GraceWorks advocates starting as large as possible, rather than starting small. Whats wrong with the small approach, starting with a few early grades, and adding one grade per year?
The small approach can make sense if your Christian school will be largely self-contained, and does not need much community support. Lots of church-based denominational schools are successfully started this way. The ultimate question is to what extent your school needs the support of the community to be successful. A bigger initial vision will attract more support: leaders, followers, students and money. It is harder to attract high caliber leaders, or special talent followers, or students, if you are a Kindergarten and 1st grade only, and it will be 7 years before you have a “regular” Christian school. The same is true in major gift work. Will yours ultimately be a large school? How you start will determine your growth rate … it is all part of your school’s DNA. Starting small may very well mean that you remain small, with all the issues that entails. Because parents have such high expectations for the school quality, GraceWorks believes the ultimate problem to be solved is maximizi
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