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Childcare / Education

Empty seats cost more than full ones

Staff ratios are mandated, so your labor cost barely moves when enrollment dips. Every unfilled seat comes almost entirely out of profit.

Where it goes

01
Capacity gap
Running at 75% of licensed capacity while staffed for 90% is the single most expensive thing a center does.
02
Enrollment funnel
Most centers count enrollments and nothing before them, so they cannot tell a marketing problem from a tour-conversion problem.
03
Tuition lag
Rates held flat for years out of loyalty to families, against wages that rose every one of those years.

Reference ranges

Industry data
MetricHealthyMost sit at
Staff cost45–50%52–58%▼
Occupancy cost10–15%12–16%
Capacity filled85–95%72–80%▼
Net margin8–12%4–7%▼

Where your business sits against these is what the audit measures.

The one thing to do next

Fifteen minutes on your numbers.

Book the call and you'll get six questions to answer first, so the time goes to your numbers instead of background.

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