Ain't you french ?? have you read about how the local folks try to switch to private schools even faster than spots free up for the kids ?
And yes I know about elite public schools there, but there are a very tiny part of the total public school system.
The switching is a recent phenomena because the incompetents in the government want to teach kids about "sexuality" theories ( "gender theory", pro-gay specifically) from the youngest age, and parents are voting with their feet. The waiting list for Catholic schools out of reach from these new laws ( private out of state regulation) is indeed at an all time high, but the private one under state religion are or fighting the laws and having problems or losing candidates.
. The waiting list for Catholic schools out of reach from these new laws ( private out of state regulation) is indeed at an all time high, but the private one under state religion are or fighting the laws and having problems or losing candidates.
Catholic schools are in their huge majority "privée sous contrat" btw, hence state subsidized and not out of state regulation. There are a very few schools "privee hors contrat" in France, which are 100% privately funded and have to follow less state regulations.

. Parents only go private if the kid is a "desperate" case ( face being booted out of the public school system for underpreformance for instance).
That's absurd. I have quite a few friends in France who are quite succesful as we're talking about those in this thread, and most send their kids to private schools.
lol. I am sure they'd be proud to say : I send my kid to private school because he was failing in public school.
But strangely the kid who manage in public school have parents boasting how their kid are managing well.