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==Types of private school in [[North America]]==
Private education covers the whole gamut of educational activity. Private schools range from pre-school to tertiary level institutions.
The secondary level includes schools offering grades 7 through 12 and post-graduate or grade 13. This category includes [[preparatory schools]] or "[[prep schools]]", boarding schools and day schools. Tuition at private secondary schools varies from school to school and depends on many factors, including the ___location of the school, the willingness of parents to pay, peer tuitions, and the [[Financial endowment|endowment]]. High tuition, schools claim, is used to pay higher salaries for the best teachers, and also used to provide enriched learning environments including a low student to teacher ratio, small class sizes and services such as [[libraries]], science [[laboratories]], and [[computers]]. Many private schools are [[boarding school]]s. Some [[military school]]s are privately owned or operated as well.
[[Trade]] or [[vocational school]]s are also usually private schools where students can learn skills in a trade which they intend to make their future occupation. Trade schools exist in a variety of occupations from [[cosmetologist|cosmetology]] schools to schools for the [[performing arts]].
Religiously affiliated schools (also called [[parochial school]]s, though this term is often used to denote Catholic-affiliated schools from Protestant-affiliated ones) form a distinct category of private school. Such schools teach [[religious education|religious lessons]], often alongside a secular education, to instill religious knowledge and a strong religious identity in the students who attend.
Many [[alternative school]]s, such as [[independent schools]], are also privately financed. Private schools can often avoid some state regulations which might make alternative methods of schooling more difficult, and they are often easier for a small group of committed parents or teachers to create and maintain than state-funded schools.
Finally, special assistance schools aim to improve the lives of their students by providing services tailored to very specific needs of individual students. Such schools include [[tutor]]ing schools and schools to assist the learning of [[handicapped]] children.
==Types of private school in [[England]] and [[Wales]]==
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