How We Create OUR KIDS School Reports

Helping You Find Clarity in Your School Search

At OUR KIDS, everything we do is designed to help you make a confident, informed choice about your child’s education.

We don’t rank schools or chase prestige. Instead, we focus on helping you understand what makes each school truly unique, compared with the other options, so you can find the one that best fits your child. It’s about finding the best school for your child, one that addresses their educational needs and priorities.

To support your decision-making, we create detailed reports and comparison tools that bring structure, insight, and clarity to your search.

Where Our Insights Come From

For nearly 30 years, we’ve supported Canadian families through one of their biggest parenting decisions: choosing the right private or independent school.

We’ve had thousands of conversations with parents, students, alumni, and educators, and we continue to learn every day.

To truly understand each school, we go beyond the marketing and dig into real conversations, experiences, and insights that reveal what a school is actually like.

We connect directly with

• Current parents and students
• Alumni
• School leaders and faculty
• Education consultants
• And in many cases, we visit schools in person, often more than once.

We combine these conversations with in-depth questionnaires, structured interviews, and ongoing updates to make sure you get an honest, evolving view of each school.

What Makes Our Reports Different

We believe every school has a unique identity, its own “DNA.” That’s what we aim to reveal in our school reports. Because the best school isn’t about rankings. It’s about alignment.

The question you ask is, “Does this school match who my child is and who they’re becoming?” And we’re here to help you find the answer.

Our Reports Help You Explore

• Values: What are the core guiding values of the school? How are those values lived every day?
• Fit: What kinds of students thrive here? What kind of person is this school aiming to develop?
• Culture: What’s the atmosphere like? How does it feel to be part of this school community?
• Voice: What do people who go here, students, teachers, parents, say about the experience?
• Learning: How does education come to life here? What’s it like for students to learn here, inside and outside the classroom?

How We Build These Reports

• Real Conversations: We speak with students, alums, parents, staff, and experts to hear real stories and honest feedback.
• Campus Visits: When possible, we visit schools ourselves. It’s part of understanding the environment, the people, and how a place feels, not just how it looks.
• Comparative Insight: We put each school in context, drawing on decades of experience across the education landscape.
• Independent Perspective: While schools may commission a report, our insights are independently produced and remain unbiased, written in our voice.
• Depth Where It Matters: Some reports are longer than others, not because the school is “better,” but because more families are asking detailed questions. We're continually expanding our coverage to meet that demand.

We Do This for You

This decision is about more than academics or facilities.

It’s about who your child is and who they’re becoming. It’s also about alignment with you as a family.

We’re here to help you find clarity and make the right school choice.

Tell us how we’re doing

We’re here to help you make confident, informed choices—and we’d love to hear how we’re doing. Whether our tools helped you get started or supported your final decision, your feedback helps us serve families even better. Contact Us