Each School type has it's own unique benefits and challenges;
If you are interested in college schools you can consider these categories:
- Dream schools: which are colleges where your academic credentials fall in the lower end or below. 
 
- Target schools: where your academic credentials fall within the school's average range for the recently class that is accepted. 
 
- Safety schools: where your academic credentials exceed the range for any average first-year student. 
 
Or if you're about Secondary, High School or so, they can be classified in 2 major types:
- Public Schools: which are universal (available to everyone) and they are funded and controlled by the government. 
 
- Private Schools: which are not funded or operated by federal, state or local governments. 
 
Among Public Schools we can include:
Magnet schools, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
and High Needs Schools.
And among Private Schools we can include 
Military schools and Boarding schools.