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Millard's Preparatory School

former Washington D.C. military preparatory school

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ19865235 ↗
Source-derived summary

Millard's Preparatory School, also known as the Millard Preparatory School for West Point, was a military preparatory school in Washington, D.C. that existed from 1925 to 1948. It was founded by Homer Millard. The school prepared students whose regular secondary school education and training was insufficient for entry into United States Military Academy.

The school was later re-founded in 1953 as the Millard School in Oregon.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Millard's Preparatory School” is former Washington D.C. military preparatory school. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Millard's, Preparatory and School, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 1948, 1953—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Millard's, Preparatory and School is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “former Washington D.C. military preparatory school” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19865235. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1925, 1948 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Millard's Preparatory School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.