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A family company that builds and runs independent schools in Florida. Growing minds and the schools around them since 1990.
Contact: peyton@cleardirectionschools.com, 407-625-6207. Website: https://cleardirectionschools.com

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Clear Direction Schools | Family-founded school operators in Florida
Known, loved, challenged
Known, loved, challenged
Every student deserves to be known, loved, and challenged, and small classes are the foundation that makes it possible. When teachers know every student by name, they can push them further, hold them to a higher standard, and develop the kind of thinkers who don't just absorb information but do something with it.
Built for what's next
Built for what's next
Our graduates are critical thinkers, confident communicators, and strategic problem-solvers, prepared to contribute meaningfully wherever they go. We develop the skills that define great leaders: self-direction, contextual reasoning, and the ability to navigate complexity with confidence.
Designed to take students somewhere.
Students learn best by doing, so the day is built around it: labs, field research, businesses, buildings, food, films, and the kind of problems that don't come with an answer key.
Rigorous academics, real results
Hands-on learning doesn't mean we lower the bar. It means our students clear it. Students test in the top quarter nationally on benchmark assessments, the schools consistently outperform local and state standards, and graduates are admitted to the high schools and colleges of their choice because they've been held to a higher standard from day one.
1280 Average SAT
100% College acceptance
93% Attend a four-year college
Top 25% Nationally on benchmark assessments
Montessori early childhood
Led by credentialed Montessori teachers, PreK through kindergarten.
Project Lead The Way STEM
Two dedicated labs with robotics, coding, 3D design, drones, and flight simulators.
Advanced Placement and dual enrollment
College credit through Valencia College before graduation.
Eleven specialized pathways
Aeronautics, biomedical technology, entrepreneurship, culinary arts, agricultural science, and more.
Learning support and gifted programs
Research-based, so every student is met where they are.
Graduates have gone on to Stanford, Columbia, NYU, the University of Florida, Purdue, Embry-Riddle, and the United States Naval Academy.
Kinesthetic learning
Our students don't sit and absorb. They build robots, launch businesses, design buildings, grow food, and produce films. Every program is rooted in a hands-on approach that develops critical thinking through real application, and students learn to identify problems, think through solutions, and execute. This is education designed to solve real-world problems, not rehearse for a test.
Specialized programs
Eleven programs, none of them electives in the usual sense: each one is where curiosity meets real-world application.
Biomedical Technology
Robotics
Aeronautics
Coding & Programming
Entrepreneurship
Engineering Essentials
Farm-to-Table Culinary
Graphic Design
Video Production
Agriculture
Personal Finance
Campuses built around the way children learn.
1990
Our story
In 1990, Bob and Rowena Flanders converted a warehouse into three classrooms and opened Central Florida Community School with seven students. They believed that every child deserved to be known by name, challenged to think critically, and supported by teachers who genuinely cared. They didn't have deep pockets and they had no investors, just a conviction that education could be done differently.
Today
What started with seven students now spans two schools, 11 acres, nearly 1,000 students, and 125 staff members. Our graduates get into the high schools and universities of their choice, not because they were drilled on test prep, but because they learned how to think, communicate, and lead.
“The point of a school isn’t to fill a child with answers. It’s to make them hungry for questions.” Robert A. Flanders, Founder 1950-2002
Our schools
The Track Record
Years in Education
Qualified Inquiries Per Campus Annually
Combined Enrollment Growth Since 2018
Florida Markets
The enrollment engine behind these numbers is built and run in-house: brand, advertising, and admissions operations for both campuses.
A Growing Network
Crestwell School
Fort Myers, Florida · PreK through 8th Grade
330
Students
12:1
Student-Staff Ratio
189%
Enrollment Growth
Founded in 1994, Crestwell School is a hands-on learning community where students develop critical thinking, confidence, and strategic problem-solving skills. Crestwell School has worked with Clear Direction since 2018, and it serves 330 students today.
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Central Florida Preparatory School
Orlando, Florida · PreK through 12th Grade
630+
Students
1280
Average SAT
10+
Specialized Programs
The founding school of Clear Direction Schools, Central Florida Prep has grown from seven students in a converted warehouse to over 630 students across PreK through 12th grade. With 10+ specialized programs and graduates attending Stanford, Columbia, and the nation's top universities, CFP is proof that the model works.
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Development Projects
Completed Opened August 2026
Bob Flanders Athletic & Performing Arts Center
A 20,000 sq ft expansion at Central Florida Prep that increases student capacity to 712. The center brings a full culinary kitchen, 12 additional classrooms, and a performing arts stage to a campus that started with three classrooms in a warehouse.
In Pre-Construction
Crestwell School Middle School Expansion
A 25,000 sq ft expansion adding 250 student stations, a dedicated STEM lab, art lab, and music studio. Built to give our middle school students more space, more resources, and more room to grow.
Programs designed to solve real-world problems.
How we work with schools.
Three ways in, depending on where a school is and what it needs next.
School Acquisitions
For owners of for-profit independent schools thinking about the future of their school. We acquire schools and keep them whole. Read more
School Management
For owners and boards that want to keep their school and hand off the operations: admissions, finance, staffing, and accreditation. Read more
Campus Development
For schools with something to build. Site, financing, design, and construction, from the first conversation to opening day. Read more
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If you'd like to talk about working with us, we'd like to hear from you.
Enrollment growth engine generating 500+ qualified inquiries per campus annually, built and run in-house
Repeatable operational model for growing independent schools in alignment with their mission
Thirty-five years inside Florida's independent-school community: its markets and its people
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Questions we're asked.
Who is behind Clear Direction Schools?
A family. Bob and Rowena Flanders opened the first school in 1990, and the second generation leads the company today.
Where is Clear Direction Schools based?
Orlando, Florida, with schools in Orlando and Fort Myers.
What does Clear Direction Schools do?
We build and operate independent schools. For other schools we do three things: acquisitions, management, and campus development.
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## School Acquisitions (https://cleardirectionschools.com/acquisitions/)
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The school you built, with more behind it.
An independent school is built around a handful of people and the families who trust them. When we acquire a school, our first job is to understand what made it worth choosing, usually the name on the sign, the teachers families ask for by name, and the program that set it apart, and to build the plan around keeping it.
Our second job is to bring what a founder usually can’t build alone. An admissions and enrollment operation, a central team behind the head of school, and the resources to grow the campus when the school is ready.
We’ve done both at the schools we serve. Our family opened its first school in a converted warehouse in 1990 and has spent every year since running schools in Florida.
35 years running independent schools in Florida
2 campuses, nearly 1,000 students
125 faculty and staff
191% combined enrollment growth since 2018
500+ qualified inquiries a year, per campus
20,000 square feet opened in August 2026, with 25,000 more in pre-construction
Why Clear Direction?
Three things a large operator can’t offer you, and one thing it can that we can too.
We’re founders, not a fund
The same family that opened our first school sits across the table from you. We know what it took to build yours, and what you’re afraid of losing when it changes hands.
We stay small on purpose
A group with a hundred campuses has to run a playbook, because that’s how it stays profitable at that size. We don’t, so decisions about your school get made by people who have met your families.
We invest in the schools we serve
Enrollment, facilities, and people. The schools we serve have grown 191% since 2018, and both campuses have been expanded to keep up.
What your school gains.
The resources of a group, brought by people who have used every one of them on a school of their own. This is how we approach it; the specifics are agreed in writing, school by school.
A full admissions and enrollment operation
Brand, website, advertising, inquiry follow-up, tours, and re-enrollment, run by our in-house enrollment team. Each campus we serve now sees more than 500 qualified inquiries a year.
A central team behind the head of school
Budgeting, payroll, benefits, hiring, compliance, and reporting, handled centrally so the head of school can lead the school instead of running its back office.
Investment in the campus
When the school is ready to grow, we plan and build. A 20,000 square foot athletic and performing arts center opened on one of the campuses we serve in August 2026, and a 25,000 square foot expansion is in pre-construction on the other.
Career development for teachers and leaders
Professional development, a benefits program, and paths to leadership across more than one campus, so the people who make the school what it is have more reasons to stay.
Keep what makes your school special
Our starting point is that the name, the culture, the traditions, and the program families chose stay in place, and that our job is to strengthen what works rather than replace it.
A small group that shares what works
Heads of school and teachers across our campuses compare notes on curriculum, signature programs, and admissions, without a head office telling them what to teach.
The transition.
Quiet, in order, and timed to the school year. Nothing about a first conversation is shared with staff, families, or anyone else.
A confidential conversation
A call with Peyton. You tell us about the school and what you’re hoping for, and we tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.
Getting to know the school
A simple confidentiality agreement, then the basics: enrollment, the program, the team, the lease or the property. Then a visit, arranged so it doesn’t raise questions on campus.
A written proposal
What we’d pay, how it’s structured, and what your role would be, in plain terms and with the reasoning behind the number.
Diligence and the agreement
We verify what we’ve been told, you verify us, and lawyers put the agreement in writing. Your own advisors are welcome at every step.
Transition planning
Staff, families, and the calendar: who hears what, when, and from whom. Timed to the school year, not to our convenience.
Day one and the first year
In almost every case the name on the sign is the same on Monday. Our team steps in behind the head of school, and the founder’s role, if there is one, starts as planned.
Keeping a school’s legacy.
A conversation with Peyton Flanders, Chief Operating Officer
Why do you keep the name?
Because the name is the promise families bought. Changing it tells the community the school they chose is gone, and it usually isn’t true. Our instinct is to change what’s behind the front desk, not what’s on the sign.
What changes for teachers?
The paperwork leaves the building. A central team takes on payroll, benefits, compliance, and admissions, and teachers get the professional development and career paths that come with a larger team. In most cases, who they report to on Monday morning doesn’t change.
What do families notice?
Ideally, more of what they came for: fuller programs, a stronger campus, and the same faces. The changes families should notice are the ones they would have asked for.
What role can the founder have?
Whatever they want it to be, within reason. Some teach, some lead for a season, some advise for a year, and some retire on the closing date. We plan it with the founder, and the school does best when everyone is honest about which one it is.
What do you look for in a school?
A real program and a community that believes in it. Size matters less than that. We’ve seen small schools worth carrying forward and large ones that weren’t.
More than one way to hand off a school.
The shape of the agreement follows the owner, not a template. Some owners want a clean break and some want a slower one, and either can be planned. And if you’d rather not sell at all, we can run the school for you under a management agreement while you keep it. That’s our School Management page.
Sell and step away
A clean handoff on a date that works for the school calendar, with the transition planned before anyone announces anything.
Sell and stay on
Keep teaching, lead the school for a season, or advise through the first year. Founders who want to stay involved are welcome to.
Sell the school, keep the building
If you own the property, sell it with the school or keep it and lease it to the school. Both can work.
Key terms.
Most owners sell a school once. These are the terms that come up, in the order they come up.
Confidentiality agreement Also called an NDA. Signed before either side shares anything private, so you can talk freely without it reaching your staff or your competitors.
Proposal Our written offer: the price, how it’s paid, what happens with the property, and the founder’s role. Sometimes called a letter of intent once both sides sign it.
Due diligence The period after the proposal when we verify enrollment, finances, contracts, and the property, and you verify us. Nothing about the school is announced during it.
Purchase agreement The binding contract, drafted by lawyers on both sides, that turns the proposal into the transaction.
Transition period The stretch between signing and the day our team steps in, when staff and families are told and the handoff is planned around the school calendar.
Closing The day the school changes hands and you’re paid. Usually set to a natural break in the school year.
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Start with the checklist: the questions a new operator asks about a school, so you can see where yours stands before anyone else does.
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Read first
What happens to a private school when the founder retires
Who takes over a private school? Your options compared
How an independent school changes hands: for-profit vs nonprofit
Montessori school succession planning
How to grow enrollment at an independent school
Questions we hear first.
What kinds of schools do you acquire?
For-profit independent schools across the United States: Montessori programs, preschools that have grown into elementary schools, K-5 and K-8 schools, and PreK through 12. Usually founder-led, with a program and a community worth carrying forward. Size matters less than the school’s character. If your school is a nonprofit, the path is a management agreement with your board, and that conversation starts on our School Management page.
What is my school worth?
It depends on enrollment and where it’s heading, the program, the team that stays, the lease or the property, and how much of the school runs without you. We don’t publish numbers, and we won’t quote one before we’ve seen the school. If we go forward, we put a written proposal in front of you with the reasoning behind it, and we’ll tell you honestly if we think you’d do better with someone else.
What happens to my brand?
In almost every case the name stays, along with the culture and the traditions families count on. Changing a school’s name tells its community the school they chose is gone, and that isn’t what we’re buying. If a change ever made sense, it would be decided with the founder, not announced to them.
What happens to the curriculum?
The program is the reason families chose the school, so our starting point is to strengthen it rather than replace it. Where our own schools have something worth sharing, from STEM labs to agriculture and culinary programs, it’s offered, not imposed.
What happens to my team?
We work to keep the teachers and leaders who make the place what it is, and every school we serve has kept its leadership through the years we have worked with it. What a larger team can offer them is a benefits program, professional development, career paths, and a central office that takes the paperwork off the school.
Can I stay on after the sale?
Often, yes, and it’s one of the first things we talk about. Some founders keep teaching, some lead the school for a season, and some advise through the first year and then step away. We plan that with you rather than for you.
I own the real estate too. Will you buy it or lease it?
Either can work. You can sell the property with the school or keep it and lease it to the school, and we’ll talk through which one fits your plans.
How do you tell staff and families about the change?
Together, and from the school. We plan who hears what and when, starting with your leadership team, then staff, then families, with the founder’s voice first. The goal is that no one hears about it from a rumor.
Who finds out that we’re talking?
No one, unless you decide otherwise. A first conversation is between you and us. We don’t share it with staff, families, or anyone else, and if the fit isn’t there, it ends there.
How long does a school transition take?
It varies with the school’s structure and with who has to approve it, so we don’t quote a timeline. What we can tell you is that a transition is usually timed around the school calendar, so families see continuity instead of a change in the middle of a year.
What happens to a private school when the founder retires?
It depends on what was arranged in advance. Some schools have a successor ready and a board prepared to hire them. Others drift for years while enrollment slips, and a few close. A third path is a transition to an operator who keeps running it as a school, and that’s the one we’re built for.
Who takes over a private school when the founder is ready to step back?
It depends on how the school is organized. A for-profit school has an owner, and the owner decides who comes next: a family member, a long-tenured head of school, another school, or a company that runs schools. A nonprofit school has no owner. Its board decides who leads it, and the board may engage an operator under a management agreement while the school stays what it is. This page is about the first path; the second is our School Management page. Either way, we’re founders ourselves, so we start with what you want the school to still be in ten years.
“The point of a school isn’t to fill a child with answers. It’s to make them hungry for questions.”
Robert A. Flanders, Founder 1950-2002
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Owners and founders of for-profit independent schools across the United States. Nothing you tell us is shared with anyone.
Also: School Management Campus Development
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## School Management (https://cleardirectionschools.com/management/)
Private School Management Company | Clear Direction Schools
Academic program
Curriculum selection, program design, and the standards students are held to, built with the head of school and the faculty rather than handed to them.
Accreditation and compliance
Self-studies, site visits, state reporting, and the standards work that keeps a school in good standing with its accreditors.
Admissions and enrollment
Brand, website, advertising, inquiry follow-up, tours, and re-enrollment, run by our in-house enrollment team.
Arts and signature programs
Performing and visual arts, culinary, agriculture, STEM labs, and the signature programs that give a school a reason to be chosen.
Athletics
An athletic program from the first team to competition-grade facilities: coaches, leagues, schedules, and the spaces to play in.
Campus development
When the school has something to build, our campus development team carries it from site and design through construction and opening day.
Educational technology
Devices for every student, classroom technology, the student information and learning platforms behind them, and the training to use them well.
Facilities and vendors
Maintenance, food service, transportation, and the vendor relationships behind them.
Finance and budgeting
Annual budgets, tuition and fee structures, monthly reporting to the board, audits, and the financing plan for capital projects.
International program
Recruiting, hosting, and supporting international students, and the compliance and homestay work that comes with them.
Staffing, leadership, and faculty
Recruiting, hiring, compensation, and benefits, and developing and keeping the head of school, the leadership team, and the teachers families come back for.
Student support and special education
Learning support, intervention, and gifted programs designed for the students the school actually has, with the specialists and the structure to run them.
Your board sets the strategy. Our central team runs it.
How it works.
A management engagement runs in a set order, and the board sees every step of it. Nothing starts before the agreement is signed, and nothing in the agreement is a surprise.
A conversation with the board
A call, then a visit with the board chair and the head of school. What the school needs, what the board wants to keep exactly as it is, and whether we’re the right fit. Nothing about that conversation is shared beyond the people in it.
Assessment
We spend time on campus and in the numbers: enrollment and the inquiry pipeline, the budget, staffing, facilities, accreditation standing, and the program. Then we tell the board plainly where the school is strong and where it’s exposed.
An operating plan
A written plan with targets for enrollment, finances, staffing, and program, built with the head of school and sequenced over the first year and the three after it. The board sees the plan before it sees an agreement.
The management agreement
It spells out what we do, what it costs, how we report, and how it ends if either side wants it to. The board approves the agreement and its cost before anything starts, and its counsel is welcome at every step.
The first ninety days
Our enrollment team rebuilds the admissions operation first, because that’s where the pressure usually is. The central team steps in behind the head of school on finance, staffing, and compliance. Staff and families hear about the change from the school, in the order the board chooses.
Quarterly accountability
Enrollment, finances, staffing, and accreditation, reported to the board every quarter against the plan, with the head of school in the room. The board keeps governance and the mission. We carry the work and answer for it.
Before In 2018, one of the schools we serve had room to grow.
students enrolled by 2024. Full.
To keep up Five additional classrooms have already been added to support demand.
Next 250 more student stations through a 25,000 square foot campus expansion now in pre-construction.
Questions we hear first.
What does a school management company do?
It runs the business side of an independent school on behalf of its owner or its board: admissions and enrollment marketing, budgeting and finance, hiring and benefits, accreditation and state reporting, facilities and vendors. An owner keeps the school. A board keeps governance and the mission. The head of school keeps the school. The management company carries the operations and reports on them.
Do we give up our board?
No. The board keeps governance. A management agreement sets out what we do, what it costs, how we report, and how it ends if either side wants it to.
Can you fix our enrollment?
That is usually where we start. Our enrollment team rebuilds the brand, the website, the advertising, and the admissions operation. Each campus we serve now sees more than 500 qualified inquiries a year.
Can you help with accreditation?
Yes. Self-studies, site visits, standards work, and state reporting.
What does it cost?
A management fee set out in the agreement and scaled to the school, structured as a percentage of tuition revenue or a fixed annual fee. We put the number in writing before anyone signs anything.
How does it end?
The agreement has a term and a way out for either side. A school should stay because the arrangement works, not because it is stuck.
“The point of a school isn’t to fill a child with answers. It’s to make them hungry for questions.”
Robert A. Flanders, Founder 1950-2002
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Owners, boards, and heads of independent schools that want to keep their school and hand off the operations.
Also: School Acquisitions Campus Development
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## Campus Development (https://cleardirectionschools.com/development/)
School Campus Development and Construction | Clear Direction Schools
What we do.
Every stage of a school building, with people who have done each one before.
Site selection and land
Finding the parcel, reading the zoning, and working through the county before anyone signs anything.
Financing support
Structuring the project so the school can carry it, and supporting the pursuit of financing with the lenders and bond underwriters who know school projects. We aren’t a lender.
Design and permitting
Programs that teachers can actually run in, drawn by architects who have built schools, and carried through approvals.
Construction management
Budget, schedule, and the daily decisions on site, with a school calendar to work around.
Opening operations
Staffing, enrollment, and systems planned ahead of opening.
Plan the program first. Let the building follow.
20,000 sq ft gymnasium expansion
The people we build with.
We work with architects, builders, engineers, and financing partners who know school projects: what a classroom needs, what a county asks for, and what a school can afford. They come with us to your project.
Questions we hear first.
Can a nonprofit school get a loan for construction?
Yes. Lenders and bond underwriters look at enrollment history, cash on hand, and whether the school’s income comfortably covers the payments. A school with steady enrollment and clean financial statements has more options than most boards expect.
How much does a school building cost?
It depends on the program more than the square footage. We plan the program first, what the building has to do for teachers and students, and let that set the size and the budget, not the other way around.
Do you build on our campus or find new land?
Both. We have added to a working campus without closing it, relocated a whole school to a new site, and searched for land for a second campus. Each starts with the same question: what does the school need in ten years?
Do you manage the construction?
Yes. Budget, schedule, and the daily decisions on site, with a school calendar to work around.
How long does it take?
Planning and approvals often take as long as the construction itself, and permitting and construction schedules can move for reasons outside anyone’s control. We build that into the plan rather than promise a date.
“The point of a school isn’t to fill a child with answers. It’s to make them hungry for questions.”
Robert A. Flanders, Founder 1950-2002
Tell us about your project.
Schools with a campus to build, expand, or relocate.
Also: School Acquisitions School Management
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## Guide: What happens to a private school when the founder retires (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/what-happens-when-a-school-founder-retires/)
What Happens to a Private School When the Founder Retires | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: How an independent school changes hands (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/how-independent-schools-change-hands/)
Is a Private School a Nonprofit? How Independent Schools Change Hands | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: Who takes over a private school: your options compared (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/options-for-handing-over-a-private-school/)
Who Takes Over a Private School? Your Options Compared | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: What a school management company actually does (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/what-a-school-management-company-does/)
What Does a School Management Company Do? | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: How private schools pay for new buildings (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/how-private-schools-pay-for-new-buildings/)
Funding for New School Buildings: Loans, Bonds, and Campaigns | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: Succession planning for Montessori and small independent schools (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/montessori-school-succession-planning/)
Montessori School Succession Planning | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: How to grow enrollment at an independent school (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/how-to-grow-enrollment-at-an-independent-school/)
How to Grow Enrollment at an Independent School | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: How much is a private school worth? (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/how-much-is-a-private-school-worth/)
How Much Is a Private School Worth? What It Costs to Buy One | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: How to sell a private school, from the first call to closing (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/how-to-sell-a-private-school/)
How to Sell a Private School: From the First Call to Closing | Clear Direction Schools
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## Guide: Florida's private schools in 2026: what the state's own records show (https://cleardirectionschools.com/guides/florida-independent-schools-2026/)
Florida's Private Schools in 2026: What the State's Records Show | Clear Direction Schools
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## Clear Direction Schools, at a glance (https://cleardirectionschools.com/company/)
About Clear Direction Schools | A Family Company Since 1990

## The people behind the schools (https://cleardirectionschools.com/people/)
Our People | Clear Direction Schools
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## News (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/)
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## Get in touch (https://cleardirectionschools.com/contact/)
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## News: Guides for school founders and boards, and a succession readiness checklist (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/guides/)
Guides for school founders and boards, and a succession readiness checklist | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Clear Direction Schools introduces its company identity and a new website (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/company-identity/)
Clear Direction Schools introduces its company identity and a new website | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Crestwell School's middle school expansion moves into pre-construction (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/crestwell-expansion/)
Crestwell School's middle school expansion moves into pre-construction | Clear Direction Schools

## News: The Robert A. Flanders Athletic and Performing Arts Center opens in Orlando (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/flanders-center/)
The Robert A. Flanders Athletic and Performing Arts Center opens in Orlando | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Crestwell School inducts its first National Junior Honor Society class (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/njhs-2026/)
Crestwell School inducts its first National Junior Honor Society class | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Crestwell's Derby Royale gala supports STEM, the arts, and campus improvements (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/derby-royale-2026/)
Crestwell's Derby Royale gala supports STEM, the arts, and campus improvements | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Crestwell students get hands-on time with surgical robots at Gulf Coast Medical Center (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/surgical-robots-2025/)
Crestwell students get hands-on time with surgical robots at Gulf Coast Medical Center | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Central Florida Prep moves to a purpose-built campus in Apopka (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/apopka-campus/)
Central Florida Prep moves to a purpose-built campus in Apopka | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Central Florida Prep becomes the first private school in Orange County to go one-to-one with technology (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/one-to-one-2009/)
Central Florida Prep becomes the first private school in Orange County to go one-to-one with technology | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Central Florida Community School becomes Central Florida Preparatory School (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/renamed-2001/)
Central Florida Community School becomes Central Florida Preparatory School | Clear Direction Schools

## News: The school moves to Citrus Oaks Avenue and launches its Montessori program (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/citrus-oaks-1994/)
The school moves to Citrus Oaks Avenue and launches its Montessori program | Clear Direction Schools

## News: Central Florida Community School opens in a converted warehouse (https://cleardirectionschools.com/news/founding/)
Central Florida Community School opens in a converted warehouse | Clear Direction Schools