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Are Private Schools Ahead of Public Schools in 2023?

Are Private Schools Ahead of Public Schools in 2023?

Families have much to consider when deciding where to send their children to school, including class size, availability of programs, and graduation rate. One important measure is academic performance. Studies have consistently shown that students in private schools...

Financial Aid for Private School: Tips for Administrators

Financial Aid for Private School: Tips for Administrators

When providing financial aid for students at private schools, administrators have the important job of organizing and managing who receives funding and deciding how to keep track of each recipient. From learning how to manage funding to choosing or planning different...

How to Balance Financial Aid and Financial Health for Private Schools

How to Balance Financial Aid and Financial Health for Private Schools

Finding the right financial aid formula for your private school can help you award the perfect amount of aid to families and students in need. While budgeting can often be a difficult conversation within the administration and top leadership at your school, you must...

How to Leverage Giving Tuesday for Your School

How to Leverage Giving Tuesday for Your School

If your school is looking for a way to increase donations, consider participating in this year's Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday takes place on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, which means this event will occur on November 29, 2022. After the shopping frenzies that...

3 Benefits of K-12 Early Awarding

3 Benefits of K-12 Early Awarding

Considering the Switch to Early Awarding? Here are 3 Main Benefits  Let’s face it, financial aid season can be a hectic time for schools and families. From gathering a slew of personal documents, to application tracking and making decisions—everyone feels the pressure...

Spring Cleaning Your Financial Aid

Spring Cleaning Your Financial Aid

Once the snow melts, the sun starts shining and the birds begin chirping, it's time to stow away the sweaters and puffy coats and kickstart your spring cleaning. Spring cleaning your home is good for your health, so it's not surprising that spring cleaning your...

Seize the Value of Building a Bundle

Seize the Value of Building a Bundle

Managing your school software systems and all the data associated with them takes significant time and effort. When your software programs are integrated, manual data entry workload is reduced and data integrity within the whole system is improved.

Resources for Fraud Protection

Resources for Fraud Protection

Our team at Ravenna knows how important it is to keep your parent, student, and financial information secure. As part of International Fraud Awareness Week, we wanted to post some good year-round resources for schools on fraud and fraud prevention.

Building Transparency and Trust in Financial Aid Processing

Building Transparency and Trust in Financial Aid Processing

When it comes to processing financial aid awards, one of the key issues important to schools and families is privacy in processing. Families are also anxious about the determination of awards and school staff are focused on providing award information to them as soon...