[quote=AN][quote=CA renter]BTW, while I appreciate AN’s number, the private schools around in the better parts of North County cost anywhere from $20K to $35K/year. They have fundraising requirements *in addition to this.* They also tend to have more wealthy donors who will pay for significant portions of the schools’ buildings, etc. (with naming rights). While public schools might have fundraisers, they aren’t the same as those in the better private schools where the wealthier parents are expected to give much more than $50 or $100 per year.[/quote]$20k-$35k? Really? La Jolla Country Day, Francis Parker, and Bishop’s are around $27-28k. Which school is $35k? Are you seriously comparing any public school to these elite private schools?
You’ve obviously haven’t even bothered with looking into the cost of non-religious private schools. I’ve shown examples but lets just say, for similar amount $10k/year, you’re looking at an elementary school that feeds into Francis Parker and Bishops. Their teacher to student ratio is 10-1 for pre-K & K, 12-1 for 1-3rd grade, 24-1 for 4-6th grade. Get back to me when public school can get some thing as close as those numbers. I’m not even talking about religious private schools. Those goes for $5-8k/year and they have similar teacher to student ratio.[/quote]
I spoke of the better private schools. These are the only ones, IMO, where students might get some kind of academic benefit over public schools.
But you’re right, the ones up here are not as expensive; I had looked into them for our own kids, but there was no way we could afford them.
The Grauer School is $22,000-$23,500 (this is the one we were most interested in which is why that number stuck)
