Building a
Bridge to What
Learning Can Be.
Silicon Schools is a trusted partner and philanthropic investor supporting innovative schools and solutions for students.
WHAT WE DO
We partner with educators to launch great schools, seed next-generation tools, and build breakthrough school models that enable students to excel in a fast-changing world.
WHAT WE’RE BUILDING
Our work is building toward a different kind of education system.
The destination is an education system built around resilient, excellent, models at scale—where all students thrive and transformational outcomes are the norm, not the exception.
HOW WE WORK
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Philanthropic Capital
We provide long-term, flexible funding that gives ambitious ideas the space and time to develop, unlock new learnings, and reach more students.
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Hands-On Partnership
We work in close partnership with every organization we support, listening to what they need, helping solve the problems in front of them, and connecting them to people and resources that can help them succeed.
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Deep Expertise
More than a decade of experience working with innovative, high quality schools gives us a unique perspective on what delivers strong results—and what it takes to serve students furthest from opportunity.
OUR IMPACT
A track record of turning ambitious ideas
into transformative outcomes.
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Schools backed since 2012
175+
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Students served by schools in our portfolio
40,000+
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Additional days of learning vs traditional schools in one year
58
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Our improvement initiative’s academic growth vs. peers
2-3x
Since 2012, Silicon Schools has backed educators, innovators, and entrepreneurs in California and beyond.
Our results show what’s possible when innovative solutions are paired with expertise and real-world partnership to make them work.
OUR PORTFOLIO
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01. KIPP Nor Cal
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02. Summit Public Schools
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03. Teaching Lab
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04. EnlightenAI
WHO WE ARE
Experience behind every investment.
Silicon Schools brings together educators, entrepreneurs, and philanthropic leaders with a shared commitment to building what’s next in education.
Our expertise informs how we find, assess, and support the people tackling education’s biggest challenges.
