Keep the Seat
Every student you might lose is an empty chair; watch them fill back in.
The job
Between an offer and the first day, or before the re-enrolment deadline, finds each student or family whose messages show they may leave and sends a response to their reason. On census day, shows in seats and tuition who came back because of it.
The moment
On census day, a lecture-hall seating chart fills the screen. Each seat is a student the school was at risk of losing between offer and first day.
The 212 at-risk seats are checked one by one, like a roll call.
A banner shows summer melt (admitted students who don't turn up) at 11.2%, down from 16.8% last year. At-risk students who were contacted enrolled at 68%, against 41% for the rest.
The banner puts tuition kept at $4.1 million, somewhere between $3.3 million and $4.6 million. The CFO asks for the ledger to go to the board.
What it does
- Queue a play for a seat or a whole reason
- Approve and send a play batch
- Offer deposit deferral or fee plan
- Call the roll (check enrolment status)
- Send the verdict and ledger to the board
- Voice rescue call
What you see
Tiered lecture-hall seating chart (class-photo silhouettes for K-12) with fading seats, a census-day roll-call ceremony and a CFO tuition ledger
What it moves
Summer melt on census day, the share of admitted students who don't turn up (for K-12, the re-enrolment rate at the deadline), and tuition kept in dollars compared with at-risk students who weren't contacted.
Built for
- Finance
