Tag: Survey
Alumni Surveys: Looking to the Past to Find the Best Path Forward for Your Independent School
By Daniel Chiat, Vice President, Measuring Success As schools look forward to the 2018-19 school year, it might seem premature to reach out to alumni. But checking in with recent grads is a great way to enhance a lifelong relationship. It is also a good time to check in with older […]
The Data Always Tells a Story
By Patrick Zoccali, Senior Data Analyst In working with independent schools, faith-based organizations, and nonprofits, it has been enlightening to see how data always tells the story of how a given institution is performing. As a senior data analyst at Measuring Success, one of my jobs is to look at […]
Using Data Analytics to Find Prospective Families that Resemble Your Current Parents
Measuring Success Offers Highly Targeted (Data-Driven) Prospect Lists to Jewish Day Schools By Mark Cross, CEO It is the time of year for independent school admissions professionals to be finalizing the details of who will be enrolling for the 2018-2019 school year. But, what if you have empty seats to fill? Do […]
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.
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 […]
Moving Dallas Neighbors Up the Ladder of Financial Success
In the Dallas/Fort Worth area, one in four households do not have sufficient assets to live for three months (at the federal poverty level) should it experience a loss of income. With this startling statistic in mind, Communities Foundation of Texas (CFT) brought an initiative called the Working Families Success […]
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 […]