The Woodland School is planning two phases of facility upgrades costing $4 million each to accommodate enrollment growth and curriculum improvements. To fund phase one, the school will raise $1-1.5 million and borrow $3 million. Tuition will increase 9-7% annually to cover operating costs like teacher salaries and debt payments. Phase two depends on reaching full enrollment of 318 students by 2018 and the success of an upcoming capital campaign. The presentation solicits feedback and questions from attendees on the school's plans and finances.
3. Our Priorities
1. Continue to improve our program
2. Bring teachers/staff salaries to 50th percentile
3. Maintain and grow a diverse community
4. Upgrade our campus
4. Upgrading our campus
• Goals:
– Meet the needs of enrollment growth
– Meet the needs of curriculum improvements
– Safe and compliant with current standards
• Specifics:
– Phase I: 4 new classrooms, a gym
– Phase II: new administrative
bldg/entrance, outdoor theater, field and parking
improvements, MUR improvements
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9. How do we pay for this
1. Short term tuition increases
2. Annual Fund
3. Achieve full enrollment within 6 years
4. Capital campaign
5. Borrow money for construction
10. Tuition Increases: 9/8/7%
• Above normal CPI increases, these tuition
increases will provide a net $750K increase in
annual operating revenue
• It will pay for the following ongoing costs:
– $300,000 teacher/staff increase
– $60,000 increase in rent basis
– $150,000 building maintenance
– $240,000 interest and principal payment on debt
12. Facility Upgrades: Phase I
• Construction divided into 2 phases: each
phase costs roughly $4M
• Phase 1: New classrooms and a gym
– Fundraise between $1m and $1.5m
– Borrow $3m and fund the interest and principle
payments over 20 years out of operations
• Aggressive timeline
– Break ground this coming summer
13. Facility Upgrades: Phase 2
• Depends on our capital campaign
• Depends on enrollment
– We have a goal of full enrollment within 6 years
• 2013 – 270 students
• 2014 – 277 students
• 2015 – 285 students
• 2016 – 294 students
• 2017 – 310 students
• 2018 – 318 students
18. Blended Tuition including fundraising
$ 35,000
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Editor's Notes
Points to make: We are going to be coming to you asking for money in a few different ways over the next 6 months. Its going to see like a lot. Especially for people who have been part of this community for a while, it will feel a bit foreign to you. What I hope to do today is to provide some high level context for the requests you’ll be getting. As you know, as a private school all of our funding comes from the parent community. There are no federal or state funds supplementing what we do. Every year we need to make sure that our budgets are conservative, and that to the extent we can, build enough of a financial barrier to weather any economic downturn that we run into. So if enrollment dips a bit, we aren’t forced into a scenario where we are forced to fire staff based on small short term changes. Lastly, and very importantly, we continue to plan on offering a high value product at a price point at the low end of our competitive set. I want to make sure that its clear that we are not trying/no do we want to change the community that we have here at Woodland by drastically changing the tuition. Again we want to continue to offer a fantastic product at the lower end of the market. But sitting still focused solely on keeping tuition cheep is not a sustainable plan. And the plans I want to share with you today are the board’s plans to continue to offer a sustainable high value product while keep tuition in check.
Continuing to improve our program consists of 3 parts: curriculum, personnel and staff. Over the last 5 years, we have continue to improve both the curriculum and staff. Hopefully you have felt that – from some of the new talented teachers that we have hired over the last few years to improvements like the integrated writing program. These new improvements do not cost extra money – the cost money only to the extent where we need to attract and retain great personnel to design and implement these improvements.And on this front, we have a ways to go. We have set a goal to pay our teachers at the 50th percentile of the local market. We have set a goal of getting to 50% of the market over the course of the next three years.Lastly, we want to upgrade our facilities to meet the needs our enrollment growth plans as well as our curriculum plans. I will turn it over to MrOra to talk about hiring and creating the best teachers and their importance to continuing to improve the program.
We’ve interviewed and hired an architectWe will be asking our parent community for feedback on the plans
What we won’t do it borrow more money and fund it out of operations if we can’t comfortable do it.