Elite schools are different from neighbourhood schools in the sense that most elite schools have their own freedom to decide on how their schools are going to be run.

Elite schools run in the autonomous way to decide their own activities and enrichment programmes for the students. Students from elite schools, thus, have the opportunity to learn more things from these activities that are not offered through neighbourhood schools. Also, elite schools may have their own unique facilities that not many schools can afford to have. For example, some elite secondary schools have their own running tracks or even their own gyms for their students to use.

In other words, neighbourhood schools which are fully governed would seldom have their own funds or space to build these facilities as governments make most of the decisions of how the schools are going to be built and funds are usually provided by the government to build the school facilities.

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