The boarding schools in St. Louis play a major role in the schooling system of the city. The city has 77 public schools under St. Louis Public School District and abundant private school through out the city to accelerate the pace of the city's education system. Parents prefer boarding schools over other schooling system due to its intense and conceptual learning process.

Boarding schools can be a new environment for your child and strong willpower is required initially to minimize the drawbacks of physical and emotional detachment from the parents and surroundings. The boarding schools are known to provide a homely atmosphere to nurture the students. Moreover, the boarders are also allowed to go home every weekend.

Boarding Schools in St. Louis teach a wide variety of subjects including English, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Classical language, Modern Language and Fine Arts. They aim at the overall development of the students. In addition to regular academics, stress is also laid on sports and other extra-curricular activities. Some of the most renowned Boarding Schools in St Louis are - Thomas Jefferson School, Chaminade College Prep School, St. Louis Washington University and Torah Prep Boys and Girls School.

Boarding schools are providing placement facilities to the college. Some institutes also offer advance placement courses which is equivalent to regular college courses. Boarding schools in St. Louis are believed to have an expert 'Board of directors' and a dedicated teaching faculty, in order to ensure proper guidance of the students. Over the past few years, students from these various boarding schools, as compared to the students from the regular schools, have made it big in the colleges and achieved several scholarships and other such accolades.

If you look at the general picture, everywhere around, you would notice that there lies a distinct difference between private schools and public schools. For instance, some of the notable differences between public and private schools are probably, the cost of education.

For someone who lacks funds to educate his or her children in a good private school, has to opt for a public school, because the education is much cheaper.

On the other hand private schools offer concrete education, and the teachers are made to be more accountable in private schools.

Similarly, Saint Louis too has its own share of public and private schools distinctions.

Advantages of public and private schools

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One other prominent advantage of studying in a St Louis public school is the opportunity; the school gets to avail public funds, which are very much absent in private school.

The government comes out with a lot of schemes to generate funds for public schools, and also for underperforming students.

Government funds of public schools

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On the other hand, though, private schools don't have funding from government sources, yet the education level in most of the schools is very good. A school such as Nerinx would always have a good platform for providing education.

Nerinx Hall High school

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Though, there might be many distinctions between public school and private schools of Saint Louis, still private schools are always better than public schools.

Distinctions between public schools and private schools

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