University Preparatory School is a grade 6-12 college preparatory school located in Redding, California, United States established in 2004. The school is a charter school within the Shasta Union High School District.
Located in the Shasta Learning Center, the school's facilities include three gymnasiums, a stadium with an all-weather turf field, softball and baseball fields, and 1000-seat theater.
Highly respected as one of the best 250 schools in the country, it has some of the highest AP and average SAT/ACT scores of all public high schools in the country.
Monica Cabral is the current principal at U-Prep, in her 1st year (as of 2025) on the job.