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As far as education goes, no.
But in the Netherlands, there is a subsect of Calvinists called the "bevindelijk gereformeerden" who are famously very insular (to the point where there apparently isn't an English term for them). They make up ~3% of the population. They have their own schools, in the case I was referring to, it was one of those. You wouldn't send your kid there unless you actually belong to that group. I think you technically could, but it would be very weird.
"Normal" Protestant or Catholic schools are nigh-indistinguishable from 'true' public schools in what or how they teach. They're basically just historically Protestant or Catholic at this point. Indeed, in some areas, often rural areas, such a school is the only school and everyone sends their kids there.
In the US catholic schools are not in general particularly religious, but they are mostly distinguished from public schools by their higher quality(a big chunk of that is just peer group from it being all kids of high income married parents). There are separate ultraconservative catholic schools that require actually practicing families, but maintain the same quality. Actual-fundamentalist religious schools exist, are basically just public schools that don’t teach a normal biology curriculum and have tuition. They’re open to the public and sometimes used as a reform school.
What you’re describing sounds like our orthodox Jewish schools- I mean, technically, they’re willing to admit gentiles. But in practice, no gentile wants to go.
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