By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. Every parent survey ends the same way: an open box and a quiet invitation to say what you really think. Most families leave it blank. The ones who don’t are telling you something important— and when you gather three thousand of those answers from twenty schools and lay them side by side, a story comes into focus that’s almost impossible to see one comment at a time. Benchmarking for Good did something simp

By Dr. Harry Bloom. Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. The Staff climate surveys are in and the building is about to empty. The next ten weeks are the only uninterrupted window you will get to act on what your faculty just told you — before the same cycle begins again in August. Here is where the data says to spend it. It is June. Your teachers are counting down days, your administrators are closing out budgets, and somewhere in your inbox sits a climate surve

By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. The Dream Versus the Frustrating Reality It is the dream of every day school Head: a faculty that is genuinely first-rate, and a parent body that knows it. Faculty quality is the single most defensible reason a family pays Jewish day school tuition rather than choosing a public, charter, or other private alternative. When parents are convinced their school's teachers are exceptional, they re-enroll, they t

By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. Dear School Leader: Most Heads of School and Board leaders believe they have a reasonably good read on their school. Their gut tells them where things are strong, where things are fragile, and what needs attention. And most of them are partially wrong — but they don't know on which part. That's not a criticism. It's a structural problem. Without comparative data — without knowing how your satisfaction scor

By Dr. Harry Bloom, Founder and President, Benchmarking for Good, Inc. When a family seriously considers another school, you usually find out too late — at the exit interview, or never. Across 18 diverse Jewish day schools and 2,546 parent responses in Benchmarking for Good's 2026 peer dataset, 24% of parents told us they had seriously considered enrolling their child in an alternative school within the past 12 months. That's flight risk made visible — and most of it is preve