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Exact Path
By Edmentum. Visit Exact Path
Desk research from the maker's own pages. Not yet tried by us. Checked 2026-10-24.
Exact Path is Edmentum's K-12 school program for math, reading and language arts. A student takes an adaptive diagnostic test, then gets a personal path of short lessons and practice aimed at skill gaps, with separate looks for grades K-2, 3-5 and 6-12. Teachers see reports, assign extra work, and districts can link scores from tests such as NWEA MAP Growth or Renaissance Star. The maker suggests about 40 minutes per subject each week.
Our take: A common district intervention tool; useful if your child's school uses it with a teacher watching progress, not something parents pick themselves.
| Ages it suits | grades K-12 |
|---|---|
| What its terms say about age | School-licensed; the school must affirm it has authority to let under-13s use it, and for services bought by individuals a parent must consent for under-13s before data is collected. (terms) |
| Price | Through schools. School and district quote only, pricing not public (Oct 2026). |
| Works on | Web |
| Account | A school account |
| Ads | None |
| In-app purchases | None |
| The AI in it | The maker calls its diagnostic and screener AI-powered; it adapts questions and builds each student's lesson path from results. |
What's good
- One diagnostic sets a personal path
- Covers kindergarten through high school
- Clear no-sale, no-ad rules for student data
Watch for
- Families cannot buy it directly
- Results depend on students finishing enough skills
- Marketing leans heavily on state-test prediction
- Mostly self-paced screen work
Data and privacy
The school sends names, emails, usernames, grade and sometimes birth date, gender and photo; Edmentum stores answers and scores. It says it does not sell or rent personal data and builds profiles only for the school's educational use. Read the privacy policy.
Does it work?
The maker cites 15 third-party ESSA studies, mostly correlational state-test analyses, including one tying completion of 8 skills a semester to better Florida FAST results; we read the maker's summaries, not the studies.
In the Big Index
- The maker in the who's who: Edmentum
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Where these facts come from
- https://www.edmentum.com/
- https://www.edmentum.com/products/exact-path/
- https://www.edmentum.com/privacy-policy/
- https://www.edmentum.com/product-privacy-policy
- https://www.edmentum.com/terms-of-use/
- https://www.edmentum.com/impact/efficacy-research/
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