How to Use preparatory school in a Sentence

preparatory school

noun
  • Combs is the first woman to lead the 112-year-old college preparatory school for boys.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Seven students at the Gilman School, a private all-boys preparatory school, made the list.
    Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • His classmates at the boys’ preparatory school in the Bronx didn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to play.
    Jenny Vrentas, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The college preparatory school is open to students grades K-12.
    Julie A. Short/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • The 6-foot-10-inch junior center sat the first three games of the season while applying to preparatory school.
    Nathaniel Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2021
  • As the chief helmsman of a private preparatory school, Mr. Sturtevant was an anomaly.
    Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Her first lessons at the preparatory school came during three weeks of initial basic training.
    Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The college preparatory school will offer an advanced high school diploma with pre-AP and AP courses.
    al, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Saint Louis is a Catholic college preparatory school for boys, with an enrollment of around 630, known for its football prowess and currently on top of the world ...
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Five black cadet candidates at the academy’s preparatory school in Colorado Springs had found racial slurs written on the message boards on their doors.
    Herman Wong, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2017
  • At Mullen, a Catholic preparatory school, Keanaaina currently holds a 4.12 grade-point average.
    Marco Cummings, The Denver Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • He was educated at an elite preparatory school in Nigeria, then at Yale and Harvard.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Catholic Memorial, a private high school, was founded in 1949 as a college preparatory school.
    Darryl Enriquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
  • An injured hip required surgery, and his parents decided to enroll him in a private preparatory school.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • After graduating from the Dalton preparatory school, not far from her home, a 17-year-old Ms. Solomon applied for passage to Europe on a converted troop ship.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Located in Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Schools is consistently ranked as one of the leading college preparatory schools in the country.
    Jay Grossman, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Wolf admitted his in-season transfer to the East Coast preparatory school stems from the uncertainty about basketball in Illinois.
    Bob Narang, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Police said the victim, a fellow student at Harvard-Westlake School, one of the nation’s most prestigious college-preparatory schools, was left with a broken leg and a broken nose.
    Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Students are invited to apply for a full four-year scholarship to the Grauer School, an independent college preparatory school.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The Langlandses established a boys’ preparatory school, which Elspeth attended as the only girl.
    New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • The preparatory school has a 10-month program for potential cadets who applied for the four-year academic and military program at the academy but were not accepted.
    CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The building once belonged to Wexner, who purchased it in 1989 from Birch Wathen, a private preparatory school, and then embarked on major renovations.
    Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 10 July 2019
  • Laurel is a college preparatory school from which 100-percent of its graduates enter college.
    cleveland, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Meanwhile, four students at a preparatory school in Coconut Creek, Florida have banded together to print more than 8,500 mask extenders for frontline workers in their area.
    Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 21 May 2020
  • Parents seeking a preparatory school education for their child and students eager to try a different learning environment may find that a charter school is a good fit.
    Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The couple eloped after a short courtship, but their relationship goes back to their days as students at a private college preparatory school in Santa Monica, California.
    Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Judge Barrett attended a Roman Catholic, college-preparatory school for girls, the same private high school that educated her sisters, mother, grandmother and aunts.
    Wsj Staff, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Officials at the college preparatory school acknowledged the incident Thursday.
    USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Opened last April, the military museum showcases artifacts from the Revolutionary War through 2018 and, when possible, highlights the achievements of students of the all-boys university preparatory school.
    Margarita Cambest, baltimoresun.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Julie Oxborough-Yankus was terminated after a former student came forward, according to a letter sent to the Wallingford preparatory school community Tuesday.
    Hartford Courant, 27 July 2022

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