Renaissance

Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a pre-K–12 education technology company whose assessment, practice and analytics products — Star Assessments, Accelerated Reader, Freckle, myON, Lalilo, Flocabulary, Nearpod, FastBridge, DnA, eduCLIMBER, eSchoolData, SchoolCity and the Renaissance Growth Platform — are used by schools in more than 100 countries. Its machine-readable surface is not a published developer program: district integration is delivered through 1EdTech OneRoster 1.1 rostering (certified across twelve products), LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage launches (Nearpod, SchoolCity), an Ed-Fi Assessment Outcomes API certification for DnA, and a Renaissance-operated OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect authorization server at auth.renaissance.com. Three first-party OpenAPI contracts are served publicly but token-gated on Renaissance-controlled hosts: the Student Proficiency Service, the Student Pathway Event Proxy and the Lexile API.

Renaissance publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Student Proficiency Service, Student Pathway Event Proxy, and Lexile API. Tagged areas include Education, EdTech, K-12, Assessment, and Learning Analytics.

Renaissance’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, authentication, changelog, and 25 more developer resources.

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47.5/100 developing Agent 33/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
3 APIs
EducationEdTechK-12AssessmentLearning AnalyticsStudent DataOneRosterLTIEd-FiRosteringInteroperabilityMachine-Learning

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
Composite quality — 47.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 8.9 / 19
Developer Ergonomics 4.2 / 15
Access Clarity 6.5 / 15
Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10
Contract Governance 1.6 / 9
Discoverability 6.1 / 8
Regulatory Posture 11.1 / 15
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 6 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Student Proficiency Service

Renaissance-operated prediction service returning student proficiency on math skills and skill groups, the next recommended pathway activity for a student, a student's current r...

Student Pathway Event Proxy

Event ingestion proxy that accepts Freckle practice events (assignment, activity and answer payloads) into the Renaissance student pathway pipeline. OpenAPI 3.1.0 published at t...

Lexile API

Lexile measure lookup by ISBN-13, returning the stored Lexile book record. OpenAPI 3.0.1 published at the API host root; the API gateway validates a JWT issued by Renaissance au...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Renaissance Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Renaissance Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 3

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

Renaissance Authentication

http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Renaissance Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Renaissance Trust Center

SOC 2

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Renaissance Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login
Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 Conventions
Conventions
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Compliance
Compliance
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Plans
Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenIDConnect
OpenIDConnect

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: renaissance
name: Renaissance
description: 'Renaissance Learning, Inc. is a pre-K–12 education technology company whose assessment, practice and analytics
  products — Star Assessments, Accelerated Reader, Freckle, myON, Lalilo, Flocabulary, Nearpod, FastBridge, DnA, eduCLIMBER,
  eSchoolData, SchoolCity and the Renaissance Growth Platform — are used by schools in more than 100 countries. Its machine-readable
  surface is not a published developer program: district integration is delivered through 1EdTech OneRoster 1.1 rostering
  (certified across twelve products), LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage launches (Nearpod, SchoolCity), an Ed-Fi Assessment Outcomes
  API certification for DnA, and a Renaissance-operated OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect authorization server at auth.renaissance.com.
  Three first-party OpenAPI contracts are served publicly but token-gated on Renaissance-controlled hosts: the Student Proficiency
  Service, the Student Pathway Event Proxy and the Lexile API.'
image: https://www.renaissance.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/renaissance-logo-facebook.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/renaissance/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:absent-parent
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-13'
modified: '2026-09-13'
position: Producing
tags:
- Education
- EdTech
- K-12
- Assessment
- Learning Analytics
- Student Data
- OneRoster
- LTI
- Ed-Fi
- Rostering
- Interoperability
- Machine-Learning
tags_raw:
- education
- edtech
- k-12
- assessment
- learning-analytics
- student-data
- oneroster
- lti
- ed-fi
- rostering
- interoperability
- machine-learning
apis:
- name: Student Proficiency Service
  description: Renaissance-operated prediction service returning student proficiency on math skills and skill groups, the
    next recommended pathway activity for a student, a student's current reading level, and class roster lookups. OpenAPI
    3.1.0 published at the service root; every scored operation requires an HTTP bearer JWT. Student identifiers are Renaissance
    Growth Platform ids (student_rgp_id).
  humanURL: https://proficiency.renaissance.com/docs
  baseURL: https://proficiency.renaissance.com
  tags:
  - Education
  - Assessment
  - Learning Analytics
  - Machine-Learning
  - Student Data
  tags_raw:
  - education
  - assessment
  - learning-analytics
  - machine-learning
  - student-data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/renaissance-student-proficiency-service-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://proficiency.renaissance.com/docs
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/renaissance-student-proficiency-service-overlay.yaml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/renaissance-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/renaissance-data-model.yml
- name: Student Pathway Event Proxy
  description: Event ingestion proxy that accepts Freckle practice events (assignment, activity and answer payloads) into
    the Renaissance student pathway pipeline. OpenAPI 3.1.0 published at the service root; the single POST /freckle-events
    operation is bearer-token gated and answers 202 on accept.
  humanURL: https://events.proficiency.renaissance.com/docs
  baseURL: https://events.proficiency.renaissance.com
  tags:
  - Education
  - Student Data
  - Learning Analytics
  tags_raw:
  - education
  - student-data
  - learning-analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/renaissance-student-pathway-event-proxy-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://events.proficiency.renaissance.com/docs
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/renaissance-student-pathway-event-proxy-overlay.yaml
- name: Lexile API
  description: Lexile measure lookup by ISBN-13, returning the stored Lexile book record. OpenAPI 3.0.1 published at the API
    host root; the API gateway validates a JWT issued by Renaissance auth (client credentials) and enforces the ren.lexile.read
    scope.
  humanURL: https://api.proxile.renaissance.com/swagger
  baseURL: https://api.proxile.renaissance.com
  tags:
  - Education
  - Reading
  - Student Data
  tags_raw:
  - education
  - reading
  - student-data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/renaissance-lexile-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.proxile.renaissance.com/swagger
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/renaissance-scopes.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/renaissance-lexile-api-overlay.yaml
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/renaissance-trust-center.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.renaissance.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.renaissance.com/s/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.renaissance.com/resources/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.renaissance.com/resources/blog/feed/
- type: Login
  url: https://login.renaissance.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.renaissance.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.renaissance.com/privacy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/RenaissancePlace
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.renaissance.com/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.renaissance.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/renaissance-conformance.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/renaissance-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/renaissance-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/renaissance-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/renaissance-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/renaissance-scopes.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: https://auth.renaissance.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/renaissance-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/renaissance-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/renaissance-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/renaissance-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/renaissance-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/renaissance-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/renaissance-changelog.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.renaissance.com/product-updates/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/renaissance-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/renaissance-rate-limits.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v3
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io

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