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Guide to Boarding School Software

Guide to Boarding School Software

Guide to Boarding School Software Keeping the workings of your boarding school well-oiled and organized is essential in allowing your staff to focus on what's important: your students and the school's relationship to their parents. Sometimes keeping track of the more...

Resources for Fraud Protection

Resources for Fraud Protection

Our team at Ravenna knows how important it is to keep your parent, student, and financial information secure. As part of International Fraud Awareness Week, we wanted to post some good year-round resources for schools on fraud and fraud prevention.

Top 4 Tips for Communicating With Families Effectively

Top 4 Tips for Communicating With Families Effectively

Families play a crucial role in their children's academic success. Effective communication with parents in schools can enhance the learning process by facilitating family involvement and promoting engagement. At Ravenna, we recognize the importance of communication in...

How to Grow Your School Population

How to Grow Your School Population

Private K-12 schools face stiff challenges when attempting to fill their classrooms. Factors such as school choice, declining birth rates, and increasing costs have caused many of these educational institutions to scramble to find ways to bolster enrollment. As a...

How to Broaden Your School’s Applicant Pool

How to Broaden Your School’s Applicant Pool

Creating an effectively integrated school system is an ongoing struggle for school administrators, and creating a school that makes families want to travel outside their district can be even more of a challenge. Despite the inherent obstacles, private schools are...

Guide to Managing Your Application Process

Guide to Managing Your Application Process

Another school year is upon us, and this is a great occasion to reevaluate your school’s admissions process. If you aren’t confident that your application system is as streamlined and organized as it can be, consider how you can enhance this process — both for...

6 questions to ask when choosing your tuition management system

6 questions to ask when choosing your tuition management system

Decision fatigue is REAL. From deciding on what to eat, when to schedule a meeting, and what to wear for yet another Zoom meeting (even if it is only waist up) - there are a lot of choices we have to make every hour of every day.   Choosing a tuition management system...

6 Ways Ravenna Enables Remote Admissions

6 Ways Ravenna Enables Remote Admissions

What if you could easily manage your entire admissions process cozied up at home during a snowstorm, nursing your kid with a stomach bug, or sitting in the quad on a nice day? With Ravenna, you can!   You deserve a paperless solution that allows you to compare notes,...

5 Ways to Increase Applications for your School

5 Ways to Increase Applications for your School

It likely comes as no surprise that COVID-19 affected both enrollment and schools’ admission pools. In fact, according to a survey done by Ravenna, K-12 schools overall had a higher number of applicants, yet fewer students chose to enroll.