What Five Star Interlocal Coop does

Five Star Interlocal Cooperative is a public school interlocal cooperative organized under Oklahoma law, headquartered in Cushing, Oklahoma. It delivers special education and related services to 11 rural Oklahoma public school districts across 5 counties, operating under federal mandates IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and Section 504. Its primary mission is serving students aged 3-12 with significant disabilities, with a secondary focus on students at risk of exclusion from general education. The entity is governed by a Board of Directors composed of representatives from member schools and led by Executive Director Kim Reese, who also serves as Title IX Compliance Coordinator.

The cooperative's operational model is built around shared faculty and embedded Co-Op Classrooms. 15 specialized faculty members are deployed across member districts, with select districts (Cushing, Drumright, Kellyville, Stroud) hosting dedicated Co-Op Classrooms for special education delivery. The technology stack supporting operations consists of ParentSquare for parent-school communications and SylogistEd/Wengage for centralized employee and administrative portals. The cooperative also maintains a public-facing website with policy documentation, board governance records, school forms, an employment page, and an Annual Financial Audit section, reflecting standard public-entity transparency practices. Compliance footprint includes Section 504, Title II of the Rehabilitation Act (WCAG 2.0-2.1 A/AA web accessibility), and Title IX.

The revenue model is government-funded and recurring: federal IDEA and Section 504 allocations flow through member school districts to the cooperative, which delivers mandated services on their behalf. This cooperative structure enables small rural districts to fulfill federal special education obligations that they could not independently sustain, while sharing operational costs and specialized personnel across 11 districts. Pricing is not commercially disclosed, consistent with the entity's status as a government-services cooperative rather than a commercial vendor.

Name

Five Star Interlocal Coop

Legal name

Five Star Interlocal Cooperative

Website

https://fsilc.k12.ok.us

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Five Star Interlocal Cooperative is a public school cooperative in Cushing, Oklahoma that delivers IDEA and Section 504 special education services to 11 rural Oklahoma school districts across 5 counties, sharing 15 specialized faculty across member districts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Special Education Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Elementary and Secondary Schools (611110)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Specialized Instruction & Resource Support (Inclusion, Pull-Out, Co-Teaching) (EDAJAKAC)

Keywords

• Special education services
• Special education cooperative
• Public school services
• Interlocal cooperative
• Disability services

Headquarters

HQ city

Cushing

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Special Education Services Revenue: Government-funded special education services provided to member school districts under IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and Section 504. Funding flows from federal education mandates through member district allocations to the cooperative for service delivery.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Five Star Interlocal Cooperative provides special education services under IDEA and Section 504 to 11 rural Oklahoma school districts across 5 counties. The cooperative delivers instruction and related services for students aged 3-12 with significant disabilities, as well as those at risk of exclusion from general education. Services are delivered through shared faculty and Co-Op classrooms located within member schools, with administrative support via the Wengage employee portal and ParentSquare parent communication system.

Product overview

Five Star Interlocal is a cooperative organization providing special education services to 11 rural Oklahoma school districts. It operates as a unified service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The cooperative coordinates special education and related services for students with disabilities, manages member school relationships, and provides administrative infrastructure including employee portals, parent communication systems, and school forms management. The organization does not offer distinct branded product modules but rather functions as a coordinated service delivery system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Special Education Services

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• PresenceLearning: Provides online special education services including teletherapy and evaluations to K-12 districts; an emerging alternative delivery model that could supplement or substitute for cooperative-served special education.
• RethinkEd: Offers special education professional development, behavior, and instructional tools to K-12 districts; addresses a portion of the special education support workflow that cooperatives like Five Star provide in person.

Broad incumbents

• Frontline Education: Broad K-12 administration and special education management software provider serving school districts; overlaps with Five Star's SylogistEd/Wengage employee portal tooling at a much larger scale.

Direct peers

• Wisconsin Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESA): CESAs in Wisconsin act as regional cooperatives providing special education, professional development, and other shared services to member school districts, structurally comparable to Five Star's interlocal cooperative model.
• Green Country Special Education Cooperative: Another Oklahoma interlocal cooperative that pools special education resources for member school districts; operates the same cooperative service model and federal IDEA funding structure as Five Star.
• New York State BOCES (e.g., Erie 1 BOCES): Boards of Cooperative Educational Services in New York serve as interlocal cooperatives delivering shared special education and support services to component school districts, the closest structural analog to Five Star's model outside Oklahoma.
• Education Service Center Region 11 (Texas): Texas ESCs serve as regional cooperatives delivering special education and other shared services to member districts; functionally similar to Five Star's cooperative model but at larger regional scale.
• Nebraska Educational Service Units: Regional ESUs in Nebraska pool K-12 support services including special education for member districts across rural counties, mirroring Five Star's role as a shared-service interlocal for small districts.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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