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I know about Ireland (undergrad and grad student there for 5 years or so, friends with sibs in school) and Switzerland (grad student there; sister-in-law is a teacher there). Are you specifically interested in Finland and the Netherlands?

ETA to what ZenScanner wrote: the same is true in Ireland and Switzerland. My SIL is very smart and very dedicated and very good at her job. She's strongly supported by her bosses.

Ireland has a national curriculum and all schools get equal financial support. Switzerland's cantons set their own curricula, but everyone takes the same test at the end of high school. All schools get equal financial support.

ETA to ETA: Very few kids go to private school in Switzerland. Well, very few kids whose parents also live in Switzerland.