Inside The Most Expensive High Schools In The United States 

You have to realize you’re paying that kind of money so your child BUILDS A NETWORK with other families who have businesses, are wealthy etc and their kids. Has very little to do with the education itself. A strong network of stable millionaires is far more valuable than an A+ level education in 99% of instances anyway.

Imagine paying that amount of money and then covid comes and you get online classes instead

The kids at those schools have a 100% chance of threatening to sue you and reminding you that their dad is a lawyer.

These are the places where many Anime Usually take place in

My school doesn't even have enough money to give every student their own locker...

Imagine if your kid dropped out after all that 💀

Heh, the only reason they cost that much is opportunity for a rich families child to befriend another rich families child, while filtering out the poor and their influence.

My public school was once listed by US News and World Reports as one of the best in the country. We boasted a post graduation rate of higher education at 97%. We regularly sent students to Stanford, Havard and Yale. as well as all of the various military academies. We didn't have dorms or a 1 star cafeteria, but the parent sponsored activities included an advanced weight room. I feel very lucky that had such a varied and inexpensive education.

You would think EVERY high school should help students practice college exams, make a portfolio, and help decide a major... but nope. You have to pay thousands for it 🤦‍♀️

I am going to a school this expensive. But I'm not rich. This video forgets about the many poorer people who get in through scholarships.

I've studied in a very expensive school in Asia, but through a scholarship and not because I'm rich lol. The school was great, it has really good facilities, delicious food, special subjects, etc. The main problem I had was that I had a hard time fitting in, since my classmates there have very different lifestyle from mine.

I find it frustrating that so many people equate being smart with having a great memory. In high school pretty much every exam and test depends on flat out regurgitation of facts, so unless you have a photographic memory you may not be seen as "smart". It's such an outdated way of measuring the success of learning.

Imagine the gifts these teachers are getting for Christmas though

Title : United States *shows schools in London*

I teach at the private school my daughter attends. Though the curriculum and opportunities are great, the parents are a complete nightmare. You are threated to be sued weekly. Most teachers and administrators suck up to the parents that have the most money or who "donates" the new football field. Just because we work at a private school does not mean you get paid more. I have a Master's in math and science and I make $39k. Most of the kids are really sweet but those that have overbearing parents are a complete nightmare. One parent pushed to have her 6th grader in my college geometry course. He had NO background in geometry. I worked with that child everyday to try to het him caught up on the prerequisites but he didn't even know his shapes. That kid was steessed all because the parent wanted her kid in a higher math class. He even said he didn't want to be there.

I went to a pretty bougie boarding school on a scholarship and there were definitely some good aspects, like the lower student : teacher ratio that allowed for more individual attention. Overall, I think my experience was a good one, but I also saw a lot of negative aspects of the boarding school life. Many of the international kids barely got to see their families outside of summer break (assuming they weren't also enrolled in some kind of summer school). A lot of the international students also formed cliques based on country of origin and would ostracize students for hanging out with anyone outside of that clique. The school had to literally put on their application form that they were not a correctional school, because so many parents were shipping their "problem" children off to boarding school. We still had students that were well aware of the fact that they were there, because their parents didn't want to deal with them. There was a lot of pressure to go to elite colleges. Kids from regular families couldn't keep up with the spending habits of the wealthy students. The school was obsessed with creating the leaders of tomorrow, and if you weren't a state champion athlete, a straight A student, holding a leadership position within the school's student leadership structure, and involved in several clubs, it was treated like you weren't living up to your potential. The guys' side of the school was pseudo-military and had a lot of hazing issues. So yeah, having a three masted boat does not mean that an expensive school will automatically be better than a regular school.

I bet these kids never get the quality time with their parents that they actually need

Wouldn't this country be so much more amazing if EVERY CHILD had support systems like this?

This makes me feel like a commoner watching how royal high school looks like.

I like the fact that each school offers something unique. I hope I can live to see the day I send my children to a school that caters to their specific needs in terms of development for another stage in life and not have to worry about the price tag🙏

A more expensive school equates to more connected kids.

I went to rosey for 6 years. While the tuition is high, they also offer many free spots and discounts based on parents income. My family was middle class and it was cheaper than our local public high school for me to go.

I’m from Rhode Island, it’s funny how New England has nothing but good seafood & expensive ass schools

I wonder how their detention looks like

i currently am privileged enough go to an elite school in Asia and honestly I have never had this many mental health issues. The stress is incredible. They expect you to know what university you're going to since grade 10... It's very pretty in description and does help get good uni opportunities but honestly idk if developing severe anxiety and trauma (from the toxic social atmosphere) is actually worth it...

And my parents thought $85 a year for my high school was a lot 🙁

I'm more impressed by the kids who live in poor communities including " the hood" and work really hard to earn scholarships and over come social obstacles to reach goals. Adversity builds good character and is worth admiring. Spoiled trust fund babies and financially segregated schools do NOT impress me. There are many highly gifted poor children , and they deserve our support/ attention!

I went to a super expensive military boarding school in the US. It was a very unique experience, and while the military school part sucked, the faculties and campus were very nice. The coolest part though was the fact the school had kids from over 30 different countries and 30 different US states. I have friends from the DR, Nigeria, Egypt, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Panama, Ukraine, Angola, Brazil, Turkey, and Kazakhstan just to name few. Still keep in touch with them till this day.

Oh, what a wonderful world it would be if every child had access to this kind of learning.

You may want to cover elementary schools as well. My dad attended the notable Dalton School in NYC which doesn’t come cheap. May not be $75k but certainly meets your criteria of the $50k+/year range and is well known and prestigious serving students from K-12 grade

I can just imagine someone who got into this school with a scholarship and some girl comes and ask them how much figures their parent's earn

My wife and I are both graduates of short ridge academy in New Hampshire. It’s a great school and I just graduated college for computer science and she is going to med school

I didn’t even learn anything in high school. My history teacher put on the show Roots the whole year.

In finland every school is free

Finland has the #1 school system in the world and one of the first things they got rid of was private education.

This is how the Aristocracy are raised. Things haven't changed. Just the labels.

My school decided to spend their money on flat screen tv's in the hallways instead of textbooks for Physics

They don’t distinguish between boarding schools and day schools in their pricing. Boarding schools will be a lot more expensive for obvious reasons.

I've lived next to one of these schools my entire life and never knew it existed. The high school with the most "influence" out of New Hampshire is Philips Exeter Academy. Not this one in Milton. But now I'm going to do some research 🤔

Despite the economic downturn, I'm so happy😊. I have been earning $67,000 from my $10,000 investment after two weeks of trading.

everyone : oh such expensive schools me: looking at the kid's laptop stickers 2:40 BT21 stickers 👀💜

I’m very proud of that I pay no money for my daughter went to public school, she is an emergency doctor now in Toronto now.

In my private school, some struggling parents are not even able to afford the cost of a dedicated butler for their child and instead have to use a shared butler. Really breaks my heart to see such poverty.

For all of the people calling everybody snotty and stuck up for going to these school, there are still academic scholarships. My school costed 65k a year, which isn’t mentioned in this video. My mother only makes about 90 grand.

These schools are just pay-to-win. There are probably kids in these schools who will 100% be successful no matter how smart they are, just because of status and connections.

Fun fact not even one forth of the students that go to these schools become big milliomairs

Meanwhile my public school didn't even have enough books for the class🤦🏾‍♀️ kids getting charged .49 to eat mystery meat and we had 39 kids to one teacher........ crazy what money can buy

well, these luxury schools/academies/colleges are all fine and dandy, and I'd love the chance to just be able to visit and take a look around....but I love my public school's (Malaysian here! hello everyone...) experiences and memories...it's a school in rural Sabah (Malaysian North Borneo), built on top of a hill, surrounded by green mountains and pristine nature, and overlooking beautiful rice fields and rivers...and students have the option of whether or not to live at the school boarding and I decided to get into the boarding (best decision ever!! btw)... even though it's in a rural area, it doesn't lack anything...it's one of the best schools in the state academically and in extra-curricular activities...I like to believe that it's the students and members of staff that makes a great school, not the amount of school fees paid in a year...

Education shouldn't be expensive. It should inspire and get those students learning by their own will to find their interest to make their future

I went to a school that was $30k a year. The education was amazing and there are a lot of opportunities to network. I was really fortunate to go there

Thank you for making this video, you must’ve done lots of research!

As soon as I win the lottery 🍀 my baby will go to one of them💰Schools

Just imagine how much the Teachers and the school makes a year LOL Probably $1M+

The bullying and abuse in these schools needs to be addressed.

Schooltrip to antarctic, I love it! 😂

didn't go to any of this schools.. because i was home school.. but still went to MIT and graduate with first class honour...so a big no..to these expensive school...

You can learn everything on your own, I barely got through highschool and I'm now a software engineer I didn't go to college or anything, I pretty much learnt coding from reading books and figuring it out but I was into computers since I was a kid, don't ever doubt yourself

I'm actually jealous. What a rich experience!

This should be the norm. Why do kids who live in poverty have to get lesser quality education? Sad.

Wow, amazing campuses! New England is definitely representing. Speaking of that, I was surprised Exeter and Andover didn't make the list...

Who else was expecting a school like Constance from gossip girl

You folks managed to leave out some of the best schools in the US -- Phillips Andover, Phillips Exeter, and St. Paul's School (and a number more). They have facilities and endowments that are huge. There are no trips to Antarctica; but St. Paul's School (and the others) regularly send their highly competitive crew teams to compete at the Henley Regatta for the Princess Elizabeth Cup. The athletics are highly competitive. The academics are the best in the country. Admission is highly competitive too.

I went to Glenalmond college in Scotland for 3 years of schooling, was absolutely amazing, met a lot of long term friends some still are 😂 little cheaper than some on this list but still expensive.

The Nike running camp is at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, you can see in the video that it isn’t at Berkshire, the KUA crest is on the flags in the background. Going to KUA for school was the best decision I could’ve made

5:54 spotted Ableton!

"There is only one thing on the mind... college" Oh... so close yet so far.

I spent a summer in Le Rosey for a boarding summer camp - great school and campus tbh, everyone there is super friendly :)

The education there is so interesting. Like it doesn't only covers academics, but also other stuff like sports, humanities, etc. If ever I will have a child in the future, I'll send my kid to this kind of institutions.

You can achieve the same outcome as the Lang School by homeschooling (creating portfolios, subject themes, hand on learning, internships). That's pretty much what they did here. They took the homeschool model, sold it to a school and charged thousands for someone else that are not parents to teach it. But don't get too excited there thinking you could do the same thing. The powers that be have made it illegal for *you* to take your awesome homeschool model and teach other children that are not yours. We wouldn't want the plebs to create a better education outcome and challenge our broken public system.

It's a matter of the rich men's kids meeting other rich men's kids. It's more about networking.

Very interesting! 💯

This list was wonderful. I especially loved the last school in the list.

You missed Choate in Connecticut, The Ross School in Wainscott, NY ( East Hampton) The Avenue’s school, in NYC & East Hampton. You could do another list.

Am I the only one who'd love to teach at one of those schools? It seems like it would be so fun

Former UK? Wondering why he said that. Lived here in the UK all my life and it’s still very much the UK.

It doesn't matter which school you attend or how expensive and it is . More resources you get lesser grit you have in your learning. A school with cheap fees and lower resources can also create smart minds.

"Schools from all around the country" *Only shows schools from New England and NY

It is definitely for the rich and influential families. I want to know if there are any alumni from one of those elite high school who are now well known for something great.

Great and comprehensive video. Yes, these are fortunate children (some, I presume, on scholarship) to have such resources to gain and education, but, for the super majority who cannot afford such luxury, public school is the best alternative. Always a work in progress, it is still essential to our society.

If I had money to burn, I'd send my kid there and buy I big house nearby. Hell, life is so short.

Fun fact: Not one of those schools have won the international Mathematics Olympiad

To be honest, the public school I went to in eastern CT wasn’t too bad. We had great electives and extracurricular activities.

It doesn't have to be a private school per se. My rich cousin goes to a public charter school in a wealthy county, and the facilities there are better than most private schools. The common differentiator is not private or public but wealthy or poor.

These schools are social networking sites! A way to keep the rich kid's amongst themselves.

It's kind of sickening that only rich people can afford the proper education for their kids to become more rich people, while poor people have to work their ass off and are expected to work twice as hard only to be shamed twice as hard if they fail.

I go to a school through financial aid that’s very similar to these. Sure they look great, but in reality, you only go for the name on your college applications. Schools like these are businesses that in my experience care more about their reputation than student education and well being

It’s fascinating to me that so many of these are all-boys schools.

Great video

While the local private highschool in my town only demands 60 collars a month and people are already complaining

To the person reading this: stay safe during this times and May God be with you And may God protect you have a blessed day☺️

Yeah well do they have a snake? My teacher has a snake...

So we found out where the kids of all the senators and representatives go. I mean, with all those taxes and their salary... They don't give a damn about public schools, but only the best for their own kids, which is not bad. But hell I wish they could care more for the wellbeing of the other 98%.

You missed BROOKS SCHOOL in NORTH ANDOVER MASSACHUSETTS

Kimball Union Academy in Meriden NH is $68,700 per year for boarding students and is a top high school in the United States also. 1300 acres and sports fields that just costed $4-5 million dollars to build.

2:32 It actually stands for Media Literacy, Ethics , Sociology, and History.

10:40 Did you just say Antarctica?! I didn’t know that was even a possibility!

And my Engineering college fees for last semester was around 2$. And I'm not kidding.

I know 3 people that went to private schools, all went to ordinary colleges afterwards, something almost anyone can get in. I know one person who went to public school, then public two year college, then transferred to one of the best colleges in the country.

Hi great vid the richest really injoied it

Who tf said you can’t put a price tag on education?!?!