private school
noun
: a school that is established, conducted, and primarily supported by a nongovernmental agency
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Some 32,000 international civil servants and NGO workers bring with them conversations in global English, sky-rocketing real estate prices and expensive bilingual private schools.
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Isabelle Mayault, The Dial, 13 Feb. 2025
Individual private schools are seeing even bigger surges, creating new reliance on taxpayer funding.
—Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2025
Despite the rising costs, private schools have seen more demand in recent years, the outlet wrote.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2025
In 1900s Victoria, Australia, a group of students and two teachers from an all-girls private school trek to a geological formation known as Hanging Rock.
—Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
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Isabelle Mayault, The Dial, 13 Feb. 2025
Individual private schools are seeing even bigger surges, creating new reliance on taxpayer funding.
—Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2025
Despite the rising costs, private schools have seen more demand in recent years, the outlet wrote.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2025
In 1900s Victoria, Australia, a group of students and two teachers from an all-girls private school trek to a geological formation known as Hanging Rock.
—Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Private school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20school. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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