MTSS for the schools that matter most
A complete student-success platform with a local AI assistant trained by your teachers. Four whole-child pillars. 788 evidence-based techniques. Zero outbound network calls. Built to run on hardware your district already owns.
Atlas K-12 is a proactive, data-informed student support platform built around the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework. Designed for educators, counselors, administrators, and student support teams, Atlas K-12 brings your school's academic, behavioral, attendance, and social-emotional data together in one place so that every adult in the building can see the whole child, act on what the data shows, and ensure no student waits for support until it is too late.
Atlas K-12 is not a replacement for the systems your school already uses. It is the connective layer between them: a unified platform that speaks the language of MTSS, surfaces the right student information at the right time, and empowers your Student Support Teams to make data-based decisions with confidence.
MTSS is the gold standard for how schools address intervention and support, and Atlas K-12 is built to make that framework work for every student in your building, from Tier 1 universal instruction all the way through Tier 3 intensive, individualized support.
Every student. Every signal. One Care Team.
Atlas K-12 reads every academic, attendance, behavior, and social-emotional signal across your district, builds an intervention plan the moment a student needs one, surfaces it to a coordinated Care Team, tracks progress on the same screen, and updates every adult in the building in real time. No student waits. No teacher guesses. No system works alone.
Schools do not lack data. They lack a way to bring it all together. Atlas K-12 connects to the platforms your district already uses, no migrations, no retraining, no disruption.
Atlas K-12: Where your data finally works together.
MTSS is a whole-child framework. Every pillar is equally valid and equally important.
Universal screener scores, formative assessment trends, grade-level benchmark alignment, and progress monitoring trajectories. Supports traditional letter grades and standards-based grading.
Daily attendance tracking, chronic absenteeism identification at the 10 percent threshold, excused vs unexcused breakdown, and tardiness patterns.
Office discipline referral patterns, PBIS data, CICO participation. Surfaces support needs through a strengths-based lens, never used to label students.
Research-backed SEL screeners measuring grit, growth mindset, self-management, social awareness, self-efficacy, and emotion regulation.
Proactive support identification across all four pillars. Atlas K-12 continuously monitors academic performance, attendance, behavior, and social-emotional data to surface students who may benefit from additional support before gaps widen. Every student is assigned a tier status: Universal, Targeted, or Intensive, aligned directly to the MTSS framework. No waiting. No guessing. The right support signal, at the right time.
All students receive high-quality, evidence-based core instruction and universal behavioral support. Includes school-wide PBIS frameworks. Universal screening conducted at least three times per year.
Targeted, supplemental support delivered in small groups for students not yet demonstrating expected progress in Tier 1. Continuous progress monitoring over six to eight week intervention rounds.
Intensive, individualized intervention for students who have not demonstrated expected progress through Tier 2 supports. Coordinated by a Care Team with high-frequency progress monitoring.
Tier distribution based on the OSEP Center on PBIS and National Center on Intensive Intervention 80/15/5 model.
Every data point that matters for a student, in one place. Academic performance, attendance, behavior, social-emotional indicators, intervention plans, referrals, Care Team notes, and demographics. Connected directly to your existing systems.
Create Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention plans with goals, timelines, strategies, and progress monitoring. Goal graphs show if students are on pace. Champion assignment and documentation built in.
Research-backed social-emotional learning surveys for grades 3-5 and 6-12. Measures grit, growth mindset, self-management, social awareness, self-efficacy, and emotion regulation. Administer 1-3 times per year.
Educators can refer students for academic support, counseling, behavior intervention, or family outreach. Status tracking from submission through resolution.
Auto-generated student groups based on tier status, demographics, grade level, or custom filters. Target evidence-based interventions to the right students without manual sorting.
District and school-level views: chronic absenteeism rates, intervention effectiveness, behavior trends, strategic goal tracking. Disaggregate every report by demographics for equity analysis.
Built-in playbook of research-based intervention strategies organized by domain and tier. Select strategies directly into intervention plans. Add your own institution-specific strategies.
Any educator can add timestamped notes to a student profile. Tag by category: academic concern, behavior, family contact, meeting note. Shared across the student's support team.
Log incidents with type, severity, location, time, action taken, and follow-up. Track patterns over time. Percentage-based metrics give students room to improve.
Every dashboard, report, and chart can be filtered by race/ethnicity, gender, ELL status, IEP/504, free/reduced lunch, grade level, and school. Built for equity-focused decision making.
Daily attendance with chronic absenteeism alerts. Excused vs unexcused breakdown. Trend analysis by week, month, and term. Integrates with SIS data imports.
Every tier threshold is adjustable. Choose your grading system, set attendance cutoffs, define behavior incident thresholds, and customize SEL screener strength levels. Your district, your benchmarks.
Compass is an AI assistant built for your district and trained by your teachers. It doesn't call OpenAI. It doesn't call Anthropic. It doesn't call Google. It runs entirely on the same server as the rest of Atlas K-12, powered by an open-source language model your district owns - and every time a teacher corrects an answer or marks one as exactly right, Compass learns how your district actually does MTSS. The longer you use it, the more it sounds like the people in your buildings.
Not a generic chatbot. Compass is your district's AI - one that gets smarter every week from the corrections, thumbs-ups, and "no, here's how we actually do it" notes your teachers leave behind. Click the glowing compass icon from a student profile and it already knows who you're looking at. Strategy mode pulls from your curated library; Navigator mode answers "how do I" questions about the software.
Atlas K-12 ships with a curated library of evidence-based pedagogical techniques drawn from IES, WWC, PBIS, CASEL, and NCII. Before your AI assistant suggests anything, your MTSS lead reviews every technique through a built-in wizard and decides which ones fit your district. Rejected techniques are filtered out of every recommendation, every draft, every retrieval.
Atlas K-12's main application process has zero outbound network access - enforced in code at the Python socket layer. A separate, sandboxed resource fetcher process is the only component permitted to make outbound requests, and its allowlist is restricted to eight public research hostnames.
Compass runs on a local open-source language model. Atlas K-12 supports three tiers out of the box, all Western-origin, all running entirely on hardware your district owns. Pick the one that matches your hardware today - and when your hardware grows or your district outgrows the smaller model, swap to the next tier with a single config line. No data migration, no retraining, no downtime beyond a server restart.
Lightweight assistant for evaluation, single-school pilots, or older hardware. Answers are grounded and useful but reasoning is shallow. Runs on 8 GB RAM.
The sweet spot for most US districts. Strong reasoning, structured tool calls, refuses out of scope cleanly, asks clarifying questions when unsure. Runs on 32 GB RAM.
For large districts or central servers. Near GPT-4 / Claude Sonnet quality at the local model tier. Best with a GPU for speed. Runs on 64-128 GB RAM.
Swap anytime. Every Compass tier uses the same prompt architecture, the same retrieval pipeline, the same correction-learning loop, and the same district-curated technique catalog. The only thing that changes between tiers is which open-source model file the runtime loads. Your data, your corrections, and your library carry over unchanged.
Pick a vendor you are evaluating (Panorama, Branching Minds, eduCLIMBER, PowerSchool, Frontline, i-Ready) and see exactly where Atlas K-12 stacks up across 12 features. We are competitive on the work that matters at a fraction of the cost.
“Atlas K-12's main application process has no outbound network access whatsoever, enforced at the Python socket layer. A separate fetcher process is the only component permitted outbound, restricted to eight public research hostnames by three independent mechanisms. Student data never leaves the server. No telemetry, no analytics, no hosted AI calls. The local AI assistant runs on-box and has no network access at all.”
Atlas K-12 runs entirely on hardware your district owns. No cloud subscription, no monthly per-seat fee, no outbound data flows. Pick the tier that matches your district size and the AI horsepower you want behind Compass - you can upgrade later by swapping a single config line.
Single building, under 500 students. Compass runs in lightweight mode. Good for evaluation, MTSS team pilots, or a single-school deployment.
Multi-school district up to 5,000 students. Compass runs the recommended Mistral Small 3 24B model with full reasoning, tool calling, and self-critique. The sweet spot for most US districts.
Large districts (5,000+ students), multi-tenant servers, or districts that want the largest available local model. Compass runs Llama 3.3 70B with GPU offload for near-instant answers at scale.
No Two Atlas Builds Are Alike
Atlas is not one platform shipped to every school. When your district signs on, we write the underlying code to fit your data, your systems, and your workflow. The features look the same. The dashboards look the same. The MTSS framework is the same. But the engine running underneath is built specifically for how your district operates. No two Atlas installations are identical.
Your district is one of a kind. Your platform should be too.
Atlas K-12 is in active development and we are seeking school districts willing to pilot the platform during the build process. Your feedback shapes the product. You get early access to every feature as it's built, direct input on what gets prioritized, and when development is complete, founding partner pricing that locks in permanently. This is your chance to help build the tool your students need.
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