Another area of concern for parents.... Schools that begin 'testing' kindergarten children. Put that label on and you will NEVER get it off. Unfortunately, most parents have no idea how corrupted the entire process of educating their children has become.
Religious private grammar schools are affordable but don't do well with the above average child. Discipline is strong and the middle of the road student does well.
Friends of mine who are grandparents have found themselves raising two teenagers because one of their daughters messed up her life (other two kids are doing great, they can't understand it). They are nominal Catholics but sending the kids, at a sacrifice, to a very strict fundamentalist Christian school where the girls are not allowed to cut their hair.
They say they prefer that to the girls coming home from government school with pierced tongues and green hair.