FOR PRIVATE K-12 SCHOOLS
Your school has never managed a $30M construction project. Neither has anyone on your team. That's exactly why we exist.
We are the Owner's Project Manager (OPM) for private K-12 schools within 2 hours of Boston, guiding campus capital projects from concept to completion. We represent the school. Not the architect. Not the contractor. You.
The board said yes. Now it's real.
THE REALITY
The campaign is underway. The vision is approved. And now someone has to deliver a campus transformation on a live campus, while classes are in session, with donor money and bond proceeds on the line.
If you're the Head of School, this is your defining leadership moment. It's also a world you've never worked in. You know what you don't know, and it keeps you up at night.
If you're the CFO or Business Manager, you've managed budgets your whole career. You've never managed a construction draw schedule, a GMP contract, or a bond issuance sequenced against capital campaign pledges. And you're already stretched thin.
THE STAKES
A cost overrun here isn't just a financial problem. It's a governance crisis.
You're spending other people's money. Donors, endowment, bond proceeds. A blown budget doesn't just hurt the balance sheet. It becomes the story parents tell, the question every trustee asks, the reason the next campaign stalls. Schools live and die by reputation, and a construction disaster is the kind of story that follows an institution for a decade.
The quiet cost is personal too. Standing in front of the board without answers. Watching faculty and parents lose patience. Carrying a project you can't fully see into every meeting you lead.
OUR ROLE
You lead the school. We carry the project.
We sit on your side of the table for the entire journey: feasibility, entitlement, design, financing, construction, closeout. We speak vision with your Head of School and numbers with your CFO. We know independent school governance, board dynamics, bond structures, and capital campaign timing, and we produce board-ready reporting at every phase so you walk into trustee meetings confident, not scrambling.
We work with your capital campaign consultants and your architects as one team. And we respect the chain of command. We work with your business office, never around it.
Is the project possible, and at what cost?
Feasibility
4
Permits, approvals, and neighbors.
Entitlement
3
Structured around your funding reality.
2
Design
The right team, held to your budget
Financing
1
Managed daily, reported clearly.
Construction
5
Punch list to full handover.
Closeout
6
HOW WE WORK
Six phases. One advocate throughout.
01
Feasibility
Financial modeling, market analysis, and site evaluation before you commit a dollar to design. You learn whether the project works on paper while changing your mind is still free.
04
Financing
Loan structuring, bond coordination, draw schedules, lender reporting. We speak the lender's language and the board's language, and we sequence funding so money arrives when the project needs it.
02
Entitlement
Zoning, permitting, and community process. We direct the strategy and the team; you make the decisions. Mishandled entitlement is where projects quietly die.
05
Construction
Daily oversight, change order control, schedule adherence, and quality checks. We are your eyes on the site so problems get caught when they're small.
03
Design
We manage the architect and engineers toward your budget, not their portfolio. Constructability review and value engineering keep the design buildable and the costs honest.
06
Closeout
Punch list, warranty tracking, and operational handoff. The project isn't done when the contractor leaves. It's done when everything works and you have what you need to run it.
CURRENT WORKS
Mission Grammar School, Boston, MA
A 135-year-old urban Catholic K-5 school in Mission Hill Boston is executing a $31M three-phase campus expansion: renovating the historic rectory at 1545 Tremont, expanding early childhood education at 94 St. Alphonsus, and adding a full-size gymnasium. The campus will grow to serve 450 scholars. We are the OPM, concept to completion. The school has stayed open and operating through all of it.
You don't have to commit to anything to get answers.
Start with a 45-minute Discovery Conversation. Then, if it makes sense, a phased engagement: planning and feasibility first, full OPM services only after your board approves and funding is in place. Transparent fees, clear scope boundaries, and references from school leaders you can call before you sign anything.