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A '''university-preparatory school''' or '''college-preparatory school''' (usually abbreviated to '''preparatory school''', '''college prep school''', or '''prep school''') is a [[secondary education|secondary school]], usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education. Some schools will also include a junior, or elementary, school. This designation is mainly current in North America. In many parts of Europe, such as [[Germany]], the [[Benelux]] and [[Scandinavia]] secondary schools specializing in college-preparatory education are called [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasiums]].
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==North America==
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There are three types of preparatory schools in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]]. Some have living quarters (dormitory, dining room) where students reside (known as [[boarding school]]s); most are day schools, and some boarding schools also admit local students who seek the benefits of the prep school life. Some admit students of only one sex; others are [[co-educational]]. Prep schools are selective, academically challenging, and largely independent of state and local control. Yet, such controls, the primary, defining characteristics of public, government-operated (elementary and secondary) schools, have contributed to the private support, and growth, of prep schools, because said controls are viewed by prep school proponents as an unacceptable burden on  schooling, education, and eventual university matriculation{{Fact|date=May 2007}}.
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Parents of top-tier prep school students pay fees comparable to [[Ivy League]] university tuition. Among the principal benefits of prep schools is a very low student-to-teacher ratio, hence, smaller class sizes than in public schools. The tuition allows schools to hire highly-qualified teachers and retain them in [[tenure]]. These schools often have significant [[endowment]]s financing scholarships permitting demographic heterogeneity. 
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Preparatory schools place a strong emphasis on [[sports]] (see [[The Ten Schools Admissions Organization]], [[ISL|Independent School Leagues]] or [[Ivy Preparatory School League]]). In many private schools students are required to participate in one or more of the school's sports teams. University-preparatory education is also often associated with the [[preppy]] subculture.
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In Canada, preparatory schools blend the American and British traditions. The schools generally focus on all aspects of the "well rounded" human being (honoring a classical ideal many see expressed in the Latin phrase "[[Mens sana in corpore sano]]"); including rigorous academics and athletic programs. University-preparatory schools also focus on many other opportunites such as elaborate plays and musicals, and many other clubs and leadership opportunites that prepare the students for University.
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In the United States, prep schools have drawn upon British precursors but over time developed their own American tradition. Some notable former prep school attendees include [[U.S. President]]s [[George H. W. Bush]], [[George W. Bush]], [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], [[John F. Kennedy]], and other prominent figures such as [[John Kerry]], [[Daniel Webster]], [[William Carlos Williams]], [[William Randolph Hearst]], Ambassador [[John R. Bolton]], and [[Dan Brown]].
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===Controversy===
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The term "prep school" has been applied to several schools that the NCAA has ruled insufficient in their academic standards  in determining eligibility for intercollegiate athletics. Athletes attending these schools were declared academically ineligible for NCAA athletic participation after graduation from high school.<ref>http://sportsline.com/general/story/10041226</ref>
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==Europe==
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===France===
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In [[France]], certain private or public secondary schools offer special postgraduate classes called [[Classes Préparatoires|classes préparatoires]], equivalent in level to the first years of [[university]], for students who wish to prepare for the competitive exams for the entrance in the [[Grandes écoles]]. French classes préparatoires are exceptionally intensive and selective, taking only the very best students graduating from high schools but generally not charging fees.
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===United Kingdom===
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In the [[United Kingdom]] schools are classified in other ways. The term [[Preparatory School (UK)|preparatory school]], more commonly "prep school", is used  to describe schools which traditionally prepare younger students for [[public school (UK)|independent school]]s, although not all preparatory-school students continue their education within the independent-education sector, and not all students at independent secondary schools have started theirs at preparatory schools.
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==External links==
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*[http://www.nais.org National Association of Independent Schools]
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*[http://www.isasw.org Independent Schools Association of the Southwest]
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*[http://www.cais.ca Canadian Association of Independent Schools]
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*[http://www.schools.com The Association of Boarding Schools]
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*[http://www.wmacademy.org Wilbraham & Monson Academy]
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== Notes ==
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A [[Preparatory School]], or [[Prep School]] in the [[United Kingdom]], and previously in the [[British Empire]] and so the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] in current [[England|English]] usage, is an [[independent school (UK)|independent school]] designed to prepare a student for fee-paying, [[secondary education|secondary]] independent school (public school). Whilst 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 (London)|St Paul's School]].{{unclear|This link goes to a disambiguation page! Which school?}} 
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Some state [[Grammar school]]s 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]].
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Prep Schools are for eight to thirteen year olds, when they take [[Common Entrance Examination]] for entry into a [[Public School]], (under the age of eight, pupils are educated at a "pre-prep" school, which takes the place of a state primary school). Thus, independently educated boys and girls will,  from 4 or 5 to 8 years old, go to a pre-prep school, from 8 to 13 years old to a prep school and. from 13 to 18 years old to a [[public school]] .
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Girls' private schools in England tend to follow the age ranges of state schools more closely than those for boys.  Thus, a girls preparatory school will usually admit girls from 5 to 11 years old who will continue on to public school, no age 13 intake.
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This usage of the term is in contrast to "prep school" outside the [[United Kingdom]] and a few other [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries, which is usually taken to mean a [[university-preparatory school]]. Like public schools and other secondary-level prep schools elsewhere in the world, most [[United Kingdom|British]] prep schools are [[boarding school]]s.
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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. IAPS is one of seven affiliated associations of the [[Independent Schools Council]] (ISC).
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==Partial list of British Preparatory schools==
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* [[Aberdour School]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Aldwickbury School]], [[Hertfordshire]]
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* [[Alleyn Court Preparatory School]], [[Westcliff on Sea]]
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* [[All Hallows Preparatory School]], [[Shepton Mallet]]
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* [[Aldro|Aldro School]], [[Shackleford]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Alton Burn]], [[Nairn]]. [[Invernessshire]].
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* [[Altrincham Preparatory School]], [[Cheshire]]
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* [[Andean House]] School,[http://www.andeanhouse.org]
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* [[Ashdown House, East Sussex]]
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* [[Aysgarth]] School, [[North Yorkshire]]
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* [[Bancroft's Preparatory School]], [[Woodford Green]]
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* [[Beaudesert Park School]], [[Minchinhampton]], [[Gloucestershire]]
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* [[Bedford Preparatory School]], [[Bedfordshire]]
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* [[Beechwood Park Preparatory School]], [[Markyate]], [[Hertfordshire]]
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* [[Belmont Mill Hill Preparatory School]],[[Mill Hill]], [[London]]
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* [[Belmont Preparatory School]][http://www.belmont-school.org/], [[Holmbury St Mary]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Bilton Grange]][http://www.biltongrange.co.uk/], [[Rugby, Warwickshire]]
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* [[Blue Coat School]], [[Edgbaston, Birmingham]]
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* [[Brentwood Preparatory School]], Brentwood, Essex
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* [[Brooklands Preparatory School]][http://www.brooklandsschool.com], Stafford
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* [[Broughton Manor Preparatory School]], [http://www.mkps.co.uk]
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* [[Burys Court School]] [http://www.buryscourtschool.co.uk] [[Leigh, Surrey|Leigh]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Caldicott School]] [http://www.caldicott.com] [[Bucks]]
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* [[Cheltenham College Junior School]] [http://www.cheltcoll.gloucs.sch.uk/pages/junior/homepage.htm] [[Cheltenham, Gloucestershire]]
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* [[Chinthurst School]], [[Tadworth]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Christ Church Cathedral School]], [[Oxford]]
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* [[Clifton College]] Preparatory School, Bristol.
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* [[Clifton Lodge]], Ealing, London
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* [[Colet Court]], [[London]]
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* [[Copthorne School]],[http://www.copthorneprep.co.uk],[[West Sussex]]
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* [[Cothill House]][http://www.cothill.net/], [[Abingdon, Oxfordshire|Abingdon]]
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* [[Cottesmore School]], [[Crawley]], [[West Sussex]]
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* [[Coworth-Flexlands Preparatory School & Nursery]], [http://www.coworthflexlands.co.uk/] [[Chobham]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Cranleigh Preparatory School]], Cranleigh, Surrey
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* Culford Preparatory School, [[Culford School]], [[Bury St. Edmunds]]
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* [[Cundall Manor School]] [[North Yorkshire]]
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* [[Davenies]] [http://www.davenies.co.uk] [[Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire]]
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* [[Downsend School]], [[Leatherhead]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[The Downs School (Herefordshire)|Downs School]], [[Colwall]], [[Hertfordshire]]
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* [[Dover Court Preparatory School]], [[Singapore]] [http://www.dovercourt.edu.sg/]
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* [[Dragon School]], [[Oxford]]
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* [[Duke of Kent School,Ewhurst,Cranleigh,Surrey]][http://www.dukeofkentschool.org.uk]
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* [[Dulwich College Preparatory School|Dulwich Prep.]][http://www.dcpslondon.org/], [[London]]
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* [[Dulwich Preparatory School|Dulwich Prep.]], [[Kent]][http://www.dcpskent.org School Website]
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* [[Durham Choristers School]], [[Durham]]
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* [[Durston House]], [[London]]
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* [[Eagle House School]], [[Crowthorne]]
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* [[Eaton House The Manor School]], [[London]]
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* [[Edge Grove]], [[Aldenham]], [[Hertfordshire]]
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* [[Edgeborough School]], [[Farnham]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[The Elms School]], [[Colwall]], [[Herefordshire]]
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* [[Fairfield Preparatory School]], [[Loughborough]]
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* [[Farleigh School]], [[Andover, Hampshire|Andover]], [[Hampshire]]
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* [[Feltonfleet]], [[Cobham, Surrey|Cobham]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Foremarke Hall|Foremarke Hall School]], [[Repton]], [[Derbyshire]]
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* [[Forest Preparatory School]], [[Walthamstow]]
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* [[Fulham Preparatory School, London, UK]], [http://www.fulhamprep.co.uk], [[London]]
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* [[Glebe House School & Nursery]], [[Hunstanton]], [[Norfolk]]
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* [[Gracefield Preparatory School]], Bristol
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* Great Ballard Preparatory School, [[Chichester]]
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* [[Great Houghton Preparatory School]], Northampton
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* [[Great Walstead School]], [[Haywards Heath]]
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* [[Gresham's School#Junior_Schools|Gresham's Junior School]], [[Holt, Norfolk|Holt]], [[Norfolk]]
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* [[Hall Grove School]], [[Bagshot]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Haslemere Preparatory School]], [[Haslemere]]
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* [[Hazelwood Preparatory School]], [[Limpsfield]], [[Surrey]]
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* Heath Mount Preparatory School, [[Stevenage]]
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* [[Hereward House School]], [[Hampstead]]
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* [[Hill House International School]], [[Knightsbridge]], [[London]]
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* [[Holland House School]], [[Edgware]], [[London]]
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* [[Holmewood House School]], [[Kent]]
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* [[Holmwood House School]], [[Colchester]], [[Essex]]
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* [[Homefield School]], [[Sutton, London|Sutton]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Horris Hill School]], [[Berkshire]]
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* [[Hurstpierpoint College]] Preparatory School, [[Sussex]]
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* [[Kew College]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Kimbolton Preparatory School]], Kimbolton
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* [[Kingswood House School]], [[Epsom]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[King's House School]], [[Richmond, London|Richmond]]
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* [[The King's School, Ely (Junior School)]], [http://www.kingsschoolely.co.uk], [[Cambs]]
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* [[Kings School, Plymouth UK]], [http://www.kingsschool-plymouth.co.uk], [[Plymouth, Devon]]
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* [[Knighton House]], [http://www.knightonhouse.dorset.sch.uk/], Dorset
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* [[Knightsbridge School]] [[Lennox Gardens, Knightsbridge London SW1]] [http://www.knightsbridgeschool.com]
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* [[Lancing College]] Preparatory School at Mowden, [[Hove]]
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* [[Ludgrove]][http://www.ludgrove.com], [[Wokingham]]*
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* [[Lyndon Preparatory School]][http://www.rydal-penrhos.com/prep.htm], [[Colwyn Bay]]*
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* [[The Manor Prep School]][http://www.manorprep.org/], [[Abingdon, Oxfordshire|Abingdon]]
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* [[Malsis School]]
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* [[Marlborough House School]], [[Hawkhurst]], [[Kent]]
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* [[Milbourne Lodge School]][http://www.milbournelodge.co.uk/], [[Esher]]
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* [[Millfield|Edgarley Hall]] Preparatory School, Street, Somerset
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* [[Milton Keynes Preparatory School]], [http://www.mkps.co.uk]
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* [[Moor Park]], [http://www.moorpark.org.uk] [[Ludlow]]
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*[[Mowden Hall School]], [http://www.mowdenhall.co.uk], [[Northumberland]]
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* [[The New Beacon Preparatory School]] [http://www.newbeacon.kent.sch.uk], [[Sevenoaks]], [[Kent]]
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* [[New College Preparatory School]], [[Oxford]]
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* [[Newland House Preparatory School]]
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* [[Northcote Lodge]], [[Wandsworth]], [[London]]
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* [[Notre Dame School (Surrey)|Notre Dame Preparatory School]]
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* [[Oakfield Sch.]] [[West Dulwich]]
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* [[Orley Farm School]], [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], [[Middlesex]]
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* [[Orwell Park School]], [[Nacton]], [[Suffolk]], [http://www.orwellpark.co.uk/]
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* [[The Old Malthouse]], [[Langton Matravers]], [[Dorset]][http://www.oldmalthouseschool.co.uk/]
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* [[Packwood Haugh School]][http://www.packwood-haugh.co.uk], [[Shrewsbury]]
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* Pennthorpe School, Rudgwick
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* [[The Perse Preparatory School]][http://www.perse.co.uk/prep/], [[Cambridge]]
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* [[Pilgrims School|The Pilgrims School]][http://www.pilgrims-school.co.uk/], [[Winchester]], [[Hampshire]]
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* [[Plymouth College|St Dunstan's Abbey School - The Plymouth College Junior School]], [[Plymouth]]
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* [[Port Regis]][http://www.portregis.com], Dorset
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* [[Prebendal School]], [[Chichester]]
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* [[Prestfelde School]], [[Shrewsbury]]
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* [[The Priory School, Banstead]], [[Banstead]], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Quainton Hall School]], [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], [[Middlesex]]
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* [[Ranby House School]], [[Ranby]]
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* [[Ripley Court Preparatory School, Surrey, UK]], [http://www.ripleycourt.co.uk], [[Surrey]]
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* [[Rossall|Rossall Junior School]]
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* [[Royal Masonic School]], [[Rickmansworth]]
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* [[S Anselm's School]], Bakewell
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* [[Shrewsbury House School]]
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* [[St Beads Prep School]], Manchester
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* [[St Catherine's Preparatory School]], Bramley
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* [[St Cedds School]] [http://www.stcedds.org.uk/], [[Chelmsford]]
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* [[St.Edmunds School]], [[Canterbury]]
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* [[St.Edmunds School, Hindhead]]
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* [[St Ives School]] [http://www.st-ives.surrey.sch.uk/], [[Haslemere]]
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* [[St John's Beaumont Preparatory School]] [http://www.stjohnsbeaumont.org.uk/] [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]]
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* [[St Joseph's Preparatory School]] [http://www.stjosephsprepschool.co.uk/], [[Stoke-on-Trent]]
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* [[St Martin's Ampleforth]] [http://www.stmartins.ampleforth.org.uk], [[North Yorkshire]] (formerly ''Ampleforth College Junior School'' and ''Gilling Castle'')
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* [[St Mary's Hall]], [[Stonyhurst]]'s Prep School
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* [[St Piran's|St Piran's School]], [[Maidenhead]]
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* [[The Schools at Somerhill]] [http://www.schoolsatsomerhill.com/], [[Tonbridge]]
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* [[Sevenoaks Prep School]]: "The Prep". [http://www.sevenoaksprep.kent.sch.uk] [[Sevenoaks]], Kent.
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* [[Springmead Preparatory School and Nursery]][http://www.springmead.com/],[[Beckington]], [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]
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* [[Staines Preparatory School]],[[Staines]]
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* [[Streatham and Clapham High Prep Department]] [http://www.gdst.net/streathamhigh/]
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* [[Summer Fields School]], [[Oxford]] [http://www.summerfields.oxon.sch.uk/]
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* [[Sutton Valence Preparatory School]], [[Kent]] [http://www.svs.org.uk/]
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* [[Sunningdale School]][http://www.sunningdaleschool.co.uk]
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* [[Vinehall School]] Robertsbridge
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* [[Warminster Preparatory School]], [[Warminster]], [[Wiltshire]]
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* [[Wellesley House School]], [[Broadstairs]],[[Kent]]
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* [[Wellingborough Preparatory School]][http://www.wellingboroughschool.org/prep/index.php], Wellingborough, Northants.
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* [[Westbourne House School]], [[Chichester, Sussex]]
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* [[West Hill Park School]], [[Titchfield, Hants]]
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* [[Westminster Abbey Choir School]], [[London]]
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* [[Westminster Under School]], [[London]]
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* [[Winchester House School]], Brackley, Northants
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* [[Windlesham House School]], [[Washington, West Sussex]] [http://www.windlesham.com]
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* [[Woodford Green Preparatory School]], [[Woodford Green]], [[London]]
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* [[Woodleigh School]], [[Langton, Malton, North Yorkshire]] [http://www.woodleighschool.freeserve.co.uk]
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* [[Worksop College]], [[Worksop]]
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* [[Wycombe Abbey]]
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==See also==
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* [[Independent school]]
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* [[Boarding school]]
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* [[Education in England]]
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* [[School and university in literature]], in particular [[Pamela Hansford Johnson]]'s novel ''[[The Honours Board]]'' ([[1970 in literature|1970]])
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==External links==
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*[http://www.iaps.org.uk/ Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools]
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*[http://www.isc.co.uk/index.php/377 Independent Schools Council]
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*[http://www.prepschools.co.uk/ UK Prep School Directory]
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A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education. Some schools will also include a junior, or elementary, school. This designation is mainly current in North America. In many parts of Europe, such as Germany, the Benelux and Scandinavia secondary schools specializing in college-preparatory education are called Gymnasiums.

North America

There are three types of preparatory schools in the United States and Canada. Some have living quarters (dormitory, dining room) where students reside (known as boarding schools); most are day schools, and some boarding schools also admit local students who seek the benefits of the prep school life. Some admit students of only one sex; others are co-educational. Prep schools are selective, academically challenging, and largely independent of state and local control. Yet, such controls, the primary, defining characteristics of public, government-operated (elementary and secondary) schools, have contributed to the private support, and growth, of prep schools, because said controls are viewed by prep school proponents as an unacceptable burden on schooling, education, and eventual university matriculation[citation needed].

Parents of top-tier prep school students pay fees comparable to Ivy League university tuition. Among the principal benefits of prep schools is a very low student-to-teacher ratio, hence, smaller class sizes than in public schools. The tuition allows schools to hire highly-qualified teachers and retain them in tenure. These schools often have significant endowments financing scholarships permitting demographic heterogeneity.

Preparatory schools place a strong emphasis on sports (see The Ten Schools Admissions Organization, Independent School Leagues or Ivy Preparatory School League). In many private schools students are required to participate in one or more of the school's sports teams. University-preparatory education is also often associated with the preppy subculture.

In Canada, preparatory schools blend the American and British traditions. The schools generally focus on all aspects of the "well rounded" human being (honoring a classical ideal many see expressed in the Latin phrase "Mens sana in corpore sano"); including rigorous academics and athletic programs. University-preparatory schools also focus on many other opportunites such as elaborate plays and musicals, and many other clubs and leadership opportunites that prepare the students for University.

In the United States, prep schools have drawn upon British precursors but over time developed their own American tradition. Some notable former prep school attendees include U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and other prominent figures such as John Kerry, Daniel Webster, William Carlos Williams, William Randolph Hearst, Ambassador John R. Bolton, and Dan Brown.

Controversy

The term "prep school" has been applied to several schools that the NCAA has ruled insufficient in their academic standards in determining eligibility for intercollegiate athletics. Athletes attending these schools were declared academically ineligible for NCAA athletic participation after graduation from high school.[1]

Europe

France

In France, certain private or public secondary schools offer special postgraduate classes called classes préparatoires, equivalent in level to the first years of university, for students who wish to prepare for the competitive exams for the entrance in the Grandes écoles. French classes préparatoires are exceptionally intensive and selective, taking only the very best students graduating from high schools but generally not charging fees.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom schools are classified in other ways. The term preparatory school, more commonly "prep school", is used to describe schools which traditionally prepare younger students for independent schools, although not all preparatory-school students continue their education within the independent-education sector, and not all students at independent secondary schools have started theirs at preparatory schools.

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Notes

  1. ↑ http://sportsline.com/general/story/10041226

A Preparatory School, or Prep School in the United Kingdom, and previously in the British Empire and so the Commonwealth in current English usage, is an independent school designed to prepare a student for fee-paying, secondary independent school (public school). Whilst 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.

Some state 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.

Prep Schools are for eight to thirteen year olds, when they take Common Entrance Examination for entry into a Public School, (under the age of eight, pupils are educated at a "pre-prep" school, which takes the place of a state primary school). Thus, independently educated boys and girls will, from 4 or 5 to 8 years old, go to a pre-prep school, from 8 to 13 years old to a prep school and. from 13 to 18 years old to a public school .

Girls' private schools in England tend to follow the age ranges of state schools more closely than those for boys. Thus, a girls preparatory school will usually admit girls from 5 to 11 years old who will continue on to public school, no age 13 intake.

This usage of the term is in contrast to "prep school" outside the United Kingdom and a few other Commonwealth countries, which is usually taken to mean a university-preparatory school. Like public schools and other secondary-level prep schools elsewhere in the world, most British prep schools are boarding schools.

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. IAPS is one of seven affiliated associations of the Independent Schools Council (ISC).

Partial list of British Preparatory schools

  • Aberdour School, Surrey
  • 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
  • Andean House School,[1]
  • Ashdown House, East Sussex
  • Aysgarth School, North Yorkshire
  • Bancroft's Preparatory School, Woodford Green
  • Beaudesert Park School, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire
  • Bedford Preparatory School, Bedfordshire
  • Beechwood Park Preparatory School, Markyate, Hertfordshire
  • Belmont Mill Hill Preparatory School,Mill Hill, London
  • Belmont Preparatory School[2], Holmbury St Mary, Surrey
  • Bilton Grange[3], Rugby, Warwickshire
  • Blue Coat School, Edgbaston, Birmingham
  • Brentwood Preparatory School, Brentwood, Essex
  • Brooklands Preparatory School[4], Stafford
  • Broughton Manor Preparatory School, [5]
  • Burys Court School [6] Leigh, Surrey
  • Caldicott School [7] Bucks
  • Cheltenham College Junior School [8] Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
  • Chinthurst School, Tadworth, Surrey
  • Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford
  • Clifton College Preparatory School, Bristol.
  • Clifton Lodge, Ealing, London
  • Colet Court, London
  • Copthorne School,[9],West Sussex
  • Cothill House[10], Abingdon
  • Cottesmore School, Crawley, West Sussex
  • Coworth-Flexlands Preparatory School & Nursery, [11] Chobham, Surrey
  • Cranleigh Preparatory School, Cranleigh, Surrey
  • Culford Preparatory School, Culford School, Bury St. Edmunds
  • Cundall Manor School North Yorkshire
  • Davenies [12] Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
  • Downsend School, Leatherhead, Surrey
  • Downs School, Colwall, Hertfordshire
  • Dover Court Preparatory School, Singapore [13]
  • Dragon School, Oxford
  • Duke of Kent School,Ewhurst,Cranleigh,Surrey[14]
  • Dulwich Prep.[15], London
  • Dulwich Prep., KentSchool Website
  • Durham Choristers School, Durham
  • Durston House, London
  • Eagle House School, Crowthorne
  • Eaton House The Manor School, London
  • Edge Grove, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
  • Edgeborough School, Farnham, Surrey
  • The Elms School, Colwall, Herefordshire
  • Fairfield Preparatory School, Loughborough
  • Farleigh School, Andover, Hampshire
  • Feltonfleet, Cobham, Surrey
  • Foremarke Hall School, Repton, Derbyshire
  • Forest Preparatory School, Walthamstow
  • Fulham Preparatory School, London, UK, [16], London
  • Glebe House School & Nursery, Hunstanton, Norfolk
  • Gracefield Preparatory School, Bristol
  • Great Ballard Preparatory School, Chichester
  • Great Houghton Preparatory School, Northampton
  • Great Walstead School, Haywards Heath
  • Gresham's Junior School, Holt, Norfolk
  • Hall Grove School, Bagshot, Surrey
  • Haslemere Preparatory School, Haslemere
  • Hazelwood Preparatory School, Limpsfield, Surrey
  • Heath Mount Preparatory School, Stevenage
  • Hereward House School, Hampstead
  • Hill 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
  • Kew College, Surrey
  • Kimbolton Preparatory School, Kimbolton
  • Kingswood House School, Epsom, Surrey
  • King's House School, Richmond
  • The King's School, Ely (Junior School), [17], Cambs
  • Kings School, Plymouth UK, [18], Plymouth, Devon
  • Knighton House, [19], Dorset
  • Knightsbridge School Lennox Gardens, Knightsbridge London SW1 [20]
  • Lancing College Preparatory School at Mowden, Hove
  • Ludgrove[21], Wokingham
  • Lyndon Preparatory School[22], Colwyn Bay
  • The Manor Prep School[23], Abingdon
  • Malsis School
  • Marlborough House School, Hawkhurst, Kent
  • Milbourne Lodge School[24], Esher
  • Edgarley Hall Preparatory School, Street, Somerset
  • Milton Keynes Preparatory School, [25]
  • Moor Park, [26] Ludlow
  • Mowden Hall School, [27], Northumberland
  • The New Beacon Preparatory School [28], Sevenoaks, Kent
  • New College Preparatory School, Oxford
  • Newland House Preparatory School
  • Northcote Lodge, Wandsworth, London
  • Notre Dame Preparatory School
  • Oakfield Sch. West Dulwich
  • Orley Farm School, Harrow, Middlesex
  • Orwell Park School, Nacton, Suffolk, [29]
  • The Old Malthouse, Langton Matravers, Dorset[30]
  • Packwood Haugh School[31], Shrewsbury
  • Pennthorpe School, Rudgwick
  • The Perse Preparatory School[32], Cambridge
  • The Pilgrims School[33], Winchester, Hampshire
  • St Dunstan's Abbey School - The Plymouth College Junior School, Plymouth
  • Port Regis[34], Dorset
  • 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, Surrey, UK, [35], Surrey
  • Rossall Junior School
  • Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth
  • S Anselm's School, Bakewell
  • Shrewsbury House School
  • St Beads Prep School, Manchester
  • St Catherine's Preparatory School, Bramley
  • St Cedds School [36], Chelmsford
  • St.Edmunds School, Canterbury
  • St.Edmunds School, Hindhead
  • St Ives School [37], Haslemere
  • St John's Beaumont Preparatory School [38] Windsor
  • St Joseph's Preparatory School [39], Stoke-on-Trent
  • St Martin's Ampleforth [40], North Yorkshire (formerly Ampleforth College Junior School and Gilling Castle)
  • St Mary's Hall, Stonyhurst's Prep School
  • St Piran's School, Maidenhead
  • The Schools at Somerhill [41], Tonbridge
  • Sevenoaks Prep School: "The Prep". [42] Sevenoaks, Kent.
  • Springmead Preparatory School and Nursery[43],Beckington, Bath
  • Staines Preparatory School,Staines
  • Streatham and Clapham High Prep Department [44]
  • Summer Fields School, Oxford [45]
  • Sutton Valence Preparatory School, Kent [46]
  • Sunningdale School[47]
  • Vinehall School Robertsbridge
  • Warminster Preparatory School, Warminster, Wiltshire
  • Wellesley House School, Broadstairs,Kent
  • Wellingborough Preparatory School[48], Wellingborough, Northants.
  • Westbourne House School, Chichester, Sussex
  • West Hill Park School, Titchfield, Hants
  • Westminster Abbey Choir School, London
  • Westminster Under School, London
  • Winchester House School, Brackley, Northants
  • Windlesham House School, Washington, West Sussex [49]
  • Woodford Green Preparatory School, Woodford Green, London
  • Woodleigh School, Langton, Malton, North Yorkshire [50]
  • Worksop College, Worksop
  • Wycombe Abbey
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See also

  • Independent school
  • Boarding school
  • Education in England
  • School and university in literature, in particular Pamela Hansford Johnson's novel The Honours Board (1970)

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