 Jeremy Wheeler wrote a mixed review of the film for Rovi in the late 2000s, arguing that although most of the jokes "fell short", "Private School" was "good for a few shocks along the way".Roger Ebert with the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film two stars out of four, writing that the "smarmy-minded movie" was "much better than average" teen-oriented sex comedies, but reflected a trend of "anti-woman" films in the genre.An alternate version aired on TV, with many of the scenes replaced with alternate, less explicit scenes and deleted scenes to make up for the lost run time.