lots of champagne.