Driving School Business Economics: Lesson Capacity, Instructor Utilisation, Packages, Pass-Rate Effects, Vehicle Costs & Break-Even

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• Turn each instructor's duty hours into whole bookable lessons per day and week, add up the school's weekly capacity and measure how much of the paid duty time is actually spent driving.
• Measure booked and delivered utilisation over six weeks, price the late cancellations and no-shows with the school's fictional fee rule and highlight the weeks where too many lessons fell through.
• Work out the effective price per lesson and the discount of each package, see how unused lessons (breakage) raise the revenue per lesson driven and calculate the weighted average price per lesson sold.
• Turn fictional averages per course type into revenue per learner and per year, find the weighted lessons per learner and work out how many new learners per month fill the school's capacity, then chart the learner mix.
• Estimate the expected number of tests per learner from fictional pass rates, add up the extra lessons and revenue that failed tests create and calculate how many lessons a better pass rate frees for new learners.
• Turn a purchased car into a yearly depreciation, add up the annual cost of each training car including the spread fit-out, and calculate the cost per lesson hour per car and for the whole fleet.
• Calculate the school's margin per lesson under three fictional ways of working with instructors – employed, franchise and commission – and pick the model that earns the school the most at the planned lesson volume.
• Calculate the contribution per lesson, the break-even lessons per month and the planned profit for the year, then highlight the months of the seasonal plan that stay below break-even.