RPS Facts

Rutgers Preparatory School is an independent coeducational college preparatory day school whose campus borders the Raritan River just west of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The oldest independent school in New Jersey, Rutgers Prep was established in 1766 under the same charter which established Queens College, later Rutgers College and now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. In 1957, the school reestablished itself as an institution independent of the University and moved to a 35 acre campus in Franklin Township. In 1993, Rutgers Prep was one of eight independent schools to be designated Blue Ribbon Schools by the US Department of Education.

The school's enrollment totals 712 students in the Lower (PK-4), Middle (5-8) and Upper (9-12) Schools. The Upper School has 305 students and a teaching faculty of 48. This year's senior class numbers 79.

The school's student body commutes from a broad geographical area in central New Jersey, coming from Hunterdon and Monmouth counties to the west and south, and Somerset, Middlesex and Union counties nearer to the New York metropolitan area.