By Team CBSE School Acquisition
Everything we have learned underwriting K-12 acquisitions across India, how schools are valued, what buyers actually pay for, which structures suit which families, and how to get diligence-ready before you start.
Exit strategy · 9 min read
Most CBSE schools are not sold at their peak. They are sold after five years of drift, when enrolment has slipped and the multiple has slipped with it.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 31 August 2026
Valuation · 11 min read
Revenue multiples, per-seat benchmarks, EBITDA multiples and land value, four methods, and the one that actually decides your cheque.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 30 August 2026
Market · 8 min read
Between 6x and 16x sits every Indian school transaction. Here is what decides which end of that range you land on.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 30 August 2026
Deal structuring · 8 min read
Sellers price the land. Buyers price the cash flow. Every stalled school transaction in India sits in the gap between those two views.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 29 August 2026
Deal structuring · 9 min read
Not every exit is a sale. Four structures, four very different outcomes for control, cash and legacy.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 29 August 2026
Process · 10 min read
Deals do not die on price. They die in diligence. Here is the folder that prevents that.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 28 August 2026
Exit strategy · 8 min read
Four clocks run simultaneously in every school: the admission cycle, the succession clock, the capex cliff and the regulatory calendar.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 27 August 2026
Market · 8 min read
Metro campuses are expensive and saturated. Tier 2 campuses have land, headroom and unmet demand, and buyers have noticed.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 27 August 2026
Deal structuring · 9 min read
The same campus fetches different terms depending on who is on the other side of the table. Strategic education groups underwrite pipeline and continuity, financial buyers underwrite an exit multiple.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 26 August 2026
Exit strategy · 10 min read
Around two-thirds of the school owners we speak to have no successor willing to run the campus. Succession is a design decision, and delaying it converts a choice into a distress sale.
Team CBSE School Acquisition · 26 August 2026
