New Report: Measuring Impact in Microschools

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Today’s microschooling movement is about creating options, innovative small learning environments, where children can thrive in ways they had not in their prior schooling settings. How can their impact best be measured in ways that matter most to their most important stakeholders?

This report represents a product of the National Microschooling Center’s Measuring Impact cohort convened during the 2025-2026 school year. In addition to regular worksessions and webinars over this period, the working group convened to deliberate its subject over a substantive retreat held January 31-February 2, 2025 at the Pahara Institute at Lone Rock Retreat in Colorado.

This cohort included 30 accomplished leaders and founders of microschools in 13 states listed in the appendix of this report.

• Data used in measuring microschools’ impact must be selected intentionally, with an understanding of its purpose. Actionable impact information is especially important.
• Among the many reasons parents choose microschools is their dislike for standardized testing. Observation-based reports, information from parent and student surveys and other methods of measuring impact which align with microschools missions and models represent important indicators.
• In-depth examples of four microschools’ models for measuring impact are included: Nevada School of Inquiry (NV), Curious and Kind Education (FL), Micah’s Mission School (MS) and Integrative Learning Academy (AZ).