What if the most important things happening inside a school are the ones nobody is measuring?
Not test scores. Not attendance rates. But whether students feel they belong. Whether teachers feel valued. Whether families trust that the school knows their child not just their grades.
Great Place to Study was created because we became convinced that this invisible layer of school life, the human experience beneath the academic surface, is not a soft consideration. It is the very foundation that determines whether excellence is even possible.
During the pandemic we watched this foundation crack in schools everywhere. The disruption was academic on the surface but human at its core. Students lost more than learning time, they lost connection, purpose and sense of self. Teachers lost more than routine, they lost the energy that makes teaching an act of genuine care.
We built the Education Flourishing Index to make the invisible visible. To give every voice in a school community, student, teacher, family, a scientific pathway to be heard, understood and acted upon. To transform wellbeing from a conversation into a measurable, annual, sustainable practice.
Because the most important things happening inside a school should never be invisible.
Great Place to Study works with institutions through a structured annual cycle, rigorous in its methodology, deeply human in its impact. Every step is designed to measure the full educational experience and transform it by nurturing wellbeing. It begins before the assessment even starts:
1.Pre-assessment with the school leadership gauges readiness for the evaluation and surfaces blindspots
2.Communication campaign: building awareness, trust and genuine participation before a single question is answered; engages educational community effectively in the process.
3.Assessment: takes place during the school schedule in class through a personalized link students login to the EFI (Education Flourishing Index) platform to answer questions within the GPTS indicators. Teachers and families participate individually, privately and anonymously. Every voice is captured. Nobody is left out.
4.Data is processed, tested, correlated and transformed into a robust report filled with detailed analysis results
5.Results synthesis is delivered
6.Certification is obtained (achieving a minimum score)
7.Action Plan crafted by Great place to Study & school leadership team with short, mid and longterm objectives
8.Priorities are tailored to what is most valued by the community to allocate resources accordingly
9.GPTS follow up every 3 months to ensure successful implementation and transformation of school wellbeing culture
Great Place to Study began in Mexico and has since grown organically across Latin America, now present in Panama, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guatemala and Argentina, driven by something powerful: schools recommending it to other schools.
That peer-to-peer growth is the clearest signal that the EFI process creates genuine value. When a school leader experiences what it means to truly hear their community, they become its most convincing advocates.
In 2026 GPTS crossed into Europe and North America entering new markets and building partnerships with prominent school networks committed to placing wellbeing at the center of education. Today GPTS operates across 10 countries and 4 continents, reaching 650K learners annually.
Our growth strategy is deliberately relational, building a global community of schools that share a common conviction: that flourishing is not a destination but a practice. Every new school that joins strengthens the benchmarking network, enriches the data and deepens the collective understanding of what makes communities truly thrive.
The goal is not rapid expansion for its own sake. It is meaningful, sustainable growth, school by school, community by community, until every child has access to an education system that knows how to flourish.
The most significant structural innovation currently in pilot is the GPTS HUB, a unified digital platform designed to allow every region, every school and every stakeholder to operate within a single, precisely configured environment. Every school profile, every process step, every data collection and every report lives inside one intelligent system, eliminating inefficiency, ensuring consistency and making genuine global scale possible without sacrificing the personalization that defines the GPTS experience. Schools will access interactive dashboards, track their wellbeing journey in real time and download comprehensive reports at any moment in their annual cycle.
Two methodological advances currently in development will deepen the scientific intelligence of the EFI. Regression analysis will drive our action plan recommendation engine, identifying with statistical precision which specific factors most powerfully predict wellbeing outcomes for students, teachers and families in each unique community. Every recommendation will be ranked by predicted impact, so schools always know where to focus first.
Simultaneously GPTS is developing a Wellbeing-Driven NPS Executive Report, moving beyond whether community members would recommend their school, to understanding precisely which wellbeing dimensions are driving or undermining that recommendation. School leaders will receive not just a score but a strategic map of what their community is truly experiencing and why.
What if the single greatest lever for improving your school has nothing to do with curriculum, technology or infrastructure and everything to do with something you have never scientifically measured?
Wellbeing becomes truly powerful the moment it is measured. That is when perception becomes data, data becomes understanding and understanding becomes real, lasting change.
Visit www.greatplacetostudy.com or contact andrea@greatplacetostudy.com to start that conversation.
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