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Charter school marketing plan. Twelve weeks. Real metrics.

Most charter school marketing plans live in a slide deck nobody reads. This is the working version — the 12-week sequence URCO runs with new schools, with deliverables you can hold us to.

What goes in a real charter school marketing plan?

A discovery audit, an information architecture, an accessible website rebuild, an instrumented enrollment funnel, paid acquisition setup, and a quarterly re-audit cadence — sequenced over 12 weeks for a single campus.
The mistake most charter school marketing plans make is treating the website, the SEO, the ads, and the analytics as separate workstreams. URCO compresses them into one engagement so each layer informs the next. The audit reveals what to fix; the rebuild fixes it; the funnel measures the fix; the ads load the funnel; the re-audit proves the movement.

The 12-week plan, week by week.

Week 1–2
Discovery + 100-point audit
  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Current site audit (accessibility, SEO, conversion, tracking)
  • Competitor SERP map
  • Enrollment journey map
Week 3–4
Strategy + IA
  • Information architecture
  • Page-by-page content strategy
  • Funnel design (six steps)
  • Measurement plan
Week 5–8
Build
  • Accessible design system
  • Production build (WCAG 2.2 AA)
  • CMS the comms team can run
  • Instrumented funnel
Week 9–10
Launch + paid setup
  • Site launch + redirects
  • Google Ads + Meta campaigns
  • GA4 + funnel events live
  • Google Business Profile optimized
Week 11–12
Tune + train
  • First two weeks of paid data reviewed
  • Funnel drop-off optimizations shipped
  • Comms team trained on CMS
  • First quarterly re-audit scheduled

The metrics we hold ourselves to.

If a marketing plan can’t name the numbers it will move, it’s a wish. Ours names them.

  • Cost per student lead — the headline. Our active test funnel for San Tan Charter School is at $8.50.
  • Funnel completion rate — the percent of starts that reach the contact-capture step. Six-step funnel, measured at every transition.
  • URCO Score (out of 100) — baseline at week 1, re-audit at week 12. Real schools improve by 25–40 points in the first 90 days.
  • Tour-to-application conversion — if your school runs tours, this is the rate from tour to submitted application. Most schools have never measured it.
  • Cost per enrolled student — the only metric that matters. Tracked across the full enrollment cycle.

Where to start.

The free URCO Audit is the on-ramp. It runs in under a minute, returns a 100-point breakdown of your current site, and gives you the first picture of what’s costing your school enrollment. From there, we can build the 12-week plan together.

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FAQ

Charter school marketing plan — FAQ.

Is 12 weeks realistic for a full charter school marketing rebuild?

Yes, for one campus or a small network. Multi-campus networks (3+ sites with shared brand and per-campus identity) are 14–18 weeks. The schedule above is the single-campus baseline.

What does this cost?

Engagements typically run between a free 30-minute audit (the URCO Audit, no obligation) and a six-figure full network build. The middle of the road — single campus, full system — is project-based and quoted after the audit. We never quote without seeing the school first.

What happens after week 12?

Three options: take the system in-house (we hand off CMS training and documentation), keep us on retainer for monthly tuning, or move to a quarterly re-audit cadence. No 12-month contract requirements.

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