However, California Gov. Gavin Newsom mandated earlier this month that both public and private schools in counties on the state’s COVID-19 cases monitoring list could not reopen for in-person ...

Both College Preparatory and Stanford Online dethroned Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, which ranked No. 3 among California private schools this year after being named the state’s best ...

The quality of public school systems varies widely from state to state, and California falls within the middle of the pack ...

Private schools, in some form, existed long before the concept of free public education in America. Students were often educated through church-sponsored programs, private tutoring, and boarding ...

However, private schools in California saw an overall enrollment increase of 20,000, or 4 percent, from the previous year. CDE data also indicated that homeschooling surged in the fall.

California will soon require all students in both public and private schools to get the COVID-19 vaccine once the shot is fully authorized by the Federal Drug Administration.

About 479,000 K-12 students attended private schools during the 2018-19 school year, compared to about 536,000 a decade prior and 636,000 in 2000, according to the California Department of Education.

Legacies were already banned at public schools. “In California, everyone should be able to get ahead through merit, skill, and hard work,” Newsom said in a statement .