Resources

Guides

Build Your Classes with Greater Confidence with Ravenna Admit™ and Kira Talent

Learn about the Ravenna Admit™ and Kira Talent integration for private and independent schools. Gain deeper applicant insights to build your school community.

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The School Administrators’ Guide to Using Drip and Nurture Email Campaigns

Engage your K-12 school community with marketing automation. Learn how to use automated drip and nurture email campaigns to boost your communication efforts.

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Ravenna Student Management™ Security & Data Privacy Guide

Protect your K-12 school data with Ravenna Student Management™. Discover a dependable SIS offering cloud-based technology and cutting-edge safety features.

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Product Sheet: Ravenna Admit ™

Enhance your admissions process with Ravenna Admit™. Streamline applications, save time, and build stronger relationships throughout the admissions process.

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Buyer’s Guide: Ravenna Student Management

A cloud-based solution for K-12 private and independent schools. Simplify operations, enhance collaboration, and thrive as a connected school community. Download our guide now.

Webinars

Automating Success: Crafting Admissions Journeys for Conversions and Efficiency

Explore the impact of marketing automation in admissions! Discover how to strategically engage with families with a live demo.

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Infographic: Unify Your Digital Campus with Ravenna Student Management

Elevate school management with Ravenna Student Management. Explore connecting admissions tuition, academics, data, and fundraising in our infographic.

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2024 Key Trends in Admissions Report

Optimize your school's admissions strategy with our guide. Discover trends and essential strategies for an elevated admissions experience. Download now.

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The K-12 Suite by Ravenna

Success in K-12 education extends beyond academics—it's about fostering a vibrant school community where students thrive and families actively engage.

Webinars

Building a Stronger School Foundation With a New SIS 

Empower your school data with a seamless SIS. Ensure secure, clean data, swift communication, and optimized workflows. Join our webinar to learn more.

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Empower Your School’s Financial Health with BigSIS Tuition Management

Elevate tuition management and the long-term financial health of your K-12 school. Download our BigSIS by Community Brands guide to find out how.

Customer Stories

From Manual to Modern: Summit Montessori School Adopts BigSIS for a Seamless Student Journey

Ravenna Student Management, streamlines workflows. Creates a seamless K-12 private school family experience. Looking for a new student management solution?

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Create a Connected Digital Campus with Ravenna Student Management

Create a unified digital ecosystem with Ravenna Student Management. Drive success, connect your community, and streamline operations. Download now.

Webinars

Mid-Season Boost: 5 Marketing Tips for Enrollment

It’s mid-season and you review your enrollment numbers – only to realize you are falling short of your goals. What can you do to boost enrollment over the next few months?

Webinars

Understanding Tuition Management: 4 Vital Components for K-12 Schools

Discover the key features of effective K-12 tuition management in our webinar. Resolve issues like inaccurate reporting, overwhelmed staff, financial uncertainty, and fluctuating revenue for enhanced school accuracy, efficiency, and satisfaction.

Webinars

Shaping Your Tuition & Enrollment Strategy

In this webinar, we will walk through six questions to ask yourself when shaping your tuition and enrollment strategy to help determine your school leverage.

Webinars

Adapting with Purpose Panel: K-12 Admissions in the Era of Supreme Court Changes

Following the recent Supreme Court ruling against colleges factoring in race during the admissions decision process, K-12 schools nationwide are grappling with potential implications for their future admissions strategies. Has this been on your mind too?

Customer Stories

Villa Academy

Villa Academy is a Catholic independent school dedicated to excellence in the education of the whole child. Ravenna has helped Villa Academy improve marketing for admissions, email campaigns, data reporting and more.

Guides

Digital Transformation in K-12 Education

Digital transformation in K-12 education ensures schools shift their mindsets towards improvements and updates in technology. When it comes to the impact and challenges of digital transformation in education, learning how updated technology works can help your school find solutions to common problems while preparing for the future.

Webinars

BigSIS Plus Ravenna Debut: Overcoming Admissions Roadblocks

Together, BigSIS and Ravenna provide a way for independent schools to offer a modern, connected experience for families and staff; think centralized portals, quick and easy application processing, interview management, lead nurturing, and so much more!

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BigSIS and Ravenna ADMIT Integration

Learn how BigSIS and Ravenna ADMIT integrate to save your school and families time.

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Your Guide to the Latest Trends in K-12 Admissions Technology 

A guide to walk you through the latest trends in admission technology and what to look for in a new solution to improve the user experience and create efficiency.  

Webinars

Step Into the Admission Spotlight: What to Look for in the Latest Technology

You can provide greater financial flexibility to families, automate workflows to free up staff time, and so much more by using implementing an online tuition management system.

Guides

Your Ticket to a Successful Admissions Season Guide

In this guide, we show you how to plan a record-breaking admissions season from start to finish. 

Webinars

10 Features Your School Will Love About Online Tuition Management

You can provide greater financial flexibility to families, automate workflows to free up staff time, and so much more by using implementing an online tuition management system.

Webinars

Planning for a Successful Admission Season: Marketing and Tactics to Get Started 

Each admission season, your school has an opportunity to attract the attention of new families who would be a perfect fit for your school community. Learn more about how to plan for a successful admissions season 

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The K-12 Guide to a Successful Admission Season

Are you prepared for a successful admissions season? Take a look to find out.

Webinars

Meet MIP Fund Accounting®

With 40 years of experience, MIP Fund Accounting it is the leading provider of nonprofit, cloud-based SaaS fund accounting software that manages multiple funds and helps schools and educational organizations accomplish their missions.

Guides

5 Ways To Get Instant Results Through Tuition Management

Check out this video to see how your school can get you instant results through our tuition management solution.

Webinars

Choosing the Best Software for Your School

This webinar will walk you through the questions to ask when searching for your next school management solution.

Guides

The Private and Independent School’s Guide to Choosing School Management Software and Services

To stay relevant and viable, many school leaders are turning to technology partners to simplify administrative tasks and deliver a better experience to students and families. Download this guide to learn about the benefits different types of software provides your school today.

Webinars

What Have the Last Two Years of Admission and Enrollment Taught Us? 

Staying current and up to date on your technology and processes are changes worth making. Join us for more on schools’ current landscape and why the future looks bright.  

Webinars

Supercharge Your Admin Experience

Join us as we showcase how Ravenna can save your team time and supercharge your admin experience!

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Infographic: 2022 K-12 Trends Report

We surveyed over 300 school decision-makers on current trends and longer-term predictions among independent, parochial, and boarding schools. Download this infographic today for some key takeaways from the 2022 K-12 Trends Report.

Guides

Video: Application and Enrollment Insights from K-12 Trends Report

As you look toward making technology investments and changes for your school, watch this video for a snapshot of our K12 research study insights.

Webinars

2022 K-12 Research Benchmarking

Can you accurately compare your school to how other private and independent schools are doing in your region or nationwide?

Guides

A Whole School Strategy to Sustainable Revenue Streams for K-12 Private and Independent Schools

Our A Whole School Strategy to Sustainable Revenue Streams for K-12 Private and Independent Schools eBook takes a dive into the different revenue streams your school can use to get started while providing you with the tools you need to get stakeholder buy-in and showcase your successes.

Webinars

Meet the Future of Fundraising for Schools

Join us and watch how our new platform can revolutionize your fundraising strategy through GiveSmart.

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2022 K-12 Trends Report

Community Brands’ 2022 K-12 Research Study surveys the landscape as well as current and longer-term trends among independent, parochial, and boarding schools. The results track.

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Revenue Opportunity Calculator for K-12 Private and Independent Schools

This revenue calculator is designed to highlight your school's opportunity areas to build or improve revenue streams using 2022 private and independent school benchmarking data.

Webinars

2022 K-12 Research Study Deep Dive

Our upcoming webinar will take a deep dive into the 2022 K-12 Research Study which identifies the current and longer-term trends among independent, parochial, and boarding schools.

Guides

Software Integration Explained

In an age of digital evolution in schools, we hear phrases like software integration, bundles, and suites all the time. But what does it mean to have integrated software and how is it beneficial to schools?

Webinars

Industry Forum: The Shift in K-12 & How Community Brands is Helping Schools Like Yours

Tune in to hear Community Brands K-12's Managing Director, Richard Grazier, as he highlights what our software education teams are seeing from our unique view in the market, what we're hearing from our Ravenna customers, and how Community Brands is shaping to better support your school, your families and your community.

Webinars

Industry Panel Discussion: Conquering the New Normal

Guides

Are your Admission and Enrollment Offices Ready to Capitalize on the Next Normal?

Leading private schools understand that in order to flourish and thrive, they require sophisticated yet user-friendly platforms that provide speed, detailed data, and a focus on growth in the coming years.

Webinars

Meet Ravenna: A Modern, Highly Configurable Admission and Enrollment Suite

Join us for an innovative live demo featuring Ravenna. Ravenna offers the premier enrollment management software for private and independent PS-12 schools.

Webinars

Meet Flex: A Simplified and Predictable Pricing Structure

What if you had a solution that could not only simplify pricing but also give your school more control and flexibility options with pricing? Our solution, Flex, offers a streamlined pricing structure like no other in the market

Webinars

Using Your 2021 Enrollment Data to Improve Your 2022 Admissions Strategy

Your technology solutions provide you valuable data, but do you know what data to use and where to find it? In this webinar, we'll teach you how to harness the power and knowledge within your own data and how to segment, extract, and analyze your data to improve your overall admissions strategy.

Webinars

Retain to Gain

This webinar will focus on how to reduce student attrition, how to understand why students are leaving, and strategies to promote re-enrollment.

Webinars

FABLAB 2021 On-Demand

FABLAB 2021 was a virtual event designed to help K-12 financial aid professionals grow their knowledge and skills with education and training from industry professionals. You can get access to all the superb insight from Day 1 Thought Leadership Content on demand now! 

Webinars

Prepare Your Events and Interviews for 2022

Another admissions season is here. Are you ready to conduct your events and interviews efficiently? You may not be if you're not capitalizing on all Ravenna has to offer.

Webinars

Decisions, Contracts, Billing, Oh My!

So a plethora of new student applications is obviously great for your school. What about the process behind making your decisions and beyond?

Guides

Your School’s Acquisition Worksheet

What's your strategy for promoting your school and acquiring new, diverse families? We all know that's top priority for your admissions office, and we want to help.

Webinars

A Successful School Needs an Integrated Software Suite

How often are you exporting and importing important data, double- or triple-checking manual entries, or, worse, fixing errors stemming from the two? How many times have you fought to delegate your time to your actual job, rather than the tedious operational tasks your disconnected software forces you to do? 

Webinars

The Time is Now: Skyrocket Your Family Experience and Staff Empowerment

Great! You have your acquisition strategy in place. Now what?    It’s not enough to just get prospective families interested in your school anymore. Competition is high, and expectations are higher. To avoid a shrinking admissions funnel and staff turnover, you need to keep families engaged and staff productive. 

Webinars

Optimize Your Acquisition Strategy for Long-term Growth

During this 30-minute webinar, you'll learn how Ravenna allows you to provide a best-in-class family experience through not only the self-service application and enrollment portal, but with the help of full technical support from the Ravenna team.

Webinars

Ravenna In Action: NEW Ravenna TUITION

Industry-leading admissions and enrollment solution meets groundbreaking tuition and billing software. Meet Ravenna TUITION.

Webinars

Acquire and Retain Students Through A+ Family Experiences

During this 30-minute webinar, you'll learn how Ravenna allows you to provide a best-in-class family experience through not only the self-service application and enrollment portal, but with the help of full technical support from the Ravenna team.

Webinars

The Time is Now: Live Your Mission of Creating an Inclusive School Community

Ravenna’s unique admissions capabilities enable schools to accommodate diverse families and track diversity in their admissions funnel from inquiry all the way to application in ways that other software can’t.

Guides

Refresh your school’s enrollment management

What would it mean for your admissions yield and overall school management if your enrollment was streamlined and family first? Let’s take a look at what updates could do for your school.

Webinars

Gain a Competitive Edge Using Ravenna’s Admission Data – Part 2

In part two of this two-part series, learn how Ravenna is the only admission solution out there that also gives your school the ability to seamlessly compare your school's admissions funnel to other PS-12 private and independent schools in your region.

Webinars

Gain a Competitive Edge Using Ravenna’s Admission Data – Part 1

In part one of this two-part series, learn how Ravenna gives you admission data in real-time, enables easy historical comparison, and allows customizable, enhanced reporting that you can't get anywhere else.

Webinars

Eliminate Tedious Event and Interview Management Tasks with Ravenna

Watch our admissions experts where they show new ways Ravenna can transform how you manage admission events and restore your sanity.

Webinars

Drive Admissions and Automate Operations with Ravenna Workflows

Watch our admissions experts as they conduct a deep dive into how Ravenna can automate tasks within your admissions process with Workflows and, in turn, grow your funnel, better engage prospective applicants and families and increase your conversions.

Customer Stories

Brooklyn Friends School

Working in conjunction with their existing school management software, Ravenna helped Brooklyn Friends efficiently process a growing volume of applications while giving voice to a broader community of reviewers.

Customer Stories

Epiphany

The Epiphany School experience is about challenging and caring for children. An Epiphany education provides students with strong academic skills, a love of learning, and community participation, as well as a sense of personal responsibility.

Customer Stories

Jewish Day School

JDS was founded in 1980 by a small group of community leaders who longed to provide an exceptional values-based, 'whole child' education delivered in a Jewish environment and made available to every child regardless of Jewish lineage.

Webinars

COVID Data and Trends for Admission and Financial Aid Professionals

Join Ravenna Customer Success Manager Jess Creach and Finalsite Content Marketing Manager Mia Major in an on-demand webinar to learn about how five easy and effective conversion optimization strategies can increase your yield rate this season.

Webinars

State of enrollment

At Ravenna, we conducted a survey to find out how COVID-19 is affecting admission offices across the country. This recorded webinar hits on some of the trends we’ve identified and how Ravenna’s tools can help you navigate the current landscape of K-12 enrollment.

Webinars

Automation in the admission office

Now more than ever, it is vital that your admission office runs smoothly—whether your school is meeting online, in-person, or some mix of the two. The key to ensuring your school can meet your enrollment goals for the year lies within your ability to work smarter and do more with less through automation.

Webinars

Mastering your admission office

Join Ravenna Customer Success Manager Jess Creach and Finalsite Content Marketing Manager Mia Major in an on-demand webinar to learn about how five easy and effective conversion optimization strategies can increase your yield rate this season.

Webinars

Tuition Software in 2020

Our tuition software experts and product General Managers Trish Surin and Jessica McDouall have put together a webinar to discuss the importance of the right tuition solution for both you and your families, especially in a digital world. Watch to learn more.

Webinars

Virtual Assessments: Tools and Assessments

In this presentation, Jess Creach discuss tools, resources, and best practices to tackle virtual assessments.

Webinars

Best Practices for a Virtual Review Process

Join our admission expert, Jess Creach, and learn about some simple, tactical touchpoints you can implement this year to get prospective students excited for the fall.

Webinars

Creative Ideas for Virtual Admission Touchpoints

Join our admission expert, Jess Creach, and learn about some simple, tactical touchpoints you can implement this year to get prospective students excited for the fall.

Webinars

Virtual Events and Remote Tours

Join Ravenna Customer Success Manager Jess Creach and Finalsite Content Marketing Manager Mia Major in an on-demand webinar to learn about how five easy and effective conversion optimization strategies can increase your yield rate this season.

Webinars

6 Ways Ravenna Enables Remote Admissions: Webinar

As our homes become the new center of school admission work, we want to show you how we can help you complete your entire admission process—from inquiry through committees and decisions—all from your home office. Ravenna can help your admission offices maintain their normal admission processes through disruptions.

Webinars

5 Conversion Tactics to Increase Enrollment

Join Ravenna Customer Success Manager Jess Creach and Finalsite Content Marketing Manager Mia Major in an on-demand webinar to learn about how five easy and effective conversion optimization strategies can increase your yield rate this season.

Guides

2020 Educational Technology Trends

Technology solutions are changing the landscape of education. With the introduction of new technologies in the market, K-12 private schools encounter different challenges and new opportunities. ​ In our recent survey of over 200 K-12 private schools, we took a look at how technology use has evolved with them over the past five years.

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10 benefits to online tuition

Learn how moving to online tuition saves your office valuable time while providing families with an outstanding user experience.

Webinars

Admission and enrollment trends 2020

Emerging thinking on current admission and enrollment trends. This webinar take a closer look on how and when to incorporate these trends into your current process.

Webinars

Ravenna + SAO Integration

Ravenna is excited to announce an integration with the Standard Application Online (SAO) for the 2019-20 admission season!

Webinars

Ravenna Admissions-Why it will work for your school

This highly configurable admission solution helps schools boost enrollment through smart, detailed regional data. Learn More

Webinars

Overcoming common enrollment barriers

Join Ravenna Customer Success Manager Jess Creach and Finalsite Chief Product Officer Lauren Barth to discuss proven ways to overcome the most common enrollment barriers in the independent school industry.

Webinars

Introducing Ravenna Historical Data Import

At Ravenna, we know that data is a crucial part of your enrollment management strategy, from planning outreach to measuring success.