Achievekids

What it reported doing in 2024

Special education: achievekids operates two non-public schools located in palo alto and east san jose. We serve over 100 elementary and secondary education students from four bay area counties. Achievekids provides dynamic and innovative education services for students in special education. Through a community of acceptance and respect, achievekids specializes in creating learning for students with severe emotional, learning, and/or developmental disabilities. Our dedicated teachers, paraprofessionals, behavioral health team, and speech therapists work collaboratively to create opportunity and independence in the lives of our students. This interdisciplinary team becomes a skillful problem solving group that instructs and guides students toward greater independence and self-reliance, enabling a path to a brighter future. Wasc accredited, achievekids is a learning organization, where all of our community learns and grows. Achievekids is a member of California association of private special education schools. For more information go to www.capses.com, or visit our website, www.achievekids.org.highly individualized and specialized programs: we use a multi-disciplinary collaborative approach, blending best practices from the fields of special education, behavioral health, speech and language, and vocational education to develop highly individualized curricula and teaching approaches. Our program is individualized to each student, and our approaches are focused on positive practices, skill development, enhancing communication, social-emotional learning, and community integration. We are a data-driven organization that makes curricular and instructional decisions based on data systems to help our students and community grow. Through this multi-faceted approach, the goal is to teach our students the skills necessary to return to find success beyond our doors. This can look different for different students, and includes returning to their public school or a less restrictive environment, or finding post-secondary options appropriate for that individual. Our goal is to create opportunity within the lives of our students, and help students find success in their communities.highly qualified staff: both schools are composed of experienced, highly qualified professionals from varying domains. Special education teachers, mental health therapists, speech and language pathologists, board certified behavior analysts, vocational and transition coordinators, and program counselors make up our professional staff and encompass our collaborative approach to helping meet the needs of our students.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 88.2%; rating input score 88
• Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
• Fundraising efficiency: $1.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings