CHRISTIAN SCHOOL STRATEGY • SUSTAINABILITY • GROWTH

Stronger Christian schools. Clearer decisions.

Strategic consulting, assessments, and leadership support for enrollment, tuition, financial aid, and sustainable growth—grounded in your school's Biblical mission.

Discuss with Arete Advisory Group Take the 5-minute School Health Pulse

No-cost initial conversation • A collective of Christian education professionals

Christian school students collaborating with a teacher in their school library

Faithful leadership. Flourishing students.

START WITH YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

Support shaped around the decisions you carry.

Choose your role to find relevant services, assessments, and guidance.

HEADS OF SCHOOL

Lead with a clearer view of mission, enrollment, finance, people, and the next decision.

View your pathwayBOARDS & GOVERNANCE

Strengthen roles, evidence, accountability, planning, and the board–head partnership.

View your pathwayENROLLMENT & ADVANCEMENT

Connect family demand, admissions, aid, retention, fundraising, and community trust.

View your pathwayFINANCE & OPERATIONS

Translate tuition, staffing, capacity, risk, and resources into responsible scenarios.

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FEATURED AT ARETE

Ideas and opportunities for your school.

Students learning together in a Christian school library — School readiness and SGO planning

Scholarships

Prepare for the 2027 scholarship opportunity.

Explore school readiness and Jireh SGO, a standalone scholarship-administration solution seeking design and pilot partners.

Explore scholarship readiness Explore Jireh SGO

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PRACTICAL, AFFORDABLE ADVISORY

Focused support for the whole school.

Start with the decision your school needs to make. Agree on scope and deliverables before work begins.

School Health & Sustainability

The pressures are connected, but the priorities are unclear.

What you receive
A whole-school findings report and action priorities.

Explore School Health & Sustainability

Enrollment & Demographic Intelligence

Empty seats and changing family demand need a clearer diagnosis.

What you receive
A market view, recruitment priorities, and enrollment scenarios.

Explore Enrollment & Demographic Intelligence

Strategic & Financial Planning

Plans need to connect mission, resources, and execution.

What you receive
A practical three-year plan with owners and measures.

Explore Strategic & Financial Planning

Leadership, Governance & Accreditation

Leaders and boards need clear roles and usable evidence.

What you receive
Decision responsibilities and an evidence-based improvement path.

Explore Leadership, Governance & Accreditation

$2 per enrolled student, per year.

Assessments are always free. Membership includes access to processes, content, assessments, and reports, an initial results-review Zoom consultation, and scheduled quarterly check-ins. Additional sessions and substantial project work are quoted separately; travel is extra.

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School professional development

Virtual $200 · Half-day $500 · Full day $750 · Advisory-member full day $625. Travel agreed separately.

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Review services and deliverables Barnabas Coaching The Nehemiah Plan

John C. TC Megahan, founder and senior consultant at Arete Advisory Group

EXPERIENCE FROM INSIDE THE SCHOOL

Meet the people behind the counsel.

Arete is a collective of Christian education professionals. Founder and senior consultant John C. “TC” Megahan brings more than four decades of school leadership, ministry, and advisory experience.

Meet Arete and TC

We commit 10% of all Arete Advisory Group revenue to approved school-support work, with annual reporting of allocations and actual spending. Read our commitment.

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