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A Deep Dive Into EMA's 2025 Special Report: Family Perceptions of Value and Affordability [4:7]

Christina Dotchin
August 4, 2025

EMA's 2025 report, An Independent School Education: Family Perceptions of Value and Affordability, offers a large-scale analysis of how families across the socioeconomic spectrum perceive the value and affordability of independent school education. The report provides critical insights into the complex factors shaping families' decisions to enroll their children in independent schools. This report was a collaboration between EMA and Mission & Data, EMA's strategic data partner. Join us as we explore some of the highlights from EMA's latest report with Ari Betof, Co-founder and Partner of Mission & Data, and Sarah Enterline Roch, Institutional Research Consultant at Mission & Data and Director of Institutional Research at St. Mark's School (MA).

EMA members can access the full report, An Independent School Education: Family Perceptions of Value and Affordability, and dig deeper into the results on the accompanying data dashboard by logging into EMA's Community: community.enrollment.org.

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Christina Dotchin
August 4, 2025

Christina Dotchin is the Vice President of Member Relations at the Enrollment Management Association (EMA). Christina oversees EMA's membership, business development, professional development, and marketing teams. This includes programs for over 1,200 independent schools and over 20,000 members. Before joining EMA in 2016, Christina served as the director of admission and financial aid at Proctor Academy (New Hampshire). During her 11 years at Proctor Academy, she also served as girls’ varsity ice hockey head coach, student advisor, and dorm parent. Christina holds a B.A. in English, with a minor in education, from Colby College and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of New Hampshire.

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