Austin Preparatory School, known as Austin Prep, is a co-educational Catholic school for students in grades 6 to 12 located in Reading, Massachusetts within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

The Augustinian Order has reached financial settlements with over twenty sexual-abuse victims of Robert Turnbull, OSA, an Augustinian priest who taught math at Austin Prep from 1965–81.

At least eight of the victims were Austin Prep students at the time of the assaults.

[3][independent source needed] On January 20, 2022, the school announced that it would leave the Catholic Central League and Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association to join the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council starting in the fall of 2022.

The school will begin NEPSAC competition as an independent.