MagicSchool
Teacher productivity platform (80+ teacher tools, 50+ student tools) for planning, differentiation, IEP generation, feedback. Does not maintain a cross-session learner model. Teachers input student context manually each session; district deployments can pre-populate fields via RAG over uploaded curriculum/policy documents.
Active · Verified 2026-10-22 · fresh as of 2026-10-22 · 33 cited facts, 4 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2023 (launched March-May 2023 by Adeel Khan; Denver CO) third-party fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-22 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- file
- retrieval
- injection
- persistence
- session
- update
- read-only
- unit
- document
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- n/a
When to use
Optimised for: learner profile + spaced repetition + assessment-driven adaptation
Anti-fit: not for non-educational use cases
Pros & cons
Pros
Largest educator user base in this set; district-level RAG (curriculum + policy docs) is a practical and architecturally honest form of context persistence that does not require a student profile.
Cons
No student-facing memory or adaptive personalization — context is ephemeral and teacher-supplied each session; deliberate product choice but disqualifies meaningful student-memory classification.
Claims & capabilities
~6M educators. 40% of US public schools. 13,000+ schools/districts in 160+ countries. 77% of teachers report significantly improved quality of life.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- no MCP support advertised — vertical product, no MCP server / client integration documented
- A2A
- no A2A protocol support advertised — vertical product, no A2A integration documented
- OpenTelemetry
- no OpenTelemetry integration advertised — vendor logs/observability not publicly documented
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Sources (32 cited facts, 4 third-party)
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- What it is Teacher tooling — no student-facing memory by design vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Teacher productivity platform (80+ teacher tools, 50+ student tools) for planning, diffe… vendor
- Claims / benefits ~6M educators. 40% of US public schools. 13,000+ schools/districts in 160+ countries. 77… vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2023 (launched March-May 2023 by Adeel Khan; Denver CO) third-party
- Mindshare 3 HN · 1 press third-party
- Funding $45M Series B (Valor Equity Partners, 2025-02) on top of $15M Series A vendor
- Customers / scale 11-50 ppl third-party
- Pricing Free (teachers); Plus $12.99/mo or $99.96/yr; Enterprise (districts) custom vendor
- Compliance FERPA; COPPA; GDPR-compliant; SOC 2 Type II vendor
- Data handling Never trains on student data; data not sold to third parties vendor
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ US third-party
- Memory volume / scale internal — undisclosed (~6M educators) vendor
- Versioning none vendor
- Validated verticals K-12 + higher-ed + adult learners (language, study tools, tutoring) vendor
- Time to running <10min (hosted SaaS sign-up) vendor
- Anti-fit not for non-educational use cases vendor
- Optimised for learner profile + spaced repetition + assessment-driven adaptation vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained app + LMS integration where applicable vendor
- Pros Largest educator user base in this set; district-level RAG (curriculum + policy docs) is… vendor
- Cons No student-facing memory or adaptive personalization — context is ephemeral and teacher-… vendor
- Project & sources magicschool.ai Impact Report vendor
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- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
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