question: Why Catholic/Christian private schools tend to have much lower tuition than independent schools (US)?
comment: Religious schools are often partially funded by the religious organization/church that they are affiliated with.
passages: In the nineteenth century, as a response to the perceived domination of the public school systems by Protestant political and religious ideas, many Roman Catholic parish churches, dioceses and religious orders established schools, which operate entirely without government funding. For many years, the vast majority of private schools in the United States were Catholic schools.
  
  A similar perception (possibly relating to the evolution vs. creationism debates) emerged in the late twentieth century among Protestants, which has resulted in the widespread establishment of new, private schools.
   Catholic schools, both systemic and independent, typically have a strong religious focus, and usually most of their staff and students will be Catholic.
  
  Section::::Situation by country.:Australia.:Independent schools.
  
  Independent schools make up the last sector and are the most popular form of schooling for boarding students. Independent schools are non-government institutions that are generally not part of a system.
   Lower-fee independent schools exist and are often conducted by religious affiliations such as the Greek Orthodox church and other less prominent Christian denominations.
  
  Section::::Situation by country.:Canada.
  
  In 1999, 5.6% of Canadian students were enrolled in private schools, some of which are religious or faith-based schools, including Christian, Catholic, Jewish, and Islamic schools. Some private schools in Canada are considered world class, especially some boarding schools with a long and illustrious history. Private schools have sometimes been controversial, with some in the media and in Ontario's Provincial Ministry of Education asserting that students may buy inflated grades from private schools.
   Independent schools in Australia make up nearly 16% of total enrollments, while Catholic schools, which usually have lower fees, also make up a sizeable proportion (19%) and are usually regarded as a school sector of their own within the broad category of independent schools. Enrolments in non-government schools have been growing steadily at the expense of enrolments in government schools, which have seen their enrolment share reduce from 78.1% to 65% since 1970.
   There are two main categories of private schools in Australia: Catholic schools and Independent schools.
  
  Section::::Situation by country.:Australia.:Catholic schools.
  
  Catholic schools form the second largest sector after government schools, with around 21% of secondary enrollments. Most Australian Catholic schools belong to a system, like government schools, are typically co-educational and attempt to provide Catholic education evenly across the states. These schools are also known as "systemic". Systemic Catholic schools are funded mainly by state and federal government and have low fees.
   In the United States, there are public, private, and charter college preparatory schools and they can be either parochial or secular. Admission is sometimes based on specific selection criteria, usually academic, but some schools have open enrollment. Fewer than 1% of students enrolled in school in the United States attend an independent, private preparatory school, compared to 9% who attend parochial schools and 88% who attend public schools.
   Catholic private and college preparatory schools also exist and are not necessarily connected with a parish. Often times these schools, such as those in the Philadelphia area, prefer to be referred to as "private Catholic schools," to distinguish themselves from the Archdiocesan parochial school system. In some Canadian provinces Catholic schools are publicly funded and in Ontario completely to the level of grade 12.
   In some countries, Catholic schools are funded by the state. These are institutions that requires assistance from the government. This is the same in public schools where government who mandate schools pay for the needs of schools whether in whole or in part, by taxes of the population. Australian catholic schools fall under this category, where the Australian government fund Catholic schools as well as state schools. Non-independent catholic schools in Scotland is another example where the institutions are fully funded by the Scottish Government.
  
  Section::::Funding.:Private schools.
   Section::::Situation by country.:Netherlands.
  
  In The Netherlands over two-thirds of state-funded schools operate autonomously, with many of these schools being linked to faith groups. The Programme for International Student Assessment, coordinated by the OECD, ranks the education in the Netherlands as the 9th best in the world as of 2008, being significantly higher than the OECD average.
  
  Section::::Situation by country.:New Zealand.
   Private schools, also known as independent schools are not managed by local, state or national governments. They instead may select their students and are funded in whole or in part by the tuition fees charged to students, rather than relying on the government as public schools do. Students may also get scholarships to enter into a private school depending on the student's talent.
  
  Section::::Funding.:Voluntary aided schools.
   Private schools are schools that are not public, they are not run by any government, but rather function as an independent institution. Private school range from levels of kindergarten to undergraduate, various institution usually accommodating different levels. Majority of private schools have a tuition cost of attendance As of 2013-2014 there were 33, 619 private schools in the United States. Majority of private schools in the United States are associated with religious orientations making up 68.7% of all private schools as of 2013 - 2014. This is a number had an increasing trend in the period of 1989-2005 however, it dropped by about 9% in 2006-2007, but seems to be increasing again.
   Religiously affiliated and denominational schools form a subcategory of private schools. Some such schools teach religious education, together with the usual academic subjects to impress their particular faith's beliefs and traditions in the students who attend. Others use the denomination as more of a general label to describe on what the founders based their belief, while still maintaining a fine distinction between academics and religion. They include parochial schools, a term which is often used to denote Roman Catholic schools. Other religious groups represented in the K–12 private education sector include Protestants, Jews, Muslims and the Orthodox Christians.
   BULLET::::2. Independent schools finance themselves (as opposed to public schools funded through the government and parochial schools subsidized by the church), largely through charging tuition, fund raising, and income from endowment.
   Catholic schools are the largest group of non-government schools in Australia accounting for some 18% of institutions (1,705 of 9,529 as of 2009), compared to 11% for independent schools (1022). Catholic schools are those run by the diocesan Catholic Department of Education; some independent schools are owned and run by Catholic religious orders. In addition, there is at least one school operating within the Society of St Pius X, Catholic traditionalists in irregular canonical status with Rome (Their current canonical status is being resolved in Rome presently): St Thomas Aquinas College in Tynong, Victoria.
   Catholic schools in the United States
  
  Catholic schools in the United States constitute the largest number of non-public schools in the country. They are accredited by independent and/or state agencies, and teachers are generally certified. Catholic schools are supported primarily through tuition payments and fundraising, and typically enroll students regardless of religious background.
  
  Section::::History.
   Many educational alternatives, such as independent schools, are also privately financed. Private schools often avoid some state regulations, although in the name of educational quality, most comply with regulations relating to the educational content of classes. Religious private schools often simply add religious instruction to the courses provided by local public schools.
  
  Special assistance schools aim to improve the lives of their students by providing services tailored to very specific needs of individual students. Such schools include tutoring schools and schools to assist the learning of handicapped children.
  
  Section::::Situation by country.
  
  Section::::Situation by country.:Australia.
   Empirical evidence in the United States and Australia indicates that education performance and attendance are greater in Catholic schools in contrasts to its public counterparts. Evans and Schwab (1998) in their experiment found that attendance at Catholic schools in the United States increases the probability of completing high school or commencing college by 13%. Similarly, an experiment conducted by Williams and Carpenter (1990) of Australia through comparing previous examination by private and public schools concluded that students in private education outperform those from government schools on all educational, social and economic indicators.
  
  Section::::International benefits.:Development of girls in society.
   In Canada public funding of religious education is permitted, and sometimes required. Many Christian schools in Canada are non-denominational, meaning they’re not affiliated with a specific sect of Christianity. Others schools are denominational: they are affiliated with one sect. For instance, they might be Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Baptist, Unitarian, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Quaker, Greek Orthodox, or some other denomination. Among these, Catholic schools receive the most funding from the government: many of them receive funding for both the secular and religious component of their curriculum.
   Private schools in the United States include parochial schools (affiliated with religious denominations), non-profit independent schools, and for-profit private schools. Private schools charge varying rates depending on geographic location, the school's expenses, and the availability of funding from sources, other than tuition. For example, some churches partially subsidize private schools for their members. Some people have argued that when their child attends a private school, they should be able to take the funds that the public school no longer needs and apply that money towards private school tuition in the form of vouchers. This is the basis of the school choice movement.
   Private schools are often Anglican, such as King's College and Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, St Paul's Collegiate School in Hamilton, St Peter's School in Cambridge, Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington, and Christ's College and St Margaret's College in Christchurch; or Presbyterian, such as Saint Kentigern College and St Cuthbert's College in Auckland, Scots College and Queen Margaret College in Wellington, and St Andrew's College and Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch. However, the Catholic schismatic group, the Society of St Pius X in Wanganui operates three private schools (including the secondary school, St Dominic's College).
   Most provinces originally had separate school boards in each school district for Catholic and non-Catholic students. Many provinces have abolished this, but Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories retain the system. Where this occurs the two schools are usually called the "Catholic School Board" and the "Public School Board".
  
  Many non-Catholics send their children to Separate Catholic schools, preferring the values and standards, despite not practicing the Catholic faith. Typically, such students are exempt from specific religious instruction classes.
  
  The American model is also used on some private Christian schools, usually run by Protestant denominations.
   BULLET::::- Alternative school
  
  BULLET::::- Boarding school
  
  BULLET::::- Catholic school
  
  BULLET::::- Charter school
  
  BULLET::::- Convention against Discrimination in Education
  
  BULLET::::- Freedom of education
  
  BULLET::::- List of Friends schools
  
  BULLET::::- Independent school
  
  BULLET::::- Independent school (UK)
  
  BULLET::::- Ivy League
  
  BULLET::::- Lutheran school
  
  BULLET::::- Private university
  
  BULLET::::- Public school (government funded)
  
  BULLET::::- Public school (UK)
  
  BULLET::::- Religious education
  
  BULLET::::- Voucher
  
  Section::::References.
  
  BULLET::::- Hein, David (4 January 2004). What has happened to Episcopal schools? "The Living Church", 228, no. 1, 21-22.
  
  BULLET::::- Porter Sargent Staff, The Handbook of Private Schools: An Annual Descriptive Survey of Independent Education 1914-. Porter Sargent Handbooks, Boston. .
   Traditionally, Catholic schools originated as single sex schools. Catholic schools were previously required to depend on school fees and endowments. Endowments dropped off sharply causing fees to rise. This prevented some students from enrolling due to their inability to pay.
  
  Section::::Purpose.
   College-preparatory schools, commonly referred to as 'prep schools', can be either publicly funded, charter schools or private independent secondary schools funded by tuition fees and philanthropic donations, and governed by independent boards of trustees. Fewer than 1% of students enrolled in school in the United States attend an independent private preparatory school, a small fraction compared with the 9% who attend parochial schools and 88% who attend public schools. While these schools are not subject to government oversight or regulation, they are accredited by one of the six regional accreditation agencies for educational institutions.
  
  Section::::Types of schools.:Home schooling.
   List of independent Catholic schools in the United States
  
  Independent Catholic schools are Catholic primary, secondary schools or colleges that are not operated by a parish or religious order as well as own, fund, and operate themselves. Also included are such schools which seek to teach the Catholic faith but which, lacking approval of the local bishop, are not entitled to call themselves Catholic.
  
  Alaska: Holy Rosary Academy, Anchorage Alaska
  
  Section::::Kentucky.
  
  BULLET::::- Holy Angels Academy, Louisville
  
  Section::::Louisiana.
  
  BULLET::::- Brother Martin High School, New Orleans
  
  Section::::Maryland.
  
  BULLET::::- The Avalon School, Bethesda
  
  BULLET::::- Brookewood School, Kensington
  
  BULLET::::- Saint John's Catholic Prep, Buckeystown
  