<p>“That’s why proportionally more (but by no means all) people of means in the NYC suburbs with “good” school systems send their kids to the public schools. The schools are considered either good enough, or arguably even “better” in some cases, for some people, than the available privates there. And at the level of splitting hairs a greater proportion conclude it just isn’t worth the money.”</p>
<p>^^^ Even when it’s not “a close call,” people of means choose private. In NYC, the good public schools are often in the same affluent neighborhoods with highest concentration of expensive private schools. The private schools are so popular that the public schools - - even at the elem level where kids ordinarily attend zoned/neighborhood schools - - enroll many out-of-catchman students.</p>