School History – is an independent coeducational college preparatory day school for students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12. The oldest independent school in New Jersey. Rutgers Prep was established in 1766 under the same charter which established Queens College, later Rutgers College. Located in Somerset on a beautiful campus which borders the Raritan River just west on New Brunswick, Rutgers Prep enrolls students from diverse geographic, economic, social and ethnic backgrounds.