Every few years I crawl out from my room in my parents’ basement to calculate these records, under the long-proven theory that the private school advantage becomes magnified once we get to the regional level and beyond.
Major themes this season:
1) As acknowledged in the past, what makes this comparison tricky is the increasing prevalence of public school teams with porous, open-enrollment borders, which provide those schools with the advantages that are typically bestowed on private schools in this argument. This year, a couple D-1 Sweet 16 teams and a D-4 Final 4 team, both open-enrollment public schools, won at least a game, making this W-L analysis less cut-and-dry.
2) Private schools win the state title in three-of-four divisions. A public school managed to eke out a state championship in D-4
3) at the Regional level, the record was slightly in favor of the publics : 13-12, which is the best record for the publics in the years I’ve done this analysis
4) At the State level, privates won 5 of 7 matchups.
5) Overall records in head-to-head games, at the Sweet 16 and beyond: Privates 17, Publics 15. Keep in mind that at least six of those Public school wins are from open enrollment districts.
6) Private school state champions accounted for 11 of those 17 wins.
Records by division in these private-public matchups (Regional, followed by State):
D-1 (private 2, public 3)(private 2, public 1). Ignatius with all four wins recorded by private schools
D-2 (3-3 record)(privates 1, public 0). Alter with three of the four wins by private schools
D-3 (private 3, public 2)(private 2-0). Lutheran East with four of the five wins
D-4 (private 4, public 5)(private 0, public 1). In this case, Richmond Heights was categorized as a public school.
Major themes this season:
1) As acknowledged in the past, what makes this comparison tricky is the increasing prevalence of public school teams with porous, open-enrollment borders, which provide those schools with the advantages that are typically bestowed on private schools in this argument. This year, a couple D-1 Sweet 16 teams and a D-4 Final 4 team, both open-enrollment public schools, won at least a game, making this W-L analysis less cut-and-dry.
2) Private schools win the state title in three-of-four divisions. A public school managed to eke out a state championship in D-4
3) at the Regional level, the record was slightly in favor of the publics : 13-12, which is the best record for the publics in the years I’ve done this analysis
4) At the State level, privates won 5 of 7 matchups.
5) Overall records in head-to-head games, at the Sweet 16 and beyond: Privates 17, Publics 15. Keep in mind that at least six of those Public school wins are from open enrollment districts.
6) Private school state champions accounted for 11 of those 17 wins.
Records by division in these private-public matchups (Regional, followed by State):
D-1 (private 2, public 3)(private 2, public 1). Ignatius with all four wins recorded by private schools
D-2 (3-3 record)(privates 1, public 0). Alter with three of the four wins by private schools
D-3 (private 3, public 2)(private 2-0). Lutheran East with four of the five wins
D-4 (private 4, public 5)(private 0, public 1). In this case, Richmond Heights was categorized as a public school.
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