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SCHOOL INTELLIGENCE · FULL REPORT
PREPARED JULY 19, 2026

The Spence School

New York, NY·Independent K-12·NAIS member·405 employees on the 990

$63.1M
Revenue FY2023
IRS 990 latest
3.4
CFI
/ 10 · adequate — monitor · 5+ is strong
769
Enrollment
NCES PSS 2021-22
7
Years on file
Through FY2023
THE STRATEGIC READ

The Spence School has expenses growing faster than revenue: 5.9% versus -4.7% per year over three years, a 10.6-point gap. The latest operating margin is -10.7%. Reserves cover 4.8 years of operations, which buys time. The right question for the board is whether the expense growth is funding a deliberate investment or compounding into a structural problem.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Spence School is burning the cushion faster than the 4.8-year buffer suggests. Expenses are outpacing revenue 5.9% vs -4.7% per year over three years, and the latest operating margin is -10.7% on a 81% tuition-dependent revenue mix. Covering the deficit at today's rate, it would take more than a decade to exhaust reserves — the full budget, by contrast, is covered for about 4.8 years if every revenue line stopped. The board conversation here is the recovery plan for the operating model and the timeline to break-even. NACUBO Composite Financial Index: 3.4 / 10, adequate — monitor.
3.4/ 10
Composite Financial Index
Adequate financial position; monitor for trend changes and direct resources to mission priorities.
4.8yrs
Reserve cushion
Net assets ÷ monthly OpEx
-10.7%
Operating margin
FY2023
769
Enrollment
NCES PSS 2021-22
TRAJECTORY OUTLOOK

Margin compression worth tracking at The Spence School: expenses have grown 5.9% per year against -4.7% revenue growth, a 10.6-point gap held over three years. The latest year already ran at a 10.7% operating deficit. Covering the deficit at today's rate, it would take more than a decade to exhaust reserves — the full budget, by contrast, is covered for about 4.8 years if every revenue line stopped. If the same gap holds for three more years, that compression compounds.

Linear extrapolation only. Schools regularly course-correct via tuition increases, capital campaigns, or expense controls. This is the if-nothing-changes outlook, not a prediction.

FINANCIAL HEALTH

FINANCIAL HEALTH

COMPOSITE FINANCIAL INDEX · NACUBO
WHAT IS WHAT IS THE COMPOSITE FINANCIAL INDEX?

The Composite Financial Index is a single 0–10 score from NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis that synthesizes four nonprofit-finance ratios into one number. College and independent-school CFOs use it as a single read on whether an institution is financially strong, holding steady, or running thin.

THE FOUR UNDERLYING RATIOS
  • Primary Reserve Ratio (35% weight) — net assets / total expenses. How many months of expenses are in reserve?
  • Net Operating Revenues Ratio (35%) — surplus / revenue. Is the school running a surplus?
  • Return on Net Assets (20%) — change in net assets / prior net assets. Are the reserves growing?
  • Viability Ratio (10%) — net assets / total liabilities. Could the school cover its debts?
HOW TO READ THE SCORE
  • 5+ — strong financial position; resources available to invest in the mission.
  • 3 to 5 — adequate; monitor for trend changes.
  • 1 to 3 — watch; re-engineering may be needed.
  • 0 to 1 — distressed; immediate intervention needed.
  • Below 0 — severely distressed.
WHY IT MATTERS

A candidate looking at a school's CFI gets a single read on whether the institution is investing in mission, holding steady, or running thin. It's the difference between “this school has a $30M endowment” — impressive-sounding on its own — and “this school's reserves are eroding 8% per year” for that same school under stress.

v1 CAVEATS

HiveCheck uses net assets at year-end in place of expendable net assets (Schedule D Part V), and total liabilities in place of long-term debt. Both are conservative proxies dictated by what is parsable from the public Form 990. A real CFI computed from audited financials may read slightly different — typically modestly higher reserve coverage and modestly lower viability than what we show.

SOURCE
Tahoe Group / NACUBO, Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. (Prager, Sealy & Co. / KPMG / BearingPoint). Learn more →
3.4
OUT OF 10 · 5+ IS STRONG

Adequate — monitor3.4 on a 0-to-10 scale where 5 already counts as strong. 3.4 sits above the midline but below the 5-point strong bar — the framework calls this "adequate; monitor for trend changes". Think of it as a financial-health checkup with four vital signs: whether the school spends less than it brings in, whether it keeps enough months of reserves on hand, whether those reserves are growing, and whether it can cover what it owes. Adequate financial position; monitor for trend changes and direct resources to mission priorities.

Financials through FY2023 · 7 yrs on file

FY2023 is the newest public filing on record — not a data gap. IRS Form 990s publish on a one-to-two-year lag, so a school’s most recent audited year usually isn’t available yet. This report always uses the latest filing the IRS has released.

The Spence School reported $63.1M in revenue against $69.9M in expenses in fiscal year 2023, an operating margin of -10.7%.

Verify any number in this report against the source IRS Form 990 look up on irs.gov ↗.

$63.1M
REVENUE FY2023
Trend 2017 to 2023, current $63.1M.$63.1M
IRS FORM 990 ↗
$336.1M
NET ASSETS
Trend 2017 to 2023, current $336.1M.$336.1M
IRS FORM 990 ↗
-10.7%
OPERATING MARGIN
Trend 2017 to 2023, current -10.7%.-10.7%
IRS FORM 990 ↗
HOW TO READ REVENUE, NET ASSETS, AND OPERATING MARGIN

Revenue is the total income reported on Form 990 for the fiscal year — tuition, fees, contributions, investment income, and other revenue lines combined. Net assets is revenue minus expenses across the school’s full history, measured at year-end (Form 990 Part X, line 32B). It is the closest v1 proxy for “institutional reserves” — see the methodology note on the Composite Financial Index below for why we use total net assets rather than expendable net assets isolated.

Operating margin is (revenue − expenses) / revenue. For nonprofit K-12 independent schools, sustained operating margins of 3–8% are the healthy range — enough surplus to reinvest in plant, financial aid, and reserves without sustained drawdown. Persistent negative margin signals reserve drawdown and warrants scrutiny of multi-year trend.

SOURCE
IRS Form 990, Parts VIII (revenue), IX (expenses), and X (balance sheet) — public filings. Learn more →
4.8 yrs
RESERVE CUSHION
WHAT IS WHAT IS THE RESERVE CUSHION?

Reserve cushion answers a single question: if every tuition check and donation stopped tomorrow, how long could the school’s savings keep the bills paid? We compute it as net assets at year-end ÷ monthly operating expense, drawn from IRS Form 990 Part X.

HOW TO READ IT
  • Below 3 months — precarious; one bad admissions cycle can force cuts.
  • 3 to 6 months — minimum healthy floor.
  • 6 to 12 months — adequate cushion.
  • 12 to 24 months — healthy reserve position.
  • 24+ months — deep institutional balance.
v1 CAVEAT

We use total net assets as a proxy for expendable reserves. A school’s audited financials separate expendable from restricted net assets; the 990 does not break this out. This proxy slightly overstates true operating runway for endowment-heavy schools where much of the net asset base is donor-restricted.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. — Primary Reserve Ratio. Learn more →
Could keep running on savings this long with no tuition coming in.

If every tuition check and donation stopped tomorrow, the school’s savings could cover its bills for about 4.8 years (58 months) before running out — a deep cushion. Most schools have under a year. (Savings here is total net assets; it’s a high-side proxy, since some of that is tied up in buildings and restricted gifts.)

5.5x
VIABILITY
WHAT IS WHAT IS THE VIABILITY RATIO?

Viability is net assets ÷ total liabilities — the cushion an institution holds against everything it owes. It answers: if all debts came due, how many times over could the school cover them from accumulated net assets?

HOW TO READ IT
  • Below 1.0x — liabilities exceed net assets; balance-sheet stress.
  • 1.0x to 1.25x — thin; monitor.
  • 1.25x+ — NACUBO's healthy threshold.
  • 3.0x+ — deep institutional cushion.
v1 CAVEAT

We use total liabilities from Form 990 Part X rather than long-term debt isolated (a Schedule D Part X detail we do not yet parse). This proxy understates viability for schools carrying meaningful short-term debt or current-year obligations against payables, since both are pulled into the denominator.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. — Viability Ratio. Learn more →
Net assets per dollar of liabilities. Proxy uses total liabilities (vs long-term debt).
HOW TO READ RESERVE COVERAGE AND VIABILITY

Reserve coverage answers “how many months of operating expense are sitting on the balance sheet right now?” We compute it as net assets / monthly expense. NACUBO’s Primary Reserve Ratio targets at least 3–6 months as a minimum healthy floor; 12+ months is considered strong, and 24+ months indicates a deep institutional balance. Below 3 months is precarious.

Viability is net assets per dollar of total liabilities — the cushion against debt obligations. Above 1.25x is considered healthy by NACUBO; below 1.0x means liabilities exceed accumulated net assets. v1 caveat: we use total liabilities rather than long-term debt isolated (a Form 990 Schedule D detail we do not yet parse), which understates this ratio for schools carrying significant short-term debt.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. (Prager, Sealy & Co. / KPMG) — Primary Reserve and Viability ratios. Learn more →
REVENUE DIVERSIFICATION
PROGRAM REVENUE
80.6%
CONTRIBUTIONS
9.8%
INVESTMENT INCOME
7.6%
OTHER
2.1%
WHY REVENUE MIX MATTERS

Program revenue = tuition and fees. Contributions = annual fund + capital campaigns + restricted gifts. Investment income = endowment payout, interest, and realized/unrealized gains. Other captures auxiliary lines (summer programs, rentals, dining).

A school deriving 90%+ from program revenue is highly sensitive to a tuition shock — a class that fails to fill, an unexpected attrition spike. A balanced mix (program + contributions + investment) signals resilience: a soft year on tuition does not translate one-for-one into a revenue downturn. Mature boarding schools and established day schools with endowments typically show contribution and investment shares of 5–20% combined; newer schools and smaller day schools sit closer to 95% program revenue.

SOURCE
NAIS Data and Analysis for School Leadership (DASL) — financial benchmarking, revenue-mix indicators. Learn more →
3-YEAR GROWTH (CAGR)
-4.7%
REVENUE / YR
5.9%
EXPENSES / YR
-1.2%
NET ASSETS / YR
HOW TO READ THREE-YEAR CAGR

CAGR (compound annual growth rate) smooths year-over-year variation by reporting the constant annual rate that would produce the same end-state over the period. For a healthy school, the load-bearing relationship is revenue CAGR ≥ expense CAGR. When expenses outpace revenue over three years, operating margin compresses even if the latest year still posts a surplus.

Net-asset CAGR captures the trajectory of accumulated reserves — a positive figure means the school is building cushion; a persistently negative figure means it is drawing down.

SOURCE
Compound annual growth rate computed across the most recent three filing years on IRS Form 990. Learn more →
REVENUEEXPENSES
80.6%
TUITION DEPENDENCY
Trend 2017 to 2023, current 80.5%.80.5%
IRS FORM 990 ↗
59.0%
COMP RATIO
Trend 2017 to 2023, current 59.0%.59.0%
IRS FORM 990 ↗
HOW TO READ TUITION DEPENDENCY AND COMP RATIO

Tuition dependency is the share of total revenue that comes from program service revenue (tuition + fees). NAIS DASL benchmarks place the K-12 day-school median at roughly 85%. Below 70% indicates a well-diversified revenue base (typical of mature boarding schools); above 90% is concentrated and warrants scenario planning for tuition shocks (an unfilled class, attrition spike).

Comp ratio is salaries + benefits as a share of total operating expenses. Per ISM benchmarks for independent schools, the typical range is 55–70%. Above 70% can signal salary pressure outpacing revenue growth; below 55% is unusual and may indicate large outsourced contracts or non-comp capital expense in the period.

SOURCE
NAIS Data and Analysis for School Leadership (DASL) for tuition mix; Independent School Management (ISM) for compensation ratio benchmarks. Learn more →
HEAD OF SCHOOL · SCHEDULE J
Head of School
Position and total compensation as filed on the Form 990; individual name withheld.
$872K
TOTAL COMP · FY2023

From this school’s IRS Form 990 Schedule J — a publicly filed federal disclosure. If you’re the school and this looks wrong, email us.

ABOUT HEAD-OF-SCHOOL COMPENSATION

Head-of-School total compensation is reported on IRS Form 990 Schedule J, columns (B) and (F): base compensation, bonus and incentive compensation, other reportable compensation, deferred compensation, and nontaxable benefits combined. The figure shown here is the total of those columns for the head of school as named on the most recent filing. The title shown alongside the figure is that person’s Schedule J designation — a tax-filing label — not necessarily their functional title at the school.

Compensation varies widely with school size, region, and association membership. NAIS and ISM publish annual benchmark ranges; CASE tracks fundraising-leadership compensation. The Schedule J value is the most defensible apples-to-apples source because it is the same disclosure every 501(c)(3) school files with the IRS.

SOURCE
IRS Form 990 Schedule J — compensation information for officers, directors, trustees, key employees, and highest-compensated employees of nonprofit organizations. Publicly available. Learn more →
FACULTY AND STAFF · AVG COMP
WHAT IS WHAT DOES FACULTY AND STAFF · AVG COMP MEASURE?

Faculty and Staff Average Compensation is the average compensation of every employee at the school minus the top-compensated roster reported on Schedule J (officers, key employees, and highest-paid). The residual is almost entirely faculty plus staff — classroom teachers, division leadership below the head, admissions and advancement, athletics, business office, facilities, dining and after-school programs. The number includes both salary and benefits (medical, retirement, payroll tax).

HOW IT’S COMPUTED

(salaries_benefits − Σ top_comp.total_comp) ÷ (total_employees − count(top_comp))

For FY2023: salaries+benefits $41.2M · 405 total employees · 8 top-comp rows totaling $3.9M · 397 residual non-officer employees.

WHY IT MATTERS

The Head’s comp gets the headlines; this is the line every other employee actually lives next to. A school whose average non-officer compensation runs $78K reads very differently from one where it runs $58K — and the IRS Form 990 carries enough to triangulate the answer without a NAIS DASL subscription.

LIMITATIONS

This is an average across faculty and staff, not a faculty median. The 990 doesn’t separate classroom teachers from administrative, athletics, dining, maintenance, or after-school staff in the residual, and mixes full-time with part-time headcount. The number includes benefits, so it runs roughly 25-40% above pure salary. Schools with outsourced operations (dining, maintenance) will read higher than schools that employ that staff directly. A true faculty median requires NAIS DASL. We omit this metric entirely when fewer than six non-officer employees remain after the top-comp subtraction.

SOURCE
IRS Form 990 Part IX line 7 (salaries + benefits) and Schedule J (top-compensated roster). Computed by HiveCheck — approximate, 990-only. Learn more →
$94,001
/ YR

Approximate. Excludes the top-paid roster from Schedule J. Form 990 Part IX line 7. NAIS DASL would give true median.

IRSForm 990 · through FY2023 · 7 years on fileNACUBOCFI methodology
PEER COMPARISON

PEER COMPARISON

Among 30 peer schools in the same size and region cohort, The Spence School’s position by metric is below. The gray band shows the peer distribution from the bottom quarter to the top quarter; the tick marks label each quartile position. The purple marker is The Spence School.

Operating margin
-10.7%
BOTTOM QUARTER-0.6%LOWER-MIDDLE3.5%UPPER-MIDDLE8.9%TOP QUARTER12.8%-10.7%
-10.7% operating margin — lower than all 29 of its peer schools
HOW WE COMPARE
WHAT IS HOW THIS COMPARISON IS BUILT?

We compare this school against its peer cohort on this metric and count how many peers it sits above. We never frame this as “top X%” or “bottom X%” because the right reading depends on the metric’s natural direction.

POLARITY (WHICH WAY IS GOOD?)
  • Operating margin, endowment / OpEx — higher is better.
  • Tuition dependency, comp ratio — higher is riskier (more concentration, less flex).

About the peer set. Peers are matched on size cohort (Form 990 revenue + employee band), region, and association overlap. NCES Private School Universe Survey enrollment is now live on the Community Demographics panel for the roughly 924 of 1,620 HiveCheck schools that match against PSS — but peer cohort matching still uses the 990-derived size proxy so every school (matched or not) resolves against the same criteria. Recutting cohorts on real NCES enrollment is a v1.2 refinement.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. (Prager, Sealy & Co. / KPMG). Learn more →
What this means: out of the 29 other schools we compare it to, this school’s operating margin is lower than 29 of them — at the bottom of its group.
n = 30 peers in this calculation
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

What it measures. The share of total revenue left over after operating expenses — calculated as (revenue − expenses) / revenue on the IRS Form 990. Positive = surplus reinvested; negative = deficit drawn from reserves.

How to read it. Higher is better. NACUBO scores a Net Operating Revenues ratio of about 1.3% (i.e. operating margin ~1.3%) as the “baseline” SF 1.0 reading; sustained surpluses of 3–8% are the healthy range for K-12 independent schools. A persistent negative margin signals reserve drawdown.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. (Prager, Sealy & Co. / KPMG). Learn more →
Tuition dependency
80.5%
BOTTOM QUARTER80.0%LOWER-MIDDLE84.3%UPPER-MIDDLE88.6%TOP QUARTER93.5%80.5%
80.5% tuition dependency — higher than 8 of its 29 peer schools
HOW WE COMPARE
WHAT IS HOW THIS COMPARISON IS BUILT?

We compare this school against its peer cohort on this metric and count how many peers it sits above. We never frame this as “top X%” or “bottom X%” because the right reading depends on the metric’s natural direction.

POLARITY (WHICH WAY IS GOOD?)
  • Operating margin, endowment / OpEx — higher is better.
  • Tuition dependency, comp ratio — higher is riskier (more concentration, less flex).

About the peer set. Peers are matched on size cohort (Form 990 revenue + employee band), region, and association overlap. NCES Private School Universe Survey enrollment is now live on the Community Demographics panel for the roughly 924 of 1,620 HiveCheck schools that match against PSS — but peer cohort matching still uses the 990-derived size proxy so every school (matched or not) resolves against the same criteria. Recutting cohorts on real NCES enrollment is a v1.2 refinement.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. (Prager, Sealy & Co. / KPMG). Learn more →
higher tuition dependency = less diversified revenue
What this means: out of the 29 other schools we compare it to, this school’s tuition dependency is higher than 8 of them — in the lower half of its group.
n = 30 peers in this calculation
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

What it measures. Share of total revenue that comes from program-service revenue (tuition + fees) on the Form 990. Independent schools without significant endowments often run 85–95% tuition-dependent; schools with strong fundraising or large endowment payouts sit lower.

How to read it. Higher is riskier — concentration means a tuition shock (an unfilled class, an attrition spike) translates directly into a revenue shock. NAIS DASL benchmarks place the K-12 day-school median at roughly 85% tuition-dependent. Below 70% indicates a well-diversified revenue base (typical of mature boarding schools); above 90% is concentrated.

SOURCE
NAIS Data and Analysis for School Leadership (DASL) — admissions, enrollment, and finance benchmarks. Learn more →
Comp ratio
59.0%
BOTTOM QUARTER55.2%LOWER-MIDDLE58.2%UPPER-MIDDLE64.6%TOP QUARTER69.6%59.0%
59.0% comp ratio — higher than 16 of its 29 peer schools
HOW WE COMPARE
WHAT IS HOW THIS COMPARISON IS BUILT?

We compare this school against its peer cohort on this metric and count how many peers it sits above. We never frame this as “top X%” or “bottom X%” because the right reading depends on the metric’s natural direction.

POLARITY (WHICH WAY IS GOOD?)
  • Operating margin, endowment / OpEx — higher is better.
  • Tuition dependency, comp ratio — higher is riskier (more concentration, less flex).

About the peer set. Peers are matched on size cohort (Form 990 revenue + employee band), region, and association overlap. NCES Private School Universe Survey enrollment is now live on the Community Demographics panel for the roughly 924 of 1,620 HiveCheck schools that match against PSS — but peer cohort matching still uses the 990-derived size proxy so every school (matched or not) resolves against the same criteria. Recutting cohorts on real NCES enrollment is a v1.2 refinement.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. (Prager, Sealy & Co. / KPMG). Learn more →
higher comp ratio = salaries + benefits consume more of the budget
What this means: out of the 29 other schools we compare it to, this school’s comp ratio is higher than 16 of them — in the upper half of its group.
n = 30 peers in this calculation
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

What it measures. Salaries + benefits as a share of total operating expenses (Form 990 Part IX, line totals). Captures how much of the cost base is human capital — the dominant cost structure at every independent school.

How to read it. Higher = leaner room for non-comp investment. ISM’s independent-school benchmarks typically land in the 55–70% range. Above 70% can signal salary pressure outpacing revenue; below 55% is unusual and worth investigating (possible unusual non-comp expense or outsourced staffing).

SOURCE
Independent School Management (ISM) — financial-health and compensation benchmarks for K-12 independent schools. Learn more →
Endowment / OpEx
4.81x
BOTTOM QUARTER1.35xLOWER-MIDDLE2.27xUPPER-MIDDLE3.35xTOP QUARTER4.45x4.81x
4.81x endowment / OpEx — higher than 27 of its 29 peer schools
HOW WE COMPARE
WHAT IS HOW THIS COMPARISON IS BUILT?

We compare this school against its peer cohort on this metric and count how many peers it sits above. We never frame this as “top X%” or “bottom X%” because the right reading depends on the metric’s natural direction.

POLARITY (WHICH WAY IS GOOD?)
  • Operating margin, endowment / OpEx — higher is better.
  • Tuition dependency, comp ratio — higher is riskier (more concentration, less flex).

About the peer set. Peers are matched on size cohort (Form 990 revenue + employee band), region, and association overlap. NCES Private School Universe Survey enrollment is now live on the Community Demographics panel for the roughly 924 of 1,620 HiveCheck schools that match against PSS — but peer cohort matching still uses the 990-derived size proxy so every school (matched or not) resolves against the same criteria. Recutting cohorts on real NCES enrollment is a v1.2 refinement.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. (Prager, Sealy & Co. / KPMG). Learn more →
What this means: out of the 29 other schools we compare it to, this school’s endowment / OpEx is higher than 27 of them — near the top of its group.
n = 30 peers in this calculation
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

What it measures. Net assets divided by total annual operating expense. Expresses how many years of operations the school could fund from its accumulated net position. The v1 calculation uses total net assets (Schedule A) rather than expendable net assets isolated.

How to read it. Higher is better. For independent schools, <1x is a thin cushion, 1–3x is healthy, 3x+ indicates a deep institutional balance sheet (typical of established boarding schools and large day schools with mature endowments).

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. — Primary Reserve and Viability ratios. Learn more →
HOW TO READ THE PERCENTILE

A percentile tells you where this school sits in the peer distribution. p30 means the school is at or above 30% of peers on that measure — only 70% of peers are higher. The right reading depends on the metric’s natural direction: for operating margin and reserves higher is better; for tuition dependency and comp ratio higher is riskier. The one-line hint under each chart calls out the polarity.

Some metrics show fewer peers than the panel total (n_peers_in_calc) — that happens when peers don’t have an overlapping filing year for that specific ratio. The displayed percentile is computed only against peers that filed in the same window.

About the size cohort. Peer cohort matching uses IRS Form 990 employee count + max-revenue tier — proxies for school size, since the 990 doesn’t carry student counts. Real per-school enrollment from the NCES Private School Universe Survey is now live on the Community Demographics panel for the roughly 924 of 1,620 HiveCheck schools that match against PSS 2021-22; peer cohort matching still uses the 990 size proxy so every school (matched or not) resolves against the same criteria, and recutting cohorts on real enrollment is a v1.2 refinement.

SOURCE
NACUBO Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education, 7th ed. (Prager, Sealy & Co. / KPMG). Learn more →
PEERS30 schools · revenue + employee band + region + associationIRSForm 990 FY2023
COMMUNITY & MARKET

The market underneath the school: who lives here, whether they can pay, whether they will give, who they choose instead, and which way the money is moving.

Families here can afford tuition, and the local philanthropic climate is deep. Paying Capacity reads 85 / 100 and Giving Capacity 90 / 100 for the 10128 area. That giving read is the local philanthropic climate, not this school's donor base — its actual fundraising shows in its own 990 contributions, since gifts come from families, grandparents, and alumni wherever they live.

COMMUNITY DEMOGRAPHICS

COMMUNITY DEMOGRAPHICS

About the area: these numbers describe the community around the school — the neighborhoods nearest the school (its ZIP-code area) — a closer-in read than the whole metro. They come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, which pools five years of responses for a reliable picture. Cost-of-living and wealth-context signals are layered on from HUD (the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) and BEA (the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis) where available.

THIS SCHOOL · NCES PSS
WHAT IS HOW IS THIS SCHOOL'S ENROLLMENT SOURCED?

The Private School Universe Survey (PSS) is the federal census of U.S. private schools, conducted every two years by NCES with the U.S. Census Bureau collecting responses. It covers ~22,000 private schools across the country and reports total enrollment, per-grade enrollment, FTE teachers, and basic school identity.

VINTAGE

Most recent published vintage: 2021-2022 (released September 2023). The 2023-24 vintage collection is in the field; expected release fall 2025.

MATCH QUALITY

HiveCheck → NCES match for this school: auto exact at 95% confidence (PPIN BB162151). Match was made by joining state + normalized school name + city.

CAVEATS

Per-grade bands are summed from the PSS per-grade enrollment columns (Pxxx). When a school has a transitional / postgrad program, the total enrollment may include students not assigned to a standard grade band. PSS is voluntary but achieves > 95% response across the universe.

SOURCE
NCES Private School Universe Survey 2021-2022 public-use file, accessed from https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/. Biennial census administered by the National Center for Education Statistics with U.S. Census Bureau data collection. Learn more →
769
TOTAL ENROLLMENT
Grades K–12
124
FTE TEACHERS
NCES PSS
6.2:1
STUDENT / TEACHER
Total enrollment / FTE
2021-22
SOURCE VINTAGE
NCES PSS
PREK
59
K
270
1–5
177
6–8
263
9–12
THE SCHOOL’S DRAW AREA · 369 COMMUNITIES, ~45-MINUTE DRIVE
~314,100

school-age children live in families who can likely afford tuition, within a ~45-minute drive.

YOUR ADDRESSABLE MARKET
MIXED INCOME AREA

Heads up — this area has two distinct income clusters (roughly $24K$250K). Your realistic market is concentrated in the higher-income communities below.

18.0%
Families earning $200K+
$92,967
Typical family income

Families come from 369 communities — including Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn, NY, and Corona, NY. Total population is 11,735,998, of whom 1,748,085 are school-age (5–17).

About 6% of the area’s school-age children are in 5 communities (Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn, NY, and Corona, NY).

COMMUNITIES BY TYPICAL FAMILY INCOME
$50K$100K$150K$200K$250KMEDIAN $93K

Each dot is one community — bigger dots have more school-age children. The school’s home ZIP is filled purple; the vertical purple line marks the typical family income across the whole draw area.

SEE THE 369 ZIPS
Sorted by population — the heaviest weights in the average appear first. The school’s home ZIP is marked with ·.
ZIPCommunityTypical income$200K+% BA+Pop.
11368Corona, NY$72K7.3%15.5%105,716
11208Brooklyn, NY$62K7.4%18.0%105,428
11385Ridgewood, NY$89K12.5%34.8%101,704
11373Elmhurst, NY$71K7.8%29.2%98,403
10467Bronx, NY$49K4.6%22.0%96,421
11226Brooklyn, NY$81K13.2%37.9%95,144
11219Brooklyn, NY$58K8.0%20.3%94,196
11207Brooklyn, NY$57K6.6%20.2%93,198
10025New York, NY$109K29.9%69.8%93,065
11206Brooklyn, NY$61K12.1%36.4%93,020
11221Brooklyn, NY$86K16.0%46.0%91,588
11220Brooklyn, NY$70K9.6%27.0%90,652
11214Brooklyn, NY$66K10.7%32.8%89,397
11212Brooklyn, NY$41K3.1%15.6%89,020
11236Brooklyn, NY$81K11.3%28.0%88,051
10456Bronx, NY$35K1.4%14.6%87,533
11230Brooklyn, NY$70K11.6%43.9%86,978
11234Brooklyn, NY$97K19.6%39.5%83,187
11233Brooklyn, NY$62K9.6%33.3%81,822
11377Woodside, NY$73K9.3%33.6%81,690
11355Flushing, NY$55K6.7%24.1%80,801
11204Brooklyn, NY$69K7.5%30.0%79,800
10457Bronx, NY$43K2.2%12.9%79,543
11235Brooklyn, NY$60K10.9%46.9%78,558
11229Brooklyn, NY$71K13.1%41.8%78,377
11223Brooklyn, NY$63K9.4%33.5%78,093
10029New York, NY$39K8.8%34.6%77,447
10002New York, NY$48K12.4%39.5%76,873
11375Forest Hills, NY$106K21.5%61.8%76,839
10462Bronx, NY$61K5.1%26.4%76,320
10453Bronx, NY$33K2.8%13.3%76,282
10452Bronx, NY$41K2.0%16.4%75,682
10468Bronx, NY$46K1.9%16.5%75,557
10458Bronx, NY$41K1.9%18.3%74,898
11203Brooklyn, NY$68K9.4%27.7%74,817
07305Jersey City, NJ$77K13.7%34.9%72,161
11218Brooklyn, NY$97K21.5%50.9%72,042
07002Bayonne, NJ$84K12.6%39.6%71,553
10466Bronx, NY$66K9.5%26.4%71,116
11209Brooklyn, NY$94K17.5%53.0%71,004
10701Yonkers, NY$65K10.3%31.3%70,676
11201Brooklyn, NY$173K43.4%79.9%70,674
11215Brooklyn, NY$186K46.1%80.6%70,441
07055Passaic, NJ$55K6.9%16.7%70,002
10463Bronx, NY$75K12.2%44.1%69,470
10023New York, NY$160K40.6%84.0%69,455
11213Brooklyn, NY$65K9.9%36.9%68,846
10469Bronx, NY$76K10.5%28.8%68,521
11434Jamaica, NY$78K12.1%23.2%68,263
07087Union City, NJ$64K8.7%28.3%66,463
11211Brooklyn, NY$108K31.3%56.4%65,314
11372Jackson Heights, NY$79K12.2%37.0%64,756
10472Bronx, NY$41K4.6%13.6%64,011
10027New York, NY$60K14.9%51.5%63,885
07093West New York, NJ$73K11.8%35.6%63,758
10024New York, NY$182K44.7%82.0%63,115
11432Jamaica, NY$74K10.1%36.2%62,892
07047North Bergen, NJ$79K12.4%33.0%61,250
10031New York, NY$65K10.7%41.1%61,058
07111Irvington, NJ$62K5.1%21.1%60,867
11216Brooklyn, NY$101K20.5%56.2%60,685
10009New York, NY$93K22.3%62.4%60,209
10460Bronx, NY$36K2.7%15.2%59,396
10473Bronx, NY$52K6.6%25.4%58,855
07030Hoboken, NJ$181K44.3%82.6%58,668
11238Brooklyn, NY$135K33.1%73.3%58,345
11225Brooklyn, NY$89K15.0%50.2%58,158
10128New York, NY$148K39.3%77.9%57,976
11210Brooklyn, NY$84K13.7%39.3%57,915
07105Newark, NJ$60K4.4%15.1%57,093
11435Jamaica, NY$80K10.7%33.5%56,826
07302Jersey City, NJ$175K44.9%82.2%56,220
10032New York, NY$57K7.0%41.2%55,610
10033New York, NY$75K13.8%41.0%54,838
07306Jersey City, NJ$75K12.4%52.2%54,017
07003Bloomfield, NJ$104K19.1%49.0%53,771
10003New York, NY$154K40.5%84.3%53,560
11354Flushing, NY$66K8.2%36.3%53,028
10016New York, NY$140K39.3%79.8%52,971
07104Newark, NJ$54K6.2%24.7%52,266
10461Bronx, NY$67K9.3%27.6%52,012
11205Brooklyn, NY$94K23.8%52.6%51,676
07304Jersey City, NJ$71K11.6%41.6%51,306
10451Bronx, NY$39K5.3%22.1%50,942
11224Brooklyn, NY$44K7.0%35.2%50,822
11420South Ozone Park, NY$100K14.6%23.0%49,415
10028New York, NY$175K46.2%83.8%49,077
10011New York, NY$146K38.1%79.7%48,277
10459Bronx, NY$38K2.5%14.3%48,270
11249Brooklyn, NY$123K34.9%59.9%47,728
11419South Richmond Hill, NY$93K14.1%19.0%47,441
11374Rego Park, NY$91K15.0%49.0%46,989
07601Hackensack, NJ$84K12.9%42.1%46,057
11413Springfield Gardens, NY$118K16.4%31.3%45,965
10304Staten Island, NY$72K13.4%31.9%45,658
10465Bronx, NY$88K14.8%31.2%45,404
11237Brooklyn, NY$85K12.9%44.6%45,334
11003Elmont, NY$124K26.4%32.7%45,174
07202Elizabeth, NJ$71K6.7%13.0%44,968
10019New York, NY$129K34.5%78.2%44,942
10455Bronx, NY$36K3.1%17.4%44,801
11217Brooklyn, NY$163K41.1%72.0%43,490
11357Whitestone, NY$97K21.2%39.1%43,346
07107Newark, NJ$51K3.6%12.9%43,293
11580Valley Stream, NY$137K28.5%39.2%43,092
11222Brooklyn, NY$126K25.8%66.0%42,853
10801New Rochelle, NY$86K21.3%44.2%42,754
07307Jersey City, NJ$83K18.0%47.1%42,645
10475Bronx, NY$63K3.5%29.9%42,578
11365Fresh Meadows, NY$81K11.6%37.8%42,322
11228Brooklyn, NY$84K17.3%37.7%42,241
11101Long Island City, NY$121K31.8%68.2%42,219
11040New Hyde Park, NY$155K36.5%55.9%41,988
07666Teaneck, NJ$144K32.4%57.2%41,876
10305Staten Island, NY$83K13.4%30.8%41,270
10301Staten Island, NY$86K16.1%37.4%41,052
11106Astoria, NY$85K12.9%53.1%40,930
11367Flushing, NY$75K13.1%45.8%40,923
07017East Orange, NJ$59K6.8%21.4%40,910
07032Kearny, NJ$79K9.5%30.6%40,614
11421Woodhaven, NY$91K14.5%27.2%40,612
10583Scarsdale, NY$250K59.2%80.2%40,207
10040New York, NY$66K8.9%39.0%40,096
07024Fort Lee, NJ$107K24.5%65.8%40,024
10021New York, NY$159K42.2%79.4%39,868
11412Saint Albans, NY$98K14.8%26.0%39,828
10454Bronx, NY$24K2.9%14.1%39,570
10550Mount Vernon, NY$61K6.8%24.9%38,972
10705Yonkers, NY$68K14.3%29.8%38,887
10035New York, NY$45K7.8%32.2%38,862
07011Clifton, NJ$74K8.9%24.4%38,587
11231Brooklyn, NY$140K38.4%67.5%38,276
07109Belleville, NJ$90K14.5%32.8%37,984
11105Astoria, NY$102K19.1%54.7%37,936
11433Jamaica, NY$78K10.9%18.8%37,884
10034New York, NY$68K9.7%38.8%37,758
11358Flushing, NY$88K16.3%38.8%37,665
07103Newark, NJ$52K4.1%23.4%37,293
10026New York, NY$81K20.2%54.8%37,123
11379Middle Village, NY$94K18.3%35.6%36,773
11378Maspeth, NY$86K12.4%29.0%36,392
07106Newark, NJ$53K6.7%20.0%36,383
07410Fair Lawn, NJ$145K34.2%63.3%35,610
11418Richmond Hill, NY$90K12.5%32.9%35,481
07501Paterson, NJ$44K4.0%8.0%35,481
11364Oakland Gardens, NY$98K19.2%50.5%35,276
11103Astoria, NY$93K15.4%52.5%35,163
11369East Elmhurst, NY$80K8.0%22.3%35,133
10022New York, NY$172K45.2%84.7%34,049
11422Rosedale, NY$115K22.0%34.9%33,757
07026Garfield, NJ$80K11.7%25.8%32,783
10039New York, NY$45K4.1%28.2%32,492
07208Elizabeth, NJ$66K9.6%22.5%31,937
07206Elizabethport, NJ$68K7.5%9.4%31,930
10704Yonkers, NY$107K14.6%36.0%31,921
11414Howard Beach, NY$95K19.0%31.4%31,308
10036New York, NY$96K22.7%70.5%31,036
07013Clifton, NJ$116K25.1%41.4%30,811
10065New York, NY$155K40.9%86.5%30,808
10010New York, NY$145K40.4%80.1%30,702
11417Ozone Park, NY$87K16.6%25.7%30,578
10001New York, NY$130K36.4%72.6%30,511
11370East Elmhurst, NY$76K9.4%24.2%30,267
11361Bayside, NY$106K17.5%46.2%30,127
07110Nutley, NJ$120K27.8%52.5%29,980
07631Englewood, NJ$103K21.4%46.5%29,638
07112Newark, NJ$58K5.7%21.7%29,456
10030New York, NY$40K7.6%35.4%29,297
10014New York, NY$176K46.0%85.5%29,230
11570Rockville Centre, NY$157K37.7%62.1%28,908
07108Newark, NJ$36K5.2%18.4%28,790
11423Hollis, NY$80K13.3%33.5%28,534
11102Astoria, NY$97K16.8%58.6%28,503
07201Elizabeth, NJ$60K5.2%13.2%28,467
07621Bergenfield, NJ$130K22.3%48.3%28,450
07424Little Falls, NJ$105K18.3%46.2%28,085
11232Brooklyn, NY$91K17.4%35.4%27,816
07675Westwood, NJ$183K45.7%66.8%27,349
07042Montclair, NJ$123K31.3%68.8%27,326
10013New York, NY$161K41.7%73.1%27,219
11429Queens Village, NY$103K18.8%28.7%26,832
07652Paramus, NJ$144K31.7%51.8%26,568
07450Ridgewood, NJ$208K51.4%80.1%26,308
11104Sunnyside, NY$81K13.8%52.4%26,132
07644Lodi, NJ$89K16.0%29.6%26,082
11416Ozone Park, NY$81K12.5%24.0%25,919
10710Yonkers, NY$109K23.3%46.0%25,855
11356College Point, NY$87K11.7%26.8%25,824
07010Cliffside Park, NJ$93K16.3%42.0%25,781
10310Staten Island, NY$106K20.6%32.0%25,672
11010Franklin Square, NY$142K29.2%40.2%25,604
11001Floral Park, NY$150K33.3%53.2%25,493
11427Queens Village, NY$89K16.7%37.1%24,607
10471Bronx, NY$103K23.0%57.8%23,798
07508Haledon, NJ$96K18.9%32.6%23,762
07522Paterson, NJ$48K3.5%10.7%23,040
11563Lynbrook, NY$137K29.1%43.0%22,899
07029Harrison, NJ$88K14.4%48.2%22,866
11581Valley Stream, NY$142K28.5%50.4%22,818
10703Yonkers, NY$90K16.0%26.2%22,586
11436Jamaica, NY$88K16.6%23.1%22,527
10708Bronxville, NY$126K28.1%64.7%22,482
07071Lyndhurst, NJ$112K20.2%42.0%22,463
07205Hillside, NJ$100K13.4%27.8%22,349
10552Mount Vernon, NY$97K20.5%51.3%22,341
10038New York, NY$105K32.7%62.8%22,235
10075New York, NY$156K40.5%87.6%21,897
07094Secaucus, NJ$140K35.4%63.1%21,778
10012New York, NY$137K34.7%85.0%21,426
07407Elmwood Park, NJ$102K17.2%35.1%21,412
11415Kew Gardens, NY$86K12.7%53.3%21,154
10543Mamaroneck, NY$126K32.3%58.1%20,989
07514Paterson, NJ$70K6.8%12.5%20,647
11411Cambria Heights, NY$116K20.4%35.3%20,540
07650Palisades Park, NJ$95K14.3%51.0%20,290
11021Great Neck, NY$120K30.3%65.9%19,783
07506Hawthorne, NJ$110K21.4%47.0%19,628
11360Bayside, NY$99K19.0%49.2%19,469
11426Bellerose, NY$104K17.4%45.0%19,411
07503Paterson, NJ$60K6.4%17.4%19,170
10037New York, NY$49K8.7%41.9%19,031
10302Staten Island, NY$78K11.0%28.4%19,030
11428Queens Village, NY$91K14.2%32.5%19,028
07070Rutherford, NJ$143K29.8%60.5%18,894
11362Little Neck, NY$122K19.2%53.3%18,492
10580Rye, NY$250K59.9%80.2%18,391
07628Dumont, NJ$126K23.7%50.3%18,279
11030Manhasset, NY$235K58.5%84.4%18,051
10538Larchmont, NY$208K50.5%82.5%17,760
07086Weehawken, NJ$128K32.0%68.5%17,295
07502Paterson, NJ$77K8.7%13.7%17,158
07481Wyckoff, NJ$204K51.4%70.7%17,050
07646New Milford, NJ$115K23.4%47.4%16,995
07031North Arlington, NJ$94K15.1%38.3%16,461
10804New Rochelle, NY$250K61.4%85.3%16,108
07310Jersey City, NJ$183K47.7%90.4%16,015
10470Bronx, NY$90K17.2%40.4%16,004
07670Tenafly, NJ$208K52.5%78.7%15,319
10017New York, NY$137K31.7%86.2%15,297
10960Nyack, NY$126K34.3%64.6%15,251
07022Fairview, NJ$64K11.1%23.3%15,099
07020Edgewater, NJ$124K34.1%72.7%14,759
07012Clifton, NJ$102K20.1%46.6%14,653
07663Saddle Brook, NJ$129K25.8%36.6%14,419
10528Harrison, NY$154K39.5%60.4%14,091
10530Hartsdale, NY$122K27.6%65.3%13,892
07524Paterson, NJ$49K2.9%8.9%13,808
07114Newark, NJ$36K3.7%11.7%13,670
11004Glen Oaks, NY$115K20.2%46.7%13,615
11598Woodmere, NY$190K47.1%69.7%13,599
07009Cedar Grove, NJ$152K32.3%60.7%13,535
11366Fresh Meadows, NY$135K22.7%55.1%13,463
07043Montclair, NJ$250K61.4%83.8%13,256
07660Ridgefield Park, NJ$101K16.9%34.5%13,235
07504Paterson, NJ$77K11.7%14.3%13,123
11577Roslyn Heights, NY$183K45.7%65.8%13,077
10803Pelham, NY$215K54.2%75.3%13,072
07102Newark, NJ$39K4.8%37.2%12,358
07452Glen Rock, NJ$215K54.3%73.1%12,154
07604Hasbrouck Heights, NJ$124K23.6%42.1%12,115
07661River Edge, NJ$159K40.3%66.8%12,091
07057Wallington, NJ$86K11.3%38.6%11,889
07513Paterson, NJ$69K6.2%12.9%11,576
10044New York, NY$103K28.2%71.8%11,520
10522Dobbs Ferry, NY$165K35.9%69.5%11,502
07657Ridgefield, NJ$118K23.2%46.5%11,498
10474Bronx, NY$42K2.1%13.4%11,270
07417Franklin Lakes, NJ$236K58.7%77.3%11,112
10553Mount Vernon, NY$84K16.3%41.9%11,011
07643Little Ferry, NJ$86K16.5%36.1%10,996
07512Totowa, NJ$114K20.9%40.7%10,959
10709Eastchester, NY$170K42.8%65.9%10,352
07073East Rutherford, NJ$98K13.4%46.7%10,313
07075Wood Ridge, NJ$136K30.7%53.6%10,218
07463Waldwick, NJ$178K42.2%59.5%10,164
11518East Rockaway, NY$117K30.7%48.2%10,149
07642Hillsdale, NJ$187K45.3%63.3%10,144
07607Maywood, NJ$118K24.4%46.6%10,093
10707Tuckahoe, NY$131K29.9%62.6%9,688
11023Great Neck, NY$141K35.5%63.4%9,630
10523Elmsford, NY$118K23.4%50.0%9,450
10005New York, NY$190K44.4%85.9%9,439
07656Park Ridge, NJ$171K43.1%57.4%9,406
07605Leonia, NJ$129K31.3%61.3%9,379
07603Bogota, NJ$103K19.0%32.3%9,360
07676Township Of Washington, NJ$180K42.1%58.3%9,323
10706Hastings On Hudson, NY$191K47.3%74.2%9,183
07626Cresskill, NJ$170K39.4%60.7%9,174
11516Cedarhurst, NY$104K19.6%45.5%9,112
11565Malverne, NY$148K34.5%55.8%9,009
10280New York, NY$206K51.1%87.2%8,933
07645Montvale, NJ$178K44.0%55.0%8,901
07624Closter, NJ$190K47.7%66.3%8,606
10018New York, NY$146K37.7%76.7%8,559
07649Oradell, NJ$221K54.9%71.8%8,235
07028Glen Ridge, NJ$247K63.3%81.3%8,022
11109Long Island City, NY$205K52.6%87.9%7,948
10007New York, NY$250K67.4%83.3%7,406
10533Irvington, NY$174K43.3%75.8%7,362
07630Emerson, NJ$156K32.1%57.0%7,305
11363Little Neck, NY$125K28.9%56.1%7,223
07432Midland Park, NJ$147K33.3%57.5%7,019
11507Albertson, NY$164K36.9%65.3%6,736
10069New York, NY$234K58.6%92.9%6,509
10607White Plains, NY$169K41.4%50.2%6,466
07072Carlstadt, NJ$115K22.2%30.8%6,378
10502Ardsley, NY$250K61.9%77.1%6,197
07677Woodcliff Lake, NJ$214K53.5%81.2%6,152
10983Tappan, NY$160K39.1%60.7%5,934
10282New York, NY$250K72.3%83.7%5,887
07662Rochelle Park, NJ$110K22.3%48.7%5,869
07648Norwood, NJ$178K40.6%60.6%5,724
11020Great Neck, NY$167K41.5%62.2%5,676
07632Englewood Cliffs, NJ$231K57.0%74.7%5,362
10913Blauvelt, NY$175K45.6%53.6%5,343
07647Northvale, NJ$129K32.5%50.3%5,288
07014Clifton, NJ$120K26.9%50.1%4,975
07640Harrington Park, NJ$181K42.9%73.1%4,954
07627Demarest, NJ$208K52.8%75.9%4,911
10962Orangeburg, NY$149K38.6%59.7%4,767
07505Paterson, NJ$36K1.7%10.2%4,691
07423Ho Ho Kus, NJ$250K65.0%82.6%4,270
10006New York, NY$190K48.3%84.4%4,096
10464Bronx, NY$103K14.5%46.7%3,828
10004New York, NY$250K58.4%90.5%3,711
07641Haworth, NJ$237K59.8%72.8%3,363
07074Moonachie, NJ$90K16.8%29.4%3,126
07088Vauxhall, NJ$93K16.5%31.5%2,901
07606South Hackensack, NJ$85K16.4%28.0%2,770
10968Piermont, NY$145K39.9%66.4%2,456
11005Floral Park, NY$90K20.7%71.6%2,174
11439Jamaica, NY34.8%2,170
10976Sparkill, NY$86K21.6%48.6%2,002
07311Jersey City, NJ$203K50.1%94.7%1,714
10162New York, NY$114K39.1%68.7%1,603
07620Alpine, NJ$247K53.6%76.4%1,588
10964Palisades, NY$187K39.8%60.5%1,333
11430Jamaica, NY0.0%588
10279New York, NY$250K100.0%90.1%259
11042New Hyde Park, NY5.7%141
07608Teterboro, NJ$25K0.0%27.1%136
10503Ardsley On Hudson, NY$243K74.7%94.7%132
10152New York, NY100.0%7
11451Jamaica, NY0
10271New York, NY0
10199New York, NY0
10177New York, NY0
10174New York, NY0
10173New York, NY0
10172New York, NY0
10171New York, NY0
10170New York, NY0
11371Flushing, NY0
10169New York, NY0
10020New York, NY0
11359Bayside, NY0
10103New York, NY0
10110New York, NY0
10111New York, NY0
10112New York, NY0
10115New York, NY0
10119New York, NY0
11424Jamaica, NY0
10153New York, NY0
10154New York, NY0
10165New York, NY0
10167New York, NY0
10168New York, NY0
10278New York, NY0
THE SCHOOL'S HOME ZIP CODE FOR REFERENCE · CENSUS COMMUNITY SURVEY 2020-2024
57,976
POPULATION (AROUND THE SCHOOL)
$147,772
MEDIAN HH INCOME
77.9%
BACHELOR'S OR HIGHER
42.9%
HOUSEHOLDS WITH KIDS <18
4,848
SCHOOL-AGED (5-17)
39.3%
HOUSEHOLDS $200K+
Share of total households
HOW TO READ THESE DEMOGRAPHIC SIGNALS

The Census Bureau’s community survey pools five years of responses to produce the most statistically reliable picture of a community around the school. Vintage 2020-2024 means the pooled survey period. This is the school's ZIP-code area, a far sharper read of the immediate draw area than a whole-metro average.

Population sizes the catchment universe. Median HH income is reported per household, not per individual — the standard wealth signal. Bachelor’s or higher is a strong proxy for the independent-school candidate pool: education-completion patterns correlate tightly with private-school enrollment in U.S. metros.

Households with kids <18 and school-aged (5–17) size the K-12 market specifically. Households $200K+ is the tuition-affordability ceiling proxy — independent-school tuitions for upper grades typically require household income at or above this band.

SOURCE
U.S. Census Bureau's community survey (the American Community Survey, ACS5). Geographic level: ZIP-area (ZCTA) when available, else metro (CBSA) or county FIPS. Learn more →
COST OF LIVING
$1.4M
MEDIAN HOME VALUE
ACS5 owner-occupied
2-BR FAIR MARKET RENT
HUD
WHY COST OF LIVING MATTERS HERE

Cost-of-living context is a second-order signal for the independent-school market. Higher housing costs tend to concentrate wealth (and willingness-to-pay) in the metro; they also raise the salary floor a school must hit to retain faculty. Median home value is the typical ownership signal; Fair Market Rent is the federal benchmark used to set Section 8 vouchers and is a defensible cross-metro comparison for housing pressure.

SOURCE
U.S. Census Bureau's community survey (median home value, owner-occupied units); U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rent (40th percentile of standard-quality rental units in the metro). Learn more →
CENSUSACS5 2020-2024
PAYING CAPACITY

Can families here afford tuition?

The typical family within a 45-minute drive earns $92,967. At $66,097 a year (net of aid), your tuition is 71% of that income — Aid territory.

How this verdict is set
WHAT IS HOW THE PAYING-CAPACITY VERDICT IS SET?

The verdict is a plain read on tuition affordability at the catchment level, computed as tuition (net of financial aid) divided by the typical household income in the school’s 45-minute drive-time draw area.

THRESHOLDS
  • Comfortable — tuition is 15% or less of the typical income. The median family can absorb tuition without aid.
  • A stretch — tuition is between 15% and 30% of income. The median family would feel the price; the paying pool is the higher-income segment plus targeted aid.
  • Aid territory — tuition exceeds 30% of income. The median family needs aid; the sustainable paying pool is the $200K+ segment and the aid budget.
INPUTS

Tuition is the school’s IRS 990 net revenue per student (program-service revenue divided by enrollment) — an estimate of the net-of-aid price, not the sticker price. Typical income is the population-weighted median household income across the ZIPs (ZCTAs) that fall within roughly a 45-minute drive of the school, from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.

CAVEATS

This is a draw-area read, not a household-level guarantee. Real paying families are drawn from the higher-income tail of the distribution; the median is the anchor, not the enrolled family. The tuition proxy is a 990-derived estimate that trails the current year and may not reflect a recent tuition change.

SOURCE
HiveCheck proprietary metric derived from IRS Statistics of Income, U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, and Federal Housing Finance Agency data. 45-minute drive-time catchment. Learn more →
18.0%
of households earn $200K+
The base that can comfortably cover independent-school tuition without aid.
$92,967
typical family income
Population-weighted across the 369 ZIPs in the 45-minute catchment.

~314,100 school-age children live in families who can likely afford you — the addressable pool. See Community Demographics for how that pool is distributed across the draw area.

WHAT THIS MEANS

The median family here needs financial aid to attend. Your sustainable paying pool is the $200K+ segment — the 18.0% of local households earning $200K+ plus the aid budget you're willing to fund.

Tuition is a 990-derived net-of-aid estimate; income is a population-weighted draw-area estimate (U.S. Census ACS); this is a draw-area read, not a household-level guarantee. It reads parent affordability in the draw area — geography does not measure the school’s fundraising, which comes from its own families, grandparents, and alumni.

CENSUSACS5 2020-2024 · 45-minute drive catchmentIRS 990Net revenue per student (tuition proxy)HIVECHECKPaying Capacity v2
GIVING PROFILE

GIVING PROFILE

HOW WE READ GIVING
WHAT IS HOW WE READ GIVING?

Every number in this profile comes from this school’s own IRS Form 990 filings — nothing from outside data.

Four signals build the read. TREND compares the average of the earliest half of the school’s non-PPP years to the latest half, so one big gift can’t drive the direction. CONSISTENCY reads year-to-year swings against the typical year — a broad donor base moves less than reliance on a few large relationships. SHARE OF REVENUE is gifts as a share of total revenue. FINANCIAL CUSHION reads reserves against a year of operating expense; we never publish a back-calculated endowment dollar.

PPP years (FY2020 and FY2021) stay on the bar, greyed and tagged, but are excluded from every calculation — many independent schools booked PPP loans on the contributions line. Amended returns are collapsed to the latest filing for each tax year, so the same year never counts twice.

What the 990 can’t tell you: donor concentration (Schedule B is redacted on public filings, so the year-to-year swings above are the honest proxy), government-grant share (folded into the contributions line), and cost per dollar raised (fundraising expense is reported too inconsistently to trust). Named as gaps, not filled with guesses.

SOURCE
IRS Form 990, contributions & grants (Part VIII line 1h) plus balance-sheet reserves. Learn more →
THE READ · FROM 5 NON-PPP YEARS OF 990s

A thin, choppy giving base. Year-to-year gifts have swung across a wide band with no single dominant year — typically the fingerprint of a small circle of episodic donors rather than a broad giving habit, though it does sit on a strong reserve cushion.

WORTH ASKING IN DILIGENCE

How many households give at the leadership level in a normal year, and how many of those relationships transfer if the Head changes?

$11.5Ma year in gifts & grants (avg. FY2017–FY2023, excludes PPP years)

Gifts run about 18% of revenue. Most recent filing (FY2023): $6.2M.

FY17FY18$26.8MFY19FY20PPPFY21PPPFY22FY23

FY2020–21 shown lighter — PPP loans inflated contributions those years, so they’re left out of the trend, consistency, and share-of-revenue math.

Figures are nominal, not inflation-adjusted; roughly 20% cumulative inflation over this window means flat giving is a real-terms decline.

TREND · 5-YEAR
WHAT IS HOW THE TREND READ IS BUILT?

The direction of contributions and grants (IRS Form 990 Part VIII line 1h) over the school’s non-PPP filings. We average the earliest half of the years and compare that to the latest half — so one big year at either end can’t drive the read on its own.

Bands with four or more usable years: a change of at least +20% reads GROWING, at least -20% reads ERODING, anything between reads FLAT. With only three usable years we hold to a stricter ±30% gate on the verdict and label the cell “direction only” so it can’t disagree with the verdict.

What would move it: a capital campaign, a lapsed lead donor, a Head-led development push. Caveat: the 990 folds annual fund and campaign gifts into one line, so we can’t split them here.

SOURCE
IRS Form 990 Part VIII line 1h (contributions & grants). Learn more →
Eroding

Contributions slipped from $9.3M (FY2017-2018) to $6.1M (FY2022-2023) — down about 35%.

CONSISTENCY
WHAT IS HOW THE CONSISTENCY READ IS BUILT?

How steadily contributions come in year to year — we measure how far each non-PPP year swings from the school’s typical one (a coefficient of variation).

Bands with four or more usable years: swings under 30% of the typical year read STEADY, 30-60% read VARIABLE, above 60% read VOLATILE. A single year more than three times the typical one, landing in the latest two years, is a spike override to VOLATILE-FRAGILE.

Not scored when the average giving base runs under $10k, or when a year is negative (a refund or restatement). Caveat: this is the honest proxy for donor concentration — Schedule B is redacted on public 990s, so we’re reading the pattern, not the roster.

SOURCE
IRS Form 990 Part VIII line 1h (contributions & grants). Learn more →
Volatile

Year-to-year gifts swing widely — typically reliance on a handful of episodic gifts rather than a broad base. Public 990s redact donor counts (Schedule B), so this is inferred from the pattern, not measured.

SHARE OF REVENUE
WHAT IS HOW THE SHARE-OF-REVENUE READ IS BUILT?

Gifts and grants as a share of total revenue, averaged over the non-PPP years — the fingerprint of a giving culture versus tuition-only economics.

Bands: under 5% reads TRANSACTIONAL (the school runs largely on tuition; a Head-led push would be building the muscle from a low base). Between 5% and 10% reads TYPICAL for a day school — a real, working annual fund. Above 10% reads STRONG CULTURE — a defining piece of the budget.

Not scored with fewer than three non-PPP filings, or when the school doesn’t break out total revenue on its 990. What it can’t see: whether that share is annual fund, capital campaign, or grant.

SOURCE
IRS Form 990 Part VIII (contributions divided by total revenue). Learn more →
Strong culture

Gifts run about 18% of revenue — a defining piece of the budget. This reads as an established giving culture, not a nice-to-have. And that share has been falling.

FINANCIAL CUSHION
WHAT IS HOW THE FINANCIAL CUSHION READ IS BUILT?

The school’s reserves against a year of operating expense (net assets ÷ annual operating cost), taken from the same 990 balance sheets. We never publish a back-calculated endowment dollar — that estimate is unreliable.

Bands: under 0.5 years reads NO CUSHION — a soft year lands straight on operations. Between 0.5 and 1 reads MODEST. Between 1 and 2 reads SOLID. Above 2 reads STRONG.

When the balance-sheet ratio isn’t reported we fall back to investment income: median under about $25k/year reads NO CUSHION; more than that reads RESERVE PRESENT without sizing the endowment. Not scored with fewer than three non-PPP filings. Caveat: reserves include property and plant, so this is a rough cushion, not spendable cash.

SOURCE
IRS Form 990 balance sheet (net assets ÷ annual operating expense). Learn more →
Strong

Reserves exceed twice the annual budget — a strong cushion behind the school.

Reserves include property and plant, which aren’t spendable — read this as a rough cushion, not a war chest. We don’t back-calculate an endowment dollar figure from investment income; that estimate is unreliable.

LOCAL MARKET CONTEXT

The surrounding 45-minute area includes 37 higher-capacity communities — market context only, not a read on this school’s donor base. Independent-school giving is relationship-based (parents, grandparents, alumni) and those relationships reach well beyond geography.

WHAT THE 990 CAN’T TELL YOU

Three things public 990s don’t disclose, so we don’t guess:

  • Donor concentration. Schedule B (top donors) is redacted on public filings, so we can’t show whether one or two families drive the total. The year-to-year swings above are the closest available proxy.
  • Government-grant share. The 990 folds grants into the contributions line with no clean sub-total, so PPP years in particular inflate the raw figure. FY2020 and FY2021 are excluded from every calculation above.
  • Cost per dollar raised. Fundraising expense is reported so inconsistently on school 990s (many report zero) that the ratio would mislead — so we don’t show it.
HOW TO READ THIS

Every number here comes from this school’s own IRS Form 990. The bar shows contributions and grants (Part VIII line 1h) as reported, year by year. The trend, consistency, share-of-revenue, and reserve cushion reads are all computed from those same filings. Nothing here comes from outside data about the surrounding area.

Four signals build the read. TREND compares the average of the earliest half of the years to the average of the latest half, so one big year can’t drive the direction. CONSISTENCY reads year-to-year swings — a broad donor base moves less than reliance on a few large relationships. SHARE OF REVENUE compares gifts to total revenue — the fingerprint of a giving culture vs. tuition-only economics. FINANCIAL CUSHION reads investment income and net assets — is there a reserve behind the operating budget or not?

PPP years (FY2020, FY2021) are excluded from every calculation. Many independent schools booked PPP loans as contributions on the 990, so those two years overstate real giving. They still show on the bar, greyed and tagged “PPP,” so nothing is hidden.

The verdict is a direction, not a rating. GROWING, FLAT, ERODING, VOLATILE-FRAGILE — a plain read of how the school’s own giving history has moved. A “worth asking in diligence” prompt sits underneath because the 990 tells you the shape, not the story behind it.

Three things the 990 can’t tell you. Donor concentration (Schedule B is redacted on public filings). Government-grant share (folded into the contributions line, no clean sub-total). Cost per dollar raised (fundraising expense is reported too inconsistently to trust). Named as gaps rather than filled with guesses.

IRS 990Contributions & grants (Part VIII line 1h) · tax years 2017–2023IRS 990Investment income + net assets (balance sheet) · same filingsCENSUS + IRSlocal giving-climate context only
COMPETITIVE POSITION

COMPETITIVE POSITION

NY · no broad statewide ESA or voucher program on record (as of 2026).

State K-12 private-school-choice policy is changing on a legislative-session cadence; this entry was verified in mid-2026 and is shown as market context, not enrollment advice, and not a statement that this school participates or that any given family will qualify. Verify current program status, eligibility, and award amount with the state administrator before relying on it.

HOW WE READ COMPETITION
WHAT IS HOW WE READ COMPETITION?

Market fill is a single unduplicated ratio: total private-school enrollment inside the school’s 45-minute drive-time catchment ÷ school-age children in $200k+ households in that catchment. Bands: under 0.5 reads OPEN FIELD, 0.5-0.85 reads BALANCED, 0.85-1.1 reads CROWDED, 1.1 or above reads OVERSATURATED (private capacity already exceeds the affording pool).

The by-band chart is a relative-pressure read: each band’s private capacity is rescaled by that band’s share of school-age children (elementary 6/13, middle 3/13, high 4/13) so a K-12 school isn’t double-counted against a slice of the pool. Bars and hero sit on the same seats-per-affording-child scale.

Thin-market guard: when the affording pool inside the drive is under about 1,000 children we don’t call a verdict — the ratios get too noisy in isolated markets.

Sources: private-school counts come from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (biennial, currently the 2021-22 vintage); public and charter counts from the NCES Common Core of Data via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal; the affording pool from the U.S. Census ACS $200k+ bracket; drive-time areas from OpenStreetMap via openrouteservice.

What we can’t see: each competitor’s tuition, selectivity, or waitlist; the actual choice set a family weighs; the school’s own realized yield. A precise concentration score (HHI) waits on the PSS enrollment-history backfill.

SOURCE
NCES Private School Universe Survey, NCES Common Core of Data via Urban Institute Education Data Portal, U.S. Census ACS, OpenStreetMap / openrouteservice. Learn more →
THE READ · MARKET STRUCTURE IN THE CATCHMENT

A balanced market. About 772 private schools within 45 minutes; private seats fill roughly 59% of the affording-family pool.

WORTH ASKING IN DILIGENCE

With runway in the market, what's kept enrollment from capturing more of it — awareness, price, or program?

RELATIVE PRESSURE BY GRADE BAND
Elementary
0.44×
Middle 6–8
0.45×
High 9–12
0.33×
Oversupplied (>1.0)Room to grow (<1.0)A band this school serves

Relative pressure = per-band capacity of the schools that serve this band, divided by the same-band slice of the 45-minute affording pool. Above 1.0, that share of local capacity already exceeds its slice of the affording pool. Bands read on the same seats-per-affording-child scale as the market-wide fill above, so a school can sit in a "balanced" market while one band runs tighter than the others.

Overall market fill (unduplicated): about 59% of the affording-family pool sits in a private seat.

MARKET FILL · UNDUPLICATED
Balanced

Private seats fill about 59% of the affording-family pool across the catchment — this school serves elementary, middle, and high.

MARKET DENSITY
Very dense

772 private schools, about 183,979 seats, 278 nonsectarian, within 45 minutes.

Whether that count is rising or falling needs the biennial PSS backfill.

CONCENTRATION & MIX
Fragmented

No single school dominates 772 players — a fragmented market. About 36% are nonsectarian.

A precise concentration score (HHI) needs per-school enrollment history.

PUBLIC & CHARTER OPTION
Heavy

The county runs 357 public schools enrolling 152,353 students, including 57 charters — the free alternative families weigh.

County figures here cover only the school’s home county — the school’s 45-minute draw area can span several counties, so county-grain signals describe the core of the market, not all of it.

Its enrollment trend (the demand mirror) needs the annual CCD backfill.

WHAT THIS PANEL CAN’T SEE

Each competitor’s tuition, selectivity, or waitlist; the actual choice set a given family weighs; the school’s own realized yield against these rivals. PSS is biennial and released on a ~2-year lag — read direction over precision.

WHAT PRACTITIONERS WATCH
  • Private-seat saturation of the affording pool — how full the market already is, by grade band.
  • Competitive density and its trend — whether the field is thickening or thinning (entries vs closures).
  • Market concentration and the same-format competitor set — raw counts overstate the threat.
  • Public and charter free capacity — the alternative that anchors the demand mirror.
BY THE NUMBERS · PUBLIC & PRIVATE COUNTS
357
PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN COUNTY
Urban Institute · CCD 2022
152,353
PUBLIC K-12 ENROLLMENT
The pool families choose between
57
CHARTER SCHOOLS
Public-school alternatives in county
69%
PUBLIC FREE/REDUCED LUNCH
County need indicator · CCD 2023
FAMILIES THE SCHOOL CAN REALISTICALLY REACH — WITHIN ABOUT A 45-MINUTE DRIVE
314,112
AFFORDING SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
Est. in $200K+ households (45-min drive)
584 / 508 / 274
COMPETING PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Elementary / middle / high
278
OF THOSE, NONSECTARIAN
Non-religious independents
MARKET SATURATION

Across the whole 45-minute market, 772 private schools enroll about 183,979 students in total, against the 314,112 school-age children in families who can likely afford tuition. Private enrollment fills roughly 59% of the affording pool — a partly-saturated market.

Total enrollment summed across every distinct private school in the catchment, each counted once (NCES PSS); the by-band count above overlaps (a K–12 school appears in all three bands), so it exceeds the 772 distinct schools here. Affording pool is a conservative $200K+ proxy, so a ratio near 1 signals a market that also serves families below that line.

The most-saturated grade band here reads as an oversupplied middle-school market — more private seats than the local affording-family pool can fill, so schools compete hard for enrollment.

Estimated net revenue per student: $66,097 — about 71% of the draw area's $92,967 median household income. IRS 990 program revenue ÷ enrollment; net of financial aid, not list tuition.

How this market estimate is built
WHAT IS HOW THE INDEPENDENT-SCHOOL MARKET ESTIMATE IS BUILT?

Affording children estimates school-age (5–17) residents in households earning $200K+ within a 45-minute drive of the school, summed from Census ACS ZIP-level data over the drive-time catchment. Competing private schools counts the NCES Private School Universe within that same 45-minute drive by grade band; a K–12 school counts in every band it serves. The $200K cutoff is the available ACS bracket and is a conservative affordability proxy — many independent-school families earn less and pay with aid — so read the figure as a relative market signal across schools, not an exact addressable count. The biennial PSS vintage is a v1 limitation.

SOURCE
NCES Private School Universe Survey + U.S. Census ACS Learn more →
What does public K-12 enrollment tell you?
WHAT IS WHAT DOES PUBLIC K-12 ENROLLMENT TELL YOU?

This is the count of students enrolled in public K-12 schools in the county, from the NCES Common Core of Data via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. It sizes the public-school pool that families weigh against an independent option.

SCOPE

This is a county aggregate, not a measurement of any single public school, and not a rating of any school. HiveCheck does not rate individual schools. Use it to read the scale and structure of the public-school market, not to compare named schools.

ATTRIBUTION

NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), via Education Data Portal, Urban Institute, under ODC Attribution License.

SOURCE
NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), via Education Data Portal, Urban Institute, under ODC Attribution License. Learn more →
MARKET STRUCTURE

This county runs a more fragmented public market: about 357 public schools serving roughly 152,353 students, an average near 427 per school. 57 of those are charter schools, a public alternative that competes for the same families an independent school can enroll from.

A note on quality signals
WHAT IS A NOTE ON QUALITY SIGNALS?

Any public-school signal HiveCheck shows here is a county-level aggregate, not a rating of any individual school. HiveCheck does not rate schools. Where we report a coarse signal (school counts, public enrollment), read it as the shape of the competitive market, not a quality judgment on a named campus.

ATTRIBUTION

NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), via Education Data Portal, Urban Institute, under ODC Attribution License.

SOURCE
NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), via Education Data Portal, Urban Institute, under ODC Attribution License. Learn more →
HOW TO USE THE COMPETITIVE SIGNAL

The NCES Common Core of Data is the federal census of U.S. public schools, sourced here through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. The signal is market scale and structure: how many K-12 students sit in the public-school pipeline in this county, and how consolidated (few schools, large enrollment) or fragmented (many schools, smaller enrollment) that market is.

A county with a large, consolidated public system behaves very differently from one with many smaller schools and charter alternatives. An independent school reads this to understand switching dynamics and how much of the local market is already committed to a public option.

Every figure here is a county aggregate, not a school-level rating. NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), via Education Data Portal, Urban Institute, under ODC Attribution License.

SOURCE
NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), via Education Data Portal, Urban Institute, under ODC Attribution License. Learn more →
URBAN INSTITUTEEducation Data Portal · CCD 2022OSM / ORS45-min drive-time catchmentCENSUS ACSAffording-family pool
ENROLLMENT & DEMAND PROFILE

ENROLLMENT & DEMAND PROFILE

HOW WE READ DEMAND
WHAT IS HOW WE READ DEMAND?

The trajectory verdict is anchored on the school’s own IRS Form 990 tuition-and-fees line (Part VIII line 2) — realized demand in nominal dollars, year by year. We average the earliest half of the years and compare to the latest half. Bands: growth of at least +20% reads EXPANDING, +5% to +20% reads STEADY, -5% to +5% reads SOFTENING, below -5% reads ERODING. When year-to-year swings dominate (a coefficient of variation of 20% or more, four-plus years) the verdict flips to STRAINED.

RESILIENCE is the honest stand-in for retention — we can’t see the admissions system, so we read how tightly the tuition-revenue series holds together. PRICING compares 990-derived net revenue per student to local median household income, with bands at 15% and 30%. DEMAND PIPELINE reads county live births, a ~5-year leading indicator: +5% or higher is a tailwind, -5% to -15% a headwind, below -15% a cliff.

What this profile can’t see: retention, the admissions funnel (inquiries → applications → yield), waitlist depth, summer melt, and whether the trajectory is price or headcount. The 990 shows enrollment × price, not the two apart.

Births-series notes: 2020 is absent — the Census skipped that vintage. When a county’s series ends more than two years ago we don’t call a pipeline (Connecticut’s counties were redrawn in 2022, so most CT schools sit on legacy FIPS with no post-2019 rows).

SOURCE
IRS Form 990 Part VIII line 2 (tuition & fees) and U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (county births). Learn more →
THE READ · FROM 7 YEARS OF 990s

Demand for this school is expanding. Tuition & fees — its own enrollment-times-price base — climbed from about $40.7M a year to $49.6M, up about 22% across the window.

WORTH ASKING IN DILIGENCE

Is enrollment holding while tuition rises, or is headcount slipping under a higher sticker price? The 990 can't separate the two.

$50.8Ma year in tuition & fees (FY2023) · +32% over 2017–2023
$38.6MFY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22$50.8MFY23

Program-service revenue (IRS 990 Part VIII line 2) — tuition & fees, which PPP loans never touched, so every year counts. This is enrollment × price; the 990 can’t split the two.

Figures are nominal; roughly 20% cumulative inflation over this window means flat tuition revenue is a real-terms decline.

TUITION-BASE TRAJECTORY
Expanding

Ran about $40.7M a year early on (FY2017–FY2019) versus $49.6M lately (FY2021–FY2023) — the base climbed across the window.

RESILIENCE
Variable

Year-to-year moves widen a bit, and grew straight through 2020–21. It’s the closest read we have on retention, which lives only in the school’s admissions system.

PRICING vs LOCAL MEANS
Aid territory

Net revenue runs about $66K per student — roughly 71% of the area’s $93K median household income, against 314,112 school-age children in $200k+ households within the drive.

DEMAND PIPELINE
Cliff

County births ran about 18,740 a year in 2011–2016 and about 14,596 in 2018–2024 (-22%) — the pool that reaches kindergarten in ~5 years is shrinking.

19,7111113,03024

County figures here cover only the school’s home county — the school’s 45-minute draw area can span several counties, so county-grain signals describe the core of the market, not all of it.

Births are the earliest demand signal — this year's births are kindergarten demand in about five years.

WHAT THIS PROFILE CAN’T SEE

Retention and re-enrollment (the sector’s single most-watched enrollment metric), the admissions funnel (inquiries → applications → yield) and summer melt, waitlist depth, and whether the trajectory above is price or headcount — all live only in the school’s own admissions system. Named as gaps, not filled with guesses.

WHAT PRACTITIONERS WATCH
  • Enrollment trajectory. Direction first, magnitude second, volatility third — the headline every trustee wants to see.
  • Retention / re-enrollment. The leading indicator of school health. Lives in the SIS, so the resilience read above is the honest stand-in.
  • Net tuition per student vs. local income. The affordability squeeze — a rising ratio narrows the addressable pool.
  • County births and the affording pool. The ~5-year leading indicators for kindergarten demand and paying capacity.
BY THE NUMBERS · MIGRATION & HOME PRICES
-37,172 returns
NET MIGRATION (HIGH-AGI)
IRS SOI migration TY2022 · high-AGI
-$16.44B
NET AGI FLOW
Money following the moves
+22.1%
HOME-PRICE TREND (3-YR)
FHFA HPI · ZIP3 101
rising
HOME-PRICE DIRECTION
Wealth-direction proxy
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · ZIP3 101
Home-price index trend: +22.1% over three years, rising.437.42

FHFA House Price Index over available quarters for ZIP3 101.

WHO IS MOVING
65,420
INBOUND RETURNS
Filed by households moving in
102,592
OUTBOUND RETURNS
Filed by households moving out

Home prices are still rising even as affluent households move out, so the appreciation is being driven by existing owners rather than new arrivals.

What does net migration tell you?
WHAT IS WHAT DOES NET MIGRATION TELL YOU?

Net migration is the inflow minus the outflow of tax returns for the county, read as a proxy for households moving in or out. A positive number means more affluent households arrived than left; a negative number is the reverse. The sign carries the meaning.

METHOD

HiveCheck reads the upper adjusted-gross-income brackets of the IRS Statistics of Income county-to-county migration file, so the signal weights toward the households a school recruits and cultivates.

CAVEATS

IRS SOI migration is released on roughly a two-year lag and is reported at the county level. Post-pandemic flows are noisier than historical norms, so read direction over precision.

SOURCE
Source: IRS Statistics of Income. Learn more →
What does the home-price trend tell you?
WHAT IS WHAT DOES THE HOME-PRICE TREND TELL YOU?

The FHFA House Price Index tracks repeat sales of the same homes over time, so it reads price direction cleanly without being skewed by the mix of what sold. HiveCheck reports the trailing three-year percent change and a one-word direction (rising, flat, or cooling) as a wealth-direction proxy.

SCOPE

Home-price data is published at the 3-digit ZIP / metro level, a broader area than the rest of this section, which works at the ZIP5 or county grain. Read it as regional context, not a block-level read.

WHY FHFA

HiveCheck uses FHFA because it is U.S. federal public-domain data with a clean repeat-sales method, rather than a proprietary consumer index with restrictive licensing.

SOURCE
Source: Federal Housing Finance Agency, House Price Index. Learn more →
IRS 990Tuition & fees · Part VIII line 2CENSUS PEPCounty birthsIRS SOICounty migration TY2022FHFAHouse price index · ZIP3 101
QUESTIONS TO ASK · INTERVIEW PREP

Five questions to ask the search committee

Generated from anomalies in this school's public IRS Form 990 filings. Each question is anchored to a specific number so you can defend asking it. The point is not to interrogate — it is to show the board you have read the school carefully.

  1. The balance sheet carries roughly 4.8 years of operating cushion, a sizable position. What's the board's framework for when and how the school spends from those reserves versus protects them?

    TRIGGERED BY: NET ASSETS / OPEX = 4.8 YEARS

  2. Contributions and investment income are a real part of the revenue mix, about 10% and 8% respectively on the latest 990. Who are the school's most strategic donors and partners right now, and what's the alumni engagement story?

    TRIGGERED BY: CONTRIBUTIONS 10% + INVESTMENT INCOME 8% OF REVENUE

  3. FY2023 closed with a negative operating margin on the 990. What's the path back to break-even, and over what time horizon does the board expect to get there?

    TRIGGERED BY: OPERATING MARGIN -10.7% FY2023

  4. Given the financial picture in recent filings, has the board engaged outside consulting support (strategic, financial, or operational) and what work has come out of that?

    TRIGGERED BY: OP MARGIN OR NET ASSETS TRAJECTORY NEGATIVE

  5. Your public filings show expenses growing faster than revenue over the last three years. How is the board thinking about the long-term operating model: a deliberate investment phase, or a trend you're working to bend?

    TRIGGERED BY: EXPENSE CAGR 5.9% VS REVENUE CAGR -4.7% (3-YEAR)

These are starting points, not a script. The strongest version of any question becomes specific once you walk the campus and meet the team.

TOP COMPENSATED · SCHEDULE J · FY2023
POSITION
TOTAL COMP
Head of School
$871,925
Head of School (thru 6/30/23)
$727,996
Director of Fin. & Op.
$520,946
Dir. of Fin. & Op. (thru 6/30/23)
$367,660
Head of Middle School
$361,059

Roles and compensation as filed on the public IRS Form 990 Schedule J. Individual names are withheld.

GOVERNANCE

Board of trustees (IRS Form 990, Part VII)

Showing FY2022
24
Voting members
Total board size
24
Independent
No financial conflict
100%
% Independent
IRS Part VI Q1b
TITLE
NAME
Secretary
Arthur Chu
Vice President
Akuezunkpa Ude Welcome
Vice President
Anand Desai
Trustee
Anya Herz Shiva
Trustee
Dana Wallach Jones
Vice President
Kimberly Kravis
President
William L Jacob III
Trustee
Ahrin Mishan
Trustee
Alexis Mcgill Johnson
Trustee
Brooke Williams
Trustee
Bryce Markus
Trustee
C Cybele Raver
Trustee
Daryl Wout
Trustee
Emily Speyer
Trustee
Erica Desai
Trustee
Heather Berger
Trustee
James Shulman
Trustee
Jose Tavarez
Trustee
Joseph Drayton
Trustee
Judith Joseph Jenkins
Trustee
Kathryn Koch
Trustee
Meredith Rubel Lipsher
Trustee
Michael P Clifford
Trustee
Vanessa Cornell
IRSForm 990 Part VII · FY2022 · Officers, Directors, TrusteesNames and titles appear as filed on the school's public Form 990, Part VII. President, secretary, and treasurer are corporate officer roles every 501(c)(3) is required to fill — statutory positions on the charter and filing, not a map of who runs the school day to day.
SOURCES & FRESHNESS

Compiled by Lomuscio Labs on July 19, 2026 from verified public datasets — IRS Form 990 (through FY2024), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimates, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Education NCES, BEA, and HUD. Data was last refreshed 2026-05-13.

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