text: Not always, but usually. Even if the education level is about the same, private schools usually have smaller classes and therefore each student gets more personal time to bring out their best.\n\nAlso, since most private schools have some sort of uniform, there is not a lot of time and effort put into raging hormones. It allows more concentration on the things that matter in school - learning.\n\nYou will also usually find that more parents are involved in the school life in private schools, and they usually have more resources to augment the education.\n\nThe easiest way to tell is to ask what percentage of their graduates are accepted at university, and how their graduates average in the SAT (or your local equivalent) exams.