Catholic & Faith-Based Schools
K-12 schools operated by religious organizations providing faith-integrated education.
Market snapshot
These figures describe K-12 Private & Charter Schools (2.3.4), the segment that Catholic & Faith-Based Schools sits within — not Catholic & Faith-Based Schools on its own.
- Companies
- ~22,400
U.S. Census Bureau 2022 CBP, NAICS 611110 (~22,400 private/charter establishments, ~1.1M employees). Revenue is not shown — schools are largely nonprofit and not covered by the Economic Census; public-district schools are excluded as government.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Private tuition; public funding for charters
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- High
- EBITDA margin
- Nonprofit surplus model; charters publicly funded
- Capex intensity
- Moderate
recurring multi-year enrollment
Characteristics
- School-choice policy supports private and charter demand.
- Charters are publicly funded but independently operated.
- Highly fragmented, predominantly nonprofit.
Geographic concentration
Private and charter K-12 over-indexes in Washington, D.C., Vermont, and New Hampshire — markets with strong independent-school traditions and, in D.C., a large charter sector.
U.S. Census Bureau — 2022 County Business Patterns (establishments by state), NAICS 611110. Concentration shown by location quotient.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Charter management organizations
- Private-school networks
- Education real-estate and services providers
What’s driving deals
- School-choice policy expanding charter and private demand.
- Charter management organizations scaling networks.
- Services and real-estate models around nonprofit schools.
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