Mr .Escalante and Mr. Keating's schools are clearly very different, from their setting, to the students that attend the school. I believe that Mr. Keating's school took place in New England though they don't specify, and Mr. Escalante's school took place in a very Hispanic neighborhood somewhere in San Francisco.
The students in Mr. Escalante's class and school clearly came from very poor families and were never pushed to excel in school and go to college, when obviously Mr. Keating's school and students came from rich environments and were very pressured by their families to ace their school activities and eventually be accepted into very advanced colleges and attain doctorates. The faculty in both schools where also very different, at Mr. Escalante's school the educators had no faith in the student's abilities to succeed and low expectations for the students and never pushed them to attend college or even graduate. The teachers had poor disciplinary skills and only taught the students the basics of each course. On the complete opposite side of the spectrum, Mr. Keating's school is found. In Mr. Keating's school, all the teachers had very high expectations for the students and assumed each and every one of them would not only ace their courses but also graduate into Harvard or some other prestigious school and gain masters or doctorates. Their disciplinary actions where also very strict and worked to control every aspect of the student's lives.