Low-income students who attend urban public high schools...do just as well as private-school students with similar backgrounds

By NANCY ZUCKERBROD, AP Education Writer
Wed Oct 10, 12:29 AM ET

Low-income students who attend urban public high schools generally do just as well as private-school students with similar backgrounds, according to a study being released Wednesday.

Students at independent private schools and most parochial schools scored the same on 12th-grade achievement tests in core academic subjects as those in traditional public high schools when income and other family characteristics were taken into account, according to the study by the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy.