Types of Schools

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Types of Schools

• By
• Darby Hickman,
• Thad Spears,
• Margaret Berczy,
• and Chelie Gifford

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Elite Private Schools

• Who attends?
• Upper and Upper middle class
• Income Level
• 100,000 per year
• Administration
• Board members
• Trustees
• School head

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Elite Private School

• Benefits
• Small classes
• Advance placement courses offered
• Homework
• Extra curricular opportunities
• Advisors
• Tax base

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Exclusive Suburban Schools

• Overwhelmingly attended by upper and
  upper-middle-class students
• These facilities are well kept and spacious.
• Located and affluent areas.
• These facilities have extensive technological and
  athletic resources.

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Exclusive Suburban Schools

• Teachers are well-educated and responsive to
  student and parent requests.
• Classrooms are small and almost all students are
  on a college-bound tract.
• Large amounts of homework are given.
• Districts have a very high tax base.
• Allocation per pupil is around 15,000.

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Parochial Schools

• Relatively small
• Compared to public schools there is typically a
  higher percentage of academic programs and
  stricter discipline

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Parochial Schools

• Compared to private schools may be less
  expensive, due to subsidization through the
  religious group, and may have larger classes
• Teachers typically have no union and are
  currently mostly lay people vs. nuns, priests,
  and brothers

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Urban Public School

• Large and Large
• A large school part of an even larger school
  system
• Lacking
• School board lacks knowledge about and/or power
  over the school system
• Funding generally stagnated because of property
  taxes and has serious consequences on student
  performance

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Urban Public School

• Lower achieving
• Lower per student expenditures
• Inability to hire and maintain quality teachers
• Lower graduation rates
• Higher class size
• Lower pursuit of higher education