Working document
The term open and costume sizing checklist
A working list that takes a children's ballet school from placement day to a costume order that arrives in the right sizes.
Free resources
Free tools, comparisons and checklists for dance schools
Calculators, comparisons and a checklist for owners of children's ballet schools running a term calendar toward one spring recital.
Everything on this side of the site is free and made for one job: running a children's ballet school through a term and a spring recital without losing a week to the costume order. Two calculators, three software comparisons and a checklist you can print and mark up with your own dates.
The longer writing lives in Barre and Ledger, our magazine for owners of children's ballet and dance schools. These pages are the working tools underneath it: the arithmetic of a recital fee, the timing of a sizing window, and a straight answer about which software fits which kind of school.
Free tools
Calculators for the recital and the costume order
Two free calculators for the two numbers that decide a recital season, the fee per dancer and the sizing window.
Comparisons
TutuTerm compared with the studio software you already know
Three honest comparisons for an owner deciding what runs placement day, the costume order and the recital fee schedule.
Main guide
How do I set term tuition for my ballet school when families want to pay monthly instead?
It settles what a full term of ballet classes should cost and how to split that number into monthly installments without quietly losing revenue.
Magazine
Barre and Ledger
The working magazine for owners of children's ballet and dance schools: term enrollment, costumes, recital season and the economics behind them.
About
Who writes all of this
About the author: who writes these ballet school guides, why the costume order deadline counted backward from recital day runs through every one of them, and where to send a question about your own term.
The clipboard by the barre is not a system
The calculators, the comparisons and the checklist all circle one job, which is getting a term open and a costume order in without the season landing on you personally at nine at night. TutuTerm is what happens when the placement notes, the girth measurements and the fee schedule stop being paper on the studio desk and start chasing themselves. Ask for a demo and bring last year's routine list, however untidy it is.