St Charles Community College

What St Charles Community College does

St. Charles Community College (SCC) is a public two-year community college in Cottleville, Missouri, operating across a main campus at 4601 Mid Rivers Mall Drive and a satellite Dardenne Creek Campus that houses the Center for Healthy Living and the Field to Table Institute. Founded in 1986, SCC delivers credit degrees and certificates, dual-enrollment courses for high school students, SCC Online programs, allied-health and nursing pathways, industrial trades (welding, skilled trades), adult education and ESL, community/continuing education, and youth summer camps. Its core technology stack combines Instructure Canvas (LMS), Ellucian CRM Recruit (admissions), SAS (institutional research and reporting), a Google remarketing and analytics layer, and a Dreamscape Learn VR pod environment inside the Center for Immersive Learning.

SCC earns revenue from a mix of tuition and fees, federal and state grants (including the $1.58M MoExcels Workforce Initiative grant that funded the Field to Table Institute and a 2023 $150,000 Missouri Department of Economic Development award), custom corporate training delivered through the Regional Workforce Innovation Center, continuing-education and community-class fees, auxiliary services (bookstore, Plaza Bistro food service, facility rentals), and Foundation/Alumni donations. Its go-to-market is direct-to-consumer via the Ellucian online application portal, augmented by recruiter/navigator outreach, dual-enrollment partnerships with local school districts, on-campus Saturday Registration events, and direct employer workforce-training engagements. Customer segments span first-time, transfer, international, military/veteran, and returning-adult students, plus industrial employers and adult/ESL learners.

SCC is led by President Barbara Kavalier with Provost/CAO Amy Koehler, supported by a deep executive bench covering academic affairs, workforce innovation, IT, institutional research, finance, and student services. The institution holds the standard public-community-college regulatory stack (Title IX, ADA, Section 504, FERPA, COPPA, IPEDS reporting), participates in federal financial aid, and was recognized as a 2021 Building St. Louis Awards finalist for the Field to Table Institute. Operational risks include an active employment-discrimination lawsuit tied to a former dean and the structural constraints of state-appropriated community-college funding.

Name

St Charles Community College

Legal name

St. Charles Community College

Website

https://stchas.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

St. Charles Community College is a public two-year college in Cottleville, Missouri, offering credit degrees and certificates, dual enrollment, online courses, nursing and allied health, industrial trades, workforce training, adult education/ESL, and community education across two campuses to local, transfer, international, and veteran students.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education / Community College

NAICS

Junior Colleges (6112), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Community Colleges (EDAHADAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Transfer/University-Parallel Community Colleges (EDAHADAF), Community Center Education Programs (EDAAAFAB), University/College Continuing Education (Extension) Programs (EDAAAEAA)

Keywords

• Community college education
• Workforce development training
• Dual enrollment programs
• Continuing education classes
• Allied health education

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint Peters

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Tuition and Fees: Primary revenue stream from credit-bearing courses, degrees, certificates, dual enrollment, and SCC Online programs; supports recurring semester-based enrollment.
2. Government and Workforce Grants: Receives public funding including the $1.58M MoExcels Workforce Initiative grant used to build the Field to Table Institute; supported by IPEDS reporting obligations and federal student aid programs.
3. Workforce Training and Custom Corporate Solutions: Fee-based custom training, consulting, and corporate solutions delivered through the Regional Workforce Innovation Center and External Campus Operations.
4. Community Education and Continuing Education Fees: Non-credit personal enrichment, professional development, summer camps (College for All Kids), culinary/agriculture/sustainability classes, and adult education/ESL programming.
5. Auxiliary Services (Bookstore, Food Service, Facility Rentals): Revenue from the campus bookstore, Plaza Bistro food service, and facility/event rentals for the Field to Table Institute and other venues.
6. Alumni Giving and Foundation Donations: Voluntary contributions through the SCC Foundation/Alumni Association supporting scholarships, programs, and capital initiatives.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

St. Charles Community College is a public two-year community college that delivers credit-bearing academic transfer degrees, career and technical certificates, dual enrollment, and online learning (SCC Online) supported by Canvas LMS and Ellucian CRM Recruit admissions. It also operates workforce training through the Regional Workforce Innovation Center, allied health and nursing programs at the Dardenne Creek Campus, the interdisciplinary Field to Table Institute, the Center for Immersive Learning (Dreamscape Learn VR pods), Community Education / Continuing Education, Adult Education & ESL, athletics, and performing arts.

Product overview

St Charles Community College is a public community college in Cottleville, Missouri that delivers its educational portfolio through a small platform-plus-modules architecture anchored by two core student-facing platforms: the mySCC Portal for authenticated student services and the Canvas (Instructure) LMS that powers SCC Online and the broader credit course catalog. Layered on top of these platforms are specialized academic and workforce modules including the Field to Table Institute (culinary, agriculture, and healthcare at the Dardenne Creek Campus), the Center for Immersive Learning with Dreamscape Learn Pod technology, the Regional Workforce Innovation Center for industrial trades, the Excelerator academic success and career coaching program, Dual Enrollment, the Center for Healthy Living, Adult Education & ESL, Continuing Education/Community Education, Athletics, and Performing Arts in the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building. Supporting student-facing operations, SCC also operates an Ellucian CRM Recruit-based admissions application portal, an Omnilert-based emergency alert system, a campus bookstore, and a student housing partnership with Campus Lake Apartments. The portfolio is unified by SCC's mission to deliver academic excellence, student success, workforce advancement, and lifelong learning in a single accessible environment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Field to Table Institute: A unique educational facility adjacent to the Center for Healthy Living at SCC's Dardenne Creek Campus that brings together culinary, agriculture, and healthcare education, featuring a test kitchen, bakery, commercial kitchen, and brewing lab.
• SCC Athletics

Products and services

• SCC Online
• Dual Enrollment
• Center for Immersive Learning
• Field to Table Institute (FTTI)
• Regional Workforce Innovation Center (RWIC)
• Community Education / Continuing Education
• Adult Education & ESL
• Center for Healthy Living
• Arts & Entertainment / Performing Arts
• Athletics
• Campus Store / Bookstore
• Excelerator
• Nursing and Allied Health Programs

Quantifiable outcome

• Five consecutive years of published IPEDS feedback reports (2020–2024) and demographic reports (2021–2025) demonstrating ongoing institutional reporting and federal compliance.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• O'Fallon CastingflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerHighlighted on the SCC home page as a featured workforce partnership. Dr. Kavalier (College President), Mark King, and Dr. Koehler (Provost/CAO) participated in a facility tour and leadership meeting with O'Fallon Casting, described as the world's leading manufacturer of investment-cast aluminum/silicon carbide components. Represents a talent pipeline and customized training partnership via the Regional Workforce Innovation Center.
• Instructure (Canvas Learning Management System)coreTechnology or IntegrationSCC delivers online courses and classroom support through Canvas (stchas.instructure.com). Canvas is the core LMS for credit courses, SCC Online programs, dual enrollment, and continuing education.
• Ellucian (CRM Recruit)coreTechnology or IntegrationEllucian CRM Recruit powers SCC's online Apply Now workflow and admissions processing.
• Dreamscape LearncoreTechnology or IntegrationSCC hosts a Center for Immersive Learning featuring Dreamscape Learn Pods — VR-based immersive learning environment with dedicated Pod Coordinator and Design Specialist staffing.
• Google (Analytics, remarketing/ads)coreTechnology or IntegrationUses Google Analytics for site analytics and Google's remarketing technology to serve enrollment-focused ads to recent visitors; uses Google advertising cookies subject to opt-out at google.com/settings/ads.
• Campus Lake ApartmentsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThird-party student housing community adjacent to the SCC main campus; SCC refers prospective students to [email protected] for housing needs.
• OmnilertcoreTechnology or IntegrationPowers SCC's Emergency Alert System for text-based weather, safety, and campus-closure alerts to enrolled students, faculty, and parents.
• U.S. Department of Education / National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSCC participates in IPEDS institutional reporting, publishing annual feedback reports and student demographic reports that satisfy federal higher-education data requirements.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• State Fair Community College: Missouri community college based in Sedalia with technical and transfer programming across central Missouri. Comparable as a similarly scaled Missouri public community college with workforce and dual enrollment offerings.
• Jefferson College: Public community college in Hillsboro, Missouri, in the St. Louis metro region offering associate degrees, certificates, and workforce training. Comparable mission and rural-suburban Missouri community college footprint.
• East Central College: Public community college in Union, Missouri, serving Franklin, Gasconade, and Crawford counties with similar academic transfer, workforce, and adult education programming. Comparable in scale and rural-to-suburban Missouri community college model.
• Moberly Area Community College: Missouri community college in Moberly serving a multi-county region with academic transfer, career-technical, and adult education programs. Comparable as a mid-sized Missouri public community college with IPEDS reporting obligations.
• Southwestern Illinois College: Community college in Belleville, Illinois, directly across the metro from St. Charles CC, serving overlapping regional workforce and transfer students with comparable academic, technical, and adult education programs.
• Lewis and Clark Community College: Illinois community college in Godfrey serving the greater St. Louis metro region, with similar program breadth including workforce training, dual enrollment, and adult education. Comparable as a bi-state peer in the same labor market.

Direct peers

• Ranken Technical College: Private nonprofit technical college in St. Louis offering associate degrees and certificates in skilled trades, manufacturing, and industrial technology. Directly comparable to SCC's Regional Workforce Innovation Center and Welding Tech Center programming for workforce-bound learners in the St. Louis region.
• St. Louis Community College: Largest community college system in the St. Louis metro, offering transfer, workforce, and adult education across multiple campuses. Directly comparable in mission, program mix, and target student population to St. Charles Community College in the same regional market.

Broad incumbents

• Lindenwood University: Private four-year university located in St. Charles, Missouri, overlapping the same primary service area. Competes for transfer-bound and four-year-bound students in the St. Charles County market.
• University of Missouri-St. Louis: Public four-year university in the St. Louis metro, a common transfer destination for SCC graduates. Comparable as a public higher education institution in the same region, with overlap in transfer pathways and adult learner programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SCC_StCharlesCC
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/StCharlesCC
• Facebookfacebook.com/33007009882
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/35442
• Instagraminstagram.com/stchascc

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles16 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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