Cinnabar Elementary

What Cinnabar Elementary does

Cinnabar School District (also referred to as Cinnabar Elementary) is a public K-8 school district headquartered at 286 Skillman Lane, Petaluma, California, founded in 1859 and operating continuously for over 160 years. It serves local families in the Petaluma area with traditional in-person K-8 instruction alongside supporting programs including a Before & After School care program, bus transportation, and Student & Family Services (including counseling and special services). The district is governed by a Board of Education and operates as a political subdivision of the State of California rather than a commercial enterprise, with funding derived from state allocations and local property taxes rather than product revenue.

The district's technology stack is built on third-party K-12 administrative platforms rather than proprietary systems. The core digital product surface comprises Aeries Online Enrollment and the Aeries Parent Portal for student information management and family access to academic records, and ParentSquare as the unified parent-school communication channel. Operational documents (board agendas, meal and nutrition documents, workplace violence prevention plan) are hosted on Google Drive, and the website contact form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA. No mobile applications, public APIs, SDKs, or proprietary software products are offered; these integrations are conventional third-party deployments used district-wide by California K-12 systems.

The business and operating model is that of a public educational institution: services are delivered directly on-campus to students residing within the district's attendance boundary, with no commercial pricing, no enterprise sales motion, and no external customer accounts. Distribution is entirely local and regional (California only), with the district website (cinnabar.org, cinnabar.k12.ca.us) serving as the primary information and enrollment hub. There are no subsidiaries, no parent company, no venture or private-equity ownership, no funding rounds, and no M&A activity — consistent with a publicly governed school district rather than an investable commercial entity.

Name

Cinnabar Elementary

Legal name

Cinnabar School District

Website

https://cinnabar.k12.ca.us

Company type

Private

Founded year

1859

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cinnabar School District is a public K-8 school district in Petaluma, California, founded in 1859, that provides elementary education and supporting services (before/after school care, busing, student services) to local families using Aeries and ParentSquare as its core administrative technology platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-8 Public Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (611110)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public School Districts (K–12) (EDADABAA)

Keywords

• K-8 public education
• Elementary school services
• Before and after school care
• Student transportation services
• Student and family support

Headquarters

HQ city

Petaluma

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Cinnabar School District provides K-8 public education to students in the Petaluma, California area from its campus at 286 Skillman Lane. In addition to core academic instruction, the district operates before and after school care programs, student bus transportation, and student and family support services, supported by online enrollment and parent communication tools.

Product overview

Cinnabar School District operates as an educational institution offering a unified set of programs and services centered around K-8 education. The district provides core educational programs alongside supporting services including Aeries Online Enrollment and Parent Portal for student management, ParentSquare for communication, Before & After School child care, and bus transportation. These services function as integrated components of the school district's operations rather than a modular software product architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• K-8 Educational Programs

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Old Adobe Union School District: Adjacent K-8 public school district serving the Petaluma area. Directly comparable in geography, grade span, and public K-8 operating model.
• Petaluma City Schools: Larger unified district serving Petaluma, with an elementary division operating K-6 schools. Comparable in target market and geographic catchment, though broader in scope.
• Gravenstein Union School District: Small K-8 public school district in Sebastopol/Sonoma County area. Directly comparable in size, governance, and public K-8 service model.
• Two Rock Union School District: Small K-8 public school district in the Petaluma area. Comparable rural/suburban K-8 operating model in Sonoma County.
• Bennett Valley Union School District: K-8 public school district in Santa Rosa, California. Comparable Sonoma County K-8 public district serving similar family demographics.
• Dunham School District: Small K-8 public school district in Sonoma County. Comparable in scale, governance structure, and rural-suburban California K-8 operating context.
• Wright School District: K-8 public school district in the Santa Rosa area. Comparable in size, grade span, and California public K-8 operating context.
• Kenwood School District: Single-school K-8 public district in Sonoma County. Highly comparable as a small, single-campus California K-8 district.
• Waugh School District: Small K-8 public school district in Petaluma, California. Highly comparable in size, grade span, and Sonoma County operational context.
• Bellevue Union School District: K-8 public school district in Santa Rosa. Comparable Sonoma County K-8 district operating under California public education funding.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cinnabar-elementary

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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