How do public and private schools differ in OECD countries?
Private schools cater for around 1 in 5 students from pre-primary to the end of secondary
education, a share that has not changed materially since 2015. They enjoy greater
autonomy, suffer fewer shortages of all kinds and handled the COVID-19 pandemic better
than public schools. Although their students achieved better results in PISA 2022
in many countries, this is mainly because they enrol more students from advantaged
socio-economic backgrounds than their public counterparts. The main challenge in many
countries today is to increase the social mix in public and private schools, which
is why many efforts have been made in this direction over the past decade.
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