prep schoolnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈprep ˌskuːl/us/ˈprep ˌskuːl/in the UK, a private school (= a school paid for by parents not the government) for children, especially boys, between the ages of seven and 13, who will then usually go to public school and in the US, a private school for children over the age of eleven that prepares them to go to college
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Types of school
- alma mater
- business school
- charter school
- coed
- coeducational
- college
- comprehensive school
- convent school
- faith school
- fee-paying
- finishing school
- graduate school
- grammar school
- high school
- independent school
- infant
- junior school
- madrasa
- parochial school
- single-sex
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