“Through an exploration of his own travails, and some interface with current prep school attendees, Lee illustrates how an underprivileged student in one of these schools can find himself straddling two different worlds and the strains that can put on a young person’s psyche.” (Salon)

When filmmaker André Robert Lee was 14 years old, he received a full scholarship to attend one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country. In The Prep School Negro, Lee revisits the events of his adolescence and spends time with present-day prep school students to see how much has really changed inside the ivory tower. What he discovers is the poignant and unapologetic truth about who really pays the consequences for yesterday’s accelerated desegregation and today’s racial naiveté.