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The article analyzes the development patterns of the organizational structure of educational organizations in the Czech Republic. Previous studies on the organizational structure of commercial entities have confirmed the hypothesis of the repeated pattern of such changes and revealed a number of determining factors. The current study examines the development patterns of private educational entities using cluster analysis to generate groups of similar development levels, as well as analyze the impact of various indicators on the structure of private educational organizations using the goal tree. The authors put forward the hypothesis of the two basic types of organizational structures – sequential and parallel, which dialectically replace each other, qualitatively changing in the process of growth, while retaining defining properties at each new level of development. The educational organizations have a relatively stable organizational structure, making them an ideal research object. In this context, educational organizations of similar size (by the number of employees and the volume of income) and form of ownership can form groups with similar (sequential or parallel) organizational structures. The research methodology includes the statistical methods of cluster analysis and goal tree construction. The calculations are carried out in IBM SPSS Statistics based on the Albertina Gold Edition of Bisnode Česká republika database. The cluster analysis resulted in identification of seven clusters. Addition study on the average values of the variables in the given clusters and the assessment of the goal tree for an independent variable of the type of educational services provided􀇳 the organizations studied are further grouped into five groups. In general, the results of the cluster analysis have confirmed the hypothesis on the alternation of sequential and parallel organizational structures in the development process of educational organizations. Assessment of the goal tree generated for an independent variable of the type of educational services provided showed its dependence on the size and age of educational organizations and confirmed the attribution of the seven clusters into five groups. At the same time, a more detailed study is required, including an indepth analysis of the organizational structure of individual organizations. Nevertheless, the obtained results suggest that the general scheme of the evolution of educational institutions can be presented as universal, since the underlying approaches are applicable for analysis of the sector of educational services in any country with a market economy or a particular region, given the consideration of place-specific features.