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School Business Plan Template

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School Business Plan

Over the past 20+ years, we have helped over 500 entrepreneurs and business owners create business plans to start and grow their schools.

If you’re unfamiliar with creating a school business plan, you may think creating one will be a time-consuming and frustrating process. For most entrepreneurs it is, but for you, it won’t be since we’re here to help. We have the experience, resources, and knowledge to help you create a great business plan.

In this article, you will learn some background information on why business planning is important. Then, you will learn how to write a school business plan step-by-step so you can create your plan today.

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What Is a Business Plan?

A business plan provides a snapshot of your school as it stands today, and lays out your growth plan for the next five years. It explains your business goals and your strategies for reaching them. It also includes market research to support your plans.

Why You Need a Business Plan

If you’re looking to start a school or grow your existing school, you need a business plan. A business plan will help you raise funding, if needed, and plan out the growth of your school to improve your chances of success. Your school business plan is a living document that should be updated annually as your company grows and changes.

Sources of Funding for Schools

With regards to funding, the main sources of funding for schools are donations and gifts, tuition, personal savings, credit cards, bank loans, and angel investors. When it comes to bank loans, banks will want to review your business plan and gain confidence that you will be able to repay your loan and interest. To acquire this confidence, the loan officer will not only want to ensure that your financials are reasonable, but they will also want to see a professional plan. Such a plan will give them the confidence that you can successfully and professionally operate a business. Personal savings and bank loans are the most common funding paths for schools.

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How to write a business plan for a school.

If you want to start a school or expand your current one, you need a business plan. The guide below details the necessary information for how to write each essential component of your school business plan.

Executive Summary

Your executive summary provides an introduction to your business plan, but it is normally the last section you write because it provides a summary of each key section of your plan.

The goal of your executive summary is to quickly engage the reader. Explain to them the kind of school you are running and the status. For example, are you a startup, do you have a school that you would like to grow, or are you operating a chain of schools?

Next, provide an overview of each of the subsequent sections of your plan.

  • Give a brief overview of the school industry.
  • Discuss the type of school you are operating.
  • Detail your direct competitors. Give an overview of your target customers.
  • Provide a snapshot of your marketing strategy. Identify the key members of your team.
  • Offer an overview of your financial plan.

Company Overview

In your company overview, you will detail the type of school you are operating.

For example, you might specialize in one of the following types of schools:

  • Private K-12 school : this type of school typically charges tuition, and may be affiliated with a religious organization, or specialize in a particular learning method.
  • Charter school: this type of school offers primary or secondary education for a tuition, and may receive some public funding, and/or donations. These schools require their students to take state-mandated exams.
  • Special subject school: this type of school specializes in teaching a specific subject, such as driving, first-aid, self-defense, fine arts, language, or general tutoring.
  • Preschool: this type of school typically serves children who are aged 3 and 4. These schools prepare young children to enter formal education, and are funded by some combination of tuition, donations, and government grants.

In addition to explaining the type of school you will operate, the company overview needs to provide background on the business.

Include answers to questions such as:

  • When and why did you start the business?
  • What milestones have you achieved to date? Milestones could include the number of students served, the number of students accepted into elite formal education institutions, etc.
  • Your legal business Are you incorporated as an S-Corp? An LLC? A sole proprietorship? Explain your legal structure here.

Industry Analysis

In your industry or market analysis, you need to provide an overview of the school industry.

While this may seem unnecessary, it serves multiple purposes.

First, researching the school industry educates you. It helps you understand the market in which you are operating.

Secondly, market research can improve your marketing strategy, particularly if your analysis identifies market trends.

The third reason is to prove to readers that you are an expert in your industry. By conducting the research and presenting it in your plan, you achieve just that.

The following questions should be answered in the industry analysis section of your school business plan:

  • How big is the school industry (in dollars)?
  • Is the market declining or increasing?
  • Who are the key competitors in the market?
  • Who are the key suppliers in the market?
  • What trends are affecting the industry?
  • What is the industry’s growth forecast over the next 5 – 10 years?
  • What is the relevant market size? That is, how big is the potential target market for your school? You can extrapolate such a figure by assessing the size of the market in the entire country and then applying that figure to your local population.

Customer Analysis

The customer analysis section of your school business plan must detail the customers you serve and/or expect to serve.

The following are examples of customer segments: families with elementary-aged children, families with high-school-aged children, families with preschool children.

As you can imagine, the customer segment(s) you choose will have a great impact on the type of school you operate. Clearly, families with high schoolers would respond to different marketing promotions than families with preschoolers, for example.

Try to break out your target customers in terms of their demographic and psychographic profiles. With regards to demographics, including a discussion of the ages, genders, locations, and income levels of the potential customers you seek to serve.

Psychographic profiles explain the wants and needs of your target customers. The more you can recognize and define these needs, the better you will do in attracting and retaining your customers.

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Competitive Analysis

Your competitive analysis should identify the indirect and direct competitors your business faces and then focus on the latter.

Direct competitors are other schools.

Indirect competitors are other options that customers have to purchase from that aren’t directly competing with your product or service. This includes public schools, virtual schools, and families who do homeschooling. You need to mention such competition as well.

For each such competitor, provide an overview of their business and document their strengths and weaknesses. Unless you once worked at your competitors’ businesses, it will be impossible to know everything about them. But you should be able to find out key things about them such as

  • What types of students do they serve?
  • What type of school are they?
  • What is their pricing (premium, low, etc.)?
  • What are they good at?
  • What are their weaknesses?

With regards to the last two questions, think about your answers from the customers’ perspective. And don’t be afraid to ask your competitors’ customers what they like most and least about them.

The final part of your competitive analysis section is to document your areas of competitive advantage. For example:

  • Will you provide specialized instruction, either in subject or in method?
  • Will you offer courses or services that your competition doesn’t?
  • Will you provide better customer service?
  • Will you offer better pricing?

Think about ways you will outperform your competition and document them in this section of your plan.  

Marketing Plan

Traditionally, a marketing plan includes the four P’s: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. For a school business plan, your marketing strategy should include the following:

Product : In the product section, you should reiterate the type of school that you documented in your company overview. Then, detail the specific products or services you will be offering. For example, will you provide religious-focused K-8 education, college preparatory courses, or single-subject instruction like driving or fine arts?

Price : Document the prices you will offer and how they compare to your competitors. Essentially in the product and price sub-sections of your plan, you are presenting the courses and/or extracurricular activities you offer and their prices.

Place : Place refers to the site of your school. Document where your company is situated and mention how the site will impact your success. For example, is your school located in a growing neighborhood, in the city center, or will you operate purely online? Discuss how your site might be the ideal location for your customers.

Promotions : The final part of your school marketing plan is where you will document how you will drive potential customers to your location(s). The following are some promotional methods you might consider:

  • Advertise in local papers, radio stations and/or magazines
  • Reach out to websites
  • Distribute flyers
  • Engage in email marketing
  • Advertise on social media platforms
  • Improve the SEO (search engine optimization) on your website for targeted keywords

Operations Plan

While the earlier sections of your business plan explained your goals, your operations plan describes how you will meet them. Your operations plan should have two distinct sections as follows.

Everyday short-term processes include all of the tasks involved in running your school, including answering calls, planning and delivering instruction, applying for grants, fundraising, performing administrative tasks, overseeing instructors, handling discipline, scheduling and monitoring extracurricular activities, etc.

Long-term goals are the milestones you hope to achieve. These could include the dates when you expect to enroll your Xth student, or when you hope to reach $X in revenue. It could also be when you expect to expand your school to a new city.  

Management Team

To demonstrate your school’s potential to succeed, a strong management team is essential. Highlight your key players’ backgrounds, emphasizing those skills and experiences that prove their ability to grow a company.

Ideally, you and/or your team members have direct experience in managing schools. If so, highlight this experience and expertise. But also highlight any experience that you think will help your business succeed.

If your team is lacking, consider assembling an advisory board. An advisory board would include 2 to 8 individuals who would act as mentors to your business. They would help answer questions and provide strategic guidance. If needed, look for advisory board members with experience in running a school or experience with public school administration or who has served on a public school board.  

Financial Plan

Your financial plan should include your 5-year financial statement broken out both monthly or quarterly for the first year and then annually. Your financial statements include your income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statements.

Income Statement

An income statement is more commonly called a Profit and Loss statement or P&L. It shows your revenue and then subtracts your costs to show whether you turned a profit or not.

In developing your income statement, you need to devise assumptions. For example, will you enroll 100 or 1,000 students per semester, and/or offer extracurricular activities? And will sales grow by 2% or 10% per year? As you can imagine, your choice of assumptions will greatly impact the financial forecasts for your business. As much as possible, conduct research to try to root your assumptions in reality.

Balance Sheets

Balance sheets show your assets and liabilities. While balance sheets can include much information, try to simplify them to the key items you need to know about. For instance, if you spend $50,000 on building out your school, this will not give you immediate profits. Rather it is an asset that will hopefully help you generate profits for years to come. Likewise, if a lender writes you a check for $50,000, you don’t need to pay it back immediately. Rather, that is a liability you will pay back over time.

Cash Flow Statement

Your cash flow statement will help determine how much money you need to start or grow your business, and ensure you never run out of money. What most entrepreneurs and business owners don’t realize is that you can turn a profit but run out of money and go bankrupt.

When creating your Income Statement and Balance Sheets be sure to include several of the key costs needed in starting or growing a school:

  • Cost of equipment and supplies
  • Payroll or salaries paid to staff
  • Business insurance
  • Other start-up expenses (if you’re a new business) like legal expenses, permits, computer software, and equipment

Attach your full financial projections in the appendix of your plan along with any supporting documents that make your plan more compelling. For example, you might include your school location lease or a list of elective courses or extracurricular activities you will offer.  

Writing a business plan for your school is a worthwhile endeavor. If you follow the template above, by the time you are done, you will truly be an expert. You will understand the school industry, your competition, and your customers. You will develop a marketing strategy and will understand what it takes to launch and grow a successful school.  

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How Do You Start a School?

Starting a school is easy with these 14 steps:

  • Choose the Name for Your School
  • Create Your School Business Plan
  • Choose the Legal Structure for Your School
  • Secure Startup Funding for Your School (If Needed)
  • Secure a Location for Your Business
  • Register Your School with the IRS
  • Open a Business Bank Account
  • Get a Business Credit Card
  • Get the Required Business Licenses and Permits
  • Get Business Insurance for Your School
  • Buy or Lease the Right School Equipment
  • Develop Your School Business Marketing Materials
  • Purchase and Setup the Software Needed to Run Your School
  • Open for Business

Learn more about   how to start your own school .

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Business Plan Templates for Teens

If you want to launch a business, you have to have a plan! Here are some templates to help you get started.

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The key to any successful business is to have a plan before getting started. Mapping out the business details is instrumental in determining if this idea is worth pursuing, which can save a lot of time and resources that could be used towards a different business that would be better suited for you and your business needs and wants. 

What To Include In a Business Plan

The point of a business plan is to outline your business strategy and plan your business out on paper. As your business grows and you are looking at expansion options, lenders will want a well-defined business plan to help them determine if lending to your business is the best option. When looking at business plan template packages for teens, you are looking for business plan templates that will help you transition your business ideas to full-fledged businesses that will help adults see the vision. 

The 7 parts of a business plan include:

  • Executive Summary
  • Business Description
  • Products and Services
  • Market Analysis
  • Strategy and Implementation of Strategy
  • Organizational Structure and Management Team
  • Financial Plan and Future Projections

Best Business Plan Templates for Teenagers

Bizkids’ guide to writing a business plan.

This resource helps define the business idea and determine what to charge for the products and services that you want to offer. Learn how to evaluate your competition and what they are doing with their brand to bring value to their customers to figure out ways to make your brand unique so you can stand out in the marketplace. Determine what resources you need to build your business and how much those resources will cost you. Are there ways to bootstrap the company to make startup costs cheaper? Learn about breakeven costs and how many units you have to sell before you start making a profit with your business idea.

Teen Entrepreneur Toolbox: The Small-Business Guide for Teens

This toolbox provides 8 easy to follow, actionable steps to help teens evaluate whether or not their business idea is feasible for them to start and how to go about getting started. If you don’t currently have an idea for what business to start, this provides ideas and how to get started with them! Real teens share real business experiences and advice from their own journey, which can help you avoid making common business mistakes that will decrease your learning curve and get motivation and encouragement from teens that have faced similar challenges while building their businesses. Learn about marketing techniques that work, how to provide top-notch customer service, money management of profits, and goal setting for future growth. 

Home Sweet Road’s My Business Plan

This one-page business plan is free and easily downloadable. It can be printed out and hung on the wall for easy reference. The questions asked in this document are thought-provoking and help teens determine who the target audience is for their products and services. Defining the target audience will help establish a solid marketing plan that conveys the value of the product offering while making sure that the customer’s needs are being met. Customers want to buy from businesses that understand their needs and provide an ideal solution.

Proverbial Homemaker’s Family Business Plan Guide

Families can work together to build a business that kids and teens can run themselves and are passionate about running using this comprehensive business template and associated resources. Consider first why you want to start a business and why you are choosing THIS specific business. Understanding the reason for selecting that business idea builds confidence and helps maintain the passion for the company as time goes on. Create a monetary budget based on projected profits and figure out what price is best to charge for your products and services to secure sales from your target market. Set goals and manage your time, then figure out what laws are applicable for your business venture.

Learn how to conduct market research to see if there is a need for the services you want to provide before starting by conducting surveys or soft test launches. Find out where to source materials to make products and how much that will cost.  

Boss Club Kid Entrepreneur Kit

This kit is literally a business in a box, so kids and teens can get started right away as soon as they have it in their hands! Choose your kit and create the following businesses:

  • Homemade dog treats
  • Specialty cake pops
  • Luxury bath bombs
  • Delicious fudge
  • Handmade soaps

If you are homeschooling, this kit counts as a homeschooling resource that you can receive credit for completing, which is a fantastic additional perk of using this tool. The intended audience is kids and teens ages 11-18, and provides over 100 videos with step-by-step instructions on how to set up and grow a business from the ground up. So far, over 100 schools across the United States are using this option for their students to learn how to set up a business that they are passionate about running. Getting teens started young on their entrepreneurial journey has been found to build self-esteem and teach decision-making early on that helps young adults make solid decisions in their lives as they mature. The benefit of this specific program is that it was created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and not created by scholars that don’t have practical business knowledge. There is a quiz on their website that takes 30 seconds and helps you decide what business is best for your needs. 

Small Business Administration

This is a great government resource for teens who want to learn about business for free and about what resources are available from the government, such as loans and business coaching from experienced business owners in your community. There is no absolute right or wrong way to write a business plan in business, and you can choose how your business will run or how much money you need to start it. This resource allows you to walk through your business idea and plan with an experienced business owner that can talk through the pros and cons of what you feel is the next step for your business, from expansion to new investors to additional product offerings. This resource offers two different business plan templates that walk you through example business plans.

Solid Gold Biz Plan

This free business plan template from Money Prodigy discusses the author’s mistakes during her first 7 years in business and provides insights into how she would have conducted her business affairs differently if she had to start over again knowing what she knows now. The primary goal of this template is to find a problem that your business will solve. Many new entrepreneurs focus on the product or service but not on the problem it will solve in the marketplace. The goal should be to identify the problem and then develop the solution that will be offered as a product or service by your company. After determining the primary problem, she focuses on how to best deliver the solution and how much it will cost to maintain the delivery of the product or service. 

Shark Tank Lessons in Business and Entrepreneurship from Scholastic

A free lesson plan with a teacher’s guide that can be used in a group setting or as a family! Topics covered include entrepreneurship basics, writing an effective business plan, crafting persuasive pitches for investment presentations, and how to find a great business mentor. The target age group is grades 6 to 12.

Shark Tank Marketing Plan

A worksheet template that focuses on the target demographic for your business and the motivation that that demographic would have to buy a product or service that you are offering so you can establish the best way to market to them. Games are encouraged with this marketing package because this helps draw out ideas in fun ways that promote creativity and growth. Business is about finding creative solutions to problems and pivoting the company into new arenas when it becomes necessary for growth. Keeping an active marketing plan up to date as the business grows is key to expanding when necessary or finding innovative ways to keep customers engaged with your brand. 

Shark Tank Analysis Worksheet

Use this worksheet when evaluating businesses to learn what investors are looking for when assessing whether or not to invest in a business. Understanding what investors are looking for in a management team, mission, vision, product/service, research and development, and strategic implementation will help you create that within your own business to make your foundation strong.

A strong business plan that is well defined will take even the novice entrepreneur to the expert level of business in no time with the proper preparation. Using a business plan template in areas of planning, marketing, product development, and strategy will assist in building a business that can be bootstrapped and stood up quickly to test the business out in ways that require little startup capital.

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School Business Plan Template

Written by Dave Lavinsky

School Business Plan

You’ve come to the right place to create your School business plan.

We have helped over 5,000 entrepreneurs and business owners create business plans and many have used them to start or grow their Schools.

Below is a template to help you create each section of your School business plan.

Executive Summary

Business overview.

Southside Academy, located in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a private school that has been providing quality education to the community’s school children since 2017. Southside Academy teaches elementary, middle school, and high school students in a wide range of subjects including mathematics, science, and history. We aim to provide a welcoming and inviting environment where every student can reach their highest potential.

We promote academic, artistic, and athletic excellence in a close-knit learning environment, with a challenging curriculum that cultivates intellectual curiosity. Furthermore, we offer a low teacher-to-child ratio, where teachers can build close connections with their students as they help them excel. We develop confident, continual learners by establishing behavioral supports and the social culture needed for students to achieve social, emotional, and academic success.

Service Offering

Southside Academy offers a premium private education at an affordable tuition fee. We provide a challenging education where students can explore their true potential and a safe space where they can freely discover and express themselves. Our students range from 1st grade to 12th grade and we teach a wide variety of subjects including:

  • Basic Mathematics
  • Physical Education

Customer Focus

Southside Academy primarily serves families within a 5-mile radius of the school’s location. The area is home to thousands of middle and upper-class families looking for high-quality education for their children. Before the school was built, the area was underserved and many children had to travel far to attend quality private schools.

Management Team

Southside Academy’s founder is Mike Brown who has been working as a teacher for more than 20 years. Mike has taught at several public schools in the region but saw a great demand for private education. He noticed that the current location of the school was underserved and set out to create a school to serve this population. Mike Brown has successfully led Southside Academy as its principal since the school’s inception and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Mike Brown is supported by a team that has experience teaching students, managing finances, and running businesses. Specifically, our team has solid experience in being effective teachers, connecting to different types of students, and achieving key goals.

Success Factors

Southside Academy is able to achieve success by offering the following competitive advantages:

  • Location: Southside Academy’s location is near the center of town, giving members of our community easy access for parents and their children.
  • Passionate and Skillful Teachers: Southside Academy hires teachers with strong academic backgrounds who are skillful in handling all types of children.
  • Low teacher-to-student ratio: We provide a low teacher-to-student ratio so that every student gets personal attention from teachers to reach their highest potential.
  • Affordable, quality education: Most of the schools in the area offer their services at a very expensive price. Our fees will be moderately low so that good education is accessible to all families.

Financial Highlights

Southside Academy is currently seeking additional donations of $600,000 in order to fulfill our mission. The breakdown of the funding may be seen below:

  • Salaries: $200,000
  • School Materials (books, toys, desks, chairs, etc): $180,000
  • Administrative Expenses: $120,000 to pay for lease costs, ongoing operational expenses, and marketing.
  • Working capital: $100,000

The following graph below outlines the pro forma financial projections for Southside Academy.

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Company Overview

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Southside Academy started as an idea from a group of school teachers, including Mike Brown. The teachers were university pals who are passionate about teaching and children. They have seen the gaps in education in St. Paul, Minnesota, and wanted to create a school that elevates the academic environment for the children of this area.

Their plans to build a school started in 2015, but it was only until April 2016 that they finally completed all the paperwork and met the legal requirements. Since then, Southside Academy has achieved the following milestones:

  • Found a location and built the school
  • Developed the school’s name, logo, and website
  • Determined curriculum
  • Hired teachers and other key employees

Southside Academy’s Services

Industry analysis.

Education is an essential foundation for a thriving society. It’s more important than ever before that every child has access to affordable, high-quality education. While public schools are an essential option for many low-income families, the education provided by private schools often results in higher test scores and more students moving on to top-tier universities.

The private school industry has experienced steady growth in the past five years. The key industry drivers are economic growth, the rise in numbers of K-12 students, an increase in the number of families with both parents working, and government initiatives to support education.

According to Polaris Market Research, this growth is expected to continue with a forecasted compound annual growth rate of 6.6% from now until 2030. This shows that Southside Academy has great potential to keep growing and expanding. We will have ample opportunities to grow our curriculum and offer services to students that help them reach their highest potential.

Customer Analysis

Demographic profile of target market.

Southside Academy serves the families and children of St. Paul, Minnesota. The area is mostly populated by young couples and new families that have disposable income and can pay a premium for their children’s education.

The precise demographics of the town in which our location resides are as follows:

Customer Segmentation

We primarily target the following three customer segments:

  • Young children
  • Young couples

Competitive Analysis

Direct and indirect competitors.

Southside Academy faces competition from other schools with similar profiles. A description of each competitor company is below.  

Waters Independent School

Founded in 1968, Waters Independent School is a non-profit and tax-exempt independent school system. The school is governed by an independent Board of Trustees and offers preschool through eighth-grade programs. WIS is accredited by the state’s Council of Independent Schools (FCIS).

Waters Independent School has small class sizes with low student-to-teacher ratios. Further, WIS’ Programs include a strong academic foundation coupled with programs in the arts, physical education, media/technology, foreign language, and extracurricular areas.  

Hill Preparatory School

Founded in 1923, Hill Preparatory School is a private, non-sectarian, coeducational, college preparatory day school. It offers PK-12 programs in a safe, student-centered environment. HPS supports its students through the challenges of the school year with one-on-one attention from dedicated faculty, robust services like The Learning Center and the College Center, and the most advanced educational technology. The campus spans 28 acres and has a new 60,000+ square foot facility.  

Future Leaders Preparatory School

Founded in 1968, Future Leaders Prep is a private school for PreK3-8th grade. FLPS offers preschool, elementary school, and middle school programs and offers the International Baccalaureate program of study for all students. Teachers are endorsed in gifted education through a master’s level grant with [local University]’s College of Education Gifted Program. In addition to the school, Future Leaders offers community programs such as music, dance, art, and theater lessons through the Community School of the Arts, youth sports in the Community School for Sports, and the 7-week summer camp.

Competitive Advantage

There are many schools in St. Paul, Minnesota but none of them provides the same quality of education that Southside Academy provides, specifically the following:

Marketing Plan

Brand & value proposition.

The Southside Academy brand will focus on the school’s unique value proposition:

  • Providing premium education at an affordable price
  • Providing a supportive and challenging place for children to learn
  • Giving parents the assurance that their children will reach their full potential

Promotions Strategy

The promotions strategy for Southside Academy is as follows:

Social Media

Southside Academy will invest heavily in a social media advertising campaign. The school will utilize social media accounts and invest in ads on all social media platforms. It will use targeted marketing to appeal to the target demographics.

Publications

The school will place print advertisements in key local publications, including newspapers, area magazines, and business newsletters. Additionally, Southside Academy will print brochures and place them in specific locations frequented by target individuals.

Website/SEO

Southside Academy will invest heavily in developing a professional website that displays all of the features and benefits of Southside Academy. It will also invest heavily in SEO so that the school’s website will appear at the top of search engine results.

Direct Mail

Southside Academy will blanket neighborhoods with direct mail pieces. These pieces will provide general information on Southside Academy and incentives to enroll.

Southside Academy prices its tuition at a moderate price so our students and their families feel they are getting great value when choosing our school.

Operations Plan

The following will be the operations plan for Southside Academy.

Operation Functions:

  • Mike Brown is the school Principal. He manages the teachers, directs the direction of education, and serves as the head of the school.
  • Mike is joined by Amanda Johnson who acts as the Administrative Assistant for the school. She helps Mike with the operations of the school as well as the marketing and administrative functions.
  • Mike has hired an extensive team of highly qualified educators. Together, they teach dozens of subjects, including biology, chemistry, social studies, and mathematics. Every teacher that works for Southside Academy is passionate about education and pushing their students to reach their highest potential.

Milestones:

Southside Academy expects to achieve the following milestones in the following six months:

  • 3/202X Kickoff of promotional campaign to attract new students
  • 4/202X Start donation campaign
  • 5/202X Hire new teachers for the upcoming year
  • 6/202X Achieve donation/funding goal
  • 7/202X Finalize list of incoming students for next year
  • 8/202X Start next school year

Financial Plan

Key revenue & costs.

Southside Academy’s revenues come from student tuition fees and donations from both individuals and corporations.

The major costs for the company will be staffing, marketing expenses, location maintenance, equipment, and materials.

Funding Requirements and Use of Funds

Southside Academy is currently seeking additional fundraising and capital of $600,000 in order to fulfill our mission. The breakdown of the funding may be seen below:

Key Assumptions

The following outlines the key assumptions required in order to achieve the revenue and cost numbers in the financials and to pay off the startup business loan.

  • Year 1: 200
  • Year 2: 300
  • Year 3: 400
  • Year 4: 500
  • Year 5: 600
  • Tuition rate per year: $10,000

Financial Projections

Income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, school business plan faqs, what is a school business plan.

A school business plan is a plan to start and/or grow your school business. Among other things, it outlines your business concept, identifies your target customers, presents your marketing plan and details your financial projections.

You can easily complete your School business plan using our School Business Plan Template here .

What are the Main Types of School Businesses?

There are a number of different kinds of school businesses , some examples include: Private K-12 school, Charter school, or Preschool.

How Do You Get Funding for Your School Business Plan?

School businesses are often funded through small business loans. Personal savings, credit card financing and angel investors are also popular forms of funding.

What are the Steps To Start a School Business?

Starting a school business can be an exciting endeavor. Having a clear roadmap of the steps to start a business will help you stay focused on your goals and get started faster.

1. Develop A School Business Plan - The first step in starting a business is to create a detailed school business plan that outlines all aspects of the venture. This should include potential market size and target customers, the services or products you will offer, pricing strategies and a detailed financial forecast.  

2. Choose Your Legal Structure - It's important to select an appropriate legal entity for your school business. This could be a limited liability company (LLC), corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship. Each type has its own benefits and drawbacks so it’s important to do research and choose wisely so that your school business is in compliance with local laws.

3, Register Your School Business - Once you have chosen a legal structure, the next step is to register your school business with the government or state where you’re operating from. This includes obtaining licenses and permits as required by federal, state, and local laws.

4. Identify Financing Options - It’s likely that you’ll need some capital to start your school business, so take some time to identify what financing options are available such as bank loans, investor funding, grants, or crowdfunding platforms. 

5. Choose a Location - Whether you plan on operating out of a physical location or not, you should always have an idea of where you’ll be based should it become necessary in the future as well as what kind of space would be suitable for your operations. 

6. Hire Employees - There are several ways to find qualified employees including job boards like LinkedIn or Indeed as well as hiring agencies if needed – depending on what type of employees you need it might also be more effective to reach out directly through networking events. 

7. Acquire Necessary School Equipment & Supplies - In order to start your school business, you'll need to purchase all of the necessary equipment and supplies to run a successful operation. 

8. Market & Promote Your Business - Once you have all the necessary pieces in place, it’s time to start promoting and marketing your school business. This includes creating a website, utilizing social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter, and having an effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy. You should also consider traditional marketing techniques such as radio or print advertising. 

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How to Write A School Business Plan?

Writing a school business plan is a crucial step toward the success of your business. Here are the key steps to consider when writing a business plan:

1. Executive Summary

An executive summary is the first section planned to offer an overview of the entire business plan. However, it is written after the entire business plan is ready and summarizes each section of your plan.

Here are a few key components to include in your executive summary:

Introduce your Business:

Start your executive summary by briefly introducing your business to your readers.

Market Opportunity:

Educational programs & services:.

Highlight the school services you offer your clients. The USPs and differentiators you offer are always a plus.

Marketing & Sales Strategies:

Financial highlights:, call to action:.

Ensure your executive summary is clear, concise, easy to understand, and jargon-free.

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2. Business Overview

The business overview section of your business plan offers detailed information about your business. The details you add will depend on how important they are to your business. Yet, business name, location, business history, and future goals are some of the foundational elements you must consider adding to this section:

Business Description:

Describe your business in this section by providing all the basic information:

Describe what kind of school business you run and the name of it. You may specialize in one of the following school businesses:

  • Public schools
  • Private schools
  • Charter schools
  • Magnet schools
  • Virtual or online schools
  • Boarding schools
  • International schools
  • Religious schools
  • Describe the legal structure of your school, whether it is a sole proprietorship, LLC, partnership, or others.
  • Explain where your business is located and why you selected the place.

Mission Statement:

Business history:.

If you’re an established school, briefly describe your business history, like—when it was founded, how it evolved over time, etc.

Additionally, If you have received any awards or recognition for excellent work, describe them.

Future Goals

This section should provide a thorough understanding of your business, its history, and its future plans. Keep this section engaging, precise, and to the point.

3. Market Analysis

The market analysis section of your business plan should offer a thorough understanding of the industry with the target market, competitors, and growth opportunities. You should include the following components in this section.

Target market:

Start this section by describing your target market. Define your ideal customer and explain what types of services they prefer. Creating a buyer persona will help you easily define your target market to your readers.

Market size and growth potential:

Describe your market size and growth potential and whether you will target a niche or a much broader market.

Competitive Analysis:

Market trends:.

Analyze emerging trends in the industry, such as technology disruptions, changes in customer behavior or preferences, etc. Explain how your business will cope with all the trends.

Regulatory Environment:

Here are a few tips for writing the market analysis section of your school business plan::

  • Conduct market research, industry reports, and surveys to gather data.
  • Provide specific and detailed information whenever possible.
  • Illustrate your points with charts and graphs.
  • Write your business plan keeping your target audience in mind.

4. Products And Services

The product and services section should describe the specific services and products that will be offered to students. To write this section should include the following:

Describe your school services:

Mention the school services your business will offer. This list may include services like,

  • Education programs
  • Extracurricular activities
  • Counseling & Guidance
  • Special education services
  • Transportation services
  • Food services
  • Testing and assessments

Describe specialized programs:

Student leadership programs, additional services:.

In short, this section of your school plan must be informative, precise, and client-focused. By providing a clear and compelling description of your offerings, you can help potential investors and readers understand the value of your business.

5. Sales And Marketing Strategies

Writing the sales and marketing strategies section means a list of strategies you will use to attract and retain your clients. Here are some key elements to include in your sales & marketing plan:

Unique Selling Proposition (USP):

Define your business’s USPs depending on the market you serve, the equipment you use, and the unique services you provide. Identifying USPs will help you plan your marketing strategies.

Pricing Strategy:

Marketing strategies:, sales strategies:, customer retention:.

Overall, this section of your school business plan should focus on customer acquisition and retention.

Have a specific, realistic, and data-driven approach while planning sales and marketing strategies for your school business, and be prepared to adapt or make strategic changes in your strategies based on feedback and results.

6. Operations Plan

The operations plan section of your business plan should outline the processes and procedures involved in your business operations, such as staffing requirements and operational processes. Here are a few components to add to your operations plan:

Staffing & Training:

Operational process:, equipment & software:.

Include the list of equipment and software required for school, such as whiteboards & projectors, student information systems, learning management systems, communication & collaboration tools, etc.

Adding these components to your operations plan will help you lay out your business operations, which will eventually help you manage your business effectively.

7. Management Team

The management team section provides an overview of your school business’s management team. This section should provide a detailed description of each manager’s experience and qualifications, as well as their responsibilities and roles.

Founders/CEO:

Key managers:.

Introduce your management and key members of your team, and explain their roles and responsibilities.

Organizational structure:

Compensation plan:, advisors/consultants:.

Mentioning advisors or consultants in your business plans adds credibility to your business idea.

This section should describe the key personnel for your school, highlighting how you have the perfect team to succeed.

8. Financial Plan

Your financial plan section should provide a summary of your business’s financial projections for the first few years. Here are some key elements to include in your financial plan:

Profit & loss statement:

Cash flow statement:, balance sheet:, break-even point:.

Determine and mention your business’s break-even point—the point at which your business costs and revenue will be equal.

Financing Needs:

Be realistic with your financial projections, and make sure you offer relevant information and evidence to support your estimates.

9. Appendix

The appendix section of your plan should include any additional information supporting your business plan’s main content, such as market research, legal documentation, financial statements, and other relevant information.

  • Add a table of contents for the appendix section to help readers easily find specific information or sections.
  • In addition to your financial statements, provide additional financial documents like tax returns, a list of assets within the business, credit history, and more. These statements must be the latest and offer financial projections for at least the first three or five years of business operations.
  • Provide data derived from market research, including stats about the industry, user demographics, and industry trends.
  • Include any legal documents such as permits, licenses, and contracts.
  • Include any additional documentation related to your business plan, such as product brochures, marketing materials, operational procedures, etc.

Use clear headings and labels for each section of the appendix so that readers can easily find the necessary information.

Remember, the appendix section of your school business plan should only include relevant and important information supporting your plan’s main content.

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Frequently asked questions, why do you need a school business plan.

A business plan is an essential tool for anyone looking to start or run a successful school business. It helps to get clarity in your business, secures funding, and identifies potential challenges while starting and growing your business.

Overall, a well-written plan can help you make informed decisions, which can contribute to the long-term success of your school.

How to get funding for your school business?

There are several ways to get funding for your school business, but self-funding is one of the most efficient and speedy funding options. Other options for funding are:

  • Bank loan – You may apply for a loan in government or private banks.
  • Small Business Administration (SBA) loan – SBA loans and schemes are available at affordable interest rates, so check the eligibility criteria before applying for it.
  • Crowdfunding – The process of supporting a project or business by getting a lot of people to invest in your business, usually online.
  • Angel investors – Getting funds from angel investors is one of the most sought startup options.

Apart from all these options, there are small business grants available, check for the same in your location and you can apply for it.

Where to find business plan writers for your school business?

There are many business plan writers available, but no one knows your business and ideas better than you, so we recommend you write your school business plan and outline your vision as you have in your mind.

What is the easiest way to write your school business plan?

A lot of research is necessary for writing a business plan, but you can write your plan most efficiently with the help of any school business plan example and edit it as per your need. You can also quickly finish your plan in just a few hours or less with the help of our business plan software .

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How to Write a Private School Business Plan [Sample Template]

Are you about starting a private school (nursery, primary or high school)? If YES, here’s a complete sample private school business plan template & feasibility report you can use for FREE. Okay, so we have considered all the requirements for starting a private school.

We also took it further by analyzing and drafting a sample private school marketing plan template backed up by actionable guerrilla marketing ideas for private schools. So let’s proceed to the business planning section.

Why Start a Private School?

One of the best things that can happen to anyone is to have a private school. This is one very lucrative business that will continue to rake in money for its owners. As an aspiring entrepreneur who is looking towards starting a business, you should ensure that whatever business you intend to start, you make sure that it is located in an appropriate place.

For example; if you want to start a private school, it will be a wrong business judgment if you decide to site the school close to an industrial area or close to a market. Aspiring entrepreneurs therefore are urged as a matter of necessity to ensure that they carry out a thorough market research and feasibility study of the industry they intend to go into before investing their hard earned money and time.

It is known fact that the demand for private schools is driven by the fact that most public cum government owned schools cannot accommodate every students or potential students in a given geographical location. In some cases, students with special needs cannot cope in public schools hence the need for private schools.

If you think starting a private school business sounds like what you want to do. Then you may want to use the business plan below as a guide.

A Sample Private School Business Plan Template

1. industry overview.

Private schools which is also known in the united states as independent schools, non-governmental, or non – state schools are schools that are not administered by either the local, state or the federal governments; hence, they have the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition fees, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public (government) funding.

Some private schools have structure in place that offer scholarships to some students, which makes the cost cheaper, depending on a talent such as sport scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship the student may be brining to the private school, financial need, or tax credit scholarships that might be available.

The Private Schools industry comprises of primary that is kindergarten through sixth grade and secondary that is seventh through 12th grade) educational institutions that are predominantly funded through enrollment and tuition fees from students and of course from other private sources.

Recent reports released by IBISWORLD shows that the revenue for the Private Schools industry is expected to increase, as the economy continues to recover. The indicated that during the five years to 2016, enrollment decreased, which was a trend attributable to rising costs and competition from charter schools.

However, going forward, in the next five years, household income is anticipated to increase, making it easier for families to afford private-school tuition. Additionally, enrollment declines will lesson, resulting in more stable demand for private schools

In the United States of America and of course in most countries of the world, The Private Schools industry is indeed a large and thriving industry. Statistics has it that The Private Schools industry in the United States of America, is worth $52 billion, with an estimated growth rate of 0.1 percent.

There are about 25,742 registered and licensed (accredited) Private schools scattered all around the United States of America and they are responsible for employing about 644,320 people.

Aside from Catholic schools, which is the second largest sector after government schools, with around 21 percent of secondary enrollments, no other private school can boast of dominating the market; every player in the industry can comfortably compete in the industry.

It is important to state that the barriers to entry into the Private Schools industry are high. As a matter of fact, the private school industry is an industry in which it is pretty difficult for new entrants to establish themselves. So also, the reputation of the private school is of utmost importance, as private schools that have a good history of getting students into prestigious colleges often have the best reputations hence good enrollments.

With this, it is obvious that a new entrant in to the private school industry cannot offer this. Reputation indeed is imperative to parents’ decisions when shopping for private school for their wards. This is so because the quality of education cannot be assessed until well after it is complete. As a major marketing tool, schools need to show parents a track record of admission to elite colleges and universities.

Even though this might seem like a saturated industry, the industry is still pretty much open for aspiring school proprietors and proprietress to still come in and compete. As a matter of fact, if you conduct your research and feasibility studies very well before starting your own private school couple with impressive profile of your faculty members, you are likely going to struggle less to make headway in the industry.

2. Executive Summary

Rolland Gyros International Private School is an international private school that will be located in a well – populated residential estate in Ashville – North Carolina, United States of America. We are a standard private school that is composed of primary (kindergarten through sixth grade) and secondary (seventh through 12th grade) educational institution that will be predominantly funded through tuition fees and levies from students and of course from other private sources.

Rolland Gyros International Private School is a client-focused and result driven private school that provides broad-based learning approaches and experience at an affordable fee that won’t in any way put a hole in the pockets of our clients (students and parents alike).

We will offer standard and professional teaching services in a highly secured and conducive learning environment to all our students that is primary (kindergarten through sixth grade) and secondary (seventh through 12th grade). We will ensure that we work hard to meet and surpass all our students’ expectations and educational goals whenever they enroll in our tutorial college.

At Rolland Gyros International Private School, our students’ overall best interest would always come first, and everything we do is guided by our values and professional ethics. We will ensure that we hire professional educationist cum teachers in various subjects who are well experienced and passionate in imparting knowledge to students at various learning ladder.

Rolland Gyros International Private School will at all time demonstrate her commitment to sustainability, both individually and as an educational organization, by actively participating in our communities and integrating sustainable business practices wherever possible.

We will ensure that we hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards by meeting our students’ needs precisely and completely. We will cultivate a working environment that provides a human, sustainable approach to earning a living, and living in our world, for our partners, employees and for our students.

We have plans to offer learning platforms to people with both learning disability and physical disability (especially the blind, the dumb and the deaf). Our overall business goal is to position our private school to become the leading tutorial brand in the educational industry in the whole of Ashville – North Carolina, and also to be amongst the top 30 private schools in the United States of America within the first 12 years of operations.

This might look too tall a dream but we are optimistic that this will surely come to pass because we have done our research and feasibility studies and we are enthusiastic and confident that Ashville is the right place to launch our private school.

Rolland Gyros International Private School is founded by Dr. (Mrs.) Irene Rolland Gyros and family. She is an educationist per excellence and she has won many awards in the education sector in the United States. Dr. (Mrs.) Irene Rolland Gyros has both the academic qualifications and experience to run a private school that can favorably compete with other leading private schools not only in Ashville – North Carolina, but also throughout the United States and Canada.

3. Our Products and Services

Rolland Gyros International Private School is going to offer varieties of educational services within the scope of the education board in the United States of America. Our intention of starting our private school is to soundly educate people in various subjects and of course to make profits from the education cum private schools industry and we will do all that is permitted by the law in the US to achieve our aim and business goal.

Our service offerings are listed below;

  • Teaching basic literacy and numeracy
  • Establishing foundations in science, mathematics, geography, history and other social sciences
  • Constantly working hard to meet regulatory accreditation standards
  • Administering private funding efforts
  • Providing access to extracurricular activities
  • Retailing of Educational Books and Materials

4. Our Mission and Vision Statement

  • Our vision is to build a highly competitive private school that will become the number one choice for both parents and students in the whole of Ashville – North Carolina.
  • Our vision reflects our values: integrity, service, excellence and teamwork.
  • Our mission is to provide professional and conducive learning environment to students at different level of learning.
  • Our overall business goal is to position Rolland Gyros International Private School to become the leading private school brand in the educational cum private school industry in the whole of Ashville – North Carolina, and also to be amongst the top 30 private schools in the United States of America within the first 12 years of operations.

Our Business Structure

It is a known fact that, the success of any business is to a larger extent dependent on the business structure of the organization and the people who occupy the available roles in the organization. Rolland Gyros International Private School will build a solid business structure that can support the growth of our private school.

We will ensure that we hire competent hands (teaching and non – teaching staff members) to help us build the private school of our dream. The fact that we want to become one of the leading private school brand in the industry in the whole of the United States of America makes it highly necessary for our organization to deliberately build a well – structured business from the onset.

We will work hard to ensure that we only attract people with the right mindset to help us achieve our business goals and objectives in record time. Below is the business structure that we will build Rolland Gyros International Private School;

  • Head of The Private School(School Proprietress)

School Administrator

Tutors for Various Subjects – Secondary (seventh through 12th grade)

Tutors for Various Subjects – Primary (kindergarten through sixth grade)

  • Accountant / Bursar
  • Client Service Executive / Front Desk Officer

Security Officers

5. Job Roles and Responsibilities

Head of the Tutorial College / School Coordinator:

  • Responsible for providing direction for the college
  • Creates, communicates, and implements the organization’s vision, mission, and overall direction – i.e. leading the development and implementation of the overall organization’s strategy.
  • Responsible for handling high profile clients and deals
  • Responsible for fixing fees and signing business deals (partnership)
  • Responsible for signing checks and documents on behalf of the tutorial college
  • Coordinates all arms of the tutorial school (tutorial center, adult education, home tutors and special education)
  • Evaluates the success of the tutorial college
  • Reports to the board of the tutorial college
  • Responsible for overseeing the smooth running of HR and administrative tasks for the tutorial school
  • Designs job descriptions with KPI to drive performance management for tutors (teachers)
  • Regularly hold meetings with key stakeholders (parents and member of the school board) to review the effectiveness of the schools’ Policies, Procedures and Processes
  • Maintains office supplies by checking stocks; placing and expediting orders; evaluating new products.
  • Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs.
  • Defines job positions for recruitment and managing interviewing process
  • Carries out staff induction for new team members
  • Responsible for training, evaluation and assessment of employees
  • Responsible for arranging travel, meetings and appointments
  • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
  • Oversees the smooth running of the daily activities of the private school.
  • Effectively teach subject / subjects as assigned by the school administrator
  • Accesses the progress of students under their care
  • Ensures that students abide by the rules and regulations of the private school
  • Contributes his / her quota towards growing the private school
  • Receives complaints from parents and channel it to the appropriate quarters
  • Handle any other duty as assigned by the school administrator.
  • Ensure that students abide by the rules and regulations of the school administrator
  • Handles any other duty as assigned by the school administrator.

Marketing Executive

  • Identifies, prioritizes, and reaches out to new students, and business opportunities et al
  • Identifies development opportunities; follows up on development leads and contacts; participates in the structuring and financing of projects; assures the completion of development projects.
  • Writes winning proposal documents, negotiate fees and rates in line with organizations’ policy
  • Responsible for handling business research, market surveys and feasibility studies for clients
  • Responsible for supervising implementation, advocate for the customer’s needs, and communicate with clients
  • Develops, executes and evaluates new plans for expanding increase sales
  • Documents all customer contact and information
  • Represents the company in strategic meetings
  • Helps to increase sales and growth for the school

School Bursar (Accountant)

  • Responsible for preparing financial reports, budgets, and financial statements for the organization
  • Provides managements with financial analyses, development budgets, and accounting reports; analyzes financial feasibility for the most complex proposed projects; conducts market research to forecast trends and business conditions.
  • Responsible for financial forecasting and risks analysis.
  • Performs cash management, general ledger accounting, and financial reporting for one or more properties.
  • Responsible for developing and managing financial systems and policies
  • Responsible for administering payrolls
  • Ensures compliance with taxation legislation
  • Handles all financial transactions for Rolland Gyros International Private School
  • Serves as internal auditor for Rolland Gyros International Private School

Client Service Executive

  • Welcomes / receive parents and students by greeting them in person or on the telephone; answering or directing inquiries.
  • Ensures that all contacts with parents and students (e-mail, walk-In center, SMS or phone) provides the parents and students with a personalized customer service experience of the highest level
  • Through interaction with parents and students on the phone, uses every opportunity to build parent’s interest in the schools’ products and services
  • Manages administrative duties assigned by the HR and Admin Manager in an effective and timely manner
  • Consistently stays abreast of any new information on the organizations’ products, promotional campaigns etc. to ensure accurate and helpful information is supplied to parents and students when they make enquiries
  • Receives parcels / documents for Rolland Gyros International Private School
  • Distribute mails in the organization
  • Handles any other duties as assigned by the School Administrator.
  • Responsible for cleaning the school facility at all times
  • Ensures that toiletries and supplies don’t run out of stock
  • Cleans both the interior and exterior of the schools facility
  • Handles any other duty as assigned by the school administrator
  • Ensures that the school facility is secured at all time
  • Controls traffic and organize parking
  • Gives security tips to staff members from time to time
  • Patrols around the building on a 24 hours basis
  • Submits security reports weekly
  • Any other duty as assigned by the school administrator

6. SWOT Analysis

Rolland Gyros International Private School engaged the services of a core professional in the area of business consulting and structuring with bias in the education sector to assist us in building a well – structured private school that can favorably compete in the highly competitive education cum private schools industry in the United States.

Part of what the team of business consultant did was to work with the management of our organization in conducting a SWOT analysis for Rolland Gyros International Private School. Here is a summary from the result of the SWOT analysis that was conducted on behalf of Rolland Gyros International Private School;

As a private school, our core strength lies in the power of our team; our workforce. We have a team with excellent qualifications and experience in the educational sector. We are well positioned in a community with the right demography and we know we will attract loads of students from the first day we open our doors and welcome students for enrollment.

As a new private school in Ashville – North Carolina, it might take some time for our organization to break into the market and gain acceptance via reputation in the already saturated education cum private schools industry; that is perhaps our major weakness.

  • Opportunities:

The opportunities in the education cum private schools industry is massive considering the number of parents who would want their wards to perform excellently well in their education and go ahead to be admitted in Ivy league colleges. As a standard and international private school, Rolland Gyros International Private School is ready to take advantage of any opportunity that comes her way.

Every business faces a threat or challenge at any part of the life cycle of the business. These threats can be external or internal. This shows the importance of a business plan, because most threats or challenges are to be anticipated and plans put in place to cushion what effect they might bring to the private school.

Some of the threats that we are likely going to face as a private school operating in the United States of America are unfavorable government policies that might affect private schools, the arrival of a competitor within our location of operations and global economic downturn which usually affects spending / purchasing power.

There is hardly anything we can do as regards these threats other than to be optimistic that things will continue to work for our good.

7. MARKET ANALYSIS

  • Market Trends

The trend in the private school line of business is that the key to attracting students is the educational performance and the pass rate of their students in national exams. Any private school that has good records will always thrive. The demand for private schools is driven by the fact that most public cum government owned schools cannot accommodate every students or potential students in a given geographical location.

In some cases, students with special needs cannot cope in public schools hence the need for private schools. The economic downturn hasn’t really affected this industry, especially in countries that believe in the efficacy of education.

The areas you would need to spend heavily on is in ensuring that your school is up to standard, your advertisements, and on insurance policy cover. Lastly, it is trendier to find private schools engaging in extra – curricular activities and as a matter of fact, a private school that thrives in sports can leverage on that to attract students who are sports inclined.

8. Our Target Market

As a standard and international private school, Rolland Gyros International Private School is going to offer varieties of educational services within the scope of the education board in the United States of America. Our intention of starting our private school is to soundly educate people in various subjects and of course to make profits from the education cum private schools industry

Our target market as a private school cuts across people (students) of different class and people from different culture background whether African, White, Caucasian, Latinos, Indians, and Asians. We are coming into the education cum private schools industry with a business concept that will enable us work with the students at different learning stages residing in and around Ashville – North Carolina.

Our competitive advantage

Indeed the private schools industry is highly competitive and the entry barriers are high. As a matter of fact, the private school industry is an industry in which it is pretty difficult for new entrants to establish themselves. So also, the reputation of the private school is of utmost importance, as private schools that have a good history of getting students into prestigious colleges often have the best reputations hence good enrollments.

We are quite aware that to be highly competitive in the education cum private schools industry means that you should be able to deliver consistent quality service, your students should be able to experience remarkable difference and improvement and you should be able to meet the expectations of both students and parents alike.

Rolland Gyros International Private School might be a new entrant into the education cum private schools industry in the United States of America, but the management staffs and owners of the private school are considered gurus. They are people who are core professionals, licensed and highly qualified educationist / teachers at various levels of learning in the United States. These are part of what will count as a competitive advantage for us.

Lastly, our employees (teaching and non – teaching staff members) will be well taken care of, and their welfare package will be among the best within our category (startups private school in the United States) in the industry meaning that they will be more than willing to build the business with us and help deliver our set goals and achieve all our business aims and objectives.

9. SALES AND MARKETING STRATEGY

  • Sources of Income

Rolland Gyros International Private School is established with the aim of maximizing profits in the education cum private schools industry and we are going to go all the way to ensure that we do all it takes to attract students on a regular basis.

Rolland Gyros International Private School will generate income by offering the following tutorial services;

  • Teaching High school students various subjects in our private school

10. Sales Forecast

One thing is certain, there would always be parents and students who would need the services of private schools to be able to achieve their educational goals and as such the services of private schools will always be needed.

We are well positioned to take on the available market in Ashville – North Carolina and we are quite optimistic that we will meet our set target of generating enough income / profits from the first six month of operations and grow the private school and our student base.

We have been able to critically examine the private schools cum education market in the United States of America and we have analyzed our chances in the industry and we have been able to come up with the following sales forecast.

The sales projection is based on information gathered on the field and some assumptions that are peculiar to similar startups in Ashville – North Carolina. Below is the sales projection for Rolland Gyros International Private School, it is based on the location of our tutorial center and of course the wide range of tutorial services that we will be offering;

  • First Fiscal Year-: $250,000
  • Second Fiscal Year-: $450,000
  • Third Fiscal Year-: $750,000

N.B : This projection is done based on what is obtainable in the industry and with the assumption that there won’t be any major economic meltdown and natural disasters within the period stated above. So, there won’t be any major competitor (private school) offering same additional services as we do within same location. Please note that the above projection might be lower and at the same time it might be higher.

  • Marketing Strategy and Sales Strategy

We are mindful of the fact that there is stiffer competition amongst private schools in the United States of America; hence we have been able to hire some of the best marketing experts to handle our sales and marketing concerns. Our sales and marketing team will be recruited base on their vast experience in the industry and they will be trained on a regular basis so as to be well equipped to meet their targets and the overall goal of the private school.

We will also ensure that our students’ excellent results from national exams and other exams speaks for us in the market place; we want to build a standard and first – class private school that will leverage on word of mouth advertisement from satisfied clients (both individuals and corporate organizations).

Our goal is to grow our private school to become one of the top 30 private schools in the United States of America which is why we have mapped out strategy that will help us take advantage of the available market and grow to become a major force to reckon with not only in Ashville – North Carolina but also in other cities in the United States of America.

Rolland Gyros International Private School is set to make use of the following marketing and sales strategies to attract clients;

  • Introduce our private school by sending introductory letters alongside our brochure to schools, parents / household and key stake holders in Ashville – North Carolina.
  • Print out fliers and business cards and strategically drop them in schools, libraries and even student organizations.
  • Creating a website, allows parents to be able to look you up, and also allows you to post general study tips, giving you an added advantage.
  • Use friends and family to spread word about our private school
  • Introduce Rolland Gyros International Private School to learning specialists, school coaches, school administrators, teachers, guidance counselors especially as they are with students everyday
  • Post information about Rolland Gyros International Private School on bulletin boards in places like schools, libraries, and local coffee shops.
  • Placing a small or classified advertisement in the newspaper, or local publication about Rolland Gyros International Private School
  • Using tutorial referral networks such as agencies that will help match students with Rolland Gyros International Private School
  • Joining relevant association or body that will enable you network and meet others in same industry.
  • Advertising online by using an advertising platform such as Google Adwords, that will allow us place text advertisements alongside on websites with related contents, and along results from search engines.
  • Advertise our private school in relevant educational magazines, newspapers, TV stations, and radio station.
  • Attend relevant educational expos, seminars, and business fairs et al
  • Engage direct marketing approach
  • Encourage word of mouth marketing from loyal and satisfied clients

11. Publicity and Advertising Strategy

We are aware of the potency of a good publicity strategy hence we have been able to work with our brand and publicity consultants to help us map out publicity and advertising strategies that will help us walk our way into the heart of our target market.

We are set to become the number one choice for both parents and students in the whole of Ashville – North Carolina which is why we have made provisions for effective publicity and advertisement of our private school. Below are the platforms we intend to leverage on to promote and advertise Rolland Gyros International Private School;

  • Place adverts on both print (community based newspapers and magazines) and electronic media platforms
  • Sponsor relevant community based events / programs
  • Leverage on the internet and social media platforms like; Instagram, Facebook , twitter, YouTube, Google + et al to promote our brand
  • Install our Bill Boards on strategic locations all around Ashville – North Carolina.
  • Engage in road show from time to time in targeted neighborhoods in and around Ashville – North Carolina
  • Distribute our fliers and handbills in target areas in and around Ashville – North Carolina
  • Passing general information via our school’s social media handles like twitter, Facebook, Google hangouts etc.
  • Ensure that all our teaching and non – teaching staff members wear our branded shirts and all our vehicles are well branded with our schools’ logo et al.

12. Our Pricing Strategy

Private schools in the United States of America and of course in all the parts of the world charge students per tem / per session and students have the options of either paying their tuitions before resumption or during the school session.

Private schools generally charge students based on loads of factors, locations, services offerings and extra – curricular activities et al At Rolland Gyros International Private School we will keep our fees below the average market rate for all of our students by keeping our overhead low and by collecting payment in advance.

In addition, we will also offer special discounted rates to all our students at regular intervals. We are aware that there are some students that would need special assistance, we will offer flat rate for such services that will be tailored to take care of such students’ needs.

  • Payment Options

At Rolland Gyros International Private School, our payment policy will be all inclusive because we are quite aware that different people prefer different payment options as it suits them. Here are the payment options that we will make available to our clients;

  • Payment by via bank transfer
  • Payment via online bank transfer
  • Payment via check
  • Payment via bank draft
  • Payment via mobile money
  • Payment with cash

In view of the above, we have chosen banking platforms that will help us achieve our plans with little or no itches.

13. Startup Expenditure (Budget)

In setting up a private school business, the amount or cost will depend on the approach and scale you want to undertake. If you intend to go big by acquiring a large facility, then you would need a higher amount of capital as you would need to ensure that your employees are taken care of, and that your private school’s environment is conducive enough for the students to learn.

This means that the start-up can either be low or high depending on your goals, vision and aspirations for your business. The materials and equipment that will be used are nearly the same cost everywhere, and any difference in prices would be minimal and can be overlooked.

As for the detailed cost analysis for starting a private school business; it might differ in other countries due to the value of their money. However, this is what it would cost us to start Rolland Gyros International Private School in the United of America;

  • Business incorporating fees in the United States of America will cost – $750.
  • The budget for Liability insurance, permits and license will cost – $3,500
  • Acquiring a large facility that will accommodate the number of block of closes, playing field, staff offices and parking lots et al (Re – Construction of the facility inclusive) will cost – $350,000.
  • Equipping the classes and office (computers, printers, projectors, markers, pens and pencils, furniture, telephones, filing cabinets, and electronics) will cost – $50,000
  • Launching an official Website will cost – $500
  • The budget for the payment of salaries for the first three months of operations: $120,000
  • Additional Expenditure such as Business cards, Signage, Adverts and Promotions will cost – $15,000

Going by the market survey and feasibility studies conducted, we came to the conclusion that we will need an average of $750,000 to start a small scale but standard private school in the United States of America.

Generating Funding / Startup Capital for Rolland Gyros International Private School

Rolland Gyros International Private School is a family business that will be owned and managed by Dr. (Mrs.) Irene Rolland Gyros and her immediate family. They are the sole financial of the private school which is why they decided to restrict the sourcing of the start – up capital for the private school to just three major sources.

These are the areas we intend generating our start – up capital;

  • Generate part of the start – up capital from personal savings and sale of his stocks
  • Generate part of the start – up capital from friends and other extended family members
  • Generate a larger chunk of the startup capital from the bank (loan facility).

N.B: We have been able to generate about $250,000 (Personal savings $200,000 and soft loan from family members $50,000 ) and we are at the final stages of obtaining a loan facility of $500,000 from our bank. All the papers and document has been duly signed and submitted, the loan has been approved and any moment from now our account will be credited.

14. Sustainability and Expansion Strategy

It is a known fact that the future of any business lies in the numbers of loyal customers that they have, the capacity and competence of the employees, their investment strategy and of course the business structure. If all of these factors are missing from a business (company), then it won’t be too long before the business close shop.

One of our major goals of starting Rolland Gyros International Private School is to build a business that will survive off its own cash flow without the need for injecting finance from external sources once the business is officially running.

We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers (students and parents alike) over is to ensure that we offer nothing less than the best, to offer quality education to all our students so much so that they can favorably compete with students all over the United States and gain admission to Ivy League colleges.

Rolland Gyros International Private School will make sure that the right foundation, structures and processes are put in place to ensure that our staff welfare are well taken of. Our company’s corporate culture is designed to drive our business to greater heights and training and re – training of our workforce is at the top burner of our business strategy.

As a matter of fact, profit-sharing arrangement will be made available to all our management staff and it will be based on their performance for a period of three years or more as determined by the board of the organization. We know that if that is put in place, we will be able to successfully hire and retain the best hands we can get in the industry; they will be more committed to help us build the business of our dreams.

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Starting a business can be a daunting undertaking. As with so many large projects, one of the most difficult challenges is just getting started, and one of the best ways to start is by putting together a plan. A plan is also a powerful tool for communication and can serve as a cornerstone for onboarding new partners and employees or for demonstrating your philosophy and priorities to potential collaborators. 

A solid business plan will not only provide a framework for your business going forward but will also give you an early opportunity to organize and refine your thoughts and define your mission statement, providing a guidepost that can serve as a beacon for your business for years to come. We’ve provided a business plan template below to help guide you in the creation of your new enterprise.

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What should a business plan include?

Regardless of the type of business you own or the products and services you provide, every business plan should include some core elements:

  • Mission statement. The definition and executive summary of your business.
  • Market analysis. A breakdown of the market segment and customers you hope to reach, built through primary (gathered by you) and secondary (gathered from outside sources) research.
  • Organization and logistics. The nuts and bolts of how your business is operated
  • Products or services. What your company provides its customers.
  • Advertising and marketing. How you intend to get your products in front of your customers.
  • Forecasting. Revenue forecasting for partners or potential investors.

Why do you need a business plan?

A business plan is a framework for success. It provides a number of key benefits:

  • Structure. The outline around which to design your business.
  • Operational guidance. A signpost for how to run your business from day to day.
  • Expansion. A vision for the future growth of your enterprise.
  • Definition. A platform to consider every element of your business and how best to execute your plans for them.
  • Collaboration. A synopsis of what’s exceptional about your business and a way to attract funding, investment or partnerships.
  • Onboarding. An efficient summary of your business for new or potential employees.

Business plan examples

We’ve created two fictional companies to illustrate how a business might use a business plan to sketch out goals and opportunities as well as forecast revenue.

Bling, Incorporated

Our first hypothetical example is a jewelry and accessory creator called Bling, Incorporated. A hybrid business that manufactures its products for sale both online and through physical retail channels, Bling’s mission statement is focused on transforming simple, inexpensive ingredients into wearable statement pieces of art. 

Market analysis includes gathering data around sourcing sustainable, inexpensive components, aesthetic trends in fashion and on which platforms competitors have had success in advertising jewelry to prospective customers. Logistics include shipping products, negotiating with retailers, establishing an e-commerce presence and material and manufacturing costs. 

Bling, Incorporated advertises initially through social platforms like TikTok and Facebook, as well as with Google AdSense, with plans to eventually expand to television advertising. Revenue forecasting is structured around a low overhead on the basis of inexpensive materials, no dedicated storefront and broad reach through digital platforms.

Phaeton Custom Cars

Phaeton is a custom car builder and classic car restoration business with a regional focus and reach. Its mission statement defines it as a local, family-owned business serving a community of auto enthusiasts and a broader regional niche of collectors. 

Market analysis breaks down the location and facilities of other competitor shops in the region as well as online communities of regional car enthusiasts likely to spend money on custom modifications or restoration projects. It also examines trends in valuations for custom parts and vintage cars. Logistics include pricing out parts and labor, finding skilled or apprentice laborers and mortgaging a garage and equipment. 

Phaeton advertises in regional publications, at local events and regional car shows and online through Facebook and Instagram, with an emphasis on a social presence highlighting their flashiest builds. Revenue forecasting is built around a growing reputation and high-value commissions.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

A business plan may not be a prerequisite for every type of business, but there are few businesses that wouldn’t benefit from one. It can serve as an important strategic tool and help crystalize a vision of your business and its future.

Business plans do just that: they help you plan the future of your business, serve as a platform to brainstorm ideas and think through your vision and are a great tool for showcasing why your business works to potential investors or partners.

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The Ultimate Guide to Business Education Lesson Plans

Looking for new lesson plans and ideas for your business education classes can overwhelm any teacher. Your plans are the foundation of your students’ learning experience, so you’re concerned about using the right resources to provide your students with the knowledge and skills they need.

With so much material to cover, course standards to meet, and little time to plan and prepare, you need to quickly find high-quality materials for your classes.

In our experience working with teachers like you, we’ve found four common reasons business teachers look for new lesson plans.

To help you find exactly what you need, click below to jump to information in this article that is most relevant to you:

  • I have no materials to teach my business classes.
  • My business curriculum is outdated.
  • My students aren’t engaged.
  • I need supplemental business lesson ideas.

In this guide, you’ll find some of the best places to refresh your lesson plans with resources that are up-to-date, engaging, and easy to implement. We’ll also discuss the consequences of continually looking for new lesson plans and resources and help ensure you always have quality business education resources at your fingertips. 

What To Do If You Have No Materials To Teach Your Business Classes

Your school is expanding its business education offerings, and you’re in charge of teaching a new course. Suddenly, you have the daunting responsibility of coming up with an entire curriculum on short notice, and you have no idea what materials your students will need to succeed. 

If you’re in this situation, the task before you can feel ominous and scary. If you aren’t able to find materials quickly enough, you run the risk of your class becoming a total disaster.

You want to locate enough exercises and activities to create lesson plans as soon as possible. And it’s essential to choose the right resources from the beginning. You’re not alone in feeling this way; many other teachers have been in the same situation. 

To help you get started, we’ll answer four common questions teachers have about building a business education curriculum: 

  • What Should I Consider Before I Get Started?
  • How Do I Create Effective Lessons?
  • What Materials Do Other Teachers Use?
  • How Do I Choose A Good Teaching Resource?

By understanding the answers to these questions, you’ll be able to effectively evaluate which materials are suitable for your business courses.

What To Consider Before Creating Lesson Plans and Building Your Business Curriculum

Before diving in and creating your lesson plans and curriculum , you should consider the big picture of what you are teaching and how you’ll achieve success. 

Three things to consider before building your business curriculum are:

  • Your course standards
  • Your students’ goals and outcomes
  • The teaching methods you will use

Below, you’ll learn why you should keep each of these in mind as you create your lesson plans.

Consideration 1: Your Course Standards

Before choosing what materials you want to use, the first step is knowing what you need to teach. The best place to start is your course standards, which are usually published by your state department of education or another accrediting body. Many business education course requirements are based on the National Business Education Association (NBEA) standards, which can be a great starting point for you to reference.

In addition, connect with your administrator or program coordinator for more information on your specific course requirements. When you look at the requirements you are responsible for meeting, you can gain a better understanding of the steps you need to take to meet your standards.

Remember, course standards are the most critical content you need to cover, so starting with your standards ensures your lessons prioritize the essentials.

Consideration 2: Your Students' Goals and Outcomes

After reviewing your standards, it’s critical to consider the student outcomes you want to achieve. Every task should be designed to move your students forward in the learning process.

One key objective in many business classrooms is preparing students for a certification test. Business certifications have become increasingly common and demonstrate the scope of a learner’s knowledge and skills in business.

Some common certifications teachers incorporate in business courses are:

  • Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB)
  • Communication Skills for Business (CSB)
  • Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
  • 21st Century Skills Assessment

If your students will take a certification exam, you need to ensure your lessons will set them up for success in preparing. Since you are responsible for tailoring your instruction to these certifications, it’s a good practice to think about how every unit, lesson, and activity connects to these learning goals.

Consideration 3: The Teaching Methods You Will Use

Once you determine what you need to teach, you should think about which teaching methods you plan to employ.

Some teaching methods commonly used by business teachers include:

  • Lecture-based instruction
  • Classroom discussions
  • Hands-on activities
  • Project-based learning
  • Student-led instruction
  • Formative assessments

Although it is possible to rely on a single type of instruction for the entirety of your class periods, this is usually not the most effective way to reach all of your students. Instead, teachers have found that when they include a variety of active-learning exercises and techniques, they can better enhance their students’ learning process.

Overall, the methods you want to incorporate can help you determine what materials to use when building your business curriculum. The exact elements you choose for your lessons will depend on the type of course you are teaching, your standards, and the particular needs of your students.

How Do I Create Effective Business Lessons?

Now you know what you want to keep in mind when building your curriculum. But you might be wondering how you actually go about creating good business lessons. In this section, you’ll learn how you can make lessons that set your students up for success.

Fundamentally, a good business lesson is one that successfully communicates and reinforces critical concepts to ensure every student learns and grows within your class.

Educators often have different perspectives on how to quantify a good lesson, but ultimately the best lessons effectively engage students and help them master the course material.

Thankfully for teachers and students, there is not just one type of good lesson. Instead, an adept educator uses blended learning to provide effective instruction to students.

Blended learning strategies combine time-honored classroom learning techniques with digital resources. By engaging learners in different ways, blended learning helps students better retain and master course material over time.

Here are a few different types of lessons business education teachers can use to provide quality, varied instruction to their students:

  • Teach compelling class lectures that engage students during their initial period of learning course material.
  • Once students are familiar with the concepts of a particular unit, use discussion periods to allow learners to consider course material and ask questions.
  • Create compelling lessons using interactive exercises that prompt students to immerse themselves in the course material further.
  • Institute learning games and review exercises to reinforce knowledge and prepare for course exams.
  • Implement a curriculum system to teach fundamental concepts, and reinforce that information in class lectures to further solidify student understanding.

Mixing instructional methods can help you reach students with different needs and learning preferences. By using active learning techniques instead of relying solely on passive learning situations, you can help your students better comprehend content throughout an entire unit.

Regularly varying the type of lessons you employ helps create an environment where course material is reinforced, and every student can succeed.

When implemented successfully, blended learning strategies can foster a highly effective learning environment for students.

Want to learn more about blended learning? Download this free guide to find four strategies you can easily implement in your classes. Discover Strategies to Implement Blended Learning >

What Materials Do Other Teachers Use When Building Their Business Lessons?

When looking for new business education materials, it’s common to wonder what other teachers use. Business teachers like you find success with several different types of resources. 

The most popular types of business education teaching materials are:

  • Supplemental Materials
  • Digital Curriculum

Below, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of each one to help you determine which is right for your needs.

Business Education Textbooks

Textbooks are a reliable option for teachers who want a complete curriculum they can follow for an entire course. With a textbook, you have access to complete lesson content for students along with related assignments and activities. Many textbooks also include a teacher’s edition with lesson plans to guide your instruction and engage students.

The biggest drawback of using a textbook is that your text eventually becomes outdated. Some teachers have also found that their students perform best when they augment textbook resources with supplemental exercises and activities. For technology-related topics in particular, educators have discovered that they need to look beyond a traditional text.

However, textbooks remain incredibly valuable in providing teachers with everything they need to teach their courses, making them a great fit for many business classrooms.

Supplemental Business Education Teaching Resources

Supplemental materials play a significant role in many business education classrooms. These resources often take the form of individual lessons or activity ideas found on forums or marketplaces like Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) . Teachers often turn to supplementary material to add to their existing curriculum or construct lesson plans from scratch.

The biggest strength of supplemental resources is that they allow teachers to have maximum control over the content of their courses. An adept educator can bring together outstanding resources from various providers to create an excellent learning experience for students. 

Teachers who want to build a business education course or program that uniquely meets their standards have been highly successful with supplemental materials. On the other hand, it can be very time-consuming to assemble lesson plans, activities, and assessments using supplementary materials. Doing so requires a substantial commitment from teachers to create the curriculum they need.

Digital Business Education Curriculum

A third option many instructors choose for their business education classes is digital curriculum. A digital curriculum system is a software based blended learning option that saves teachers time while providing a variety of teaching materials. 

Digital curriculum allows teachers to save time with planning and grading by providing a comprehensive set of teaching materials. It’s also adaptable to a blended learning environment, allowing teachers to make the most out of valuable classroom time while using technology to engage students with course content. Digital curriculum is also continually updated, keeping course content current with changing standards and technological innovations.

One of the drawbacks of digital curriculum is that although it can allow for more flexibility than some textbooks, it lacks the complete customizability of using supplemental resources. However, it can be the right fit for teachers who want a continuously updated curriculum to meet their students’ needs.

How Do I Choose a Good Teaching Resource?

Choosing teaching resources for your students is paramount to your work as a business educator. With textbooks, supplemental materials, and digital curriculum each having their pros and cons, you may be concerned that you are making the right choices.

Which teaching resources are right for your learners will depend on several factors. Consider what types of materials your students find engaging, the amount of time you have to teach a particular topic, and the issues you must cover to satisfy your course standards. You’ll also want to consider how all of your teaching materials fit together to create your course curriculum.

Just as there are many different subjects you may teach in your business classes, there are plenty of reputable providers you can turn to for quality lesson plans and activities.

Ready to build your business curriculum? Jump ahead to popular teaching resources for common business education topics you can use right now. Find Business Lessons for My Classes >

What To Do If Your Business Education Curriculum is Outdated

If you’re new to teaching business education in your school, you may have inherited lesson plans and teaching materials left by a previous instructor. It’s always great when departing teachers leave materials behind for the next instructor. However, not all of this content may be current or relevant to your students today.

Chances are, if you’ve been using an older curriculum, some or all of the material is outdated. The lesson plans may refer to software that your school no longer uses or emphasize aspects of business that no longer align with your standards. Either way, you’ll need to update your curriculum, or you and your students could face the consequences of outdated materials.

What are the Consequences of Outdated Materials?

An outdated business curriculum can have severe consequences for your students’ success in learning information and performing at their best on exams and certifications.

If you’re teaching with outdated materials, it may result in one or more of these issues in your classes:

  • Students who receive outdated or inaccurate information might not pass certification tests that will help them in their careers.
  • If students tell others they think your course is dated or irrelevant, enrollment in your program could drop.
  • Dated materials may not align with new course standards, resulting in not hitting your teaching requirements.

With such high stakes for you and your students, it’s paramount that every classroom uses current, accurate, and relevant resources.

How Do I Even Begin to Fix My Outdated Business Lessons?

When facing outdated lesson plans, you might find the task of improving them to be daunting and even stress-inducing. Where do you even start?

The first step to revising or replacing outdated content is to audit the amount of material that is genuinely outdated. A simple way to do this is to look at your entire curriculum for each course you teach.

When conducting a curriculum audit , review your materials to see how your lessons have been affected and note whenever:

  • Your content no longer meets course standards
  • Your content is inaccurate or irrelevant
  • The technology in your classroom has changed

Surveying these signs of outdated educational resources is an effective way to ensure every unit in your classes is relevant and ready for teaching.

As you complete your audit, note every time your resources include dated information. Use your best judgment to determine whether an example or activity is relevant to your current students.

What Do I Do if Only a Small Portion of My Lessons Are Outdated?

After you’ve finished auditing your curriculum, you may discover that only a few of your lessons are out of date. Most of your curriculum is ready for your students, but there are places you can tweak your lessons to make sure they are current.

In this case, you can easily address your problem by finding replacement lessons for material that is no longer up to date. When you locate new, timely lesson plans, you can integrate them into your curriculum to seamlessly bring your course up to date.

This technique is also helpful when you experience minor changes to your course standards. You can simply locate quality lesson plans to cover new standards and add them to your existing instructional materials.

Need a few lessons to replace your existing ones? Jump ahead to popular business education lessons you can use to replace your outdated content. Find New Business Lessons for My Classes >

What Do I Do if Most of My Business Lessons Are Outdated?

Replacing outdated course content can be overwhelming for many teachers, but it’s important to find resources that provide what your students need. When you’ve finished reviewing your lesson plans, if you find that all or most of your materials have become outdated, you should consider a more comprehensive solution to replace your dated curriculum.

If the majority of your materials are outdated, the most straightforward way to bring your content up to date is to replace your curriculum entirely.

A brand new curriculum will provide content that adheres to the latest standards, engages students with relevant examples, and saves teachers the time it takes to assemble their coursework by themselves.

Teachers have seen success updating their lessons with a variety of new curriculum options. Two of the most common types of business curriculum are textbooks and digital curriculum systems. Both provide teachers with ample resources to teach business education courses and can help any teacher provide a more up-to-date, comprehensive curriculum.

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What To Do If Your Business Lessons Aren't Engaging

You know the struggle of dealing with students who aren’t engaged. You’ve worked hard to prepare for class and are teaching with as much energy and enthusiasm as you can muster. But your students simply aren’t responding. You’re met with blank stares, glances at the clock, and worst of all, dead silence. These are situations that every teacher dreads, and when it happens in your business education classes, it’s easy to feel embarrassed and unsure of what to do next.

Why Is Student Engagement Important?

Student engagement is essential to your classroom. Students who are alert and attentive participate more often, learn more thoroughly, and perform better on exams. When learners engage with your material, you can have more confidence that they comprehend and will remember valuable insights that will help them both now and in the future.

On the contrary, disengaged students miss out on valuable learning through everyday engagement with your course material. When they can’t focus and don’t contribute to discussions, students can’t reinforce the course material in ways that retain knowledge and skills.

Even worse, if your course is seen as boring, your enrollment numbers could decline and result in challenges with your program’s growth.

Ultimately, engaged students are more likely to be successful and ready for future learning and career opportunities.

How Do I Keep My Business Students Engaged?

If you notice that student engagement is dropping in your classes, you’ll want to grab their attention as quickly as possible. 

For a quick fix to your engagement challenges, try one of these student engagement strategies for business classes :

  • Use relatable situations and examples that feel relevant to students’ everyday life. Choosing examples students understand makes learners more likely to feel as though they have agency in the learning process and contribute to class discussions.
  • Promote active learning over passive learning to encourage students to get involved in classroom activities. Dynamic learning exercises help reinforce course concepts through differentiated instruction and allow students to better connect with the material.
  • Add role-play activities to mix things up and help students engage creatively with course material while developing critical soft skills. Students can develop public speaking, interviewing, and customer service skills, all while participating in fun classroom exercises.
  • Incorporate project-based learning into your program so students can create original ideas and express themselves. Projects help students reinforce content learned in class while working as individuals or groups.
  • Use a "hook",  also known as an anticipatory set, to get students' attention. There are many forms this can take, but one of the most tried and true is to begin class by sharing a story that both interests students and primes them for the lesson of the day.
  • Deliver lessons through multimedia to engage your students' senses on several different levels. Combining images, words, and sounds in a meaningful way can foster a deeper learning in students than simply having them read from a textbook. 
  • Try blended learning as a way to incorporate digital and traditional teaching methods. Blended learning allows students to get the most out of classroom time while using technology to learn and retain critical information.

While these strategies can help you boost engagement in the moment, if you find yourself constantly looking for new ideas and activities, chances are that your curriculum might be letting you down.

The best remedy to keeping your students active in your class is teaching from material that is engaging and relevant. Still, when you use more relevant and captivating resources, you won’t have to do as many things in your day-to-day instruction to boost student engagement.

If your material is compelling to your students, you won’t need to do as many extra things to boost engagement in your classroom. This is why it’s important to make sure you have the right curriculum resources for your classes! 

Where to Find Business Education Lesson Plans and Curriculum Resources

As a business educator, there is a good chance that you need to teach a wide variety of topics. Since business education encompasses many important subject areas, you might be concerned about finding the right lesson plans for all of the concepts you need to cover. Thankfully, there are many great resources available for teaching classes in your business program.

Below, you’ll find popular resources to help you teach 12 common business education topics:

  • Business Law
  • Career Readiness and Exploration
  • Communication
  • Computer Applications
  • Digital Literacy and Citizenship
  • Entrepreneurship
  • International Business
  • Personal Finance

Keep reading to find quality, engaging business education lesson plans for your courses!

Accounting Lessons

Accounting is one of the most common business education classes for high school students and a popular college major in the business career cluster. We often get questions from teachers about what accounting exercises and activities we would recommend for their students.

Refer to this article to find details about popular resources you can use: Top 3 Accounting Lesson Plans for High School . In this post, you’ll find details about three free, quality sources for accounting lessons, including the specific topics covered by each.

If you want a resource on accounting principles that you can use right now, download this free accounting lesson plan . This resource features presentation slides and speaker notes and can be used easily with your current accounting materials.

And if you teach in the middle school space, another article to check out is: 4 Best Accounting Lessons Plans for Middle and High School , which should cover many of your bases. 

Business Law Lessons

Business law is a topic that can provide valuable knowledge and skills for students aspiring to careers in the business world. Although it’s a broad topic area, introducing students to business law concepts and principles can help them prepare for management, finance, and legal compliance jobs.

This article addresses some of the top business law lesson plans for high school . These lesson plans are helpful for teachers who want to give their students context on different aspects of the legal system as it pertains to business, including tort law and criminal law.

If you need materials to teach business law, check out these resources to see if one would work for your course.

Career Readiness and Exploration Lessons

One of the first steps for business education students is learning about career development. Career development, which includes career exploration and career readiness, is essential to ensuring students are aware of work opportunities and the skills and qualities they will need to achieve their goals.

If you’re teaching career exploration to a younger audience, check out the best career exploration lesson plans for middle school . These resources introduce students to the possibilities of working in various careers and will help inspire them to dream big in their work aspirations.

In addition, these career readiness lesson plans will help your students learn what today’s employers are looking for and how they can achieve their goals. Teachers can also scaffold these resources to students at different grade levels to provide an optimal learning experience.

If you want a free resource that you can use right now, download this career exploration lesson plan and activity . It includes guidance to help students identify possible career choices as well as the steps necessary to achieve their goals.

Communication Lessons

Fluent communication skills are essential for individuals seeking business success. Developing these skills early on ensures that students have the best possible opportunity to rise to the occasion and prove their value to potential employers.

Finding resources to teach these skills isn’t easy, but other teachers have discovered this same problem and created valuable resources for teaching communication in the classroom. This post includes the 3 Best Resources to Teach Communication Skills in High School. Each resource comes complete with lesson plans, activities, and materials you need to teach communication.

If you’re teaching younger learners, the 3 Best Communication Lesson Plans for Middle School will help acquaint your students with the fundamentals of good communication.

Computer Applications Lessons

Some business teachers need to include computer applications in their curriculum. Understanding basic computer applications allows your students to be prepared for the many computing tasks they will often be required to complete as part of their education and future jobs.

If you’re looking for general computer applications resources, the 5 Best Computer Applications Lesson Plans for High School feature teaching plans for an array of age-appropriate applications.

However, you may need something more specific to the suite of computer applications your students are using.

If you’re searching for content specific to teaching Google Apps, here are Google Applications Lesson Plans Every Teacher Should Own .

If you need materials for Microsoft Office applications, check out the 4 Best Microsoft Office Curriculum Resources for Middle and High School .

Digital Literacy and Citizenship Lessons

Digital literacy is an increasingly important topic for teaching students discernment in a world full of media content and conflicting ideas. 

You can help your students develop appropriate skills for evaluating information online with resources in this article: How to Teach Digital Literacy Skills .

In addition, these digital citizenship lesson plans empower students to learn effective digital communication, combat cyberbullying, and maintain their privacy online.

Economics Lessons

There’s a good reason why economics is one of the most popular business education subjects taught in today’s high schools. An appreciation for the greater economic system is pivotal in helping students become competent money managers in their professional lives.

If you need more materials to teach this topic, look into the Top 3 Economics Lessons for High School . 

These lesson plans are perfect for educators looking for ways to introduce students to the fundamentals of macroeconomics and microeconomics. They also include roleplay scenarios and online learning features.

Entrepreneurship Lessons

Entrepreneurship is a popular elective in high school business programs. When you teach entrepreneurship, you can encourage your students to follow their aspirations in business through understanding the unique role and challenges of the entrepreneur.

There are some great resources out there to help teach entrepreneurship in your classes. To begin, check out the 4 Best Entrepreneurship Lesson Plans for High School . These materials range from simple lessons to cover just a couple of class days to more robust curriculum designed to last an entire course.

If you’re looking for additional resources, be sure to check out these additional entrepreneurship lesson plans . Each of these lessons will help you think outside the box and teach entrepreneurial skills to your students in a creative way.

International Business Lessons

Increasingly, high school teachers are looking for plans to teach international business to their students. The way business happens on a global scale is changing, and you need up-to-date information to keep your classes current.

This post provides five places to find international business lesson plans for high school . Inside, you’ll find reviews of resources that teach important international business concepts, such as international management, ethics and social responsibility, cultural differences, and etiquette.

These lesson plans come with interactive case studies, websites, exercises, and simulations to keep your students attentive and engaged.

Leadership Lessons

Leadership, including related capabilities such as communication, character, worth ethic, and critical thinking, is one of the most important qualities to cultivate in business students. While skilled managers help to run businesses, true leaders help them thrive and bring them to new heights. 

There are strong leadership lesson plans out there to help you teach this essential topic to your business students. Included are activities, handouts, teacher's guides, and other materials to help you implement this instruction in your classroom. 

With these resources, your students will both learn about and practice leadership skills so that they can guide a new generation of businesspeople to success. 

Management Lessons

Agile and perceptive management is an essential element of every thriving business. Developing sound management skills at an early age helps students prepare for work in business and sets them up to be respected and admired leaders.

Management is also one of the most common topics instructors need to cover in high school business courses. Unfortunately, it can sometimes be hard to find materials that learners find relevant and engaging. To help, we’ve brought together the top business management lesson plans for high school . Each of these resources includes detailed outlines and techniques for effectively teaching management to a young audience.

If you want help teaching effective leadership, the 4 Best Leadership Lesson Plans for High School reviews quality resources for developing student leaders. These lessons allow students to explore the qualities of a good leader and encourage them to cultivate these qualities in their own lives.

Marketing Lessons

Marketing can be one of the most exciting business subjects for students when taught in an engaging manner. Many teachers are searching for new methods for teaching marketing to pique the interest of their students.

The 7 Best Marketing Lesson Plans and Projects for High School include teaching materials ranging from supplemental marketing lessons to full-fledged marketing courses. When you read the article, you’ll learn more about each option to determine if one is suitable for your students.

Another excellent resource for marketing lesson plans is CTE Online, a career and technical education curriculum provider. CTE Online offers a 180-hour marketing course for teachers looking to cover the subject over an entire academic year.

If you teach the basics of marketing and want a lesson to use immediately, download this free principles of marketing lesson presentation . This free resource features prepared slides and speaker notes that discuss customer relationships, market segments, the value of marketing, and more.

Personal Finance Lessons

Middle school is the perfect time to begin instructing learners about responsible money management. Knowing how to manage personal finances is critical to helping students become sound money managers who have the foundations for financially solvent lives.

The best personal finance lessons for middle school feature complete resources to educate students about money management, credit, loans, and even consumer privacy.

If you're looking for more a robust curriculum, check out these financial literacy curriculum options for middle school .

Professionalism Lessons

Whether it's learning how to dress, how to be approachable, or how to make a good first impression, professionalism is a critical skill in the modern job market. Learning the strategies to thrive in a professional environment will benefit students almost no matter what field they choose to go into. 

Often, professionalism lesson plans can be tough to find, since they're usually focused on training new employees rather than high school students. If you're looking for some robust ones, though, these high school professionalism lesson plans will help you teach concepts like teamwork, communication, bringing the right attitude, and even having a good wardrobe. 

If you're looking for a quick lesson to teach this topic, check out this free downloadable professionalism lesson plan and activity . It includes resources like instructions, scenarios for students, and discussion questions. 

Consequences of Focusing Solely on Business Education Lesson Plans

In the section above, we looked at resources for the most common topics  teachers like you cover in their business education courses. Whether you’re teaching a new topic area or updating your content with something new and more engaging, any of these resources could be just what you need to fill a gap in your curriculum.

These supplemental resources are perfect for teachers looking to solve particular problems with their curriculum, but they aren’t a comprehensive solution. 

Have you found yourself searching for additional lesson plans, again and again, to meet an immediate need in your classroom? Did you complete an audit of your curriculum only to discover that most of your materials have become irrelevant and out of date?

If so, continually searching for new lesson plans, activities, and other classroom materials may be costing you more than you realize.

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Three of the biggest consequences of constantly looking for new lesson plans are:

  • Spending your nights and weekends scrambling for new materials
  • Struggling to create a cohesive learning experience for your students
  • Discovering your favorite materials are outdated or no longer available

Consider the number of hours you’ve spent navigating the internet in search of replacement resources, only to use more time integrating your newfound content into your existing lesson plans.

Lost time strains your ability to handle other expectations like grading and working individually with students. You might also find yourself with less time to spend with your family or rest outside of school.

In addition to consuming a significant amount of time, we’ve heard from teachers who’ve shared other challenges in relying on supplemental resources to build their curriculum.

When students receive lessons and assessments from a variety of sources, they can experience a lack of instructional continuity within the course. This can be quite jarring when instructors jump around from various resources on a weekly or daily basis, leaving students confused about the most essential concepts of the class.

Other teachers have become disappointed and frustrated that the resources they’ve relied on suddenly become outdated, leaving them to replace these resources on an individual basis.

When tried-and-true resources aren’t current, or are no longer available on the internet, you’re left to search again. This cycle of replacing even the best supplemental resources can repeat itself, costing you even more time when you can least afford to spend it.

Ultimately, lesson plans only constitute the tip of the iceberg for supplying your business students with a comprehensive curriculum that will help them learn and grow. You also need effective projects, course assessments, discussion sections, and other resources to truly have a curriculum that meets your standards and keeps your students engaged.

To provide students with everything they need while saving yourself time and energy, consider a solution that will keep all of your curriculum current and engaging.

Overcome Your Challenges as a Business Education Teacher

Are you tired of searching for new lessons week after week, only to feel overwhelmed with your other responsibilities as a teacher?

Want to feel less overwhelmed and spend more time helping your students succeed? There are many strategies to help you do just that.

Read this free guide to discover how to overcome five common challenges:

  • Satisfying Your Course Standards
  • Meeting Diverse Student Needs
  • Keeping Students Engaged
  • Balancing Technology in the Classroom
  • Spending Too Much Time Planning and Grading

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If you want to start a school or expand your current school, you need a business plan.

The following School business plan template gives you the key elements to include in a winning business plan. In addition to this template, a well-crafted plan will include market research to help you better understand the school industry, market trends, your competitive advantage and your target market. It will also help you craft a smart marketing strategy and a strong financial plan.

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Below are links to each of the key sections of a school business plan sample to help you launch a successful school. This can be used for a variety of school business plans, including a private school business plan, a charter school, public schools, independent schools or a primary school.

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Private School Business Plan [Sample Template]

By: Author Tony Martins Ajaero

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Private School Business

Are you about starting a private school (nursery, primary or high school)? If YES, here’s a complete sample private school business plan template & feasibility report you can use for FREE.

Okay, so we have considered all the requirements for starting a private school. We also took it further by analyzing and drafting a sample private school marketing plan template backed up by actionable guerrilla marketing ideas for private schools. So let’s proceed to the business planning section.

One of the best things that can happen to anyone is to have a private school. This is one very lucrative business that will continue to rake in money for its owners. As an aspiring entrepreneur who is looking towards starting a business, you should ensure that whatever business you intend to start, you make sure that it is located in an appropriate place.

For example; if you want to start a private school, it will be a wrong business judgment if you decide to site the school close to an industrial area or close to a market. Aspiring entrepreneurs therefore are urged as a matter of necessity to ensure that they carry out a thorough market research and feasibility study of the industry they intend to go into before investing their hard earned money and time.

It is known fact that the demand for private schools is driven by the fact that most public cum government owned schools cannot accommodate every students or potential students in a given geographical location. In some cases, students with special needs cannot cope in public schools hence the need for private schools.

If you think starting a private school business sounds like what you want to do. Then you may want to use the business plan below as a guide.

A Sample Private School Business Plan Template

1. industry overview.

Private schools which is also known in the united states as independent schools, non-governmental, or non – state schools are schools that are not administered by either the local, state or the federal governments; hence, they have the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition fees, rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public (government) funding.

Some private schools have structure in place that offer scholarships to some students, which makes the cost cheaper, depending on a talent such as sport scholarship, art scholarship, academic scholarship the student may be brining to the private school, financial need, or tax credit scholarships that might be available.

The Private Schools industry comprises of primary that is kindergarten through sixth grade and secondary that is seventh through 12th grade) educational institutions that are predominantly funded through enrollment and tuition fees from students and of course from other private sources.

Recent reports released by IBISWORLD shows that the revenue for the Private Schools industry is expected to increase, as the economy continues to recover. The indicated that during the five years to 2016, enrollment decreased, which was a trend attributable to rising costs and competition from charter schools.

However, going forward, in the next five years, household income is anticipated to increase, making it easier for families to afford private-school tuition. Additionally, enrollment declines will lesson, resulting in more stable demand for private schools

In the United States of America and of course in most countries of the world, The Private Schools industry is indeed a large and thriving industry. Statistics has it that The Private Schools industry in the United States of America, is worth $52 billion, with an estimated growth rate of 0.1 percent.

There are about 25,742 registered and licensed (accredited) Private schools scattered all around the United States of America and they are responsible for employing about 644,320 people.

Aside from Catholic schools, which is the second largest sector after government schools, with around 21 percent of secondary enrollments, no other private school can boast of dominating the market; every player in the industry can comfortably compete in the industry.

It is important to state that the barriers to entry into the Private Schools industry are high. As a matter of fact, the private school industry is an industry in which it is pretty difficult for new entrants to establish themselves. So also, the reputation of the private school is of utmost importance, as private schools that have a good history of getting students into prestigious colleges often have the best reputations hence good enrollments.

With this, it is obvious that a new entrant into the private school industry cannot offer this. Reputation indeed is imperative to parents’ decisions when shopping for private school for their wards. This is so because the quality of education cannot be assessed until well after it is complete.

As a major marketing tool, schools need to show parents a track record of admission to elite colleges and universities. Even though this might seem like a saturated industry, the industry is still pretty much open for aspiring school proprietors and proprietress to still come in and compete.

As a matter of fact, if you conduct your research and feasibility studies very well before starting your own private school couple with impressive profile of your faculty members, you are likely going to struggle less to make headway in the industry.

2. Executive Summary

Rolland Gyros International Private School is an international private school that will be located in a well – populated residential estate in Ashville – North Carolina, United States of America.

We are a standard private school that is composed of primary (kindergarten through sixth grade) and secondary (seventh through 12th grade) educational institution that will be predominantly funded through tuition fees and levies from students and of course from other private sources.

Rolland Gyros International Private School is a client-focused and result driven private school that provides broad-based learning approaches and experience at an affordable fee that won’t in any way put a hole in the pockets of our clients (students and parents alike).

We will offer standard and professional teaching services in a highly secured and conducive learning environment to all our students that is primary (kindergarten through sixth grade) and secondary (seventh through 12th grade). We will ensure that we work hard to meet and surpass all our students’ expectations and educational goals whenever they enroll in our tutorial college.

At Rolland Gyros International Private School, our students’ overall best interest would always come first, and everything we do is guided by our values and professional ethics. We will ensure that we hire professional educationist cum teachers in various subjects who are well experienced and passionate in imparting knowledge to students at various learning ladder.

Rolland Gyros International Private School will at all time demonstrate her commitment to sustainability, both individually and as an educational organization, by actively participating in our communities and integrating sustainable business practices wherever possible.

We will ensure that we hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards by meeting our students’ needs precisely and completely. We will cultivate a working environment that provides a human, sustainable approach to earning a living, and living in our world, for our partners, employees and for our students.

We have plans to offer learning platforms to people with both learning disability and physical disability (especially the blind, the dumb and the deaf).

Our overall business goal is to position our private school to become the leading tutorial brand in the educational industry in the whole of Ashville – North Carolina, and also to be amongst the top 30 private schools in the United States of America within the first 12 years of operations.

This might look too tall a dream but we are optimistic that this will surely come to pass because we have done our research and feasibility studies and we are enthusiastic and confident that Ashville is the right place to launch our private school.

Rolland Gyros International Private School is founded by Dr. (Mrs.) Irene Rolland Gyros and family. She is an educationist per excellence and she has won many awards in the education sector in the United States.

Dr. (Mrs.) Irene Rolland Gyros has both the academic qualifications and experience to run a private school that can favorably compete with other leading private schools not only in Ashville – North Carolina, but also throughout the United States and Canada.

3. Our Products and Services

Rolland Gyros International Private School is going to offer varieties of educational services within the scope of the education board in the United States of America.

Our intention of starting our private school is to soundly educate people in various subjects and of course to make profits from the education cum private schools industry and we will do all that is permitted by the law in the US to achieve our aim and business goal. Our service offerings are listed below;

  • Teaching basic literacy and numeracy
  • Establishing foundations in science, mathematics, geography, history and other social sciences
  • Constantly working hard to meet regulatory accreditation standards
  • Administering private funding efforts
  • Providing access to extracurricular activities
  • Retailing of Educational Books and Materials

4. Our Mission and Vision Statement

  • Our vision is to build a highly competitive private school that will become the number one choice for both parents and students in the whole of Ashville – North Carolina.
  • Our vision reflects our values: integrity, service, excellence and teamwork.
  • Our mission is to provide professional and conducive learning environment to students at different level of learning.
  • Our overall business goal is to position Rolland Gyros International Private School to become the leading private school brand in the educational cum private school industry in the whole of Ashville – North Carolina, and also to be amongst the top 30 private schools in the United States of America within the first 12 years of operations.

Our Business Structure

It is a known fact that, the success of any business is to a larger extent dependent on the business structure of the organization and the people who occupy the available roles in the organization. Rolland Gyros International Private School will build a solid business structure that can support the growth of our private school.

We will ensure that we hire competent hands (teaching and non – teaching staff members) to help us build the private school of our dream.

The fact that we want to become one of the leading private school brand in the industry in the whole of the United States of America makes it highly necessary for our organization to deliberately build a well – structured business from the onset.

We will work hard to ensure that we only attract people with the right mindset to help us achieve our business goals and objectives in record time. Below is the business structure that we will build Rolland Gyros International Private School;

  • Head of The Private School(School Proprietress)

School Administrator

Tutors for Various Subjects – Secondary (seventh through 12th grade)

Tutors for Various Subjects – Primary (kindergarten through sixth grade)

  • Accountant / Bursar
  • Client Service Executive / Front Desk Officer

Security Officers

5. Job Roles and Responsibilities

Head of the Tutorial College / School Coordinator:

  • Responsible for providing direction for the college
  • Creates, communicates, and implements the organization’s vision, mission, and overall direction – i.e. leading the development and implementation of the overall organization’s strategy.
  • Responsible for handling high profile clients and deals
  • Responsible for fixing fees and signing business deals (partnership)
  • Responsible for signing checks and documents on behalf of the tutorial college
  • Coordinates all arms of the tutorial school (tutorial center, adult education, home tutors and special education)
  • Evaluates the success of the tutorial college
  • Reports to the board of the tutorial college
  • Responsible for overseeing the smooth running of HR and administrative tasks for the tutorial school
  • Designs job descriptions with KPI to drive performance management for tutors (teachers)
  • Regularly hold meetings with key stakeholders (parents and member of the school board) to review the effectiveness of the schools’ Policies, Procedures and Processes
  • Maintains office supplies by checking stocks; placing and expediting orders; evaluating new products.
  • Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs.
  • Defines job positions for recruitment and managing interviewing process
  • Carries out staff induction for new team members
  • Responsible for training, evaluation and assessment of employees
  • Responsible for arranging travel, meetings and appointments
  • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
  • Oversees the smooth running of the daily activities of the private school.
  • Effectively teach subject / subjects as assigned by the school administrator
  • Accesses the progress of students under their care
  • Ensures that students abide by the rules and regulations of the private school
  • Contributes his / her quota towards growing the private school
  • Receives complaints from parents and channel it to the appropriate quarters
  • Handle any other duty as assigned by the school administrator.
  • Ensure that students abide by the rules and regulations of the school administrator
  • Handles any other duty as assigned by the school administrator.

Marketing Executive

  • Identifies, prioritizes, and reaches out to new students, and business opportunities et al
  • Identifies development opportunities; follows up on development leads and contacts; participates in the structuring and financing of projects; assures the completion of development projects.
  • Writes winning proposal documents, negotiate fees and rates in line with organizations’ policy
  • Responsible for handling business research, market surveys and feasibility studies for clients
  • Responsible for supervising implementation, advocate for the customer’s needs, and communicate with clients
  • Develops, executes and evaluates new plans for expanding increase sales
  • Documents all customer contact and information
  • Represents the company in strategic meetings
  • Helps to increase sales and growth for the school

School Bursar (Accountant)

  • Responsible for preparing financial reports, budgets, and financial statements for the organization
  • Provides managements with financial analyses, development budgets, and accounting reports; analyzes financial feasibility for the most complex proposed projects; conducts market research to forecast trends and business conditions.
  • Responsible for financial forecasting and risks analysis.
  • Performs cash management, general ledger accounting, and financial reporting for one or more properties.
  • Responsible for developing and managing financial systems and policies
  • Responsible for administering payrolls
  • Ensures compliance with taxation legislation
  • Handles all financial transactions for Rolland Gyros International Private School
  • Serves as internal auditor for Rolland Gyros International Private School

Client Service Executive

  • Welcomes / receive parents and students by greeting them in person or on the telephone; answering or directing inquiries.
  • Ensures that all contacts with parents and students (e-mail, walk-In center, SMS or phone) provides the parents and students with a personalized customer service experience of the highest level
  • Through interaction with parents and students on the phone, uses every opportunity to build parent’s interest in the schools’ products and services
  • Manages administrative duties assigned by the HR and Admin Manager in an effective and timely manner
  • Consistently stays abreast of any new information on the organizations’ products, promotional campaigns etc. to ensure accurate and helpful information is supplied to parents and students when they make enquiries
  • Receives parcels / documents for Rolland Gyros International Private School
  • Distribute mails in the organization
  • Handles any other duties as assigned by the School Administrator.
  • Responsible for cleaning the school facility at all times
  • Ensures that toiletries and supplies don’t run out of stock
  • Cleans both the interior and exterior of the schools facility
  • Handles any other duty as assigned by the school administrator
  • Ensures that the school facility is secured at all time
  • Controls traffic and organize parking
  • Gives security tips to staff members from time to time
  • Patrols around the building on a 24 hours basis
  • Submits security reports weekly
  • Any other duty as assigned by the school administrator

6. SWOT Analysis

Rolland Gyros International Private School engaged the services of a core professional in the area of business consulting and structuring with bias in the education sector to assist us in building a well – structured private school that can favorably compete in the highly competitive education cum private schools industry in the United States.

Part of what the team of business consultant did was to work with the management of our organization in conducting a SWOT analysis for Rolland Gyros International Private School. Here is a summary from the result of the SWOT analysis that was conducted on behalf of Rolland Gyros International Private School;

As a private school, our core strength lies in the power of our team; our workforce. We have a team with excellent qualifications and experience in the educational sector. We are well positioned in a community with the right demography and we know we will attract loads of students from the first day we open our doors and welcome students for enrollment.

As a new private school in Ashville – North Carolina, it might take some time for our organization to break into the market and gain acceptance via reputation in the already saturated education cum private schools industry; that is perhaps our major weakness.

  • Opportunities:

The opportunities in the education cum private schools industry is massive considering the number of parents who would want their wards to perform excellently well in their education and go ahead to be admitted in Ivy league colleges.

As a standard and international private school, Rolland Gyros International Private School is ready to take advantage of any opportunity that comes her way.

Every business faces a threat or challenge at any part of the life cycle of the business. These threats can be external or internal. This shows the importance of a business plan, because most threats or challenges are to be anticipated and plans put in place to cushion what effect they might bring to the private school.

Some of the threats that we are likely going to face as a private school operating in the United States of America are unfavorable government policies that might affect private schools, the arrival of a competitor within our location of operations and global economic downturn which usually affects spending / purchasing power.

There is hardly anything we can do as regards these threats other than to be optimistic that things will continue to work for our good.

7. MARKET ANALYSIS

  • Market Trends

The trend in the private school line of business is that the key to attracting students is the educational performance and the pass rate of their students in national exams.

Any private school that has good records will always thrive. The demand for private schools is driven by the fact that most public cum government owned schools cannot accommodate every students or potential students in a given geographical location.

In some cases, students with special needs cannot cope in public schools hence the need for private schools. The economic downturn hasn’t really affected this industry, especially in countries that believe in the efficacy of education.

The areas you would need to spend heavily on is in ensuring that your school is up to standard, your advertisements, and on insurance policy cover. Lastly, it is trendier to find private schools engaging in extra – curricular activities and as a matter of fact, a private school that thrives in sports can leverage on that to attract students who are sports inclined.

8. Our Target Market

As a standard and international private school, Rolland Gyros International Private School is going to offer varieties of educational services within the scope of the education board in the United States of America. Our intention of starting our private school is to soundly educate people in various subjects and of course to make profits from the education cum private schools industry

Our target market as a private school cuts across people (students) of different class and people from different culture background whether African, White, Caucasian, Latinos, Indians, and Asians. We are coming into the education cum private schools industry with a business concept that will enable us work with the students at different learning stages residing in and around Ashville – North Carolina.

Our competitive advantage

Indeed the private schools industry is highly competitive and the entry barriers are high. As a matter of fact, the private school industry is an industry in which it is pretty difficult for new entrants to establish themselves. So also, the reputation of the private school is of utmost importance, as private schools that have a good history of getting students into prestigious colleges often have the best reputations hence good enrollments.

As a major marketing tool, schools need to show parents a track record of admission to elite colleges and universities. We are quite aware that to be highly competitive in the education cum private schools industry means that you should be able to deliver consistent quality service, your students should be able to experience remarkable difference and improvement and you should be able to meet the expectations of both students and parents alike.

Rolland Gyros International Private School might be a new entrant into the education cum private schools industry in the United States of America, but the management staffs and owners of the private school are considered gurus. They are people who are core professionals, licensed and highly qualified educationist / teachers at various levels of learning in the United States. These are part of what will count as a competitive advantage for us.

Lastly, our employees (teaching and non – teaching staff members) will be well taken care of, and their welfare package will be among the best within our category (startups private school in the United States) in the industry meaning that they will be more than willing to build the business with us and help deliver our set goals and achieve all our business aims and objectives.

9. SALES AND MARKETING STRATEGY

  • Sources of Income

Rolland Gyros International Private School is established with the aim of maximizing profits in the education cum private schools industry and we are going to go all the way to ensure that we do all it takes to attract students on a regular basis. Rolland Gyros International Private School will generate income by offering the following tutorial services;

  • Teaching High school students various subjects in our private school

10. Sales Forecast

One thing is certain, there would always be parents and students who would need the services of private schools to be able to achieve their educational goals and as such the services of private schools will always be needed.

We are well positioned to take on the available market in Ashville – North Carolina and we are quite optimistic that we will meet our set target of generating enough income / profits from the first six month of operations and grow the private school and our student base.

We have been able to critically examine the private schools cum education market in the United States of America and we have analyzed our chances in the industry and we have been able to come up with the following sales forecast.

The sales projection is based on information gathered on the field and some assumptions that are peculiar to similar startups in Ashville – North Carolina. Below is the sales projection for Rolland Gyros International Private School, it is based on the location of our tutorial center and of course the wide range of tutorial services that we will be offering;

  • First Fiscal Year-: $250,000
  • Second Fiscal Year-: $450,000
  • Third Fiscal Year-: $750,000

N.B : This projection is done based on what is obtainable in the industry and with the assumption that there won’t be any major economic meltdown and natural disasters within the period stated above. So, there won’t be any major competitor (private school) offering same additional services as we do within same location. Please note that the above projection might be lower and at the same time it might be higher.

  • Marketing Strategy and Sales Strategy

We are mindful of the fact that there is stiffer competition amongst private schools in the United States of America; hence we have been able to hire some of the best marketing experts to handle our sales and marketing concerns. Our sales and marketing team will be recruited base on their vast experience in the industry and they will be trained on a regular basis so as to be well equipped to meet their targets and the overall goal of the private school.

We will also ensure that our students’ excellent results from national exams and other exams speaks for us in the marketplace; we want to build a standard and first – class private school that will leverage on word of mouth advertisement from satisfied clients (both individuals and corporate organizations).

Our goal is to grow our private school to become one of the top 30 private schools in the United States of America which is why we have mapped out strategy that will help us take advantage of the available market and grow to become a major force to reckon with not only in Ashville – North Carolina but also in other cities in the United States of America.

Rolland Gyros International Private School is set to make use of the following marketing and sales strategies to attract clients;

  • Introduce our private school by sending introductory letters alongside our brochure to schools, parents / household and key stake holders in Ashville – North Carolina.
  • Print out fliers and business cards and strategically drop them in schools, libraries and even student organizations.
  • Creating a website, allows parents to be able to look you up, and also allows you to post general study tips, giving you an added advantage.
  • Use friends and family to spread word about our private school
  • Introduce Rolland Gyros International Private School to learning specialists, school coaches, school administrators, teachers, guidance counselors especially as they are with students everyday
  • Post information about Rolland Gyros International Private School on bulletin boards in places like schools, libraries, and local coffee shops.
  • Placing a small or classified advertisement in the newspaper, or local publication about Rolland Gyros International Private School
  • Using tutorial referral networks such as agencies that will help match students with Rolland Gyros International Private School
  • Joining relevant association or body that will enable you network and meet others in same industry.
  • Advertising online by using an advertising platform such as Google Adwords, that will allow us place text advertisements alongside on websites with related contents, and along results from search engines.
  • Advertise our private school in relevant educational magazines, newspapers, TV stations, and radio station.
  • Attend relevant educational expos, seminars, and business fairs et al
  • Engage direct marketing approach
  • Encourage word of mouth marketing from loyal and satisfied clients

11. Publicity and Advertising Strategy

We are aware of the potency of a good publicity strategy hence we have been able to work with our brand and publicity consultants to help us map out publicity and advertising strategies that will help us walk our way into the heart of our target market.

We are set to become the number one choice for both parents and students in the whole of Ashville – North Carolina which is why we have made provisions for effective publicity and advertisement of our private school. Below are the platforms we intend to leverage on to promote and advertise Rolland Gyros International Private School;

  • Place adverts on both print (community based newspapers and magazines) and electronic media platforms
  • Sponsor relevant community based events / programs
  • Leverage on the internet and social media platforms like; Instagram, Facebook , twitter, YouTube, Google + et al to promote our brand
  • Install our Bill Boards on strategic locations all around Ashville – North Carolina.
  • Engage in road show from time to time in targeted neighborhoods in and around Ashville – North Carolina
  • Distribute our fliers and handbills in target areas in and around Ashville – North Carolina
  • Passing general information via our school’s social media handles like twitter, Facebook, Google hangouts etc.
  • Ensure that all our teaching and non – teaching staff members wear our branded shirts and all our vehicles are well branded with our schools’ logo et al.

12. Our Pricing Strategy

Private schools in the United States of America and of course in all the parts of the world charge students per tem / per session and students have the options of either paying their tuitions before resumption or during the school session.

Private schools generally charge students based on loads of factors, locations, services offerings and extra – curricular activities et al At Rolland Gyros International Private School we will keep our fees below the average market rate for all of our students by keeping our overhead low and by collecting payment in advance.

In addition, we will also offer special discounted rates to all our students at regular intervals. We are aware that there are some students that would need special assistance, we will offer flat rate for such services that will be tailored to take care of such students’ needs.

  • Payment Options

At Rolland Gyros International Private School, our payment policy will be all inclusive because we are quite aware that different people prefer different payment options as it suits them. Here are the payment options that we will make available to our clients;

  • Payment by via bank transfer
  • Payment via online bank transfer
  • Payment via check
  • Payment via bank draft
  • Payment via mobile money
  • Payment with cash

In view of the above, we have chosen banking platforms that will help us achieve our plans with little or no itches.

13. Startup Expenditure (Budget)

In setting up a private school business, the amount or cost will depend on the approach and scale you want to undertake.

If you intend to go big by acquiring a large facility, then you would need a higher amount of capital as you would need to ensure that your employees are taken care of, and that your private school’s environment is conducive enough for the students to learn.

This means that the start-up can either be low or high depending on your goals, vision and aspirations for your business. The materials and equipment that will be used are nearly the same cost everywhere, and any difference in prices would be minimal and can be overlooked.

As for the detailed cost analysis for starting a private school business; it might differ in other countries due to the value of their money. However, this is what it would cost us to start Rolland Gyros International Private School in the United of America;

  • Business incorporation fees in the United States of America will cost – $750.
  • The budget for Liability insurance, permits and license will cost – $3,500
  • Acquiring a large facility that will accommodate the number of block of closes, playing field, staff offices and parking lots et al (Re – Construction of the facility inclusive) will cost – $350,000.
  • Equipping the classes and office (computers, printers, projectors, markers, pens and pencils, furniture, telephones, filing cabinets, and electronics) will cost – $50,000
  • Launching an official Website will cost – $500
  • The budget for the payment of salaries for the first three months of operations: $120,000
  • Additional Expenditure such as Business cards, Signage, Adverts and Promotions will cost – $15,000

Going by the market survey and feasibility studies conducted, we came to the conclusion that we will need an average of $750,000 to start a small scale but standard private school in the United States of America.

Generating Funding / Startup Capital for Rolland Gyros International Private School

Rolland Gyros International Private School is a family business that will be owned and managed by Dr. (Mrs.) Irene Rolland Gyros and her immediate family.

They are the sole financial of the private school which is why they decided to restrict the sourcing of the start – up capital for the private school to just three major sources. These are the areas we intend generating our start – up capital;

  • Generate part of the start – up capital from personal savings and sale of his stocks
  • Generate part of the start – up capital from friends and other extended family members
  • Generate a larger chunk of the startup capital from the bank (loan facility).

N.B: We have been able to generate about $250,000 (Personal savings $200,000 and soft loan from family members $50,000 ) and we are at the final stages of obtaining a loan facility of $500,000 from our bank. All the papers and document has been duly signed and submitted, the loan has been approved and any moment from now our account will be credited.

14. Sustainability and Expansion Strategy

It is a known fact that the future of any business lies in the numbers of loyal customers that they have, the capacity and competence of the employees, their investment strategy and of course the business structure. If all of these factors are missing from a business (company), then it won’t be too long before the business close shop.

One of our major goals of starting Rolland Gyros International Private School is to build a business that will survive off its own cash flow without the need for injecting finance from external sources once the business is officially running.

We know that one of the ways of gaining approval and winning customers (students and parents alike) over is to ensure that we offer nothing less than the best, to offer quality education to all our students so much so that they can favorably compete with students all over the United States and gain admission to Ivy League colleges.

Rolland Gyros International Private School will make sure that the right foundation, structures and processes are put in place to ensure that our staff welfare are well taken of. Our company’s corporate culture is designed to drive our business to greater heights and training and retraining of our workforce is at the top burner of our business strategy.

As a matter of fact, profit-sharing arrangement will be made available to all our management staff and it will be based on their performance for a period of three years or more as determined by the board of the organization. We know that if that is put in place, we will be able to successfully hire and retain the best hands we can get in the industry; they will be more committed to help us build the business of our dreams.

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  2. How to Teach High School Entrepreneurs to Start a Business

    4/28/2023 Teaching high school entrepreneurs to start their own businesses is a great idea! Just reading this blog post is a great first step. But teaching students how to create their own high school businesses can be slightly overwhelming, and I get it.

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  11. Private School Business Plan [Sample Template for 2022]

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    The following School business plan template gives you the key elements to include in a winning business plan. In addition to this template, a well-crafted plan will include market research to help you better understand the school industry, market trends, your competitive advantage and your target market. It will also help you craft a smart ...

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  21. 11+ High School Strategic Plan Templates

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