Chinese Influx Gives Private High Schools Foreign Aid

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Joel Millman, Private Schools' Foreign Aid; Facing Hard Times, U.S. Academies Lure a Growing Number of Asian Students. Wall Street Journal, Jan 23, 2013.
http://topics.wsj.com/article/SB ... 93603834981298.html

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"There are now 23,795 Chinese students in US private high schools, up from 4,503 in 2008, according to federal figures.

"With public high schools restricted from admitting foreign students, the demand has been a boon to private academies, which have seen enrollment and their finances suffer, in part due to the economy. Enrollment at all private high schools [including Americans and foreigners alike] peaked at about 6.1 million in 2005, Education Department data show. By 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available, it had fallen to about 5.5 million

"Families of most Chinese students here [St Mary's School] pay $49,600 a year versus the $12,600 paid by local students, who don't live on campus. Subtracting the room and board charges, plus required health insurance, of $12,500 a year means the foreign students pay a premium of about $24,500[, out of which a private recruiter in Massachusetts] takes $11,200 of the $49,000 foreign students pay St Mary's each year.

"In the current academic year, almost 42,845 students from China, South Korea, India, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam attend US private high schools, according to the Department of Homeland Security, up from 27,235 in 2008.

Note:
(a) Medford, Oregon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medford,_Oregon
(The city was named in 1883 by David Loring for his home town of Medford, Massachusetts and in recognition of its supposed position on the middle ford of Bear Creek)

* Medford, Massachusetts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medford,_Massachusetts
(a city in Boston suburb; The name may have come from a description of the "meadow by the ford" in the Mystic River)
(b) St Mary's School (Medford, Oregon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_School_(Medford,_Oregon)
(coeducational; Catholic; Grades 6–12)
(c) Marvelwood School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvelwood_School
(in Town of Kent, Conn; The co-founder of the school, Ian Hanna, named the school after his relative Donald Grant Mitchell, an American novelist who was best known under the pseudonym Ik Marvel)

Grades 9-12, PG (where PG stands for "post graduate")
(d) Canyonville Christian Academy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyonville_Christian_Academy
(a private Christian school in Canyonville, Oregon; grades 9-12)