 "Private School" was initiated in the wake of the surprise success of "Private Lessons" in 1980.Universal, which had licensed home video and cable TV rights to the independently produced comedy, financed this follow-up project.Though not a direct sequel to the previous film, it retained multiple parties from it, including R. Ben Efraim as producer, Dan Greenburg as screenwriter (along with his then-wife Suzanne O'Malley), and star Sylvia Kristel, who played a cameo as a new character.