A strategic enrollment management plan is a comprehensive process designed to help your school achieve and maintain optimum recruitment, retention, and student graduation rates. A plan helps you develop a holistic understanding of your enrollment environment and provides you the ability to deploy actionable steps toward your goals.

The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged all schools in many ways. It has also caused parents and guardians to reevaluate how and where their children attend school.

Marketing your school in an effective and lucrative way is not easy. It requires constant evaluation and flexibility to keep up with the changing demands of your school and your audience.

In most markets, today’s public schools adequately prepare students for higher education, which has traditionally been a key differentiator for private schools. Now it’s more important than ever to determine what your competitive edge is and how that differs from your local public schools in your area.

Marketing and Budgeting—two essential tools that most definitely correlate. Thanks to the recent pandemic and a little something called inflation, creating (or modifying) your school’s marketing budget has become more complicated in recent years—for example, consider this budget item: the cost of paper has risen over 20% recently!

In part one of this series, we discussed the data science of using Lookalike Analysis to identify a school’s prime enrollment prospective families. In part two, we discussed the strategy of market segment targeting and prioritization which represents the second, complementary method of recruitment prospecting.

It’s that time of year to start thinking about back-to-school events! After two years of uncertainty, most families and students are eager to gather. But as you schedule opening sessions and programs, remember to be flexible. Consider outdoor activities and ways for families and students to remain socially distanced.

The pandemic cast a spotlight on the growing challenge of mental health issues among young people. One study of teens aged 13–18 showed that, from 2019 to 2020, anxiety increased 93.6%, depression 83.9%, substance abuse disorders 62.7%, and incidents of self-harm a shocking 333.93%

Are you reading this article on your mobile device or desktop computer? How many minutes or hours would you guess you have been on your phone today? It couldn’t be too long, right?

Everyone needs self-care—especially school nurses. The role of the school nurse changed drastically during the pandemic and has evolved as independent schools continue to emerge. Nurses need self-care now more than ever, but it’s hard to focus on this during the school year. That’s why summer is the...