How to Use private school in a Sentence

private school

noun
  • 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
  • West is far from the lone celebrity to open their own private school.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The school is also ranked as one of the best private schools in the Washington D.C. area.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 18 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • There was a welder around the area and his gas cylinder exploded just very close to a private school...
    Nimi Princewill, CNN, 17 May 2022
  • When Paul's family elects to send him to a private school, the gap only grows.
    Jake Coyle, ajc, 21 May 2022
  • As a private school, the school obtained funding through donors and tuition.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The area where the crash occurred is lined with homes on one side of the street and a private school, and a 16-acre town hall and recreation campus on the other.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
  • She was never made aware of having the option to use a voucher for a private school.
    Grace Salata, Cooper Vandriessche, and Taylore Williams, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Sep. 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
  • In such cases, students may enroll in a private school and the state pays their tuition.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • More parents now homeschool and send kids to charters and private schools.
    John Stossel, Orange County Register, 13 June 2024
  • Maryland’s ban, which Gov. Wes Moore signed in April, applies to both public and private schools.
    Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 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
  • The World School in New York, another private school venture.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
  • 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
  • Their three children, two girls and a boy, attended private school.
    Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • The scholarships may be used for private school tuition.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
  • No voucher program interferes with a private school’s ability to pick and choose which students to admit or keep enrolled.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Opinion: After Amendment 2 failed, some lawmakers want to use lottery money to pay for private school vouchers.
    Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2024

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