2.3.4.2Vertical

Charter School Networks

Multi-site charter school management organizations operating public charter schools.

Market snapshot

These figures describe K-12 Private & Charter Schools (2.3.4), the segment that Charter School Networks sits within. They are not figures for Charter School Networks on its own.

Growth
N/A
Companies
~19,601 firms
Firms by employee count

40.7% of firms have fewer than 20 employees: 7,968 micro-businesses, below most mandates.

The investable universe11,633 firms with 20+ employees
20–99
8,69875%
100–499
2,67823%
500+
2572%

No market size is shown: private and charter schools are largely nonprofit or publicly funded, so federal revenue statistics miss them, and public-district schools are government and excluded outright. The size distribution skews away from the micro band only because every school carries a full teaching staff (even a small independent school clears 20 employees), not because ownership is concentrated; the ~19,600 firms are overwhelmingly single-school operators. Charter-management organizations are the one genuine vehicle for building scale.

NAICS 611110. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses.

Business model & economics

Revenue model

Private tuition; public funding for charters

Key economics

Employees per firm
56.9
Recurring revenue
High

recurring multi-year enrollment

EBITDA margin
Nonprofit surplus model; charters publicly funded
Capex intensity
Moderate

Characteristics

  • School-choice policy supports private and charter demand.
  • Charters are publicly funded but independently operated.
  • Ownership highly fragmented, predominantly nonprofit.

NAICS 611110. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses.

Geographic concentration

AlabamaAlaskaArizonaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaIndianaKansasMaineMassachusettsMinnesotaNew JerseyNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOklahomaPennsylvaniaSouth DakotaTexasWyomingConnecticutMissouriWest VirginiaIllinoisNew MexicoArkansasCaliforniaDelawareHawaiiIowaKentuckyMarylandMichiganMississippiMontanaNew YorkOhioOregonTennesseeUtahVirginiaWashingtonWisconsinNebraskaSouth CarolinaIdahoNevadaRhode IslandDistrict of ColumbiaNew HampshireVermontLouisiana

Private and charter K-12 over-indexes where school-choice policy and independent-school tradition run deepest: Washington, D.C. (a heavily charter district) and Louisiana, where post-Katrina New Orleans is now almost entirely charter, on the charter side; Vermont and New Hampshire on the strength of New England's dense private and prep-school base.

District of ColumbiaVermontLouisianaNew Hampshire

U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses (firms by state), NAICS 611110. Concentration shown by location quotient.

M&A deal context

Deal activityModerate

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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