enrollment services for schools
Helping great schools enroll great students: Double the number of inquiries you enroll and retain the students you have.
Student Recruitment
Student Retention
Enrollment Management
Enrollment Marketing
Retention Management
School Branding and Messaging
recruitment
Double the Number of Inquiries You Enroll
Our goal is to help enrollment professionals increase success through the best science, research, and training — because the admissions practices of the past will not sustain the independent schools of the future.
Our proprietary admissions strategy increases enrollment which adds significant additional revenues for schools.
Turning inquiries into admissions is our business. Imagine if 75% or more of your inquiries turned into an enrollment.
We will redevelop your admissions process, train your personnel, and create a school wide admissions culture.
Here’s how it works:
- Review your existing systems and processes
- Identify and define with you the key elements of successful admissions
- Review the interrelated areas in your school’s operations and recommend changes that will significantly increase the number of families who may want to enroll their children in the school
- Create an admissions pipeline
- Provide several new program enhancements developed specifically to widen your admissions funnel
- Train everyone who may be involved in enrollment … (Pro tip. That’s everybody!)
The end result is a culture of enrollment. A school that recruits, tracks, invites and enrolls a higher percentage of families than the other schools in your community who are competing to attract the same families
–Danielle Heard, Head of School, Nashoba Brooks School
“We have had fundraising and enrollment growth beyond our wildest imaginations. Our results have been dramatic results. Our thirty year old school increased fundraising by five hundred percent. Since enrollment is also sales by any other name we contracted with isabelpratt for enrollment support too. The proof is in the numbers. We increased our enrollment by twenty seven percent over three years and our retention by more than that. isablepratt is our secret weapon. Unparalleled leadership.”
–Deanne Benson, Head of School, Lesley Ellis School
retention
Schools already understand that happy students and parents are the key drivers behind high retention – but how do you stop student attrition once it is occurring?
There is data and there are tools.
Because science is cool.
We have interviewed hundreds of families so we know the reasons parents make the decision to leave their school. Families answer candidly with a keen desire that their information will make the school better. With this information we have developed a practical, manageable set of concrete objectives, strategies, and on the ground tactics to halt an unwelcome tide of student attrition. Our powerful strategies are individuated for your school. But why reinvent the wheel? There are proven practices to improve retention. Our relentless focus will be on the elements in your school that are impacting retention. This enables faster, more efficient results and the results will be measurable in the higher number of students who stay. The results are immediate and will spread quickly into other areas of your school. Good retention means better enrollment with referrals and better development with satisfied families. Good retention creates a virtuous circle.
Our process:
- Research and evaluate the circumstances creating unwelcome attrition
- Build an individuated strategy to retain your students BEFORE the family and student emotionally leaves your school
- Create a culture of retention that will work for your school year after year
- Improve retention by 25-50% over just two years