Capacity & empty-seat leakage

Licensed capacity, enrollment, waitlist, and tuition — live monthly leakage and ratio pressure for center directors (conversion playbook §7.5).

RatioSeat is a planning aid. It does not certify licensing compliance or replace advice from your licensing specialist.

Estimate only — edit assumptions; not a guarantee. Monthly leakage is open seats × your tuition rate. Planning aid — not legal advice.

Licensed capacity (children)

Slide up to 200

Current enrollment

Slide up to 200

Waitlist families

Slide up to 150

Tuition $/child / month

$1200

Slide up to 2500

Infant / toddler rooms (tight ratios)

Slide up to 6

Advanced assumptions

State pack (ratio planning aid)We still forecast openings in Sheets or ExcelWe track days-to-respond on waitlist offers

Monthly empty-seat leakage (estimate)

$9,600

We multiply 8 open seats by your $1,200/child/month tuition estimate. That is directional leakage, not audited revenue.

8 open seat(s) at your tuition estimate leak about $9,600/mo — up to 8 waitlist families could fill those spots if offers move faster.

Ratio pressure: low at current fillWaitlist conversion opportunity: 8 familiesOffer response time not tracked — slow offers widen leakageSheets forecast — 8–12 week openings are easy to miss

Leakage vs waitlist opportunity

Monthly empty-seat leakage (estimate)$9,600

Waitlist fill opportunity ($/mo, estimate)$9,600

Open licensed seats8 seats

Fill gauge (estimate)

Enrollment 90% of 80 licensed seats · 8 open

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