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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting, 13:22. Why are they so much cheaper than many of the other private schools? [/quote]
I think it's a variety of reasons.  In many cases the facilities are not as fancy as other private schools.  In some cases the student/teacher ratios are higher.

But I think the biggest difference is that most Catholic high schools have a much smaller administrative structure than the K-12 privates do.  Think about it: Gonzaga, Potomac, Sidwell, and GDS all have roughly 1,000 students.  But Gonzaga only has to pay a head of school and a president, while those other schools have to pay a head of school, head of upper school, head of middle school, and head of lower school (all with their own assistants).  Some of those schools have multiple campuses, so they have facilities directors on both campuses, twice as many security guards, food service people, landscaping costs, etc.  Some coed schools have two athletic directors (boys and girls) while all the Catholic schools I know of only have one.  And the admin salaries, at least for top administrators, tend to be exponentially higher at non-Catholic schools.[/quote]

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