Data: Microschool Leaders Wear Lots of Hats — from microschoolingcenter.org by Don Soifer and Ashley Soifer
In our 2024 Sector Analysis the Center analyzed data received for 400 microschools representing 41 states.
We asked “How many staff, other than yourself and cofounder if applicable, do you have?” and here is what we learned:
- The most common staffing arrangement, for one in four microschools, is for founders to be supported by two or three staff members, who may be but are not always full-time personnel.
- One-third of microschools are run by the founders with no more than one other full- or part-time staff member, while 15% of microschools have no other staff than the founders themselves. We often talk about the many hats that microschool founders wear, and for these in seven, they truly are doing it all and all on their own.
- One in seven microschools reported having more than ten full- or part-time staff members supporting founders regularly.