# AltSchool

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/altschool/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

AltSchool was an American education-technology company founded in 2013 by former Google executive Max Ventilla to build a network of small private "lab" schools around a personalized, student-directed learning model, using those campuses to develop a K-12 software platform for assignments and progress tracking. It raised more than $170 million from investors including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Mark Zuckerberg's CZI, and Peter Thiel. In 2017-2019 the company closed or handed off its for-profit schools (to Higher Ground Education) and pivoted to selling the software as "Altitude Learning," with Ventilla stepping down as CEO. The venture is now defunct as an independent operation: the altschool.com domain no longer resolves and altitudelearning.com redirects to Guidepost Montessori. No public developer, API, or documentation surface was found; this record is retained as a historical VC-portfolio company profile.

## Kin Score — 0.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 0.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Education, EdTech, Personalized Learning, K-12, Learning Management, Venture Backed, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/altschool/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.