Public elementary and secondary schools, which include charter schools, spend an average of $15,205 per student. In more than three-quarters of the states, the cost to attend private school is ...

While about 90% of all elementary and secondary school students in the United States attend public schools, there are some 5.8 million students who are enrolled in private schools.

There are approximately 30,000 private schools in the United States, with around 5.5 million students in attendance as of 2021. The largest group of private schools is Catholic institutions at 33. ...

More than 5 million students, about 10 percent of the school-age population, are enrolled in private schools in the United States (Digest of Education Statistics, 2002). In the 1999-2000 school ...

There are currently voucher and similar programs in 32 states and the District of Columbia, according to EdChoice, a free-market organization that promotes public money for private education.

In other instances, private, religious schools tangled with thorny issues related to how public funds are used. In a 1997 ruling in Agostini v.Felton, the Supreme Court ruled that having public ...

Private schools in the United States are, on the whole, whiter than public schools, with fewer Black, Hispanic or Latino students. This may not be a surprising statistic because private schools ...

In states with universal private school choice, more than $4 billion was spent on these programs, and $57.7 billion on public schools, according to FutureEd. The vast majority of these programs, a ...

A teacher instructs a fourth grade math class at a private school in Washington, D.C. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images) While children in the United States are guaranteed a free ...

The website states the school has 1,187 students with a gender ratio of 50% male and 50% female. Niche reports that the average yearly tuition for a student at Phillips Academy is $53,950 as of 2024.