Complete Student, The looks stable. Reserves cover 4 months of operating expense, a thin runway. Revenue is 90% tuition-dependent (peer median 87%), concentrated but in line with most independent day schools. Staff compensation runs 61% of expenses, leaner than the peer median. Expenses are outpacing revenue 24.1% vs 15.5% per year over three years, signaling margin compression worth flagging. NACUBO Composite Financial Index: 3.3 / 10, adequate — monitor.
Complete Student, The holds only 4 months of operating expense in reserve — a thin runway that warrants understanding before walking into a campus visit.
Complete Student, The reported $772K in revenue against $755K in expenses in fiscal year 2024, the most recent filing on record. Net assets stood at $268K — about 0.36x annual operating expense.
Operating margin landed at 2.3%, with 89.7% of revenue coming from tuition. Among same-size peers, that puts Complete Student, The at the p56 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.