Have two emails: one for personal and one for school. Since your school offers Office 365, they may also provide an email address. I have two email addresses: my personal email (Protonmail) and the one my school assigned me.
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Nextcloud - If you're decent with computers and have a computer at home that can run 24/7. Could be an old laptop, even. There're are other self-hosting alternatives as well.
Proton Drive - If you don't mind spending a little for privacy. There are other privacy centric storage options, also.
A USB flash drive if it's just for documents and you don't mind walking around with one.
OnlyOffice is a decent alternative as well, as someone else has mentioned. But I'm not sure how privacy focused they are (idk off the top of my head, at least)
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This might be unpopular here, but if you're still quite young, and will be in school for a while, it might be worth switching to Office, but using a second email address.
I've got nieces and nephews going through school in the UK, and they've found that Office is more closely integrated as they get older. It's little things like files sent in Office's 'open' file format, so the layout is slightly off in other programs. It can be worked around, but it's extra work.
Using a second email address should mean that you can isolate it from your non school activities, usually by having a separate profile on your devices. You should be able to lock the profile down too, like not allowing location access.
Might be worth thinking about. Either way, good luck :)
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Are you having to do shared docs? If not maybe email and a flash drive could work. What OS do the computers you use run? If its windows you could install Libreoffice and point the install folder to your flash drive instead of the hard drive.
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It disgusts me that schools were complicit in giving Google our children's education data.
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My main Google uses are drive and docs. Both of which are primarily for school reasons.
Use Syncthing. Its a simple folder syncing software that runs on every device you own, with no cloud necessary.
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Try OnlyOffice. It's like Microsoft Office (and compatible!) but free, open-source, and lightweight
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A big flashdrive might really be your best bet. Just make sure to regularly back it up on your home PC!
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