In the meantime boys could go to a grammar school or to a preparatory school.
It is from a parent whose son has an assisted place at a preparatory school.
Again, as was pointed out, the public schools have their pupils for longer periods with that expensive preparatory school training as a back ground.
Two of them are now senior teachers, one in a comprehensive school and the other in an independent preparatory school.
For all practical purposes a preparatory school is part and parcel of a secondary school.
That is five times the size of the average preparatory school to which we went.
I have some experience of the preparatory school world.
In some subjects he is following the normal preparatory school curriculum.