Alpha School's life skills curriculum covers leadership and teamwork, entrepreneurship and financial literacy, socialization and relationship building, storytelling and public speaking, and grit

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University interns at Alpha School worked 80 hours per week conducting research to build an educational large language model

Alpha School introduces financial literacy to kindergarten students using an internal school currency called alphas

Alpha School requires fourth-grade and fifth-grade students to complete the Wharton School Master of Business Administration Mount Everest simulation challenge

Dr. John Rennie and Jon Krohn co-instructed an undergraduate real estate course at Tulane University teaching students to build software using the Cursor vibe-coding application

Alpha School places third-grade students into escape rooms with microphones to record and analyze their teamwork language using artificial intelligence

Alpha School students spend approximately two hours per day on core academics

Alpha High School operates Founder School, a specialized entrepreneurship program for high school students

Alpha High School's Founder School offers a full tuition-back guarantee if an enrolled student does not build a business generating one million dollars in profit

Dr. John Rennie directs the real estate development program at Tulane University

Horowitz and Andreessen Academy charges zero tuition for its first academic year

Over 70 students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University interned at Alpha School during a summer program

Horowitz and Andreessen Academy allocated a $5,000 travel budget stipend per student

In surveys conducted at Alpha School, 50% of students reported that they would rather attend school than go on vacation

Prior to joining Tulane University, Dr. John Rennie was a tenured full professor at Florida Atlantic University

Fifty percent of Wharton School Master of Business Administration students fail the Wharton School Mount Everest teamwork simulation challenge

In surveys conducted at Alpha School, over 90% of students reported loving school

Dr. John Rennie completed academic research sabbaticals at Oxford University in 2013 and 2023

Alpha High School's Founder School structures business earnings milestones across progressive tiers of $100, $1,000, $10,000, $100,000, and $1,000,000

Florida Atlantic University launched the first Master of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence in the state of Florida

Dr. John Rennie completed two undergraduate Python programming courses before enrolling in Florida Atlantic University's Master's in Artificial Intelligence program