Does anybody have experience with buying K-12 schools in Latin America?
November 04, 2020
by a searcher from Babson College - F.W. Olin Graduate School in Boston, MA, USA
I'm a former dean of a highly innovative liberal arts college in Guatemala (https://mpc.ufm.edu/). I'm now getting my MBA and want to explore the idea of rolling up a few schools in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, starting with a small acquisition in Guatemala and going from there.
I plan on pitching this idea to my family's family office but am only getting started on drafting a plan to pitch to them. Ideally I'd like to have a solid understanding of the economics and the financials of what this roll-up would look like, on top of having a PPM, by the end of the year.
The reason I think schools are interesting is because nobody's looking that way, they're a very stable business with recurring revenue and can serve as a platform to build other businesses such as teacher training programs and other services for schools (tutoring, extra curricular activities, etc.). I have very strong contacts in the industry in all three countries.
Any ideas and critique are welcome!
from Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles, CA, USA
from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia