Planet Homeschool

What Planet Homeschool does

Planet Homeschool (PHS) is a secular homeschool enrichment co-op serving middle and high school students ages 10-19 in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, operating in its 28th year since founding in 1999. The organization is a program of Minnesota Secular Homeschool Enrichment, Inc. (MSHE), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides governance, legal structure, and board oversight. PHS delivers in-person enrichment classes on Fridays from September through May at its facility at 2708 33rd Ave NE in Saint Anthony Village, MN, with off-site programming hosted at Silverwood Park and through the In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT). Class sizes are intentionally kept small at 10-20 students to foster close relationships among instructors, students, and parents, and the community is sustained by volunteer labor contributed by member families.

The product is a three-term catalog of enrichment classes spanning arts, sciences, humanities, languages, performing arts, and life skills, including offerings such as Game Coding, Blender 3D, Intro to Philosophy, Taiji for Youth, Beginning ASL, Website Design, Shakespearean Youth Theatre, Crash Physics, Ornithology, and Puppetry and Art. Specialized art instruction is delivered through a partnership with Rumriver Art Center (RRAC). Operations are managed through the third-party Homeschool-Life.com platform for membership applications, class registration, scheduling, and member communications; no proprietary technology is owned. Revenue is generated from annual/term membership fees paid by families and per-term tuition for each class enrollment, with pricing not publicly disclosed. The co-op employs 5 staff and is sustained operationally by Lead Volunteers and member contributions.

Distribution is purely community-led: growth comes from word-of-mouth referrals within the Minnesota homeschool network, the organization website (planethomeschool.org), email inquiries ([email protected]), and listings in the Minnesota Homeschool Links directory. PHS targets a single customer segment — homeschool families seeking secular, in-person enrichment and socialization for their middle and high school children — and serves no enterprise or institutional customers. The organization has no external funding, no parent company, no M&A activity, and no geographic expansion beyond its single Minneapolis-area facility.

Name

Planet Homeschool

Legal name

Minnesota Secular Homeschool Enrichment, Inc.

Website

https://planethomeschool.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Planet Homeschool is a secular, in-person homeschool enrichment co-op in Saint Anthony Village, MN, serving middle and high school students ages 10-19 with term-based classes in arts, sciences, humanities, and life skills, operated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit program with a small staff and volunteer-driven community model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Homeschool Enrichment Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (611110)

akta.pro primary industry

Homeschool Hybrid / University-Model / Microschool Networks (Private) (EDAJABAO)

Keywords

• Homeschool enrichment classes
• Secular homeschool co-op
• In-person youth education
• Homeschool community programs
• Enrichment education services

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint Anthony Village

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Families pay an annual or per-term membership fee to join the co-op and access classes, facilities, and the community. The membership fee is a recurring charge that grants access to the PHS community and class registration.
2. Tuition and Class Fees: Families pay tuition for individual classes offered each semester (Fall, Winter, Spring terms). Tuition varies by class and covers instructor costs, supplies, and facility usage. Classes are charged per student per term.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Planet Homeschool operates a secular homeschool enrichment co-op that delivers in-person, term-based classes on Fridays from September through May at a facility in Saint Anthony Village, Minnesota, serving middle and high school students ages 10-19. Course offerings span arts, sciences, humanities, languages, performing arts, life skills, and coding, taught by community instructors in small classes of 10-20 students, with families enrolling through an annual membership and per-term tuition.

Product overview

Planet Homeschool is a secular homeschool enrichment co-op offering in-person classes for middle and high school students ages 10-19. The organization operates on a term-based schedule with Fall Term 2026 (September-December), Winter Term 2027 (January), and Spring Term 2027 (February-May). Classes span diverse subjects including coding/programming (Game Coding, Programming Lab with Scratch/Pygame/Python), arts (Photography, Blender 3D, Watercolor Art, Drawing Anime, Art with Kim, Fiber Arts), humanities (Shakespearean Youth Theatre, Intro to Philosophy, History, Literature courses), sciences (Parasites, Crash Physics, Ornithology), life skills (Beginning ASL, Website Design, Taiji), and enrichment topics (How to Become a Spy, Escape Room, Puppetry). The platform includes an online class registration and catalog system for managing enrollments. Classes typically have 10-20 students and are held on Fridays at Saint Anthony Village, MN.

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Products and services

• Fall Term 2026 Enrichment Classes In-person enrichment classes for homeschooled students ages 10-19 held on Fridays from September 11 to December 11, 2026 at the Saint Anthony Village, MN facility. Course offerings include Game Coding, Shakespearean Youth Theatre, Exploring Female Artists, Photography, Blender 3D, Intro to Philosophy, Pre-Colonial Native American History and Culture, Music Literacy, Creepy Folktales from Around the World, Iliad and Odyssey, Wings of Fire, Taiji for Youth, How to Become a Spy, and Gather and Make Handcraft Series (off-site at Silverwood Park).
• Winter Term 2027 Enrichment Classes In-person enrichment classes for homeschooled students ages 10-19 held on Fridays from January 8 to January 29, 2027. Course offerings include Masters of the Sky: Minnesota's Raptors, Parasites, Watercolor Art, Drawing Anime, Programming Lab (Scratch, Pygame, Python), Digital Music, Costume Design, The Wit and Wordplay of William Shakespeare, Brownie Fractions, Calligraphy and Hand-Lettering, Escape Room, Historical Funerals and Weddings (Reenactments), Social Folk Dance, and Wheel Throwing Series (off-site at Silverwood Park).
• Spring Term 2027 Enrichment Classes In-person enrichment classes for homeschooled students ages 10-19 held on Fridays from February 12 to May 7, 2027. Course offerings include The Class About Death, Real Life Skill Issues, Crash Physics, Beginning ASL, Fantasy World Building, Speech: Dank TedTalks, Website Design, Fiber Arts and Amigurumi Crochet, Art with Kim, Fridays for the Future, Writing Poetry, Puppetry and Art, How to Become a Pirate, Theater Production, and Ornithology Series.
• Annual Co-op Membership Recurring annual or per-term membership that admits a family into the Planet Homeschool co-op, granting access to register for enrichment classes, participate in community events, and use the facility on Fridays. Required for student enrollment.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Rumriver Art Center (RRAC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRumriver Art Center partners with Planet Homeschool to provide art instruction classes. RRAC instructors teach Exploring Female Artists (Fall), Drawing Anime (Winter), and other art classes at the PHS facility. This partnership brings specialized art education expertise from an established art center into the co-op.
• Silverwood ParkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSilverwood Park serves as an off-site location for PHS classes, specifically hosting the 'Gather and Make Handcraft Series' and 'Wheel Throwing Series' art/maker classes. This partnership provides access to specialized maker space facilities not available at the main PHS location.
• In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHOBT partners with PHS to deliver 'Puppetry and Art' classes during the Spring term. This collaboration brings professional puppetry and theatre education from a well-known Minneapolis theatre company into the homeschool enrichment program.
• Minnesota Secular Homeschool Enrichment, Inc. (MSHE)coreOthersMSHE is the parent nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) that operates Planet Homeschool. MSHE holds the Board of Directors meetings and provides the organizational structure for the co-op. PHS is a program of MSHE, with MSHE providing governance, legal structure, and organizational oversight.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Prenda: Microschool franchise model pairing certified guides with small groups of learners, including homeschoolers, in local hubs. Comparable small-class, in-person enrichment approach with a scalable franchise structure.
• Schoolhouse Anywhere: Homeschool enrichment microschool network providing structured weekly classes and community for homeschool families. Closely matches PHS's co-op enrichment model with a tech-enabled national rollout.

Broad incumbents

• K12 (Stride, Inc.): Large publicly-traded online learning provider offering tuition-free online public school and supplemental programs; competes for homeschool and at-home learners at scale across the country.
• Outschool: Online marketplace of small-group enrichment classes with many secular homeschool-friendly instructors and topics. Broad incumbent serving the same secular-homeschool demand via a virtual, much larger-scale model.
• Abeka Academy: Christian-oriented homeschool curriculum and video-based academy widely used by homeschool families; relevant as a competing homeschool enrichment model with distinct religious positioning.
• Time4Learning: Online homeschool and supplemental education curriculum provider serving K-12 families, including secular homeschoolers seeking structured enrichment. Indirect substitute for some of PHS's core class offerings.

Direct peers

• Brave Writer: Homeschool writing and language-arts program that combines online instruction with optional in-person co-op-style meetups led by parents. Comparable community-based enrichment approach for secular homeschool families.
• Wild + Free: Secular homeschool community and co-op network with local chapters that meet in-person for enrichment and socialization. Closely matches Planet Homeschool's secular, community-led, in-person co-op model at a national footprint.
• Classical Conversations: Largest homeschool co-op and microschool network in the US, operating community-based, parent-led programs on weekly-meeting schedules similar to Planet Homeschool. Most structurally comparable peer at national scale.

Regional players

• Minnesota Homeschoolers Alliance: Regional Minnesota homeschool support organization that connects local families to co-ops, classes, and enrichment opportunities — directly relevant to PHS's Minnesota-based community.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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