Hmmm, tricky to answer. I have one child in a private school and another in a public one... but since we are planning to move to another town and enrol all the kids in the same private system: I selected that.

The local public primary school has been ok... but I wasn't keen on the hot temporary classrooms, the bare dirt playground and the canteen that sold mainly junk food, and the very relaxed uniform standards. The teachers were great though and if we were staying put he would have done ok there academically.

Private country schools are much cheaper than city ones thankfully And they have similar, if not better standards (from what I have seen so far).