You know, it is possible to pay the equivelent of the taxes in the county in which you want to go to school, in order to go to a school outside of your district. Therefore, it is possible, and I've heard cases where people have gone to a school out of thier zoneing in order to play soccer for that school. So technically, public schools have the same ability, the difference is, the schools that draw attention from players, already have a thousand plus students to choose their players from.