Meridian is SAIS’s benchmarking platform designed to help school leaders make data-informed decisions that strengthen mission-driven plans.
The 2025-26 phase of Meridian focused on teacher compensation. The 2026-27 data collection will expand to include items related to administrator compensation, tuition remission, and board structure. Meridian will be updated with this year’s data in October 2026.
We are grateful to the SAIS member schools that contribute data during the annual membership renewal process. This collective effort reflects the full diversity of our association—across geographic settings, operating budgets, enrollment sizes, religious affiliations, and grade levels.
For nearly half of our schools, access to comparable data at a national level has been challenging. Meridian now fills that gap, offering a shared point of orientation and direction for every member school across the SAIS network.
Meridian is available exclusively to SAIS member schools. To access this dashboard, you must be logged in as an SAIS member school and have a designated status as head of school or primary financial contact in the SAIS membership database. In most cases, the primary financial contact is the school’s CFO when applicable. You may need to logout and log back in to the SAIS website to activate your access to this restricted page. Please contact research@sais.org for access assistance.
