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Steamboat Mountain School
Steamboat Springs, CO · Independent school
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Steamboat Mountain School looks stable. The school holds only 17 months of operating cushion, unusually thin for a boarding school's residential capex load. Revenue runs 86% tuition-dependent (HiveCheck peer-group median 82%), heavier than the boarding cohort typically carries, so the cushion does real work. Staff compensation runs 48% of expenses, leaner than the peer median. Expenses are outpacing revenue 15.2% vs 6.5% per year over three years, signaling margin compression worth flagging. NACUBO Composite Financial Index: 3.3 / 10, adequate — monitor.
Steamboat Mountain School reported $8.0M in revenue against $8.2M in expenses in fiscal year 2024, the most recent filing on record. Net assets stood at $11.8M — about 1.45x annual operating expense.
Operating margin landed at -2.2%, with 85.6% of revenue coming from tuition. Among same-size peers, that puts Steamboat Mountain School at the p46 on operating margin.
$8.0M
REVENUE FY2024
-2.2%
OP MARGIN
20
PEERS RESOLVED
IRS FORM 990 · DATA THROUGH FY2024
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Among 20 similar peer schools, Steamboat Mountain School ranks 7th by latest 990 revenue.
Revenue scale
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