Newsela has acquired Schoolytics, an analytics and AI platform used by K-12 districts to measure, monitor, and manage student data, as the company expands beyond content and assessment into deeper data and workflow tooling for educators. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Newsela said the deal is designed to help districts consolidate fragmented academic, behavioral, engagement, attendance, and progress data into a single view that supports faster, more consistent decision-making from the classroom to district leadership.
The company plans to integrate Schoolytics across its broader product portfolio, starting with Balanced Assessment by Formative, its district-level assessment solution that provides real-time feedback, standards-aligned activities, and reporting. By connecting Formative’s assessment signals with Schoolytics dashboards and workflows, Newsela said districts will spend less time manually compiling reports from disparate systems and more time acting on insights—particularly for Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) and Response to Intervention (RTI) processes, including identifying needs early, monitoring progress, and managing interventions over time.
The acquisition follows Newsela’s recent purchase of Generation Genius, an educational streaming platform for K–8 science and math, which has been integrated into Newsela STEM. Newsela also pointed to Luna, its AI-powered assistant available across its products, as a key element of its product strategy, noting plans to bring Luna into the Schoolytics platform to extend AI-driven insights and workflow automation for educators.
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“With the addition of Schoolytics, we’re giving districts a more connected way to understand student data, coordinate action across instruction and assessment, and ultimately drive student growth. Schoolytics brings together academic, behavioral, and engagement data with workflows that help educators identify needs, monitor progress, and manage interventions. When combined with Newsela’s instructional platform and Formative’s real-time assessment insights, districts can move more seamlessly from insight to action—streamlining MTSS and RTI efforts and supporting timely, data-informed decisions at every level of the district.”
Pep Carrera, Chief Executive Officer, Newsela
“We started Schoolytics after hearing a consistent pain point from school districts: they felt ‘data rich and information poor.’ Schools are working with mountains of data, but often lack the tools to make it actionable. Our goal has been to bring a modern, enterprise-level data platform to school systems to help them turn data into insight and action. A true one-stop shop for student data,” “We’re excited to deepen the products’ impact with Formative’s robust assessment suite. Together with Newsela products, the solutions offer access to everything a district needs to connect daily instruction with district-wide assessments and data, driving better insights that inform teaching, learning, and decision-making at every level. From classroom educators to district leadership teams, we’ll offer a seamless way to understand what students know, what they need next, and how supports are working over time. We’re really excited about giving districts tightly integrated tools to identify needs early, monitor progress, and ensure resources are targeted where they’ll make the biggest difference.”
Aaron Wertman, Co-Founder and CEO, Schoolytics
