Start with Community Intelligence
Find the community where your school will flourish.
Enter any address and build a tailored site map: census demographics, the schools already nearby, community organizations and places to know, and a link to the local zoning office. Then size the space, price the buildout, and use AI prompt guides to read the real lease or loan offer in your own AI assistant.
- Census demographics
- Nearby schools
- Community organizations and places to know
- Local zoning office
No address yet? See a sample report
Your first Community Intelligence lookup needs no account, and neither do the Space Calculator or the Renovation Estimator.
What are you working on?
Find potential shared space
Explore churches, community centers and shared-use questions before contacting possible hosts.
Plan your shared-space search
Learn from our neighbors
Already serving a community, or getting to know one? Find the organizations and places nearby, then ask what neighbors value and how your school can help.
Plan a community conversation
Choose a neighborhood
Start with a city, ZIP code or address to explore families and nearby schools. Confirm the map location before running a broad search.
Research a community
Expand your current school
Estimate space for your opening year, then add future enrollment in your growth plan.
Size your next space
Free beta tools
Five tools, in the order founders actually use them.
Start with the community. Size the school. Find candidate sites. Price the buildout. Then read the lease or loan offer with your own AI before you sign.
Step 1 · Start here
Community Intelligence
Start with the people you'll serve. Enter any address and build a tailored site map of the neighborhood, with the four layers a founder needs before touring a single building.
- Census demographicsSchool-age children, income, housing, and growth around the site, from the U.S. Census.
- Nearby schoolsThe public, charter, and private schools already serving these families, with enrollment.
- Community organizations and places to knowChurches, libraries, daycares, and community centers to learn from: what neighbors value, and how your school can help.
- Local zoning officeA link to the city or county zoning office, so you can ask whether school use is permitted before you commit.
Free. Your first lookup needs no account.
Step 2
Space Calculator
Turn enrollment, grade levels, and program goals into a planning-level square-footage breakdown for opening year and as you grow, so you walk into tours knowing what to look for.
Step 3
Space Search
See what commercial space rents for near any ZIP, then open LoopNet and Crexi already filtered to the square footage you need.
Step 4
Renovation Estimator
Renovations that need permitted drawings can be a major undertaking. Use market-average rates to pressure-test scope, sequence, and a buildout budget that fits your school's timeline.
Step 5
AI Prompt Guides
Understand the documents behind your facility decision. Use our guides in your own AI assistant to read a lease, loan offer, or renovation quote. Organize the actual terms, costs, and questions, then verify the work with your advisors and board.
Founder playbooks
Guides, walkthroughs, and the playbooks behind the tools.
Long-form reading on how founders size programs, scope renovations, and read leases. The same library the tools quietly draw from when you need a deeper explanation.
Every guide and checklist downloads as a PDF.
More purpose-built tools for schools of all sizes.
A budget, a building, and an effective back office, from a family of tools built for school founders and leaders.
The SchoolStack family
For early-stage founders, private schools seeking microloans, and programs that need back-office capacity.
The Building Hope ecosystem
Building Hope has spent 25 years building and financing charter school facility projects nationwide. For schools poised to grow to 500+ students, the Real Estate and Finance teams are here to help.
SchoolStack Space is a planning tool. It does not provide legal, zoning, code, lease, financing, insurance, or loan approval advice.
Start with your neighbors.
Whether you are opening a school or already serve a community, learn what neighbors value and how your school can help, then plan the space to match. Free while we're in beta. No credit card required.