Kelvin Education

What Kelvin Education does

Kelvin Education is a K-12 student-voice and survey platform serving U.S. public school districts and charter networks. Its flagship product, Kelvin Pulse, enables districts to administer real-time surveys to students, staff, and families, with direct SIS integration to PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Synergy, and Aeries for dynamic rostering and demographic disaggregation. The platform includes 1,100+ research-validated questions drawn from 25+ public survey instruments, AI-driven sentiment analysis of open-text responses, real-time anomaly detection for student safety concerns (self-harm, violence), and a differentiated Chrome Extension that enables login-free survey delivery and routinely drives participation rates above 80%. A second product line, Kelvin Infinity, launched in 2024, extends the platform into special education management, covering IEP, IFSP, 504 plan management, Medicaid billing, and state reporting.

The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, and was acquired by Renaissance, the large K-12 assessment provider, which now acts as its parent company and primary distribution channel. Kelvin serves 250+ districts and charter networks across 30+ U.S. states, with reported reach of more than 1 million students, staff, and families and 8,100+ pulses administered. Pricing is a per-student annual subscription ($2/student/year for districts above 1,000 students) or a flat $2,000 annual fee for smaller districts, with custom multiyear discounts available. Kelvin sells primarily through direct enterprise sales, supplemented by partnerships with state agencies (CalHOPE, California DHCS, Sacramento COE), Voyager Education (Beacon), and SIS vendors, while marketing relies on content (blog, case studies, comparison pages against Google Forms, Qualtrics, and Panorama) and email-driven discovery.

Name

Kelvin Education

Legal name

Kelvin Education, Inc.

Website

https://kelvin.education

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kelvin Education is a K-12 survey and student-voice platform serving U.S. school districts and charter networks through Kelvin Pulse and Kelvin Infinity (special education management), now operating as a subsidiary of Renaissance following its acquisition.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education Software / Student Voice Platform

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (61), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Curriculum, Lesson Planning & Instructional Content Platforms (EDAJAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

IEP/IFSP-Aligned Curriculum & Lesson Materials (EDAGAMAA), Special Education (SPED) & Inclusive Curriculum Materials (EDAGAAAE)

Keywords

• K-12 survey platform
• Student voice data
• School climate analytics
• Special education management
• Education SIS integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Irvine

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription - Per Student: Districts with over 1,000 students are charged $2 per student per year for unlimited access to Kelvin Pulse including student, staff, and family surveys, SIS integration, reporting, and support.
2. Subscription - Flat Annual Fee: Districts with under 1,000 students pay a flat $2,000 annual fee for full Kelvin Pulse access. Kelvin also offers customizable pricing and discounts for multiyear contracts.
3. Kelvin Infinity (Special Education Management): Additional product line for special education management including IEP, IFSP, 504, Medicaid billing, and state reporting — sold as part of the district subscription or as an add-on.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Kelvin Education operates Kelvin Pulse, a real-time K-12 survey and data platform that enables school districts to gather feedback from students, staff, and families with direct Student Information System (SIS) integration, AI sentiment analysis, real-time safety alerting, and a Chrome Extension for frictionless survey delivery. The company also offers Kelvin Infinity, an all-in-one special education management platform covering IEP, IFSP, 504 Plan, Medicaid billing, and state reporting. Both products are sold as annual subscriptions to K-12 public school districts, charter school networks, and state/county education offices.

Product overview

Kelvin Education offers two core product lines: Kelvin Pulse and Kelvin Infinity, both under a unified platform architecture. Kelvin Pulse is the primary product — a real-time K-12 survey and data collection tool for gathering student, staff, and family voice via customizable pulses and research-validated question banks, featuring direct SIS integration, real-time reporting, AI sentiment analysis, anomaly detection for student safety, and a Chrome Extension for frictionless survey delivery. Kelvin Infinity is a parallel core product — an all-in-one special education management platform covering IEP, 504, IFSP, Medicaid billing, and state reporting. Both products share the same brand identity (with the mascot 'Boogie'), customer success infrastructure, SIS integration layer, and compliance certifications. Additional modules include Power Reports (custom reporting across Pulse windows) and Kelvin Certified Screeners (pre-built research-validated survey instruments).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kelvin Pulse: Real-time survey and data collection platform for K-12 schools enabling feedback from students, staff, and families with instant reporting and SIS integration.
• Kelvin Infinity

Products and services

• Kelvin Pulse Real-time survey and data collection platform for K-12 schools that enables districts to gather feedback from students, staff, and families via customizable pulses, a 1,100+ research-validated question bank, real-time reporting, AI sentiment analysis, direct SIS integration, and a Chrome Extension for frictionless participation. Sold as an annual subscription to K-12 school districts and charter networks.
• Kelvin Infinity All-in-one special education management platform covering IEP, 504 Plan, IFSP, Medicaid billing and encounter tracking, electronic signatures, and integrated state reporting. Streamlines planning, tracking, and compliance for Early On, Special Education, C4S, and 504 students. Sold as part of the Kelvin district subscription or as an add-on to K-12 districts.

Quantifiable outcome

• Participation rates frequently exceed 80% using Kelvin's Chrome Extension
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability3 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• CalHOPE / California DHCS / Sacramento COEmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Kelvin partnered with CalHOPE, California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), and Sacramento County Office of Education (Sacramento COE) from 2023–2025 to deliver SEL survey and student wellness data as part of California's mental health and wellness initiatives for K-12 schools.
• Voyager Education (Beacon)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKelvin and Voyager Education partnered to deliver an integrated K-12 solution combining Kelvin's survey data on school climate, culture, mental health, and wellness with Voyager's Beacon strategic planning platform. Beacon integrates project management principles for stakeholder engagement, implementation, and execution. The partnership creates a seamless solution for district leaders making data-driven decisions and implementing strategic initiatives. A co-hosted webinar and press release document the collaboration.
• PowerSchoolcoreTechnology or IntegrationDirect SIS integration via API enabling automatic roster sync, demographic data pull, and student-level disaggregated reporting. PowerSchool is one of the primary SIS platforms Kelvin connects to natively.
• Infinite CampuscoreTechnology or IntegrationDirect SIS integration via API enabling automatic roster sync, demographic data pull, and student-level disaggregated reporting.
• Synergy (Edupoint)coreTechnology or IntegrationDirect SIS integration via API enabling automatic roster sync, demographic data pull, and student-level disaggregated reporting.
• AeriescoreTechnology or IntegrationDirect SIS integration via API enabling automatic roster sync, demographic data pull, and student-level disaggregated reporting.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Panorama Education: Panorama Education is the most direct competitor in K-12 student surveys, climate/culture measurement, and SEL analytics. Kelvin explicitly benchmarks against Panorama in its comparison hub, and both serve district-level administrators with comparable survey, reporting, and intervention workflows.
• Frontline Education: Frontline Education provides K-12 administrative software including special education management (IEP, 504, Medicaid billing) — directly overlapping with Kelvin Infinity. Both target the same district-level special education offices with compliance-focused workflows.

Broad incumbents

• Qualtrics: Qualtrics is a broad enterprise survey platform that Kelvin competes against for K-12 district survey deployments. While not K-12 specialized, Qualtrics serves as a general-purpose incumbent Kelvin positions against in its comparison content.
• SurveyMonkey: SurveyMonkey is a long-standing general-purpose survey tool used by some K-12 districts for stakeholder feedback. While not purpose-built for education, it competes on price and familiarity for low-stakes district survey use cases.
• Illuminate Education: Illuminate Education offers a K-12 data and assessment platform including student wellness and survey tools. As a broader edtech incumbent with district-wide contracts, it competes with Kelvin Pulse on adjacent stakeholder-data use cases.
• PowerSchool: PowerSchool is the dominant K-12 SIS and broader education platform with which Kelvin integrates natively. PowerSchool's expanding product portfolio into surveys, SEL, and analytics makes it both a critical integration partner and a potential competitor.
• Tyler Technologies (K-12 SIS suite): Tyler Technologies provides SIS and special education management software (including IEP/504 modules) widely used by school districts. As a broader public-sector software incumbent, it overlaps with Kelvin Infinity's special education workflows.
• Renaissance Learning: Renaissance is Kelvin's parent company and a major K-12 assessment and analytics provider (Star, Accelerated Reader, etc.). While now aligned via acquisition, Renaissance's existing assessment franchise makes it the most natural adjacent comparison for platform breadth and district reach.

Others

• Clever: Clever is a K-12 identity and data-rostering intermediary used by many edtech vendors. Kelvin explicitly differentiates by integrating directly with SIS providers rather than routing through Clever, positioning Clever as an alternative (but indirect) path to the same district rosters.
• EdSurge / Edmodo (Archipelago Learning): Edmodo was a once-prominent K-12 communication and survey platform; while its trajectory has been uneven, it represents an earlier-generation stakeholder-engagement platform for schools with comparable survey and communication functionality.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kelvineducation

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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