Alpha School

“Every third grader in our school can do a Rubik's cube. Every kindergartner can do a hundred piece puzzle.”

“Our kids at college aren't getting paid, they're all four-oh students.”

“In 20 years, you know, predict the future, what's going to be the same in 20 years? Parents are going to drop their kids off at a building. In the building are gonna be other kids and adults, right? There's, we're not, you're not getting rid of school. School …”

“So in our middle school, we'll pay any kid a thousand dollars to become top one percent.”

“No high school student has ever been the lead researcher on something published in nature. And we have an alpha kid who's submitted.”

“Every single class, yes, every grade, every subject, top one percent.”

“We also, our kids, fundamentally, in the two hours, are learning twice as fast as if they sat in school for six and did homework.”

“I have third and fourth graders who outscore 50% of the high school graduates of this country.”

“We have a high school. She's doing a Broadway musical. Right? Launch, all team produced Broadway musical. She sourced all the singers off TikTok. Million streams the first week when they went. They can fill, they filled, like, four times they filled a venue.”

“If you put this in a standard school day of six hours, it's not going to work. Like, ed tech generally has failed. And it's generally failed because the kids aren't motivated to engage with it. If you don't give them their time back, They're not going to engag…”

“We survey our kids every eight weeks, and it was, you know, 96% of our kids said yes. But we actually raised, it got too high. It's not a good metric when everybody says yes. So we added a second question, which was, do you love school more than vacation? Righ…”

“This is actually the most expensive part of our AI, and one of our limitations right now is we burn a lot of AI. 10,000 bucks a kid right now, and we'll get it down to Less than a thousand, and then a hundred, we're driving it down”

“Our first class was, we had 12 graduates 11 of them went to college. The 12th is one of the world's best water skiers. And so he's building his media empire while he water skis. It was like, I'm not going to college. The other ones all got into their first cho…”

“We have quantified all the metrics on the life skills, right? So I know it's not just, oh yeah, our kids have grit, or oh, they're good public speakers. I'm like, no, everybody in our class scored 95% on RI, and every fifth grader beat a Wharton MBA in teamwor…”

“When we designed our educational system, I think we're the only school in the world who, if a kid's not learning, it's our fault. It's the system's fault. It's not the kid's.”

“Kids can learn 10 times faster. So if you take, like, just here's a metric for you. Our subjects, like take seventh grade science. In a normal standard school, you have a 180 school days. So an hour a day, maybe some homework, couple hundred hours, right? The …”

“If you're on our honor, our high school program, non-honors is 13 50 minimum. Honors is 1550. And the difference is, it's three hours a day to do honors, which is 15 50 plus fives on your APs. 13 50 and a four or five on your AP, that only takes two hours.”

“And so we get more hundreds on state standardized tests in a building of 200 people than a school district of a 100,000.”

“That's Time Back, our Time Back engine, that's 10, and today it's at Alpha, you know, in 20, 26, everybody in the world's gonna be able to access it. And so everybody who wants to build a school based on Time Back is gonna be able to next year.”

“We lose about 50% of our educators when we tell them they're accountable for the kid learning.”

“Now, 10% of the market does. 10% of the market totally cares about great academics, right? And so those guys, they demand it. Like, they don't like two hour learning because it's not enough learning.”

“I mean, we're 20 hours, not 200. Right? We're 10 times faster.”