BEST WAYS TO SUCCESSFULLY START YOUR OWN PRIVATE SCHOOL IN NIGERIA

Believe you me, starting and owning a private school is one of the everlasting investment one can think of especially in this modern day Nigeria. The value of owning a school cannot be overemphasized. Schools and colleges are in a rapic growth nowadays because of how lucrative it is and how worthwhile the investment is for those  who dare to go into educational investment.

This article will give you an insight on how to own your own private school and how well you can plan the management.

The school business is one to write home about, many who read this article will forever be grateful on how it helped them make it. Follow all the steps in this article and the sky will be your starting point, Bonum Eligere.

Be rest assured that, starting a private school will take you some time and money but most especially, you will need an intelligent team and patients.

Here are the steps you need to start a private school in Nigeria.

Step 1.

Determine Your Area Of Specialization

It will be unthinkable for you to start a school today that will contain all kind of groups and the whole world. You should go into thinking about what kind of school do I need to establish, will it be a Primary school, nursery, daycare, secondary, university?  Will it be a boarding school or day school? In determining this, you should as well check the area you want to situate this school and find out what school is needed. You wouldn't want to overcrowd the community with just nursery school if there already exist 100+ nursery school operating in the area. 

Moreover, you should also determine the estimated number of students you're looking at, this will make you conclude on the classes to build. Nevertheless, it is always advisable to start small and expand. 

Step 2

Gather A Like Minded Committee

As they say, two head is better than one. Starting a school need different views and opinions on how well it should be done. Truth be told, you can't build Rome alone, even in 1Billion years. So get a committee who will be committed in seeing to the actualization of the project. The members of the committee should be ready to sacrifice money and their time most especially. You don't need a lazy person in the planning process of starting your dream school. Look out for excellent planners, they will make things easy for you in a long run. 

Step 3.

Incorporation

To save yourself the stress of the paper work, you should employ the services of a lawyer who will handle all the accreditation processes both wity educational authorities in Nigeria and otherwise. With the help of your lawyer, you can get tax exemption for your early incorporation.

Step 4.

Business Strategy

Way before the opening of the school, you should have a blueprint of how the school will operate in the its new years of existence. How you will admit students and staff into the school will be the utmost concern at this stage. In the first 5-8 years should be the developing stage of the school, these time is when you learn the environment and what the school needs to push ahead, taking up a huge project shouldn't be in priority at this stage, just few things that will make the school go viral. 

Step 5.

Budget Plan

How are you going to make income and expenses. How are you going to make them balance and show a good result. Make a perfect plan for that just immediately you're done with your business strategy. You should created a financial committee from the general committee who will handle dealings on this part. How you're going to get the capital for starting the school should also be a priority. 

Step 6.

The School Building

Building a nice modern school should be your priority. Buying a building is also good but is the building attractive to both parents and future pupils? That should decide whether you go from scratch or buy an already built house. Decorate your school to look wanting, with flowers and sitouts. A school playground is very vital also. 

Step 7

School Board Members

This stage need experts in the business and enthusiastic persons who will love to build the school with you. This stage is when you determine who will be you Principal, Head staff and HOD. You can get all these persons by organizing an interview with the job specification on the invitations. 

Step 8

Fund Raising

At this stage, you need the money to kick off with the school. If you're soo rich, you might not need the fund from any third party. But if you can't provide all the fund yourself, you might need the help from investors, donors, loans and grants from government. Your fund raising proposal should be mouthwatering on how it motivates people to donate to the start of the school.

Step 9

School Equipments

At this stage, check what is needed for your staff to teach comfortably and disseminate information smoothly. You may need a white board as it is the trend this days. You will need to equip the offices and classrooms with seats of you prefer it that way. Some schools prefer their students coming with their own chair. But I advice, making provision for seats in the classrooms and offices make the school more standard and in tune with modern facilities.

Step 10

Make It Trend

Get the public to know about the existence of your school. You can start advertising your school on the internet through social media. You can also use radios and newspapers. This will send message to the public about your school and how ready and enticing it is waiting for the newbies. At this stage too, a website can be designed for the school for online dealings with the school. Everything have gone global already, so any person who wants to join the school can just do so through the internet.  The way you market your school is the way the outcome will be, either positive or otherwise, so you might want to paint a sintilating picture of your school.

Step 11

Opening For Business

Just before the official kicking for for the school activities proper, about 3months to the time, you should open offices and get the team ready to admit new students and staff who come for interviews. 

Step 12

Get To Know Your Workers

At this stage, you should put in words into your teachers, security men, manual workers and all those involved in the running of the school activities. Motivate them and give them reasons to work tirelessly to see that the school is brought to the highest standard in the community. Admit quality teachers, teachers with good reputation are the key to smooth running of the school, they also help to attract more students to the school.

School Day Proper!

You should make time and education your utmost priority in the school. Stick to time and focus on the learning aspects of the students. In the small assembly, welcome the students, the staff and the parents who came along. After the brief assembly, start the teaching proper, it send the right message to the rest of the world that you're not here to play. Be serious and you will achieve your aim. 

Always strive to join what other schools are doing, get connection in other schools to get in tune with modern dealing and happenings in the industry. Generate a motto and what the school will be known as, Time And Learning!, Don't Play With Them!

Do all the above and your school will be booming for you. 

The end.