Find private schools, nurseries and training providers and their bursars

Start from the school registers rather than a contact database. In England the Department for Education’s Get Information About Schools register lists every school with its type, phase, age range and pupil numbers, and the Independent Schools Council census publishes roll and fee figures for its member schools. In the United States the NCES Private School Universe Survey lists private schools with enrolment and grade span, and the state departments of education hold the licensing records. Causo reads those alongside Ofsted and ISI inspection reports, so a size or fee threshold becomes a search rather than a manual filter.

Because those databases carry firmographics, not school data. They know staff headcount, an industry code and a location, which is enough to tell you a school exists. They do not carry pupil roll, age range, fee level, boarding provision, the inspection or accreditation outcome, or which group owns the school, because none of that is published as company data. It sits in school registers, inspection reports and filed accounts instead, which is where Causo reads it.

The school or setting, why it matched, the evidence behind that with its source, and the decision maker with a verified email address. Typical evidence is a pupil roll or a registered place count from the school register, an inspection outcome with its date, the proprietor or group named as the registered provider, and a vacancy or filing that dates the signal. You can then ask follow-up questions about any result and get answers with sources attached.

Yes, in plain English. None of the three is a field in any contact database, so Causo works them out from published sources: pupil roll and phase from the school register, the outcome and its date from the Ofsted or ISI report, and boarding from the school’s registration and its own site. Every match comes back with the evidence beside it.

It is read at the moment you search rather than pulled from a stored snapshot, so a nursery registered last month, an inspection published in April or a school brought into a group during the summer term appears in this month’s results.

Yes. The sources differ by country, so Causo uses the local equivalents. In the United States that is the NCES Private School Universe Survey and Common Core of Data, the state departments of education, and membership and accreditation bodies such as NAIS, Cognia and the regional accrediting commissions. In Australia it is the ACARA My School register and the state and territory non-government school registration authorities. In New Zealand it is the Education Review Office. Elsewhere it is the national school register, the childcare regulator and whatever inspection records that jurisdiction publishes.

It depends on the size of the organisation. At a single independent school it is usually the bursar, business manager or director of finance and operations, with the head signing off anything strategic. At a US private school the same job normally sits with the chief financial officer or business officer. At a nursery it is often the owner or an operations director, and across a group it moves to a group finance director or chief operating officer. Causo surfaces the role alongside the school so you can tell which of those you are looking at.

One token per researched company, per decision maker found, per question asked and per outreach sequence sent. Plans start at $10 a month, and the first 10 tokens are free with no card required.