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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.
While public school performance frameworks generally prioritize reading and math proficiency rates as aligned with state standards, other outcomes such as nonacademic and academic growth are found to be at least as prominent in microschools’ missions and models.