S.O

It's been about a year 6 months since I took over management of the school (at the board level, not day to day). When I came in, we had about 440 students. Now we are at 770 students. We have one of the highest transfer rates to the school in the town - outside of a very high JSS1 enrollment, we have 20+ students joining into each of the higher classes. This is in spite of an 80% increase in school fees. What was the strategy? Well, combining various things: 1. High standards for teachers and employing a lot of new, very good teachers 2. Constant staff salary increment 3. Big focus on extra-curricular activities and fun 4. Video strategy, what we do should be shown to the world 5. Open forums for parents to complain, and prompt reactions. The old methods of hiding complaints just makes schools bad 6. Constant infrastructure work and "getting better every day" 7. Discipline and no leniency on anything 8. Reducing all those massive enrollment fees to allow cheaper switching. A parent may be able to afford fees, but cannot bring out money for the enrollment fees The goal is to hit 1000 students as quickly as possible, which we still push the standard up. A lot to do - we will have a world class computer + physics lab by next term (we are working on it now). Then we turn attention to the boarding houses and the sports hall, and do more solar (we already have 3 blocks on solar, but we are not done). Also, we are doing a lot of works on academics now, the goal is that we should be in the top 5 in WAEC results nationally. We did all this without layoffs or staff disruptions. And I only spend ~ 3 hours per week in active management. A strong team + ideas from the digital world are good enough.