Georgetown Preparatory School

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Georgetown Preparatory School (also known as Georgetown Prep, GP, GPrep or The Yard) is a Jesuit college-preparatory school in North Bethesda, Maryland for boys in ninth through twelfth grade. It has a 93-acre (380,000 square meters) campus which are used for student life (as 7 other acres of the golf coursed were leased to an apartment complex on campus). Legally part of Georgetown University until their separation in 1927, Prep is the only Jesuit boarding school in the United States, one of the oldest U.S. boarding schools still operating, and one of the oldest Catholic schools in the nation. Georgetown Prep has been associated with numerous influential people since its foundation, with George Washington giving an address to its first graduating class. Alumni of the Yard have included numerous businessmen, politicians, senators, representatives, professional athletes, athletic executives, entertainers, medical researchers and professionals, state and federal judges, Kennedy family members...

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