05/11/2026
NAIS projects private school enrollment will drop 13% by 2031. 81 small Christian colleges have already closed since 2020.
If you run a Christian school, you can usually feel the shift before the spreadsheet confirms it.
What's harder is naming it. The decline isn't one story. It's three or four overlapping ones: school choice expansion, online competitors, cost perception, and the long tail of post-COVID enrollment patterns.
The schools responding well aren't the loud ones. They're the ones who finally connected enrollment, donor data, and finances into a single view their leadership team can act on.
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Why Christian School Enrollment Is Slipping (And What's Really Going On | FundEasy If you run a Christian school, you can feel enrollment shifting before the spreadsheet confirms it. The waitlist gets shorter. Inquiry forms slow down. A long-time family quietly tells you they are switching to a charter school next year. You smile, you pray for them, and then you sit with the math.
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