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Can you afford a private school? Average fees for Year 12 are at least $15,000

By Emma Rowe, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University
Diana Langmead, Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne

This week, updated figures once again showed an increasing number of Australian families are choosing to send their children to private schools.

Just over 63% of Australian students are enrolled in government schools. Almost 20% are in Catholic schools and almost 17% go to independent schools, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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