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Student retention. How many lessons do students take? (All Teachers)
Ideally students would start with me and have lessons forever. My estimate is about 30% of students have 5 or fewer lessons. 50% stay about 6 months 15 % 6 months to a year and the last 5 % over a year.I think i am going to have to start proper stats for this.
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Hi Phil, really interesting topic to raise – I have also thought about this. There might be some statistics that can be drawn out on a national level that might provide some good data analysis to provide more information around this topic. Do you think if information like this was presented back to teachers it would be useful? If there is a lot of interest in this from other teachers I am sure it can become a project at some point.
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I have 4 long term students now 9 years.They first were college students in my classes.They each have gone from middle of the road ,to now singing opera both technical and performance.Through all the stages both female and male ,.Amazing ,and I may add is now over 70 years old.1 latecomer.,had a voice like sandpaper ,now sings like a dove…….
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So I have a singing lesson anniversary spreadsheet, and this post prompted me to update it!
Subsequently, I found this info fun to work out (I know how to have fun on a Friday night):
Out of 33 active students, this is how many have been having regular lessons and how long for:
12 of them: 2 months-1 year (36.3%)
14 of them: Over a year-4 years (42.4%)
7 of them: Over 4 years-8 years (21.2%)Agree that stats would be very handy!
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Yes Matt
Any stats would be great. I need to start collating my own too. As my thread was a guesstimate.
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What a great discussion.
Over the last 3 years I have had 39 students to date.
I think I have been relatively fortunate as I have retained almost 49% of my students. Out of these 49, 84% of them have been with me at least 1 year.
The ones that I have lost have been for different reasons:
The general pattern is the majority of the students that I have lost have been adults. Their work flexibility has meant that they have found it difficult to practice.
I have lost 9 adults due to this. (45%)
I have had 4 students that were always going to be short term i.e. less than a year.(20%)
The remaining 7 students have been children and they left due to a loss of interest (35%)I am always open to who I teach but due to time constraints I am hoping to teach more adults than children. There are only so many hours you can teach after school!
And teaching during the day fills up the time!There is always that slight risk with adults as it might be seen that you have to help them develop new disciplines and with children you are able to do that far more easily.
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