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preparatory school
2. In the United Kingdom (now typically with reference to private education): designating a junior school or type of schooling in which pupils are prepared for a higher school or college. In the United States: designating a (usually private) school or type of schooling in which pupils are prepared for college entrance. Esp. in preparatory school (see also prep school n.).
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?1649 J. Dury Reformed School 62 An Order of taskes must be observed in the preparatorie School [i.e. one for pupils aged five to nine years], aswell as in the other following.
1749 J. Jones Free & Candid Disquisitions Church of Eng. x. 166 If our preparatory schools (public and private) were what they ought to be, seminaries of a truly religious education.
1822 M. Edgeworth Let. 23 Jan. (1971) 328 Mr. Malthus and Dr. Batten declared that they should prefer having a boy sent to them from the Charter-House to having him from any lesser preparatory school.
1848 Indiana Gen. Assembly Doc. (1849) II. 279 Connected with the Institution is a flourishing Grammar School, which serves the double purpose of a Normal School and a Preparatory Department.
a1850 W. Wordsworth Excursion (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1857) VI. (Notes dictated to Miss Fenwick) 7 I have now one of this class in my eye who became an usher in a preparatory school and ended in making a large fortune.
1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 207 The Johns Hopkins is seeking..to penetrate downward into the preparatory schools.
1903 World's Work Sept. 3884/1 The preparatory school..take[s] boys from twelve to fourteen years of age to fit them in from three to six years for entrance to our best colleges.
1924 Granta 25 Apr. 361/2 At the age of eight, he arrived at his Preparatory School, ‘The Wick’, in Sussex.
1963 Higher Educ.: Rep. Comm. under Ld. Robbins 148 in Parl. Papers 1962–3 (Cmnd. 2154) XI. 639 The creation of separate junior or preparatory colleges to undertake the later stages of sixth form work and the first year of university work.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 6 Nov. (Advt. Suppl.) 7/6 Resident matron required for January for Boys' Preparatory School.
1993 Times Educ. Suppl. 5 Mar. (Review Suppl.) 5/5 It is entirely unrealistic to see state primary education as if it were private preparatory schooling.
2005 Educ. Week 23 Mar. 3 Although not as expensive as traditional preparatory schools, Beacon Academy will not be completely free for students.
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