Private Schools | By the numbers

6.1 million: prekindergarten - 12th grade students enrolled in private schools in America
29,000: private schools in America
82: percent of private schools that are religiously-affiliated
20: percent of students who come from families that make $100,000 a year or more that attend private schools
55: percent of parents who currently send their children to public schools who would want to send them to private schools
553: the average SAT verbal score of students from independent schools in 2005. The national average was 508.2
31: percent of parents of students attending private, parochial or home school who are completely or somewhat satisfied with the quality of the nation's education, compared to 56 percent of students attending public school
$43,500: the tuition for day students at The Forman School, the most expensive private school in the country (For boarders, the cost is $53,000.)
35: percent of students at The Forman School who receive financial aid

—compiled from Council for American Private Education, theformanschool.org and
gallup.com by Sarah Butrymowicz