New Story Schools

Operational leadership sits with CEO Jennifer Coleman. Investment and acquisition strategy, however, is directed by the parent entity, which historically has operated with backing from institutional private equity or credit investors seeking to consolidate special-education providers. Specific deal-level decision-makers beyond the CEO are not publicly named.

New Story Schools is an operating company, not a family office. It functions as a specialized education platform that has historically been part of a larger behavioral-health and special-education holding group. The structure is consistent with a private equity roll-up strategy in the autism and therapeutic services sector.

The vast majority of revenue comes from tuition payments made by public school districts. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, when a public school cannot provide a free appropriate public education, the district contracts with approved private schools like New Story. This makes the revenue stream effectively government-funded and contractually recurring.

The firm concentrates its physical footprint in the Mid-Atlantic, with a particularly dense presence in Pennsylvania. Specific campus locations cluster in suburban markets where public school districts face constrained special-education capacity.

As an operating platform rather than an investment firm, New Story Schools does not make fund commitments. The parent entity has historically pursued direct acquisitions of smaller special-education providers, absorbing them under the New Story brand to expand classroom capacity and geographic reach.