Choosing a community

Founders deciding where their school belongs, and leaders getting to know the community they serve, before they look at any building.

How to judge a neighborhood with the site selection checklist, a reader's guide to the community report, and a guide to your next community conversation, then research an address.

Site Selection

School Site Selection Checklist

The questions to settle about a location: families, zoning, access, partners, and your own readiness.

Site Selection

How to Read Your Community Report

What each section of the Community Intelligence report can and cannot tell you, with a worked example and family interview questions.

Getting Started

Plan Your Next Community Conversation

Turn one question from the report into a conversation: who to learn from, how to introduce your school, a follow-up, and how to capture what you hear with an AI note-taker, disclosed to everyone.

Next action

Run Community Intelligence on an address you are weighing and read the report with the guide open. Research an address.

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