How to Use private school in a Sentence

private school

noun
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  • The Thomases sent the child to a series of private schools.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2023
  • And yours for just the cost of one year of private school!
    — Curbed, 14 July 2023
  • But the private school powerhouse has played one of the toughest schedules in the state.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • So, with the help of a scholarship, Gray transferred Amani to a private school.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The top teams in Class 4A received five points, and private schools received 10 points.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The child was not enrolled in public or private school more than 25 hours a week.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Part of the problem is that private schools lure away the best talent from public schools.
    — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2024
  • And in private schools, there'd been black kids allowed in the schools for a really long time.
    — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • As a private school, the school obtained funding through donors and tuition.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The scholarships cover the cost of private school tuition.
    — cleveland, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Smith said Caruso has helped send her daughter to private school.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The exact increase, because BYU is a private school, is not known.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • More parents now homeschool and send kids to charters and private schools.
    — John Stossel, Orange County Register, 13 June 2024
  • There’s also a big divide among private schools, the report said.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 7 July 2024
  • Their kids go to a private school – which unlike Kansas City’s public schools – did not shut down the day of the parade and rally.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Mitchell’s first audience of the day was a class from a private school in Greenville, a city three hours away in upper South Carolina.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 29 July 2023
  • Harvard-Westlake and other private schools are not governed by the law.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Bugliari’s impact is hard to miss at Pingry, a private school in this leafy New Jersey suburb.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • And soon, far more tax dollars will be flowing into private schools.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 18 May 2024
  • At that time, school choice, and particularly private school choice, was stuck in a pattern of slow growth.
    — Mike McShane, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Through God, hard work, and a good private school education, the kid from Brooklyn had achieved the American dream.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • He was even included in a 2004 story in The New Yorker about the strange gifts teachers receive at private schools.
    — Makena Gera, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
  • The city has also seen soaring costs for children’s private school tuition.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Crow also purchased Thomas’ mother’s home and paid private school tuition for the child Thomas was raising as his son.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In almost all states—New Jersey and Iowa being the exceptions—it's allowed in private schools.
    — Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Families alone know what is best for their child whether public school, charter school, private school, or home school.
    — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Police departments statewide will soon be urged to apply for a slice of a $5 million grant to figure out how to make their private schools safer.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 30 July 2024
  • But in recent years he has been reduced to taking part-time work as a night security guard at a private school for $20 per hour.
    — Ethan Ward, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Roberts, writing for the court's majority, noted that a state doesn’t have to provide money to private schools.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
  • There’s a broader conversation to be had, of course, about the resource gap between public and private schools.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2024

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