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1
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Why is education considered a tough market for achieving VC scale returns?

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Selling into school districts and universities is difficult and slow, and freemium models that go direct-to-teachers have struggled to monetize.

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How many k-12 schools in the US?

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133k as of 2016 according to NCES

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How many elementary schools in US?

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89k as of 2016,NCES

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How many secondary schools in US?

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27,000 as of 2016, NCES

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How many combined schools (elementary + secondary) in the US?

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16.5k

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6
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Size of Tutoring Industry

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$7 billion

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7
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How many traditional public schools are there?

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91k as of 2016, NCES

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How many public charter schools are there?

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7k as of 2016, NCES

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How many private schools are there?

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35k as of 2016, NCES

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How many total public schools?

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98k as of 2017, NCES

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How many total public high schools?

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21k as of 2017, NCES

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How many total public junior high schools?

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2.5k as of 2017, NCES

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How many total public middle schools?

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13k as of 2017, NCES

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Middle school definition

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schools that have grade spans beginning with 4, 5, or 6 and ending with 6, 7, or 8

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junior high definition

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schools with grades 7 and 8 or grades 7 through 9.

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Combined School definition

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schools beginning with grade 6 or below and ending with grade 9 or above

17
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2016 Average public school size

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528, NCES

18
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2011 Average public school size

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520, NCES

19
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Average public school size in cities

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591 students, NCES 2016

20
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Average suburban school size

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656 students, NCES 2016

21
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Average Town school size

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444 students, NCES 2016

22
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Average rural school size

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358 students, NCES 2016

23
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What percentage of college students are single mothers?

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10%

24
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TNTP

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The New Teacher Project

25
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E4E

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Educators for Excellence

26
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What percent of teachers have a second job to help make ends meet?

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67%.

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CEPR

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Center for Education Policy Research (Harvard)

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