It is a proper school, not just a training ground for debutantes.

"What will it cost, do you think, to set up a proper boarding school for, say, thirty or forty girls?"

Jacobs' daughter taught in homes until opportunities aroused for a proper school.

That's how it was, I never went to school proper.

At this stage we didn't have a proper school to work in, so most of his education took place out hacking.

He goes to a proper prep school, but is something of an alien.

He is also credited with having a proper school organized.

He spent a relatively long time managing accommodation and finding a proper school to attend.

I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time.

It was being the champion speller of the whole town even though for some reason they wouldn't let him into the school proper.