Private School Valuation: What Owners Should Know

What Is My Private School Worth? How Buyers Actually Value a SchoolMost owners want one number: what is my school worth. The honest answer is that a private school is not valued the way a manufacturing business or a commercial building is. It is worth a multiple of its earnings, yes, but that multiple is shaped by the durability of your enrollment, the strength of your programs, your regulatory standing, and how much of the school's success walks out the door if you leave. Get that reading right and you price the school fairly.

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Should You Sell Your School Now, or Wait? A Framework for Timing the Sale

Should You Sell Your School Now, or Wait? A Framework for Timing the SaleMost owners who come to me about how to sell a private school are really asking a harder question underneath: should I sell now, or should I wait? Those are the same decision, and getting the timing wrong costs you in both directions.

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What Is My Private School Worth? Why Geographic Fit Changes the Price a Buyer Will Pay

What Is My Private School Worth? Why Geographic Fit Changes the Price a Buyer Will PayYou built your school over decades. You will sell it once. That single fact is why the question of what your private school is worth deserves a better answer than one number pulled off a multiple.

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How Sophisticated Buyers Value Your School: Three Assets, Not One

How Sophisticated Buyers Value Your School: Three Assets, Not OneI have spent

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Why Private Equity Is Suddenly Buying Private Schools

Why Private Equity Is Buying Private SchoolsI have spent more than 40 years advising private school owners, and I have never seen investor interest at the level I see today. Ten years ago, most of my seller-clients sold to another educator, a family office, or a regional operator.

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