Elite For-Profit Schools Chase a Growing Market

Elite For-Profit Schools Chase a Growing Market, The British International School of New York offers spacious waterfront classrooms, small computers encased in rubber for small people who tend to drop them, and a pool for the once-a-week swimming classes required for all students.

Elite For-Profit Schools Chase a Growing Market, But there is nothing within its halls or on its Web site that indicates what differentiates British International from the teeming masses of expensive private schools in New York: is one of a small number of large for-profit schools that have opened recently or plan to open in New York City next year. While they are a speck on the city’s private-school landscape, for-profit schools are practically the only significant primary and secondary institutions to have started up in the last decade, and may represent the future of private-school growth.

James Williams, executive director of the National Independent Private School Association, whose members are for-profit schools, said that although private-school enrollment nationally had fallen because of the recession, he had seen a small upswing in applications for accreditation from for-profit schools, with significant growth in schools for children with special needs.

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