P-Tech

Name

P-Tech

Website

https://ptech.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

P-Tech is a Charlotte, U.S.-based private entity founded in 2011, described in source material as the IBM-created P-TECH 9-14 School Model — an integrated secondary-through-early-college education reform framework. No operational, financial, or product details are disclosed in the input data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Education / Workforce Development

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Junior Colleges (611210), Technical and Trade Schools (61151)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Virtual CTE & Career Pathways Programs (K–12) (EDAJADAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Under-18 / High School-to-University Foundation Pathways (EDAIAJAI), Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Education (EDADALAD)

Keywords

• Education reform model
• Early college high school
• Workforce development
• K-12 education
• STEM education pathway

Headquarters

HQ city

Charlotte

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) is a 9-14 school model that combines high school, college coursework, and workplace learning into a single integrated pathway. The model is designed to enable students to earn both a high school diploma and an industry-recognized postsecondary credential (such as an associate degree) at no cost to the student, while gaining hands-on workplace experience with industry partners.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• P-TECH 9-14 School Model An integrated six-year secondary-to-postsecondary education model (grades 9-14) that partners secondary schools, community colleges, and industry employers to enable students to graduate with a high school diploma and a no-cost associate degree or industry credential alongside workplace learning experiences. It is offered to school districts, colleges, and employer partners seeking a workforce development and equity-focused education pathway.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Big Picture Learning: Big Picture Learning operates a network of innovative, nontraditional high schools built around personalized learning and real-world work experiences, closely mirroring P-TECH's employer-anchored, nontraditional school design.
• NAF (National Academy Foundation): NAF runs career-themed academies within US high schools that combine CTE, work-based learning, and employer partnerships — the same structural approach as P-TECH's career-pathways model.
• Cristo Rey Network: Cristo Rey runs a national network of private, corporate work-study high schools serving low-income students — a directly comparable employer-integrated, college-prep school model to P-TECH.
• Pathways in Education: Pathways in Education operates alternative and credit-recovery high schools that blend in-person and online learning to give at-risk students a path to graduation — overlapping P-TECH's alternative-pathways and college-readiness positioning.

Emerging players

• iCEV: iCEV provides CTE curriculum and career-readiness content to high schools, addressing the same career-pathways and industry-credentialing needs that P-TECH schools serve.
• Edgenuity (Imagine Learning): Edgenuity provides online CTE, credit-recovery, and alternative-pathways curriculum used by districts; an emerging player in the same CTE/alternative-pathways category that P-TECH occupies.

Broad incumbents

• KIPP Foundation: KIPP is one of the largest US charter-school networks, serving similar low-income and first-generation college-bound students; a broader incumbent that competes for the same district partnerships and student populations as P-TECH.

Others

• American Student Assistance (ASA): ASA runs career-readiness and college-pathway programs for middle and high school students, an adjacent organization in the same career/college-readiness space as P-TECH.
• Jobs for the Future (JFF): JFF is a national nonprofit that designs and advocates for career-pathways and dual-enrollment models in K-12 and community colleges, making it an adjacent ecosystem actor in P-TECH's category.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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