Our reporters mined a trove of data that revealed detailed demographic information about private schools. That helped us find illuminating stories about how those schools divide communities.

A new database allows users to examine and compare private school demographics of more than 1,000 private schools in Ohio. The data was collected for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., by ProPublica ...

Private schools in the United States are, on the whole, whiter than public schools ... While the National Center for Education Statistics, which collects the data, provides a tool to view the ...

Thus, investing in and protecting your local public school may be the only way to ensure that your child's future is ...

Some parents withdrew their kids from public school and placed them into private or home schools ... according to the National Center for Education Statistics, reversing decades of growth.

Column: A possible correlation between declining national test scores and increasing public dollars pumped into private ...