Chesterfield Day School sits in the watch range. The school holds 4.2 years of operating cushion: deep institutional balance. Revenue is unusually diversified at 25% tuition-dependent (peer median 81%). Staff compensation runs 18% of expenses, well below the peer median, worth understanding why. Three-year net-asset trend is negative (-10.5%/yr), indicating reserve drawdown. NACUBO Composite Financial Index: 2.3 / 10, watch.
Chesterfield Day School runs only 25% tuition-dependent — unusually diversified for an independent school. Endowment payout and contributions carry meaningful weight in the operating budget.
Chesterfield Day School reported $192K in revenue against $305K in expenses in fiscal year 2022, the most recent filing on record. Net assets stood at $1.3M — about 4.21x annual operating expense.
Operating margin landed at -58.9%, with 25.0% of revenue coming from tuition. Among same-size peers, that puts Chesterfield Day School at the p0 on operating margin.
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Why “revenue scale” and not “endowment per student”: independent-school 990s don’t carry per-school enrollment, and NCES PSS coverage is partial, so we cannot divide endowment by a verified student count for every school. The bar above is each school’s latest reported total revenue. True endowment-per-student is scheduled for v1.1+ once Schedule D Part V parsing lands.
Peers are scored by similarity along three equal-weighted dimensions: size cohort (Form 990 employee count + max-revenue tier, a proxy for student enrollment, which the 990 does not carry), geographic region (eight-region grouping), and association overlap (NAIS, NBOA, regional councils). We rank the top 20 nearest peers and chart the first 12 by latest reported revenue. Values are the school’s most recently filed total revenue on IRS Form 990.