Demographic Analysis To Manage And Market Your School
I did a little podcast recently with Brad Entwistle, founding partner of Imageseven, entitled ‘How Demographics Will Shape Your School’. The podcast outlines the current and future trends impacting enrolments, including slowing population growth, evolving migration patterns and family dynamics. I ran into Brad at the AHISA conference in Canberra earlier this year, and I
Dear Colleagues, due to the changing environment and our response to COVID-19, I will be posting a series of updates on the current research being undertaken by Education Geographics, which may assist Australian Non-Government schools with their 2021 planning. You are welcome to distribute these updates to your school boards and risk assessment committees and
While staff costs drive upwards of 75 percent of a school budget, your student enrolment numbers drive just about 100 percent of everything in the budget. In 2016/17 the average total recurrent income per full time equivalent independent school student across Australia exceeded $20,000. [1] With a national average enrolment of 525 students per school, a
From 2008 to 2017, half the increases in Independent enrolments have been in the bottom fee quartile of schools by student numbers. Three quarters of the increases have been within the bottom two fee quartiles of schools by student numbers. However, around 2014, this pattern of growth changed and from 2014 to 2017, the growth
