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Howard
I went to a state primary, which was alright I suppose, but after that it all went pear shaped.
I had one year of state comprehensive who were seemingly constantly on strike instead of teaching, so my parents put me in the local catholic private school across the road. My dad took out loans to pay for the fees. The school joined some body by the now-unfortunate name of ISIS and that made them into a (very minor) public school. I think that's all the difference is: public schools are members of an association - usually Headmasters' Conference.
The public school had very good sports facilities and lots of pitches and fields but in 1983 so did the state school across the road that I had just left. The quality of teaching was absolutely shit apart from about 2 or 3 really dedicated teachers, but as joining a union was banned they at least turned up every day. Academically and sportingly they were nowhere. It was full of privileged rugby-bro sons of self-made men, who had no interest in learning or working hard because they were just going to go into their dad's construction business after leaving.
At state school I was bullied for being 'posh' because we didn't live on the council estate, and at public school I was bullied for being scum from the state school. Ironically there was only one actual posh kid there and he got bullied for being posh. You couldn't win. If you weren't a rugby-bro, or academically gifted, you were screwed. Quite a few of the teachers were bullies too. Quite a few of them should really be seeing out their retirement in prison, from some of the stories on Friends Reunited. (Remember that?)
After leaving I went to a state 6th form and dropped out after 18 months because I was never going to get any A levels there, so crap had my education been.
I hated every fucking day of every single school, and honestly my education happened despite my schooling, and I had to work extremely hard in the years afterwards on my own initiative to get to where I should have been after school. I eventually went to university at 23.
TLDR - All schools are crap, you should avoid all that nonsense by simply not having children.