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.