This league consists of eight prep schools in New York City. Bronx's Horace Mann School and Riverdale Country School appear on "Forbes" magazine's list of America's Elite Prep Schools. These schools provide day schooling for grades kindergarten through 12; graduates matriculate to Ivy League colleges and top schools such as Sarah Lawrence, Tufts, Julliard and Johns Hopkins. In addition to academics, these schools provide a league for the athletic competition that originally provided the founding basis for the league. Ivy Prep schools play one another in traditional sports such as football and basketball as well as sports including lacrosse, fencing, tennis and water polo.
Among the top coed prep schools in the country, "Forbes" magazine lists Connecticut's Choate Rosemary Hall, New Jersey's The Lawrenceville School, the Milton Academy and Phillips Academy in Massachusetts and New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy and St. Paul's School. With the exception of St. Paul's, all of these schools offer day and boarding programs and total enrollments less than 1,200 across all grade levels. Top prep schools outside of New England include Texas' St. John's School, Georgia's Westminster Schools and the two Sidwell Friends Schools in Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland. These schools offer day programs only. The alumni rosters of these schools reads like a "Who's who" of American presidents and children of current and former presidents, heads of Fortune 500 companies and famous musicians, artists, and film actors and directors.
Boarding prep schools provide student housing and meals on a school-year or year-round basis. These schools enforce a strict moral code and educational standards; students typically wear uniforms, have set curfews and must participate in a minimum number of activities while maintaining a high grade-point average. These schools separate student living by gender and age. Most states host at least one of these schools. The least expensive school, Montana's Lustre Christian High School, charges $5,800 in tuition as February 2011; the remainder of the nation's boarding prep schools charge more than $10,000 in yearly tuition and fees.
Only a handful of prep schools offer coeducational military-boarding atmospheres. These programs focus upon discipline and military training. Many students matriculate to the undergraduate military academies such as West Point and the Air Force Academy. Coeducational military prep schools include Virginia's Randolph-Macon Academy and Massanutten Military Academy, Florida's Admiral Farragut Academy and Florida Air Academy, and Missouri's Wentworth Military Academy & College.