Starting A Private School

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Private School Formation

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Start Your Private School With An Experienced Team

Ready to take the first step? Click on the four-step diagram above to find out more about our formation process.

HEG is an international educational consultancy providing solutions for private K-12 schools, colleges, businesses and non-profits internationally, with a reputation for the highest quality of work catering to the needs of the private education market. We work with school and business owners and buyers globally regarding the start-up, operation, management, and sale of private schools. HEG’s team of internationally recognized educational professionals and business specialists are experienced in starting private schools world-wide.

Our services span the globe, with experience starting schools in the USA, Canada, and Internationally (Middle East, Asia, India, China, Europe, Singapore, and more!).  Our experienced team is already organized and can provide turn-key services (e.g., marketing, accounting, staffing, programming, designing, architecture, planning, procuring, infrastructure).

Comprehensive Start-Up Experience

HEG works with multi-national corporations, non-profits, and individuals who are seeking to develop and operate a private school in various locations throughout the world. HEG's comprehensive experience covers a wide-range of school types, curriculum, grade levels, and locations, including US, Canadian, IB, and IGCSE. We have been engaged with starting K-12 schools -- be it one school or part of a major planned development project in a new city (e.g., Kapolei, HI; Masdar, UAE;, UAE, or Songdo, Korea).

Turn-Key Formation Services

Our team has developed more than 100 private schools world-wide and provide customized start-up services for new and established K-12 school development projects. HEG can directly lead the development of your new school with all the key stages of formation and establish a world-class international school. This includes:
  • Market/Feasibility Study and Business Plan
  • Financial And Cost Management
  • Site/Facility Planning and Procurement (For New Facility)
  • Corporate Governance and Regulatory Standards
  • Strategic Plan
  • Regulatory Standards
  • Human Resources and Recruitment Management
  • Marketing, Promotion, and Enrolment
  • Curriculum, Programming, And Learning Management
  • Student Management and Infrastructure
Next Step

Ready to take the first step? Click on the four-step diagram above to find out more about our formation process.

If you are interested in our school formation consulting services and would like to receive written material about HEG, or would like to discuss your particular needs, please contact HEG directly to find out more about our services. You can set this up by sending an email to info@halladayeducationgroup.com or calling directly at +1-800-687-1492. We invite you to continue browsing our website.

What people are saying

Pleased with the professionalism of HEG’s consultants and quality of work delivered...

Our project is the start-up of a new PreK-12 International Baccalaureate School in the city of Panama. HEG was hired by our group to carry out the Feasibility Study and Business Plan, which included the analysis of local market conditions to set up the school, analysis of market demand based on the study's results, financial projections of the entire operation for a 10-year period, plus all activities required to prepare the new school for operation. The feasibility study included guidance regarding our school's mission and vision statements, educational philosophy, as well as human resource requirements, organizational structure, etc. The final deliverable was a very complete and professionall prepared report that covered all aspects of new school development requirements, which was at an extremely high level of quality for presentation to banks, investors, and others required for the implementation phase of the project. Our group was very pleased with the professionalism of HEG’s consultants and the quality of the work delivered. The feasibility study stage required their team to travel to Panama twice – where we had very productive work sessions. We feel that the investment was definitely worthwhile as we were able to receive guidance and advice from experts in the field, including people who have started-up and owned their own schools. The end-product received from HEG has been very valuable to our group. The feasibility study and business plan developed provided us additional credibility from experts in the field, given HEG’s extensive experience with top quality schools internationally. In a nutshell, when we sit down to present our project to financial advisors and land developers, and they review our Business Plan, they immediately conclude that we have done our homework, and thus our project has moved forward swiftly. We are now at the Project Implementation Phase and finalizing financial arrangements to proceed with school formation activities, including retaining HEG as our advisor for the implementation stage. I would definitely recommend HEG without hesitation. Their expertise in planning and managing top international private schools is very valuable when sitting down to define what your projects needs are, especially in the financial aspects of the operation.

Founding Director, The Metropolitan School of Panama, Panama

HEG Is Flexible And A Joy To Work With...

The Halladay Education Group is a very professional team that brings a myriad of talents to private schools and are quite focused and results driven. They work efficiently and are task-driven. As a start-up school we have so many items in our punch-list to complete and Doug and the HEG team came in and helped us with almost every aspect of the operations in a very short time frame. They are flexible and a joy to work with. I would recommend them to any group that wants to start a world-class international school or improve their performance of your established private school.

Dr. Jorge Nelson, Headmaster, Chadwick International School Songdo, Korea

School Formation Stages

Are your School Founders up for the challenge? The mechanics of starting a school can be challenging. In today’s complicated environment, the need to work smarter and be ready for the day-one of school opening is critical. With proper planning, founders can be prepared to start the school of their dreams, and manage costs and project development effectively, establishing a school for generations to come. Provided below is an overview of our time-tested stages to start a new private school. Click on each stage to find out more about what is needed to start your own school step-by-step.

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Recent School Formation Projects

Our Senior Associates have, as part of our collective experience, been involved in helping to start, develop, and/or lead a variety of prestigious private K-12 private schools and post secondary institutions world-wide. Listed below is a brief list of school formation projects that our Senior Associates have been involved with developing (Please click below to open the list):

US Projects

  • Island Pacific Academy
    IPA is a secular, co-educational, independent school offering programs from PreK-12, where it started with Grades PreK-8 with one grade added each year up to Grade 12. One of our associates was engaged by the Estate of James Campbell to start the independent school in the new City of Kapolei, Hawaii, in 1999. The consultant(s) oversaw major stages of the school formation process as the managing firm. The school now has over 700 students taught in a 65,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility on three acres.
  • Sage Hill School
    SHS is a Grade 9-12, Coed college preparatory day school founded in 2000 on a 30-acre campus with academic buildings, library, gymnasium, football/soccer field, baseball field, outdoor basketball and sand volleyball court, and outdoor amphitheater. It has an enrollment of 450 students. It is accredited by WASC, NAIS, CASE, and CAIS.
  • Santa Ynez Valley Christian Academy
    Santa Ynez is a Grades K-8 Private Interdenominational, coed, religious, nonprofit school of 152 students, and belongs to the ACSI.
  • Fisher Island Day School
    FIDS is a Grade Prek-5 Private coed, non-denominational, university prep school. Students are exposed to languages (Spanish and Mandarin Chinese) technology, strong academics, and inculcation of strong character.

Canadian Projects

  • West Point Grey Academy
    WPGA is an independent, Prek-12, university preparatory, co-educational school started by one of our associates and a group of dedicated professionals in 1996. It opened it doors to +300 students enrolled in PreK-Grade 8. Bill Wan was the founding Director and Doug Halladay was the founding Senior School Director and Deputy Head. The school is now ranked #1 academically in the province of British Columbia.
  • Aspengrove School
    Aspengrove School is the first and only Prek-12 independent, non-denominational, co-educational, university preparatory school located in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. One of our associates was engaged by a group of founding parents in 2002, and advised on the formation of the school over a 12 month span, from the ground up.
  • Stratford Hall School
    Stratford Hall is a K-12 ICo-Ed IB preparatory private urban school based in Vancouver, BC. One of our associates was engaged by a group of founding parents, and advised on the formation of the school.

International School Projects

  • Dalian Maple Leaf International High School
    Students are registered as BC students and write the same Grade 10, 11, and 12 BC examinations as resident students in BC and graduate with the same BC Ministry of Education transcripts and graduation (Dogwood) diploma as resident students in BC. English program taught by BC certified teachers. Inspected annually on-site and certified by BC Ministry of Education. Over 2,300 students are currently enrolled.
  • British Columbia Canadian International School of Cairo
    It offers a British Columbia program from PreK - Gr.12. All subjects are taught in English and all the academic staff must be BC College of Teachers certified. The school is certified by The BC Ministry of Education and is inspected annually.
  • International School Songdo / Chadwick International School
    ISS/CIS will open in 2010 and will be Korea’s first international K-12 private school for Korean citizens and international students. ISS is located in the new international free economic zone city of Songdo, Korea. The school is located on 24 acres in a new state-of-the-art 500,000 sq. ft facility and provides a co-ed- college preparatory IB program supporting 21st century learning.
  • The Sheffield Private School
    Founded in 2004, providing high quality schooling for expatriate and local families who want a British style of education for their children. Following the National Curriculum for England it offers Nursery to Year 11 education, and will to expand each year to offer IGCSE and A level subjects.
  • The Royal Dubai School
    Opened in 2005, RDS offers a high quality education from Foundation Stage to Year 6. It is the only school in the area to offer the National Curriculum for England, taught by British trained teachers, and provides the best of British Education to the diverse international community in Dubai.
  • Wellington International School
    Opened 2005, WIS is a PreK-12 private school based in the Al Sufouh area of Dubai, offering the National Curriculum of England with plans to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Years 12 and 13 from September 2009 onwards.
  • The World Academy
    TWA - King Abdullah Economic City is a premium Pre-K to Grade 8 international schools, providing a high quality education, and intends to offer a special curriculum based from the American and International Standards. The school features iconic architecture with inspirational spaces.
  • Qatar Leadership Academy
    Founded in 2005 in Doha, Qatar, QLA is a boarding school for boys in Grades 6 to 12, which is an IB World School authorized to offer the prestigious International Baccalaureate Diploma Program further enhanced by heritage and leadership programs.
  • Rashid School For Boys
    Opened in 1986 under the guidance of His Highness Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, the school is dedicated to the highest standards of excellence in the academic and social development. Most lessons are taught in English and the curriculum is developed from the UK National Curriculum. The school gives great importance to the teaching of Arabic language and Islamic Studies, and follows the Ministry of Education courses. Grades 10 and 11 lead to United Kingdom General Certificate of Secondary Education examinations (GCSE). In Grades 12 and 13.
  • International School in Nacka
    ISN is a Private K-12 private non-profit co-ed school of 400 students with 68 full-time staff. The school offers both the Swedish national curriculum and International Baccalaureate program in English and Swedish.
  • Vishwashanti Gurukul World School
    Sponsored by Mahahashtra institute of Technology, VGWS is a Grade PreK-12 world-class school, recognized as an IB world School' authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) and registered as a Cambridge International Centre by the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE).
  • Metropolitan School of Panama
    The Metropolitan School of Panama will be an internationally accredited private school for students from Preschool to 12th Grade, opening at the end of August 2011, in the City of Knowledge, located in Clayton, Panama City. Multinational, with small class sizes, aiming towards an International Baccalaureate Program, it will offer a balanced University preparatory program integrating the very best of US and Panamanian curriculum allowing mastery of English, Spanish and a third language.

Post Secondary Projects

  • Stenberg College
    Stenberg College was acquired in 2002 by a joint venture company that owns CATO. It offers post secondary diploma programs in the area of nursing and allied health care.
  • Center For Arts And Technology
    CATO is the industry leader and a respected digital arts school, with campuses in Kelowna, B.C., and Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Fredericton, New Brunswick. It was formed by one of our associates in a joint venture with the Center for Digital Imaging and Sound (CDIS), a leading Vancouver film school. CDIS was subsequently acquired by the Art Institute of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (now know as the Art Institute of Vancouver).
  • Pacific Institute of Trades and Technology
    We're presently working with a group of investors to start a new trades and technology institute in Surrey, British Columbia, using the Red Seal Programs of Industry Trading Authority and accreditation through PCTIA
  • American National College
    Offers Sri Lankan students affordable alternative to spending 4 or more years overseas pursuing higher education. Students obtain 1-2 years of credits toward Associates or Bachelor Degrees at ANC. All courses are 100% transferable to partner Universities in the USA, offering US University courses taught by US professors, US textbooks, and course outlines.
  • Pan Pacific International English College 
    PPIEC offers English as a Second Language, High School, School Preparatory programs, and teacher training institute (TESL).

Start-A-School Toolkit

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Are You Still Struggling With How To Start Your Own K-12 School, College, Or University? Are You Unsure Of Where To Begin? You're Not Alone

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Our Toolkit explains how to start a school from the viewpoint of those who have started their own private schools and who understand first-hand how to put a school together efficiently and cost effectively. And we want the same to happen for YOU. That's why we put together this Toolkit, comprised of a series of Audio MP3 Presentations and PDF ebook digital Handbooks on the fundamentals of starting a school.

We've recorded all the presentations on MP3's and then had them transcribed and desk topped into a high quality ebook Handbooks for you and your founders to read over to grasp the critical concepts of starting a successful school.

Our Toolkit includes:

  • Critical First Steps Of Independent School Formation
  • 9 Secrets Of Starting A Charter School
  • Starting A Successful Private Senior School from the Ground Up
  • 8 Golden Rules of Starting a New Private Junior School
  • Developing A Strategic Plan For Your New School

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  • 5 MP3 Recordings of Presentations Made By School Founders Who Share Their Hard-Earned Insight In Starting A Private School
  • 5 PDF Guidebooks Transcribed from Each Presentation

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