Steve Young
Analyst · William Blair. Please go ahead
Sure. Well, last year, the practice grew at 20%, which was solid and not as high as some of the earlier years, which were more around 30, but we, yes, it’s smaller, it's harder obviously to grow at the same rate, bigger numbers. But we look at this year and we're expecting high growth again. Oftentimes, it's hard to see exactly what's happening in the first three quarters, because we work for the first three quarters to close deals in the fourth quarter. And most of the growth comes then, all of our leading indicators look really good, the contracted new schools that we are starting for the year. So this first quarter, we grew at 7%, which has typically been around 15% or 20%. I still think we're going to close the year in the 15% to 20% range. We've got good leading indicators in place. A good way to think about our businesses is new schools that we bring on. This year, our goal is to bring on 800 new schools, 600 in the US and 200 outside the US. So that would be on top of 3,000. Currently, we have 3,000 schools, 2100 in the US, 900 outside. So our goal is 800 new ones, 600 US, 200 outside. And we install the leader in me, it takes about three years to install it and then we also have a membership package, which is a renewal subscription service. Basically, it works just like All Access Pass. It’s kind of the All Access Pass equivalent for education. And that's about eight grand a year and per school. And so our goal there is last year, we had 94% renewal on that. And so we just think about it in terms of boy, bring on 800 new schools, get 95% of them to renew their subscription to leader in me and it's a really good business model. So, yeah, I think that the growth is decelerating a little bit from where it was years ago and I think it'll can, we see the potential is not changing much at all that we can still continue to grow at double digits for a long time to come. So any other follow-up questions on that?