From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfee-paying schoolfee-paying schoolSESa school which you have to pay to go to → fee-paying
Examples from the Corpus
fee-paying school• Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.• Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded, said officials.• Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another.• But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools, provided that was not against the parents' principles. 