EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Crane View Secondary School will be a pioneer and leader school in Budaka District and the surrounding districts. In the next five years, the School will demonstrate the important role of private schools in providing education opportunities for the diverse youth. The School will be widely regarded as one of the leading secondary schools in the region and the country as well.

The need for change in eastern Uganda’s school system is unquestionable. Less than half of its secondary school going students have basic reading and math skills. Schools in this region are woefully overcrowded and the shortage of teachers has brought the system to a breaking point.

Fortunately, the School will provide a shift to the landscape of the educational system in the region.

Educators, parents and politicians increasingly recognize the value of providing school choices to families – particularly those who historically, have not had access to, information about, or a sufficient supply of high quality alternatives to failing schools. The school will sit on approximately 4.7 Acres of land with potential to expand.

The School will establish itself as a premier provider of public school choice in Eastern Uganda. The school will ensure that it employs only highly qualified staff to ensure that quality education is taught to the students this will help in ensuring that the school is able to compete with the top schools in the area.

To ensure quality education the school will recruit teachers directly from the universities like Kyambogo University, Makerere University, Mbarara University, Gulu University and other registered universities. This will enable the school to be among the top 20 schools in the region in the first five years of its opening.

To ensure that the school achieves its mission and vision it will develop its short term, mid term and long term goals. More to that the school will also follow the rules and regulation set up by the government to enable it achieve its vision and mission.

Interms of infrastructure the school will ensure that it builds its class rooms which will be up to date and also good looking dormitories which can accommodate more than 3500 students.

Students will have to pay for accommodation, meals and education this will enable the school mobilize enough finances to cater for the daily costs and enable it achieve its long term, mid-term and short term goals.

To implement its strategy and achieve its ultimate vision of improved student achievement statewide, the School plans to grow significantly in the next clecade. Specifically, the School hopes to enroll 3500 students by 2024.

Crane View Secondary School growth will occur in stages; in the short and mid-terms’ the school will strengthen and build additional class rooms and dormitories in anticipation of further growth while in the long run, the school will refine the strategy and implement it to reach the school’s fulI potential.

Objectives

The objectives over the next Five years for the School are the following:
Achieve school enrollment of 3500 students by year Five (2019).
Expand by building more classes, dormitories and buildings on the land.
Become the low cost provider of comprehensive education services in eastern Uganda.

Mission

The mission of crane view Secondary School is to provide high quality, convenient and comprehensive education at the lowest cost.

Vision

To be the best school in the country

Competitor Analysis

ST PETERS COLLEGE TOROR
NABUMALI SECONDARY SCHOOL
TORORO GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOL
PAULS COLLEGE MBALE
MBALE S.S

Swot Analysis

Strength of Competitors

They are government school and have existed for long this has made them the market leaders.
They have already established market segments for their products; this enables them to easily sell.

Weaknesses of Competitors

They have large population of students so they are congested.

Weaknesses

We will face lack of enough cash in the short run
We are new in the school business

Opportunities

The location of the school is good because there is no good school around
The will school provide both day and boarding facilities to the students
The school fee is favorable to the parents.

Threats

Taxes are high.
Science teachers are few
Teachers expect high salaries

Short Term Plan (August 2019-August 2021)

The school plans to build classrooms to meet the requirement as per Ministry of Education standard of 40 -50 students per stream. The school will put up several class rooms to cater for its planned establishment and growth.

The school will construct boys and girls hostel which will have the capacity of around 2481 students, however in the short run if the population of day students is high than that of the boarding students the school will have to use some of the hostels for class rooms.

To ensure that the school is able to utilize the available space well the school will have to construct building double storied buildings. This structure is going to be a double storied, with an accommodation capacity of 700 students, when spaced as per Ministry of Education requirement of 2 beds per decker.

This boys’ dormitory will be double storied and is expected to be completed by August 2019. given the structural demands and the reduced work progress when the school term opens, because of the school activities running within the same vicinity, this affects fast tracking of the project.

After completion of the construction of the boys dormitory the school will also construct the girls dormitory to ensure that the girls who will enroll at the boarding section are able to have enough accommodation for their stay at school unhindered.

The school will also undertake the fencing of the school land, this will first be using a live hedge, since it still has plans to buy more land for developing the playing grounds for football, netball, athletics and several other outdoor games, this is because the school prioritizes, developing talents as part of its academic ‘activities and also this, helps in advertising the school and exposing the student.

The school will have different construction projects of the building in the school;

Construction of class rooms

The first will be construction of the O’ LEVEL Block.

For which the school expects to spend around 800,000,000 shillings.

This will be a storied building and therefore to ensure that the school meets the ministry of education and sports building it will ensure that every stream has only 50 students.

The A’level block building will cost 400,000,000 shillings in total the building for both O’level and advanced level building will cost around 1.2 buildings. All this will be financed by Equity of the directors’ savings and Bank.

Construction of the dormitory

The financing for the above short term projects is going to be through equity and borrowing, the total project costs is estimated to be UGX 622 M that shall be undertaken in 3 phases:

1^st phase -covering the ground floor : 211M

2^nd phase- covering the 1^st floor : 207M

3^rd phase -covering the 2nd floor :2O4M

At each phase, the bank financing is expected to be UGX 150M while the rest to be financed by the directors of the school.

The 1^st phase (the ground floor) will begin in January 2019 and the bank will finance UGXl50M towards its completion.

The school plans to complete the last phase of the dormitory block by August 2019 and the school plans to get addition funding of UGX 150M.

The school will establish strong management structure managed by the board of Directors/Governors, the school management headed by the head teacher and a very good succession plan which will continue to propel the business to prosperity.

The school will hire well trained and certified professional teachers who will provide all the teaching services. The school will continue to source for qualified and competent individuals to ensure and guarantee best practices.

In addition, the school will continue to organize seminars, tours and exchange programs for student with other competitive schools in the country, this will help students share and compare widely.

The school will establish a welfare fund pool in form of, compulsory savings for both teaching and non-teaching staff, and this will improve and stabilize the financial status among the workers. The school financial committee and the board of governors will continue to ensure the scheme thrives.

Mid-term plan (September 2021 December 2022).

Upon completion of the boys’ storied dormitory block the school will first put a halt on the construction drive for a period of 1 year as it reorganizes itself to mobilize and raise additional funds that will be used as their equity contribution when they begin constructing the girl’s dormitory in January 2021.

To achieve the above the management is planning to introduce development fund of UGX 60,000/: per student per term and as long as the academic performance keep improving, the parents will be more than willing to provide secure education environment for their children. The school plans to construct this structure using own equity and debt financing from the Bank.

Therefore the school is also planning to embark on construction of the girls’ dormitory in 2021, this will also be a double storied structure with an accommodation capacity of 700 students, though this will be more spacious to provide comfort to the girl child, each floor will have its own shower rooms and toilets plus the matrons apartment for convenience and proper monitoring of the girls.

The school also plans to expand on its sick bay facilities and employee-additional nurses plus enrolling a visiting doctor.

The school also Plans to create alliances with primary schools by offering some scholarships and half bursaries to some of the top performers in the primary leaving examinations and this will attract many students to join the school.

The school will target pupils from private primary schools within school’s location and those from Government primary schools. The school is also targeting parents who hail from or work in the district but have their children studying in the neighboring districts of Pallisa, Mbale among others.

School plans to invest in intellectual capital development of its Human resource by encouraging and sponsoring some teachers for further studies and upgrading in their specialties.

The school plans to adopt and establish a competitive and attractive remuneration structure for both teaching and non-teachings this will enable the school to attract and retain competent staff.

The school plans to maintain a steady fees structure between 2019-2021 and thereafter, the school management shall revise the fees structure upwards.

The school plans to adopt and establish strong foundations and culture to propel good discipline and this will mitigate on any occurence of riots among students. In addition, the school plans to admit only paying students and as a result, teachers incomes will be supplemented thereby minimizing issues of teachers’ strikes.

The school plans to have structured management systems and the board will always be involved to make sure the administration steers the business in the right direction.

The school plans to have all expenditure to be against approved budgets and this will enable the school to adequately plan for the students/teachers welfare.

The School plans to priotize, renovating, and maintaining the existing facilities with modern amenities like equipping the buildings with solar for liable lighting, drill more boreholes and piped water for clean and safe water consumption which are key in having modem and up to standard living conditions.

Long term plan (January 2022 -2025)

The school plans to set up a technical section if resources allow or introduce technical drawing subjects, so as to enable training of a holistic student with life skills that are applicable everywhere in everyday life, hence the school will now be producing job creators and not job seekers, this will reduce on the current unemployment levels, this is in line with the current government initiatives.

The school will then finally work on securing the whole of its property by constructing a mortar and brick wall fence all around the school land.

For proper management of expansion and visibility of the school, the management will re-align its organization by establishing coordinating centers in other regions of the country so as to enhance awareness of the school. The home office (the eastern office) will set strategy, manage quality and support the regional offices. This will ease advertising of the school in the country.

The school plans to continue embracing the technological revolution in computer usage to enhance its abilities to teach. The school will remain on the cutting edge by instituting the use of computer simulators and remote web-accessed study material.

The school will continue to seek new ways to provide a better and more convenient teaching environment through technology. The virtual classroom teaching is a thing of the near future and the school is positioning themselves to be among the first who will provide such services. The school plans to open a web portal account where teachers will be able to teach their students online in holidays.

The school also plans to introduce laptops for every student in a candidate class so as to ease revision through research.

The school plans to offer housing facilities to both teaching and non-teaching staff. The priority will first be for teachers in candidate classes. The school also plans to refine the strategy and implement it to reach the school’s full potential. This will include strategic checkpoints during which the school will assess its progress and impact and re- evaluate its strategy.

FINANCIAL PLAN

CRANE VIEW SECONDARY SCHOOL
CASH FLOW PROJECT FOR 3 YEAR
UG SHS ‘000’				2019	2020	2021	2022
	TERM	TERM	TERM	YR I	YR 2	YR 3	YR 4
	1	2	3	Totals	Totals	Totals	Totals
Cash Inflows (Income)
Fees collection	527,998	527,998	527,998	1,583,994	1,726,553	1,881,943	2,051
				–
				–
Bank loan			150,000	150,000	–		–

	=	=	=	=	=	=	=
TOTAL CASHB INFLOWS	527,998	527,998	677,998	1,733,994	1,726,553	1,881,943	2,051


Cash outflows (Expences):
Contribution o Construction	61,000	61,000	211,000	333,000	–	–	–
Food Stuffs	183,161	183,381	183,601	550,143	599,656	653,625	712,4
Firewood	7,500	7,500	7,500	22,500	23,625	24,806	26,04
Director’s Allowances	14,126	14,143	14,160	42,429	44,550	46,778	49,11
Maintenance cost	8,000	8,000	8,000	24,000	25,200	26,460	27,78
Teachers Resource Centre	5,200	5,200	5,200	15,600	16,380	17,199	18,05
Examination Expenses	15,000	15,000	15,000	45,000	49,050	53,465	58,27
Transport	7,700	7,700	7,700	23,100	24,255	25,458	26,74
Utilities Bills	16,500	16,500	16,500	49,500	54,450	59,895	65,74
Salaries	69,000	69,000	69,000	207,000	217,350	228,218	239,9
Staff Welfare	5,132	5,138	5,144	15,414	16,185	16,994	17,84
NSSF Employer’s Contribution	6,900	6,900	6,900	20,700	21,735	22,822	23,96
Bank Charges	3,885	3,889	3,894	11,668	12,252	12,864	13,50
Payment of KCB Loan	67,468	67,468	67,468	202,404	202,404	202,404	202,4
Corporate Tax	23,000	23,000	23,000	69,000	75,000	81,979	89,35
TOTAL CASH OUT FLOW	493,572	493,819	644,067	1,631,458	1,382,092	1,472,967


BALANCE B/F	8,599	43,025	77,204	8,599	111,135	455,387	864
NET CASH INFLOW	34,426	34,179	33,931	102,536	344,252	408,968	480
BALANCE C/D	43,025	77,204	111,135	111,135	455,387	864,355	1344

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