How are the two schools different?

The two different schools depicted in the two films we have watched or are in the process of watching could not really be any more different. A 1950s east-coast all-male private school versus 1980s public high school in Los Angeles. Different class of people, different time period, different location, different type of school. Everything about the two schools is different. I don't even know how they both could be compared, the similarities stop at saying they're both schools for the purpose of educating students. Taking just about any aspect of either school and comparing it to the other gets you a way in which they are different. In many cases the differing characteristics of each school are not even just different, they're the opposite. Rich families versus poor families, private school versus public school, students living on campus and not, strict traditional education teaching subjects such as Latin versus a typical modern public high school. Everything is different.