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[quote=Anonymous]So I was doing some research on an unrelated matter and I found the school district data summary page on https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/space-and-facilities/district-planning/2025-2026-data-summaries. They have data not only on kids attending public school but also on other kids who are resident in their districts, and something that stuck out for me is that there are a *ton* of kids attending "non-public" school. For middle school, in D2 there are 5,416 kids attending public schools in the district and 5,320 attending non-public schools; for D3, those numbers are 2,270 and 2,547. I had Claude add up the citywide totals - D14 and D20 in Brooklyn also have enormous numbers - and citywide there are a total of *49,000* kids attending "non-public" middle school, or 16,000 per grade. (public is about 210,000, of which 40,000 or so are charter schools)

SS and K-8 schools tend to have around 50-60 kids per middle school grade, co-ed K-12 around 100-120, so even ignoring Westchester/LI, in NYC alone there are enough kids attending "non-public" school to fill up like 200 schools. So even if you add up every TT/2T/3T school routinely discussed in these forums, it seems like we're only covering a small fraction of the total.

So my question is: where are all the other kids going? Are there just a gigantic number of neighborhood parochial schools or whatever that nobody talks about, are there a bunch of lower-tier private schools that never come up because they're not in the Upper East Side, are they counting kids in boarding school (do that many kids attend boarding school in middle school)? It feels like maybe there's some myopia about the NYC private school experience here, and perhaps people might even be missing out on good options for their kids because of this obsession with a tiny subset of schools.[/quote]

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