The Perse Preparatory School is a co-educational prep school located in Cambridge, England. It is the junior day school for The Perse School (known as the upper school). It is situated in its own grounds around 1½ miles from the upper school and is totally self-contained. Formerly a boys school, the Prep school became fully co-educational in September 2007. The headmaster is James Piper, who took over from Gareth Jones in September 2014. As of 2014, the school has approximately 280 pupils. Many pupils will transfer into the Upper School at age 11.