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class until 2009. In the first seven years that Valor Christian included seniors in its enrollment (2009–2015), the school won six state championships in football. There are more than twice the number of public high schools as private high schools (30,381 to 11,941, accord-

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ing to the United States National Center of Edu- cation Statistics), but a disproportionately high number of private schools dominate the gridiron. Fourteen schools that finished in USA Today Su- per 25 season-ending rankings for 2015 were pri- vate institutions, including back-to-back mythical national champion Bishop Gorman. There are fewer private schools, which normally have lower enrollments than public schools, so how come so many of them are elite football powers? “The primary difference between public and private schools is that private school enrollments are not restricted by geographical boundaries,” a 2015 ar- ticle in the Journal of American Sport stated. “Private

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