Tag: Independent School

The Special Sauce for Meaningfully Improving Parent Perceptions at Your School

By Daniel Chiat Vice President, Measuring Success The school year is almost to the halfway point (right? Can you believe it?). Your parents are now developing a solid, but not entirely unmalleable, belief system about your school. Through their own, and their child’s experiences, they are becoming more settled in […]

Lessons from TABS (The Association of Boarding Schools) Annual Conference

By Mark Cross CEO Measuring Success Measuring Success was proud to be an exhibitor at The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) conference in Boston last week. We not only met great people working to improve their schools, but we also learned of the problems they face and spoke with school […]

We’ll be at TABS in Boston (Nov. 30 to Dec. 2)

Look for Measuring Success (Table 70) at the upcoming conference for The Association of Boarding Schools in Boston. We look forward to discussing how big data can help your independent school.   

New England: Strengthening the Enrollment Pipeline in Challenging Times

In this third in a series of white papers (click the image, left, to download a PDF), Dr. Harry Bloom, Measuring Success’ Senior Vice President of Client Solutions, looks at how independent schools in the New England region are faring relative to schools in other areas of the U.S. and Canada. In the paper, Dr. Bloom […]

Showing Clients How to Put the Metrics We Uncover to Actionable Use

I’m Danna Reuven, a senior analyst at Measuring Success. My job entails working with clients, their stakeholders, and (of course) their data. I grew up in California and went to school in the Midwest. I’ve always supported nonprofits, and in my undergraduate studies, I wanted to learn how nonprofits might […]

Mountain and Southwest: Strengthening the Lower School Enrollment Pipeline

In 2016, Measuring Success surveyed hundreds of independent schools across the United States and Canada to learn how tuition setting and enrollment outcomes differed regionally and based on underlying demographic factors — and determine what was working and what wasn’t. The results revealed dramatic differences in enrollment trends depending on […]

How Faith-Based Independent Schools Have Fared in the Post Recession Economy

Because faith-based independent schools make up a large component of the North American school landscape and are often mission driven to be accessible to a broad range of families, Measuring Success decided to study how well these schools are faring following the Great Recession of 2008-2009. The analysis drew upon […]

Top Five: How School Leadership Benefits from Simply Asking Parents

By Daniel Chiat, Vice President, Measuring Success Measuring Success has conducted more than 1,500 parent surveys at independent schools in every geographic corner of the United States and Canada. These surveys are specifically designed to assess the strength of the school through the eyes of the parent community. Parents who […]

Does Your School Have a Black Belt in Benchmarking? The Impact can be Transformational!

By Dr. Harry Bloom The world of independent schools is justifiably proud of its commitment to gathering and providing detailed comparative operating and financial benchmarking information to help guide their operations. Fulfilling this commitment takes a great deal of time and effort to ensure accuracy and apples-to-apples comparisons. In much […]