I live in the Los Angeles Unified School District (one of the worst districts in the US) and my daughter goes to an LAUSD magnet school, which is one of the best schools in the LAUSD district with a total API last year of 863! My daughter will be entering middle school next year and I do not want her going to the LAUSD public middle school, whose total API was 737, so I'm looking into a private or parochial school. Private schools tend to be way too expensive with most being 20k a year (higher than a Cal State Education for 2 years of college). Some private schools give scholarships or grants to help with the tuition for financial hardship. I make good money but I think I would still qualify for some assistance. The problem is most private schools require you to put down the income of both parents, even if the parents are no longer together, and that is not fair considering my daughters fathers provides zero support. A parochial school is much less with tution at about 9k a year, but do i really want nuns teaching my child? I dont really know... but what I do know is that finding a school for her is an extremely stressing process.
The search continues...
