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Bright Scholar Education Holdings Ltd

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No Longer Reporting

The company has not filed an annual or quarterly report since its FY2024 20-F, filed Dec 13, 2024. Its latest SEC filing is a SCHEDULE 13G/A from Jan 27, 2026.

The sections below describe the company as of the FY2024 annual report.

What Did They Do?

Operates overseas schools and provides camp, after-school and study-abroad consulting services to students.

How Did They Make Money?

Students and families pay tuition, boarding and meal fees, plus fees for tutoring, camps and study-abroad consulting. Schools and course providers generally collect fees in advance; tutoring and consulting fees cover service periods, camp fees cover the camp, and referral commissions are earned when a referred student enrolls and pays tuition.

FY2024 revenue by product or service (Revenue, gross) revenue
SegmentShareRevenue
Tuition income from education programs
29%
FY2021: 24%
Tuition income from complementary training courses
7.6%
FY2021: 16%
Meal income from education service
20%
FY2021: 18%
Boarding income from education service
14%
FY2021: 6.3%
Commission income
16%
FY2021: 8.5%
Consulting service income
3.5%
FY2021: 8.1%
Operation service income
1.6%
Camp service income
0.6%
FY2021: 2.1%
Other revenues
7.1%
FY2021: 16%

Who Were Their Customers?

Students and families buy overseas schooling and complementary programs; overseas schools recruit through education agencies, while referrals from students and families also bring in prospective students.

Did Revenues Turn Into Profits?

Not on paper. It lost CNY 1B in FY2024, but brought in more cash than it spent: CNY 80.9M of free cash flow.

Operating income, FY2024
−47% of revenue
▲ +407% (Loss) vs FY2023 (−CNY 161.7M, −9%)
Net income, FY2024
−59% of revenue
▲ +161% (Loss) vs FY2023 (−CNY 395.1M, −22%)
Free cash flow, FY2024
5% of revenue
▲ Now profitable vs FY2023 (−CNY 57.1M, −3%)

How Were They Changing?

Grew. Revenue grew 19% in 4 years, from CNY 1.5B in FY2020 to CNY 1.8B in FY2024, about 4% a year.

Domestic schools The older report included domestic kindergartens and school operations in its continuing business; the latest describes continuing operations as overseas schools and complementary education services.

Language schools narrowed geographically The older report described language training institutions across the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada; the latest describes the remaining institutions as in the United Kingdom.

Revenue over time
Tuition income from education programs Tuition income from complementary training courses Meal income from education service Boarding income from education service Commission income Consulting service income Operation service income Camp service income Other revenues
CNY 2BCNY 1BCNY 0

Who Did They Compete With?

Competes with Nord Anglia and Alpha Plus

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