Enrollment marketing for classical & Catholic schools

The enrollment marketing department for schools too small to have one.

You teach the true, the good, and the beautiful. I make sure the families searching for it can find you. Local search, website, and email campaigns, run for you and approved in one 30-minute call a month.

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No committee required. No agency contract. One conversation.

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The situation

Nobody at your school owns enrollment marketing. So nobody does it.

Most classical schools run on a headmaster, a board, and maybe one office manager. The education is extraordinary. The marketing is whatever someone had time for.

Invisible where parents look first

When a Catholic mother in your county searches "classical school near me," most schools in this movement don't come up first. She finds a charter school instead.

Inquiries that go quiet

A family fills out the interest form. Then nothing arrives between that moment and the open house, and the moment passes.

Every one of those is an enrollment lost to logistics, not to mission.

The offer

One package. Everything a small school's enrollment actually needs.

A one-time setup that fixes the foundation, then a monthly retainer that keeps families moving from first search to signed enrollment. You approve everything in a single 30-minute call each month.

Option one

The Setup

One-time project, $1,500–2,500
  • Google Business Profile claimed, built out, and ranking for local searches
  • Website cleanup so the school you are is the school parents see
  • Email sequences written for inquiry, tour, and application
  • Parent and alumni testimonials gathered and put to work
Option two

The Retainer

Monthly, $750–1,000
  • One full campaign every month. Open house, application deadline, re-enrollment
  • Website and local listings kept current
  • A plain-language monthly report on what moved and why
  • One 30-minute approval call. That is your entire time commitment

Schools without a marketing budget line often start with the setup project alone. It pays for itself the first time a family finds you who otherwise never would have.

The record

Work classical schools have already trusted, with numbers behind it.

“I met with the team, and we are so grateful for your support on this project. We're excited to use your work in upcoming promotional materials. Thank you again, great job.”
Samantha Barker, Director of Marketing
Chesterton Academy of the Willamette Valley
St. John's College enrollment emails, Spring 2025. Sent to tens of thousands of students. All four beat the college's median click benchmarks.
EmailClick rate vs. medianLift
Beyond Traditional College (Classical Learning Test audience)0.80% vs. 0.42%~2x clicks
Maryland's Hidden Gem0.57% vs. 0.42%+28%
Croquet Rivalry0.53% vs. 0.42%+25%
Digital Detox0.41% vs. 0.42%+37% unique clicks

The strongest performer went to the Classical Learning Test's national list of classically minded families. Those are the same families your school serves.

Who you'd be working with

A product of the education you're selling.

I'm Jeremy Richter, a student at St. John's College in Annapolis, the original Great Books school. I work in the Communications Office and have written enrollment emails for admissions, I direct a Catholic nonprofit that runs pilgrimages, and I came to this work because classical education changed the direction of my own life.

That matters for a practical reason. A headmaster shouldn't have to explain to his marketer why morning prayer before class matters, or what the Great Books do to a sixteen-year-old, or why a parent asks about faith before facilities. I already know, because I live it. The campaigns I write sound like your school because I share its convictions, not because I researched them.

I keep a deliberately small client roster so every school gets real attention. If we work together, you get me, not an account manager.

Next step

Thirty minutes. I'll show you exactly what families see when they search for your school.

Before we ever talk about working together, I'll walk you through your school's Google presence, website, and inquiry follow-up, with three specific findings you can act on whether you hire me or not.

Book a 30-minute call