CHRISTIAN SCHOOL STRATEGY • SUSTAINABILITY • GROWTH

Insight for the decisions that shape your school's future.

Strategic consulting, assessments, and leadership support for Christian schools—grounded in mission, evidence, and more than four decades inside Christian education.

Discuss your school's needs →Take the 5-minute School Health Pulse →

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No-cost first conversation • Clear scope before work begins

Christian school students collaborating with a teacher in their school library

ARETE360Evidence before assumption.Mission • Market • Stewardship • Leadership

40+years serving Christian education and ministry

Whole-schoolexperience from classroom to boardroom

Independentcandid counsel without a predetermined package

Practicaldecisions, owners, measures, and next steps

START WITH YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

Support shaped around the decisions you carry.

Choose the perspective closest to your role. Each pathway connects the pressures you face with relevant questions, services, assessments, and resources.

HEADS OF SCHOOL

Lead with a clearer view of mission, enrollment, finance, people, and the next decision.

View your pathway →BOARDS & GOVERNANCE

Strengthen roles, evidence, accountability, planning, and the board–head partnership.

View your pathway →ENROLLMENT & ADVANCEMENT

Connect family demand, admissions, aid, retention, fundraising, and community trust.

View your pathway →FINANCE & OPERATIONS

Translate tuition, staffing, capacity, risk, and resources into responsible scenarios.

View your pathway →

WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL FACING?

Begin with the pressure—not a consulting package.

You do not need to diagnose the entire problem before reaching out. Start with the issue leadership can see, then identify the evidence and decision underneath it.

Enrollment is declining→Tuition and aid are misaligned→The board and head need alignment→The school needs a usable strategic plan→Sustainability feels uncertain→Curriculum needs alignment→Leadership feels isolated→A crisis requires preparation or response→

PRIVATE, USEFUL FIRST STEPS

Get oriented before you engage.

Use a short private tool to identify pressure points or connect the decision in front of you with the most useful Arete starting point.

Begin the School Health Pulse →Use the Decision Navigator →

No account • No school data submitted • Immediate direction

ARETE360Christian School Health Assessment

Mission integrity

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Financial stewardship

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Operational resilience

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Evidence → Insight → Priorities → ActionExplore assessments

PRACTICAL, AFFORDABLE ADVISORY

Focused support for the whole school.

Every engagement begins with a defined decision and written scope. Fixed fees are used whenever the work can be responsibly defined.

School Health & Sustainability

See how mission, enrollment, finance, leadership, academics, and operations affect one another.

Enrollment & Demographic Intelligence

Understand family demand, recruitment territory, capacity, conversion, retention, and future enrollment.

Strategic & Financial Planning

Build practical scenarios, priorities, ownership, measures, and a three-year path leaders can use.

Leadership, Governance & Accreditation

Strengthen roles, decisions, curriculum evidence, board practice, and accreditation readiness.

Review services, timing, and deliverables →

SEE THE WORK BEFORE YOU ENGAGE

Recommendations should be visible, specific, and usable.

Review an illustrative Arete360 findings report to see how evidence becomes priorities, decisions, and a board-ready action plan.

View the illustrative sample report →Download the leadership brief ↓

ARETE360Christian School
Health AssessmentIllustrative findings report

EXECUTIVE DASHBOARD

Mission • Market • Stewardship • Leadership

John C. TC Megahan, founder and senior consultant at Arete Advisory Group

COUNSEL FROM INSIDE THE SCHOOL

Meet John C. “TC” Megahan.

TC brings more than four decades of experience across Christian education, ministry, school leadership, consulting, financial aid, enrollment, board service, coaching, and crisis response. Arete reflects a practitioner's understanding that mission, people, programs, enrollment, and finances cannot be separated.

“The goal is not to hand a school another binder. It is to help leaders see clearly, decide responsibly, and act faithfully.”

Read TC's background →Talk with TC →

EXPANDED ARETE INITIATIVES

Coaching, rebuilding support, and connected technology.

Four distinct initiatives extend Arete's mission beyond a traditional consulting engagement.

Barnabas Coaching

Confidential, mission-aligned coaching matched to the leader and the need.

Explore Barnabas Coaching →The Nehemiah Plan

A one-year rebuilding pathway for qualifying Christian schools facing significant challenges.

Explore The Nehemiah Plan →CROWN Platform

A connected Christian School Management Solution built around the whole school.

Explore CROWN Platform →Diadem Daycare Solutions

A faith-centered daycare solution for clear collections, connected care, and purposeful growth.

Explore Diadem Daycare Solutions →

FROM THE INSIGHTS LIBRARY

Practical thinking for Christian school leaders.

Begin with three of the questions Arete is helping schools examine now.

DAYCARE STRATEGY

Should Your Christian School Start a Daycare?

A disciplined framework for testing mission fit, real demand, operating capacity, and sustainability.

Read the field note →FINANCIAL AID

Your Empty Seats Are Destroying Your Budget

Why unused capacity should change the way leaders evaluate aid and net tuition.

Read the field note →CRISIS LEADERSHIP

Before Crisis Comes: Preparing Your Christian School

The relationships, decisions, and practices schools need before an emergency.

Read the field note →

Browse all 73 field notes →

SOLOMON KNOWLEDGE CENTER

Begin with the question leadership is carrying.

Solomon organizes Arete's growing library around real Christian-school decisions. Find a connected reading path, see where the guidance came from, and move toward the next responsible action.

Open Solomon →Browse Articles & Insights →

73 Arete field notes • 8 connected topic libraries • Human-governed guidance

YOUR NEXT DECISION STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION

Bring the question your leadership team is carrying.

TC will respond personally and help determine whether your next step is a focused answer, an assessment, a coaching relationship, or a broader engagement.

Discuss your school's needs →(302) 373-2168