The Taft School is a private, coeducational school located in Watertown, Connecticut, United States.

Approximately three-quarters of Taft's 596 students live on the school's 226-acre campus.

Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board which offers college-level curricula and examinations to high school students.

American colleges and universities may grant placement and course credit to students who obtain high scores on the examinations.

The AP curriculum for each of the various subjects is created for the College Board by a panel of experts and college-level educators in that field of study.

For a high school course to have the designation, the course must be audited by the College Board to ascertain that it satisfies the AP curriculum.

If the course is approved, the school may use the AP designation and the course will be publicly listed on the AP Course Ledger.

A boarding school is a school at which most or all of the students live during the part of the year that they go to lessons.

The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals.

Some boarding schools also have day students who attend the institution by day and return to their families in the evenings.

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

Whereas single-sex education was more common up to the 19th century, mixed-sex has since become standard in many cultures, particularly in Western countries.

Single-sex education, however, remains prevalent in many Muslim countries.

The relative merits of both systems have been the subject of debate.

A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (shortened to preparatory school, prep school, or college prep) is a type of secondary school.

The term can refer to public, private independent or parochial schools primarily designed to prepare students for higher education.