Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School? (PDF file)
Uban public school teachers are more likely than either urban households or the general public to send their children to private schools. Across the states, 12.2 percent of all families (urban, rural, and suburban) send their children to private schools—a figure that roughly corresponds to perennial and well-known data on the proportion of U.S.children enrolled in private schools. But urban public school teachers send their children to private schools at a rate of 21.5 percent, nearly
double the national rate of private-school attendance. Urban public school teachers are also more likely to send their children to private school than are urban families in general (21.5 vs. 17.5 percent).