Besant Hill School

Besant Hill School looks durable. The school holds 4.0 years of operating cushion, on the lighter end for a boarding school. Revenue runs 83% tuition-dependent (HiveCheck peer-group median 86%), heavier than the boarding cohort typically carries, so the cushion does real work. Staff compensation runs 56% of expenses, well below the peer median, worth understanding why. Expenses are outpacing revenue 12.4% vs -4.2% per year over three years, signaling margin compression worth flagging. NACUBO Composite Financial Index: 5.6 / 10, strong.

Besant Hill School reported $6.8M in revenue against $6.5M in expenses in fiscal year 2023, the most recent filing on record. Net assets stood at $25.9M — about 3.99x annual operating expense.

Operating margin landed at 3.8%, with 83.3% of revenue coming from tuition. Among same-size peers, that puts Besant Hill School at the p47 on operating margin.