Schools collect data every day. But that information often remains scattered across systems, databases, reports, spreadsheets, and institutional knowledge.

Data, Purpose, People helps schools use statistical modeling and predictive analytics to identify the patterns that help answer their biggest questions, which allows school leaders can make clearer decisions about enrollment, student support, staffing, and sustainability.

Your school’s data is the key to your solutions.

What Sets Us Apart

There are many wonderful individuals and companies with missions to help schools thrive, and many provide research and data analytics as part of their work.

Data, Purpose, People is unique in that is leans into the powers of machine learning and predictive modeling for schools. This results in robust information and analysis that provides schools detailed feedback on their strengths and areas of improvement.

Many individuals and many companies will lean into the qualitative piece (interviews and surveys) to make thoughtful recommendations. Others will lean into the quantitative piece (statistical methods and modeling). Data, Purpose, People does both.


We conduct the technical work directly, including statistical analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning, visualization, and scenario modeling. There is no consulting/analysis gap; the person you work with directly runs the analysis themselves.

❋ In-House Analysis

❋ Clean Translations


We are experienced school people and understand the realities of school leadership, from enrollment pressure and academic programming to staffing, board reporting, and mission-driven culture.

❋ School Experience

We explain findings in clear language with direct recommendations, so Heads of School, principals, enrollment leaders, CFOs, and boards can understand what the data suggests, what decisions it supports, and how to make those actions a reality.



  • “All thinking involves a risk. Certainty cannot be guaranteed in advance. No matter how great the mathematical probability, the inference is hypothetical—a matter of probability.”

    John Dewey
    Democracy in Education