The Financial Model Challenge — Are Adventist Schools Pricing Out Their Core Constituency?

Executive summary

Adventist education exists in a financial paradox. The system was established to serve Adventist families — providing holistic, Christ-centred education that develops the whole person and anchors young people in the faith community. Yet rising costs, declining denominational subsidies, government funding dependencies, growing non-Adventist enrollment, and the broader higher education enrollment cliff are creating a system that many Adventist families cannot afford and that may be drifting from i...