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The prep schools genetrally maintain academic focus of the standard prep school is theoretically based on the ability of the average child. This is perhaps a misnomner. The children tend to come from well establishec families with successful adults. This is the case almost by definition because of the fees that are required. These parents generally consider academics toi be important. As a result to vareying degrees they have prepared their children and made it clear they expect the chjildren to tske their school work seriously. It is difficult to say if the choildren's inate abilities are different than those in state schools, but the commitment of their families means that the children are not precisely average. While the standard prep schools focuses on the average child, there are schools with programs targeting esopecially bright children who thee Briytish refer to as clever. There are also schools that address the needs of children with academic difficuilties.
The range of insependentband preparatory schools is so extremely wide that that it can and does cater for every mental and ophysical capability of any child.
Headmasters's Editorial, The Downs School Record, 1979.
