Breaking Down the Financial Aid Formula for Private Schools
For private school K-12 families, financial aid can be an additional source of help to ensure their children can attend private school. Most K-12 private schools use the Parents' Financial Statement (PFS) to determine aid. It gathers information about family size,...
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Top 4 Tips for Communicating With Families Effectively
Families play a crucial role in their children's academic success. Effective communication with parents in schools can enhance the learning process by facilitating family involvement and promoting engagement. At Ravenna, we recognize the importance of communication in...
How to Grow Your School Population
Private K-12 schools face stiff challenges when attempting to fill their classrooms. Factors such as school choice, declining birth rates, and increasing costs have caused many of these educational institutions to scramble to find ways to bolster enrollment. As a...
How School Interviews Have Changed and How They Will Look Moving Forward
While most aspects of the traditional school system have remained the same over the past several decades, it is no secret that a digital shift within school offices and classrooms has occurred in recent years. Specifically, there has been a significant change in the...
How to Broaden Your School’s Applicant Pool
Creating an effectively integrated school system is an ongoing struggle for school administrators, and creating a school that makes families want to travel outside their district can be even more of a challenge. Despite the inherent obstacles, private schools are...
Advantages to Offering Various Payment Plan Options at Your Private School
Not every family can afford to pay private school tuition costs in a lump sum. As such, your private K-12 school may want to offer payment plan options to families. When families can choose to pay tuition in installments, you make them happier and your institution...
Guide to Managing Your Application Process
Another school year is upon us, and this is a great occasion to reevaluate your school’s admissions process. If you aren’t confident that your application system is as streamlined and organized as it can be, consider how you can enhance this process — both for...
How Technology Can Help Improve Family Experience
Ravenna knows the importance of simplifying processes without taking away from the ability to give families a quality experience. As the industry's premier admission solution for K-12 independent schools, we recognize the importance of technology in school...
6 questions to ask when choosing your tuition management system
Decision fatigue is REAL. From deciding on what to eat, when to schedule a meeting, and what to wear for yet another Zoom meeting (even if it is only waist up) - there are a lot of choices we have to make every hour of every day. Choosing a tuition management system...
How to optimize your acquisition strategy for long-term growth
How to optimize your acquisition strategy for long-term growth It’s no secret your school competes against other prestigious schools in your region for new student applicants. Over the last year, applicant numbers increased, yet enrollment yields declined. There...
6 Ways Ravenna Enables Remote Admissions
What if you could easily manage your entire admissions process cozied up at home during a snowstorm, nursing your kid with a stomach bug, or sitting in the quad on a nice day? With Ravenna, you can! You deserve a paperless solution that allows you to compare...
Does automation really help your Admissions Office?
Before we look at how streamlining your workflows benefits your team, your families, and your bottom line – let’s take a look at how things have changed over the past year in admissions and enrollment.
5 Ways to Increase Applications for your School
It likely comes as no surprise that COVID-19 affected both enrollment and schools’ admission pools. In fact, according to a survey done by Ravenna, K-12 schools overall had a higher number of applicants, yet fewer students chose to enroll.