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Prenda

Prenda, Inc. is a Mesa, Arizona education technology company that makes it possible for an adult to open and run a K-8 microschool — a tight-knit learning community of roughly five to ten students — out of a home, studio, or office. Founded by Kelly Smith out of the Prenda Code Club he started at a public library in 2013, Prenda opened its first microschool in January 2018 and now supports more than 1,000 "guides" running microschools for nearly 10,000 learners across multiple US states, funded largely through school-choice and education savings account programs. The product is a plug-and-play software platform bundled with curriculum, training, and coaching: guides use it to manage enrollment, run adaptive diagnostic assessments in math and reading, track learner progress against Prenda's four-mode "connect, conquer, collaborate, create" learning day, process payments, and publish a marketing site for their school. Prenda is venture-backed, having raised a $20M round led by 776 in 2022. The platform is closed and end-user facing — Prenda publishes no public API, developer portal, or machine-readable contract of any kind. Its only public developer surface is the Prenda Design System, an open-source MUI v6 React component and icon library published from the prenda-school GitHub organization.

Prenda is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Education, Education Technology, Microschools, and K-12.

Prenda’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 13 more developer resources.

14.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
0 APIs
CompanyEducationEducation TechnologyMicroschoolsK-12Learning ManagementCurriculumSchool ChoiceHomeschoolingDesign Systems

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scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Prenda Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: prenda
name: Prenda
description: 'Prenda, Inc. is a Mesa, Arizona education technology company that makes it possible for an adult to open and
  run a K-8 microschool — a tight-knit learning community of roughly five to ten students — out of a home, studio, or office.
  Founded by Kelly Smith out of the Prenda Code Club he started at a public library in 2013, Prenda opened its first microschool
  in January 2018 and now supports more than 1,000 "guides" running microschools for nearly 10,000 learners across multiple
  US states, funded largely through school-choice and education savings account programs. The product is a plug-and-play software
  platform bundled with curriculum, training, and coaching: guides use it to manage enrollment, run adaptive diagnostic assessments
  in math and reading, track learner progress against Prenda''s four-mode "connect, conquer, collaborate, create" learning
  day, process payments, and publish a marketing site for their school. Prenda is venture-backed, having raised a $20M round
  led by 776 in 2022. The platform is closed and end-user facing — Prenda publishes no public API, developer portal, or machine-readable
  contract of any kind. Its only public developer surface is the Prenda Design System, an open-source MUI v6 React component
  and icon library published from the prenda-school GitHub organization.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/prenda/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
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tags:
- Company
- Education
- Education Technology
- Microschools
- K-12
- Learning Management
- Curriculum
- School Choice
- Homeschooling
- Design Systems
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/prenda-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.prenda.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.prenda.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://help.prenda.com/knowledge
- type: SignUp
  url: https://discover.prenda.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.prenda.com/page/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.prenda.com/page/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/prenda-school
- type: About
  url: https://www.prenda.com/who-we-are
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.prenda.com/contact
- type: Press
  url: https://www.prenda.com/press
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.prenda.com/page/jobs
- type: Packages
  url: packages/prenda-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/prenda-components.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/prenda-llms.txt
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/prenda_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'Prenda ships a closed, end-user microschool platform: api./developer./docs./dev./app.prenda.com all NXDOMAIN, and
    /openapi.json, /llms.txt and every /.well-known path 404 on all four live hosts, leaving the MIT-licensed Prenda Design
    System React library as the only developer-facing artifact the company publishes.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.prenda.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.prenda.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.prenda.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.prenda.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.prenda.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://github.com/prenda-school
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-26'

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