preparatory school

noun

a private or parochial secondary school, especially one boarding its students and providing a college-preparatory education.
British. a private elementary school, especially one preparing its students for public school.

preparatory school

(in Britain) a private school, usually single-sex and for children between the ages of 6 and 13, generally preparing pupils for public school
(in the US) a private secondary school preparing pupils for college

First recorded in 1815–25

He went to public school until the 7th grade, and then attended Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada Flintridge, California.

After preparatory school in Illinois, Hay went to Brown University, where he amused men and charmed women.

It wasn't just any dining room, but part of a sprawling nine-story townhouse that once housed an entire preparatory school.

And going to college was quite another thing from looking forward to a term at a preparatory school.

So she remained faithful to her home duties, but each year kept up with the graduating class of a local preparatory school.

Before night the study looked as homelike as the old room had at the preparatory school.

A strict, disciplinary master required to teach English at a preparatory school for the Army.

It put a singing in my heart to find myself at last a student in a regular preparatory school, with my face set toward college.

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