I've found these figures for Princeton:
Class of 2007
"Princeton's current freshman class includes about 1,170 students,
with a record 52 percent of the class receiving need-based financial
aid. The University received a record number of 15,726 applications
last year -- up from 14,521 the previous year -- and offered admission
to 1,601 students.
Of the entire class of 2007... about 55 percent of current freshmen
come from public schools, with 36 percent from private schools and 9
percent from religiously affiliated schools."
Princeton University: Princeton admission guide available online
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/home/03/1027_admission/hmcap.html
Class of 2008
"Of those offered admission this year... 55 percent are from public
schools; 35 percent are from private schools; 10 percent are from
parochial schools."
Princeton University: Princeton offers admission to 11.9 percent of all applicants
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/04/q2/0401-admission.htm
As noted above, more than half of Princeton's undergrads come from
public high schools. This was also true forty years ago; but before
World War II, the majority of Princeton students came from prep
schools. This was written in 1961 by John Davies, who was at that time
the editor of Princeton Alumni Weekly:
"Despite all this, and the 'swirling tides of change' among the
undergraduate student body - 'before the war [World War II] 75 to 80
percent came from prep schools with their tyrannical moral codes and
nosy prefects, now over half are from public high schools where the
extreme pressure to get into college and the more relaxed standards
make the practice of cheating common' - Davies concluded that the
Honor System had survived intact."
Princeton Alumni Weekly: Honor Among Tigers
http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/columns/under_the_ivy/uti060403.html
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Here are the figures for the class of 2007 from Tufts University:
"Nearly 59 percent of enrolling students are from public high schools,
36 percent are from private schools and five percent are from
religious schools."
Tufts University: Quick Stats: Class of 2007
http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/082703ClassProfile.htm
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According to a report prepared by the U.S. Department of Education,
10.4 percent of American students attend private schools. Only 16
percent of these students attend private, nonsectarian schools. 16
percent of 10.4 percent gives us a figure of 1.664 percent of American
students attending private schools without religious affiliations.
"Sector Schools Students
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Public 75.7 89.6
Private 24.3 10.4
Catholic 29.8 48.4
Other religious 48.7 35.6
Nonsectarian 21.5 16.0
Almanac of Policy Issues: Findings from "The Condition of Education 2002"
http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/archive/private_schools.pdf
"There were 27,000 private schools in the United States in 1999-2000,
enrolling 5.3 million students, and employing over 400,000 full-time
equivalent (FTE) teachers. That translates into 24 percent of all
schools in the country, 10 percent of students, and 12 percent of
teachers. It seems private schools have staying power. As the report
puts it, they have 'maintained their share of total school enrollment
throughout recent decades at roughly 10-11 percent, with growth rates
parallel to those of public schools.'
Time was when the overwhelming majority of private school students
attended Catholic schools. In 1969, Catholic schools accounted for 85
percent of private school students nationwide; today, however, they
enroll 48 percent. Thirty-six percent of students attend what the
report calls 'other religious' schools, and 16 percent attend
nonsectarian schools."
Council for American Private Education: New Government Report on Private Schools
http://www.capenet.org/Outlook/Out6-02.html
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Here's another statistic that may interest you. This comes from a
report on a survey that was distributed to high schools in the United
States:
"In the United States as a whole, there are 37,751 schools that
include secondary grade levels. Of the 37,751 secondary schools in the
United States, 72 percent are public (27,090) and 28 percent are
private (10,661). Of the 10,661 private schools that include secondary
grades in the United States, 69 percent (7,303) are religiously
affiliated (also described as parochial), while 22 percent (2,355) are
non-sectarian. Nine percent (1,003) of private schools did not provide
information about their affiliation to the U.S. Department of
Education."
National Association for College Admission Counseling: The State of
College Admission 2003-2004
http://www.nacac.com/downloads/2004research_intro.pdf
Another document from the same source contains some material that you
may find useful:
National Association for College Admission Counseling: High School
Graduation and College Enrollment
http://www.nacac.com/downloads/2004research_chapter1.pdf
My strategy in locating this information consided of Google searches
using various combinations of the search strings "university,"
"undergraduates," "college students," "attended private school,"
"attended public school," "attended parochial school," "percent of,"
"public high school," and "private high school." I also visited the
National Center for Education Statistics:
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
I hope this provides you with exactly what you need. Please request
clarification if I'm off-target, or if there's anything further that I
can do for you.
Best wishes,
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