Catholic school enrollment, done for you
Fill your seats. Keep your mission.
Great Catholic schools are closing — not because they aren't extraordinary, but because the families who'd love them never find them. Stella Maris Marketing changes that: we bring you new families with done-for-you enrollment marketing, at a price that fits a parish budget.
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The real problem
The problem isn't your school. It's that no one can find it.
Most struggling Catholic schools are underpriced, genuinely different, and invisible online. A family searching for exactly what you offer can't find you — and when they do reach out, the reply comes days later, if at all. That gap is costing you families every single month.
What we do
One simple system to fill your seats
A done-for-you enrollment engine — plus help keeping the families you already have.
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The Enrollment System
Start here- Sharpen your story so families instantly understand what makes you different
- A custom landing page built to turn curious parents into booked tours
- Google, Facebook, and Instagram ads targeting local families with no mark up
- Fast, personal replies to every inquiry — because no family waits days to hear back
- A follow-up sequence that guides families from "just looking" to "enrolled"
- A simple dashboard to measure performance: inquiries → tours → applications → enrollments
One low monthly fee. Cancel anytime.
Additional Services
We can also help you grow the families and donors you already have.
Keep Current Families
Monthly parent newsletter, a winter re-enrollment campaign, event promotion, and a refer-a-family program. Keeping families is cheaper than finding new ones.
Grow Your Support
Annual fund appeals, lapsed-donor and alumni outreach, and grant writing — the development help most schools can't afford to hire.
Not sure where to start? Begin with a free enrollment assessment.
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How it works
Free assessment
I look at your enrollment process the way a parent would, map your local families, and hand you an honest plan. Yours to keep, no strings.
We build and run it
I set up your page, ads, and follow-up, and manage the whole system so you don’t have to.
Families enroll
You watch inquiries turn into tours, and tours into new families, on a simple dashboard.
About
Who's behind Stella Maris Marketing
Hi, I'm Sean Graber. I've spent my career building the kind of growth engines most Catholic schools have never had access to — running marketing, e-commerce, and digital products for one of the largest Catholic media organizations in the country. I've launched the ad campaigns, built the websites and funnels, and owned the numbers that turn strangers into a committed community.
I'm also a devout Catholic and a father of four. I know exactly what a Catholic education is worth — and it breaks my heart to watch wonderful schools struggle to fill their seats simply because the right families never found them.
That's why I named this Stella Maris. Our Lady, Star of the Sea, is the star sailors follow safely home — and that's what I do for families: help them find their way to the school that will form them. I bring the same tools the biggest organizations use — targeted advertising, high-converting websites, fast follow-up — to the Catholic schools that need them most, at a price a parish school can actually afford.
Why us
Why choose us
Genuinely affordable
Powered by modern AI tools, so you get agency-quality enrollment marketing at a fraction of agency prices. No bloated retainer.
Truly done-for-you
No new hire, no software to learn, no team to manage. I run the whole thing and report back to you.
Built by a Catholic, for Catholic schools
I understand your mission, your families, and your budget — because I live it too.
Let's fill your seats.
Get a free, no-obligation enrollment assessment. I'll show you exactly where families are slipping away — and how to bring them in.
Prefer to write directly? hello@stellamarismarketing.com