Founded in 2016, Edves serves 2,300+ schools worldwide, supporting 625,000+ students and 57,000+ teachers. In the United States it is aligned to all 50 states’ academic standards, teacher evaluation frameworks and standardized assessments, with FERPA- and COPPA-aware data handling and LTI integration. U.S. operations run from Houston, Texas.
What Edves does
Edves sits in a gap most U.S. schools recognize immediately. Districts are generally well served for systems of record — enrollment, attendance, grades, scheduling — and poorly served for anything connecting those records to what actually happens in a classroom. The SIS knows a student is failing Algebra I. It does not know which standard they failed, which lesson addressed it, or whether the teacher who taught it has had a meaningful observation this year.
Edves is built for that connective layer: lesson design mapped to the state standard, observation anchored to the district’s evaluation rubric, assessment tagged to the objective rather than the topic, and reporting that draws from all three.
Company facts
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| Company | Edves (EDVES Inc. in the United States) |
| Founded | 2016 |
| U.S. office | 5718 Westheimer Rd, Houston, TX 77057 |
| U.S. phone | +1 (346) 875-9526 |
| Category | AI pedagogy · Teacher evaluation · Student information system |
| Schools served (global) | 2,300+ |
| Students | 625,000+ |
| Teachers | 57,000+ |
| State standards supported | All 50 |
| Delivery | Cloud-based SaaS with web, iOS and Android clients |
| Data posture | FERPA- and COPPA-aware; district retains data ownership |
| Integration | LTI; API-first architecture |
The four things U.S. schools buy Edves for
- Pedagogy with AI — lesson design drafted against a named state standard and an explicit instructional model, which the teacher edits, owns and signs off.
- Teaching Observation with AI — evidence-anchored classroom observation aligned to Danielson, T-TESS, TKES, TEAM and other state and district frameworks.
- Assessment — computer-based testing with items tagged to standards and cognitive level, feeding interim and formative cycles rather than a single end-of-year number.
- Attendance and family engagement — verified attendance with same-day outreach, built around chronic absenteeism as the primary metric rather than average daily attendance.
Underneath sits the student information system, and a separate higher education line for colleges and universities.
Who it is for
- Independent and private schools, typically 200–1,200 students, replacing an aging SIS plus a separate gradebook plus a messaging service.
- Charter schools and charter management organizations needing comparable instructional data across campuses.
- Public districts adopting the instructional layer alongside an incumbent SIS via LTI rather than replacing it.
- Faith-based and diocesan school networks operating shared systems across member schools.
- Colleges and universities rethinking assessment design in response to generative AI.
Standards, evaluation and assessment coverage
Edves does not treat “standards-aligned” as a single checkbox. Coverage reporting runs against the standard a school is actually accountable to, which matters in the many states that have diverged substantially from Common Core.
| Layer | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Academic standards | Common Core, NGSS, and all 50 state standards including Texas TEKS, Florida B.E.S.T., Georgia Standards of Excellence and California CCSS |
| Teacher evaluation | Danielson, Marzano, T-TESS, TKES, TEAM, NEPF, TPEP, APPR, OTES, Compass and district-based models — see frameworks |
| Standardized assessment | STAAR, CAASPP, Smarter Balanced, Georgia Milestones, FAST, MCAS, Regents, ILEARN, M-STEP, TCAP, SOL and every other state program — see all 50 states |
| Federal reporting | ESSA subgroup and accountability reporting |
| Privacy | FERPA, COPPA, PPRA and state student privacy statutes |
Global context
Edves operates in 11 countries. The U.S. business is one of four principal markets alongside the United Kingdom, Nigeria and Ghana, with a combined base of 2,300+ schools. That matters for procurement in one specific way: the platform’s assessment and multilingual family-communication capabilities were built for systems under far greater resource constraint than a typical U.S. district, which is why the low-bandwidth and SMS pathways are first-class rather than afterthoughts.
Global company information: edves.com.
Recognition
Best EdTech Prize at the Seedstars Global Summit (2018); first African EdTech selected for the MindCET Go accelerator (2019); recognized or supported by the British Council, FbStart from Facebook, HolonIQ and the World Bank Group. Seed funding from Beta.Ventures, Fondation Botnar and Future Africa.