"premium school" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to a school with high-end facilities and high academic standards. For example, you could say, "Many wealthy parents choose to send their children to a premium school with the best teachers and resources available."
And while the company boasts that it provides the same high-quality education at its least-expensive schools (where fees are approximately $750 a year) as it does at premium schools (where fees can exceed $40,000), there has been criticism at both ends of the scale.
The Lab School has used Mytonomy Plus (the startup's premium, school-facing version) to create its own private "channel" for its students, so that they can home in on content from alumni of their school in particular, while the school itself has a level of oversight in terms of the content being uploaded.
Pupil premiums, school dinners for infants, extended child care – they may not be enough to set against free schools and the constant undermining of Ofsted, but they are still good measures.
New Jersey teachers say the state's own analysis shows that even if every teacher took a pay freeze and contributed 1.5 percent of his salary to health premiums, school districts would still have a budget shortfall of at least $849.3 million, caused in large part by the governor's $820 million in state education cuts.
They need to: thousands of pounds of pupil premium per school depends on their FSM numbers.
Even by paying a premium, the school district believes it is getting a good deal, said Jean-Claude Brizard, the superintendent.
Many parents are prepared to risk the fine for unauthorised absences (£50, increasing to £100 if you don't pay within 28 days - exactly like parking) just to avoid the premium on school holiday trips.
And it is taking on a new urgency, both in New York and around the country, with the Obama administration putting a premium on "school turnaround" policies in its nationwide competition, called Race to the Top, for billions of dollars in federal education grants.
Met – The coalition brought in a pupil premium giving schools extra money for each pupil on free school meals.
I have confidence that schools can make a reality of the pupil premium, particularly schools with high levels of disadvantage.
A breakdown by parliamentary constituency shows schools in Birmingham Ladywood receiving £7.6m in pupil premium, while schools in Horsham will receive £619,000.
