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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some parochial schools might be private but not independent. For the most part it's the same thing, but the schools decided independent sounds better than private. Here's one list: https://www.aisgw.org/[/quote]

It's not the same thing. Private indicates having to apply for admissions. Independents are private schools, but are also governed independently, which privates are not. In the case of Catholic schools, if you aren't independent and the local bishop doesn't like something in your curriculum or an activity that you're doing, he has the right to tell you to stop or in extreme cases try to shut the school down. On a positive note, if a school is struggling financially, the archdiocese can help.[/quote]

Public schools are free. Some public schools are application-only but still public.

Private schools are not free (though some give financial aid) and usually have an application.

For Catholic schools, parochial and diocesan schools are governed by the local diocese and the grade schools usually feed to a particular high school. Independent Catholic schools are not governed by the local diocese and usually affiliated with and overseen, to varying degrees, by another entry like a religious order.

Other private schools like to call themselves independent because they think it makes them sound less elitist. 
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