SEAS Education

What SEAS Education does

SEAS Education is a privately held education technology company headquartered in Mountain Home, Arkansas, that operates a web-based Student Performance Platform serving K-12 school districts in the United States. The platform integrates four functional pillars: student assessment and skills-gap analysis (CLASS, with heritage dating to 1978), student plan management (Achieve/Attain for IEP, RTI, 504, ELL, GTE plans, plus Behavior Plus), Medicaid reimbursement recovery (Reimbursement service with DSCtop for direct services claiming and TimeStudyPro for administrative claiming/RMTS), and cross-application data management (DataSense). Add-on modules include SmartEval (600+ psycho-educational report templates) and Avatalker AAC (assistive communication for nonverbal students).

The company serves over 1,200 school districts and approximately 65,000 educators across multiple US regions, generating revenue through a combination of subscription-based software licensing for the assessment and plan management modules and contingency-based fees for Medicaid reimbursement recovery (where districts incur no payment unless reimbursement is actually secured). Go-to-market is sales-led, combining direct district sales (phone and demo-driven) with a heavy event-driven motion including proprietary state-specific conferences (SAEC, SMEC, SASBMC). Founded as CLASS in 1978 and rebranded under SEAS Education around 2015, the company is founder-led by Harvey Hughes, has 51-100 employees, and operates without disclosed institutional venture capital, suggesting organic, bootstrapped growth. SEAS acquired CLASS in 2015 and partners with Avatalker AAC and Leasor Crass for integrated product capabilities. The business model is differentiated by zero-risk Medicaid claiming (where SEAS only gets paid on successful recoveries) and state-specific regulatory expertise that has produced outcomes such as Henrico County increasing annual reimbursements from $97,779 to $1.1 million and Mesa Public Schools recovering $3.8 million through audit support.

Name

SEAS Education

Legal name

SEAS Education

Website

https://seaseducation.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

SEAS Education provides a web-based Student Performance Platform for K-12 school districts, integrating student assessments (CLASS), multi-type plan management (Achieve/Attain), behavior tracking, and school-based Medicaid reimbursement services. The company serves 1,200+ districts and 65,000 educators across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education Management Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Information Systems (SIS) & School Administration Platforms (EDAJAMAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Standards Alignment & Curriculum Mapping (State/National) (EDAJAFAD), Instructional Delivery & Pedagogy (School-Led) (EDAJAFAB)

Keywords

• Education management software
• Student assessment platform
• IEP management software
• School Medicaid claiming
• Special education compliance

Headquarters

HQ city

Mountain Home

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Medicaid Reimbursement Services: School-based Medicaid claiming services including Direct Services Claiming, Administrative Claiming (RMTS), and Maximization Services. Revenue generated through successful recovery of Medicaid reimbursements for school districts. No payment received until district receives reimbursement.
2. Student Performance Platform Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to CLASS assessments, Achieve/Atain plan management software, Behavior Plus, and related educational tools for school districts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

SEAS Education provides an integrated Student Performance Platform for K-12 school districts combining student skills gap assessment (CLASS), IEP and student plan management (Achieve/Attain, Behavior Plus), behavior management, and school-based Medicaid reimbursement services (Reimbursement with DSCtop, TimeStudyPro, and Maximization Services). The platform helps districts assess students, build standards-aligned IEPs, manage multiple plan types from a single login, and recover Medicaid reimbursements on services already being performed.

Product overview

SEAS Education offers a unified Student Performance Platform designed for school districts with four integrated solutions: assessments (CLASS for skills gap analysis and IEP building), plan management (Achieve for IEP, RTI, 504, ELL, and GTE plans), behavior management (Behavior Plus), and Medicaid reimbursement (Reimbursement service with DSCtop and TimeStudyPro). The platform serves over 1,200 school districts and 65,000 educators. Additional add-ons include SmartEval for psycho-educational reporting and Avatalker AAC for nonverbal student communication, plus DataSense for cross-application data management. The platform is entirely web-based with automatic updates to maintain compliance with changing regulations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CLASS: Student skills gap analysis and assessment solution for IEPs, providing unprecedented analysis to produce thorough objectives. Helps create tests, administer assessments, build IEPs in a step-by-step module, write PLAFFP statements, and monitor progress.
• Achieve (also referred to as Attain)
• Reimbursement
• Behavior Plus
• SmartEval
• Avatalker AAC
• DataSense

Products and services

• CLASS (Assessment and Plan Builder) Student skills gap analysis solution providing drill-down capabilities to produce thorough IEP objectives. Includes online assessments, step-by-step IEP building modules, PLAFFP statement writing, and progress monitoring. Includes a copyrighted Correlation Tool that draws direct paths from student performance levels to aligned grade-level academic content standards. Serving teachers since 1978.
• Achieve (Plan Management Software) Plan management software providing single login access to all student plan types including IEP, RTI, 504, ELL, GTE, and Behavior Plus. Fully integrated with CLASS for skills gap analysis and includes automated email alerts and timeline tracking across all plans.
• Behavior Plus Behavior management solution offered as an optimized RTI Plan Pack that automates assessing, creating interventions and plans, tracking student progress, and communicating with teachers, parents, and district administration for Tier 2 and Tier 3 behavior interventions.
• Reimbursement (School Based Medicaid Claiming Service) School-based Medicaid claiming service providing customized data collection systems for each state with built-in, up-to-date business rules to uncover the broadest range of Medicaid reimbursable services. Includes Direct Services Claiming (DSCtop), Administrative Claiming (TimeStudyPro), and Maximization Services. Operates on a zero-risk contingency basis with no payment until districts receive reimbursement.
• DataSense Data management solution specifically designed for school districts that enables sharing of purposeful data between all software applications without expensive custom development.

Quantifiable outcome

• Districts have recovered up to $1 million per year in Medicaid reimbursements
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Avatalker AACcoreTechnology or IntegrationPartnership providing unlimited license for Avatalker AAC app to school districts at one low price. Avatalker is a pictures-to-text teaching aid for nonverbal students, converting picture-built phrases to speech. Includes free support and training from both Avatalker AAC and SEAS teams.
• Leasor Crass, PCsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerLegal firm that developed over 30 OCR (Office of Civil Rights) compliant forms for Section 504 plans used within SEAS Achieve platform.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• PresenceLearning: PresenceLearning operates in the school-based Medicaid and related special education services space, including Medicaid claiming and compliance support. It is a directly comparable vendor competing with SEAS's Reimbursement product.
• Renaissance Learning: Renaissance Learning offers K-12 assessment, practice, and data analytics tools (e.g., Star Assessments) used widely by school districts. It directly competes with SEAS's CLASS assessment product for skills-gap analysis and standards-aligned instructional decisions.
• Illuminate Education: Illuminate Education provides K-12 assessment, data, and intervention tools used by school districts for MTSS/RTI workflows. Its assessment and intervention offering is comparable to SEAS's CLASS assessments and Behavior Plus RTI module.
• Frontline Education: Frontline provides K-12 administration software including special education/IEP management, Medicaid claiming services, and professional development tools. It directly competes with SEAS's Achieve plan management and Reimbursement products for the same school district buyers.

Broad incumbents

• PowerSchool: PowerSchool is the largest K-12 student information system vendor in the U.S., offering a broad portfolio that includes special education/IEP management, assessment, and increasingly school-based Medicaid-adjacent functionality. It is the primary full-suite competitor to SEAS's integrated Student Performance Platform.
• Edmentum: Edmentum provides K-12 instructional, assessment, and special education software to school districts. While broader in scope than SEAS, it overlaps in the assessment and intervention categories where SEAS's CLASS and Achieve products compete.
• Tyler Technologies (School ERP): Tyler Technologies' school ERP division (including the former Munis and Tyler's K-12 solutions) provides student information systems and administrative software to school districts. It competes with SEAS in the broader district administration layer where SEAS's DataSense product sits.
• Infinite Campus: Infinite Campus is a major K-12 SIS provider serving thousands of U.S. districts, with a broader administrative software footprint that overlaps with SEAS's plan management and data integration capabilities through DataSense.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/seas-education
• Xx.com/seasedu

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 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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