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>iirc public school in england means private school in america aka you have to pay to get in
That's correct. But so are our private schools. They're both private. The term came from the idea that the school would be open to the (paying) public instead of just whomever lived locally, Our actual public schools are called state schools. They are not run by the state, just funded.

Pic related is how England works. Scotland, Wales and NI all work in their own way.