Recruiting Ideas

• Be a story-teller for your school: share positive and encouraging stories about faculty, students and alumni. 

• Celebrate your students, parents and colleagues: the opportunities abound with ways we can lift up those in our community, in what ways do you celebrate your school.

• Welcome visitors on campus: Don’t just smile! Stop and make a point to introduce yourself and welcome them, encourage them to contact you with questions...invite them to join your school community!

• Focus on retaining students and families in your sphere of influence: Do you make it a focus to use your gifts to help properly direct concerns and questions to administration and to encourage existing families to remain part of the school community?

• Exceptional customer service can help your school standout: Treat your families with care, make fun and engaging activities to show them how much they are appreciated.

• Families are more likely to remain enrolled when they are connected to groups within your school community. How do you make the most of this?

• One of the most important things for retention is to COMMUNICATE!  Communicate your school brand, your successes, your alumni, your service outreach...How are you doing with communication?

• Ask families to identify others in their church or neighborhood who may like to know about the good works at your school and then follow up.

• Survey new families about why they chose your school and use this in recruitment.