private school

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The highly self-confident Navarro has always spoken her mind, encouraged by her father and the Sacred Heart nuns who operated her private school in Miami where she still resides.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

All six books in her Boys of Tommen series - which follow a group of teenagers navigating love, friendship and trauma at a private school - feature on the list.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

He is planning a second private school 8 miles from the city’s center.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

He recruited Karen Yung from ElevateED, a private school nonprofit, to run the Wellington school, called Wingrove Academy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The year I was packed off to private school, Chapter Eleven went off to college.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides