No it isn't good enough. That's a religious school, subsidized by the Church because they want to proselytize. If you read their graduation requirements, theology is first on the list, and there's a "Donate" button on the (really shitty) site.
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WE BELIEVE that by being recognized as uniquely gifted by a loving God and individually called to respond to that love, the students will be able to live within the framework of the values taught by Jesus in the gospel.
WE BELIEVE that an all girl student population is advantageous in empowering women of the future with self-confidence, self-esteem, independence, and strong leadership qualities.
It's also women's only (which qualifies for a host of benefits). The materials come off as amateurish - bad grammar and lacking in detail (and yes that's relevant). They also don't offer IB.
So...yeah. It's more expensive than public school, and inferior in every respect. Try again.
EDIT: fwiw I spent my freshman year of high school at a place just like that. Religious-affiliated school in the boonies; small enrollment, tin-pot administration. Shittiest education I'd ever seen (and believe me that is saying a LOT). School went broke the next year, too.
EDIT2: 3k a year in
cost isn't even possible. At 3k a year with a 20:1 student/faculty ratio and no other expenses you'd have enough to pay staff $60k a year. That doesn't include books, facilities, materials and other expenses. The math doesn't add up. They're getting subsidized somehow, probably through massive donations and religious fees.
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Voucher funding here is equivalent education spending. Dropping all education spending as it is now and funding vouchers for the same thing at lower amounts is a net cut to education.
You're operating on the premise that private sector solutions are cheaper. They aren't.
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As charter schools do not pay tuition for special education pupils who are educated in out-of-district programs, that particular component of the foundation rate is removed.
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NSS includes out-of-district special education costs, and in some instances, retired teacher's health insurance*. As charter schools do not currently incur these costs, the above-foundation share of these costs is removed from the NSS prior to calculation.
Including facility costs, charter schools average $12,379 per student.
Not including out-of-district costs, but including retirement benefits, public schools cost $12,059 per student.
But that doesn't tell the whole story.
The $12,379 figure is only what the charter school is budgeted by the state's redemption system. The $12,059 figure, on the other hand, is the entirety of what is spent per capita on public students. Charter schools are free to raise revenue in other ways: donations, federal aid, etc, so their per capita spending may be even higher.
How much of that $12,059 public school figure is going to administration? Four percent.
And that $12,379 figure for charter schools
only applies to bottom-of-the-barrel options that are cheap enough to qualify for the system in the first place. Most private schools are way, way more expensive: they don't even apply for charter status because the reimbursement doesn't come close to paying the full tuition.
Finally, charter schools can pick their own students. Public schools can't. If a public school gets a difficult or expensive student, they're stuck with him, driving the average up. So even getting to pick their own students, the CHEAPEST private schools are still more expensive than the public school systems that have to work with whatever they get.
