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Private School Is Becoming Out of Reach for Middle-Class Americans
America's most affluent still go to private schools. They're increasingly alone.
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These days, private school really is just for rich kids.
While the enrollment rate for children from middle-income families in U.S. private elementary schools has declined significantly over the last five decades, the level for high-income families has been relatively steady, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study released this month ― a trend that could come to perpetuate the nation's growing wealth divide.