Westside Academy

What Westside Academy does

Westside Academy is a private K-12 educational institution located at 4330 Clime Road North, Columbus, Ohio, operating since 2006. The school delivers standard academic instruction alongside extracurricular programming, with Girls Basketball explicitly named as an athletic offering. The institution serves enrolled students and their parents/guardians, the latter engaging via a Parent Access Portal hosted at pa.metasolutions.net.

The school's underlying technology is entirely third-party and non-proprietary. Its website runs on the Apptegy CMS platform (logo asset hosted at cmsv2-assets.apptegy.net/uploads/12815), and parent communication is delivered through Thrillshare (westsideacademyoh.id.thrillshare.com). The school has extended its digital footprint via dedicated iOS and Android applications and maintains a Facebook presence for community engagement. An events calendar on the website supports year selection from 2018 through 2030.

The business model is consistent with a small private K-12 school: tuition-based revenue from enrolled families, though pricing is not publicly disclosed. The institution has 7 reported employees — a notably small figure for a K-12 provider that suggests a limited headcount or one that excludes contracted teaching staff. No funding rounds, parent company, subsidiaries, partnerships, awards, patents, or institutional investors are identified. The operating footprint is strictly domestic, serving the Columbus, Ohio market, with no signals of geographic expansion, M&A activity, or strategic pivots beyond routine digital channel adoption.

Name

Westside Academy

Legal name

Westside Academy

Website

https://wsa-school.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Westside Academy is a private K-12 school in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 2006, delivering academic instruction and extracurricular activities (including Girls Basketball) to local students, with parent engagement via an Apptegy/Thrillshare-powered website and mobile apps.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Private Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

International/Global Curriculum Schools (IB, Cambridge, etc.) (EDAJABAG)

Keywords

• K-12 education
• Private schooling
• School athletics
• Extracurricular programs
• Primary secondary education

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbus

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, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Westside Academy is a private K-12 educational institution that delivers classroom-based academic instruction to enrolled students from a single campus in Columbus, Ohio. The school supplements academics with extracurricular programs such as Girls Basketball, and engages families through a Parent Access Portal, mobile applications, and school communications channels. It does not operate a multi-product commercial platform — the offering is the educational experience itself, delivered on-site and supported by third-party digital tools.

Product overview

Westside Academy is a K-12 educational institution located in Columbus, Ohio. The school provides standard academic programs and extracurricular activities including athletics (such as Girls Basketball). The institution offers digital services including a parent access portal for family engagement and an events calendar for community updates. As an educational institution rather than a technology product company, Westside Academy does not operate a multi-product platform but rather provides direct educational services to students.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Westside Academy K-12 Educational Services Core K-12 academic instruction program delivered on-site at the Westside Academy campus at 4330 Clime Rd North, Columbus, Ohio, for enrolled students, with associated family-engagement services such as the Parent Access Portal and mobile applications.
• Girls Basketball Program School-sponsored athletics program (Girls Basketball) available to enrolled Westside Academy students as an extracurricular activity, promoted through the school's website and mobile applications.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• KIPP Foundation: National charter K-12 network. Operates K-12 schools in many metros including Ohio; competes for the same tuition and choice-based family segment but at vastly greater scale.
• BASIS Charter Schools: Large charter K-12 network known for an academically rigorous, college-prep curriculum. Operates in similar family-choice K-12 markets and competes for the same outcomes-oriented parent segment.
• Stride, Inc. Publicly traded online K-12 education provider (formerly K12 Inc.). Overlaps with Westside's K-12 offering through an alternative delivery model and competes for the same tuition-paying and homeschool family segment nationally.

Direct peers

• Columbus Academy: Independent pre-K-12 school in the Columbus metro (Gahanna, OH). Same independent-school model, same target family demographic, and same extracurricular-driven enrollment approach.
• St. Charles Preparatory School: Private Catholic college-prep high school in Columbus, OH. Competes for tuition-paying families in the same metro and shares the athletics-anchored enrollment model (notably strong basketball tradition).
• Bishop Ready High School: Catholic co-educational high school in Columbus, OH. Directly comparable in size, faith-based independent model, and emphasis on athletics as a family draw.
• The Wellington School: Private, independent K-12 school in Columbus, Ohio. Operates in the same metro market with a similar tuition-based model and comparable extracurricular programming, making it the most directly comparable peer.

Emerging players

• AltSchool: Tech-enabled private K-12 school network. Targets a similar tuition-paying family segment but differentiates through a personalized, technology-forward learning model — a potential disruptive comparable.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Westside-Academy-870091993015190
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/westside-academy-dragons

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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