No they are just prep schools
YES Prep Public Schools was created in 1998.
YES Prep Public Schools's motto is 'Whatever It Takes'.
Prep can be short for either preparatory (as in preparatory schools) or preparation (as in homework preparation).
Prep for Prep is a leadership development program that identifies, prepares, places, and supports the most promising students of color from New York City in independent (private) schools. After intense preparation, about one third of its students are placed boarding schools and two-thirds attend independent day schools in New York. Visit prepforprep.org to learn more.
Many of the top colleges do know that some schools (prep schools and private schools) have tougher grading standards. If you're applying from a prep school, the college admissions office is likely to know more about your school than others and will likely compare your GPA to other prep school students from the same.
There are several military acadamies as well as military prep schools in the USA.
Its one of the top schools in the country
They attended Montclair Prep in California.
Shattuck St. Mary's in Fairbault, Minnesota
Holden had been in - and failed out of - several prep schools, that he called "The Whooton School", and "Elkton Hills", and at the start of the book, he is in the process of failing out of "Pency Prep". The school names are fictitious, though "Pency Prep" is a thinly disguised version of Valley Forge Military.
University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, one of the top private, prep schools in the nation.