Who we serve
The questions differ. The rigour doesn't.
We work with Independent and Catholic schools, as individual schools and as the systems behind them. The analytical approach is the same throughout. What changes is your role, your sector, and where the opportunities are largest.
Your role
How we work with you.
School leaders
Principals and business managers face real operating pressure on enrolment, finances, offering, and workforce. We give you a clear, benchmarked picture of where you stand and a short list of priorities you can act on directly.
Most relevant: Enrolments · Surplus · Operations · People
Network leaders
Diocesan and system executives get system-level benchmarking and a comparable view across every school, plus the portfolio and shared-services opportunities that only appear at network scale. This is where our deepest relationships and system-level data do the most work.
Most relevant: The four needs at system level, plus network-level planning
Boards
Boards commission our work to validate management's assumptions, stress-test projections, and form an evidence-based view of long-term sustainability. The Review is a natural fit: an independently benchmarked picture of where the school stands, in time to act on it.
Most relevant: The Review, then whichever need the findings point to
Your sector
We know the context you operate in.
Independent schools
Independence brings both autonomy and accountability. We understand the balance of fee strategy, enrolment competition, and board governance you manage, and we have led and advised Independent schools directly. We help you price fees for the families you serve, convert the ones already close to choosing you, and build an offering and workforce that deliver your mission.
Most relevant: Enrolments · Surplus · Operations · People
Catholic schools
We understand system context and diocesan structures, and we hold deep relationships across Australian Catholic education. We help individual schools strengthen sustainability and enrolment, and help dioceses and systems benchmark every school, plan the portfolio, and share services where it pays, without hollowing out individual schools.
Most relevant: Network-level work for dioceses, plus school-level Surplus and Enrolments
Working at network level
Beyond any single school.
A diocese or school group running twenty schools as twenty separate operations leaves resource on the table that only network-level decisions can recover. Alongside the four needs at school level, we work with systems on:
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Portfolio shape
Which schools, where, at what size and type, planned against demographic demand across the network.
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Shared services
Back-office, procurement, and marketing functions consolidated where it pays, without hollowing out individual schools.
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Specialist and staff sharing
Specialist roles shared, clustered, or delivered virtually where individual cohorts are too small to justify a dedicated hire.
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Network benchmarking
A system-wide view of which schools are performing and which need support.
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Cross-network allocation
How resources and surplus are allocated across schools, transparent and deliberate, directly relevant to systemic redistribution under s78(5).
Where a network's growth case points to a new campus rather than a change in how it runs, we help make that case too.
Getting started
Start with the Review.
Most engagements start with the Review (from $4,900 + GST for a single school; network Reviews are scoped to the system). You get a clear picture of your priorities, then take them forward yourselves or, where you'd like support, go deep on the ones where the return is largest. Project and network work is scoped to your priorities and quoted by negotiation.
See what's inside a Review