For Christian school admissions
Walk into every family meeting knowing where their child will start.
One sitting per subject. A one-page placement card in the language of the curriculum you actually teach, ready when the student finishes, with every gap named as a skill and the words to say to the family.
For applicants entering grades 3–8, in math and language arts.
Founding schools: your first 3 applicants are free. See the founding offer
A student or a parent? Use the link your school sent you. There is no account to create.
- Math
- Ready for your grade 6 course
- Language arts
- Ready, with two skills to close
The application is on your desk. The family is waiting.
You are about to tell a mother and father where their child belongs, and you want to say it with confidence. Place a child by guesswork and everyone carries it: the child spends the fall lost, the receiving teacher reteaches in the dark, and a family that trusted you starts to wonder whether they chose the right school.
A percentile ranks the child against other children. That is worth knowing, but on its own it does not tell the receiving teacher which book to open on Monday. The teacher-made test in the filing cabinet costs a staff afternoon to score, gives you nothing comparable from year to year, and produces no document you would want to show a parent.
The students arriving at your door are often public-school transfers meeting a curriculum that runs ahead of their old pacing, and homeschool families returning with an eclectic stack. When a public school teaches a skill in grade 5 and yours teaches it in grade 4, a transfer who has not met it yet is out of sequence. That is different from being behind, and the report keeps the two apart.
The plan
Three steps from application to family meeting
- 1
Tell us what you teach
Your curriculum by subject and grade, set up once. From then on every report speaks in your own course names.
Until your curriculum pack has been checked at a school that teaches it, we ask your teachers to review the mapping with us.
- 2
Test at school
Add the applicant and send the link. The child tests at school, with staff present, on a school Chromebook or iPad, designed for about 30–40 minutes per subject.
No student account and nothing to install. No clock on screen, no running score, and “I haven’t learned this yet” is a real answer.
- 3
Sit down with the family
The one-page card is ready when the student finishes: the placement in your course names, the words to say, and the first-30-days plan.
The decision stays yours, and the card says so on its face. Share the family’s own page when you are ready.
Curriculum packs exist for Abeka, BJU Press, Saxon and Purposeful Design, built from each publisher’s publicly published scope and sequence.
Scoring is deterministic: the same answers always earn the same score. The test describes what the child showed; it does not decide about the child. There is no AI in the scored path, and in this version no AI service receives any student answer.
The meeting after the test
Parents leave with a plan, not a percentile.
Every child who walks through your door deserves to start in the right place, and every family deserves to hear it plainly. The one-page debrief card is built for the short meeting with each family right after the test: the placement in your own course names, the first skills to learn, and a few sentences marked “say this to the family,” in words a parent can take home.
“Will my child be held back?”
The card keeps two things apart that parents fear are the same: a transfer who has not met a skill yet because your school teaches it earlier, and a child who is genuinely behind. You give the placement in plain words, and the report says on its face that the decision is yours, not a machine’s.
“Will they keep up?”
Every gap is a specific skill, not a score. The bridgeable ones come in teaching order, scheduled by week for the first 30 days, ending in a retest, so you can tell the family exactly what happens after they say yes.
“What can we do at home?”
The family gets its own page: where the child shines, one honest note, the plan, and what to do at home. No raw scores and no item-level detail, nothing that ranks their child against other children.
See it in your own course names. Request a pilot and we will run a sample applicant against your curriculum profile.
Request a pilotDownload a sample debrief card (PDF) Real output from the product’s own renderer, for a fictional applicant at a fictional school.
What the admissions office receives
The debrief card for the meeting, the full admissions report for the file, and the family’s own page. In short:
A placement in your own course names
“Ready for your grade 5 math,” with one of five plain scenarios and each subject printed as a range against your grade-entry expectation.
Every gap named as a skill
A skill counts as a gap only when the student missed it more than once at or below their working level. Harder material missed is “next to learn,” not a gap.
A first-30-days plan, free
The bridgeable gaps in teaching order, scheduled by week, naming your own materials, ending in a retest. Hand it to your own teachers or any tutor.
PlacementGeniusEverything on the admissions report
A header with the context a test cannot measure (learning-support history, retention or skip history, languages at home, how the test was proctored), your curriculum profile, and then:
- 01
Placement scenario
One of five: ready at grade; at grade with a support plan; at grade on probationary review; at grade after a pre-entry bridge; a lower-grade placement worth considering. Then one plain sentence, and this one: this is a placement recommendation, not an admission decision. That call is yours.
- 02
Your curriculum frame
The student placed in your own course names, with a bar per domain against your grade-entry expectation. Domains stay separate on purpose, and the level prints as a range, because a single decimal would claim more precision than one sitting can give.
- 03
An honest national cell
Today it reads “National comparison: not available yet” on every report, because we will not print a national number we cannot defend. If you need a national percentile now, keep the normed test you give today: this report is built to sit beside it.
- 04
Measurement notes
If a student answered much of a subject faster than the questions could be read, that subject is marked “not measured” and a free retest is offered. We do not print a level we did not actually measure.
- 05
The gap list
A skill becomes a gap only when the student missed it more than once at or below their working level. Harder material missed is listed as “next to learn.” When the answers show the same mistake more than once, the report names it in a teacher’s words; when they do not, it says “pattern unclear” instead of guessing.
- 06
First-30-days support plan
The bridgeable gaps in teaching order, scheduled by week, naming your own materials, ending with a retest aligned to your review window.
- 07
Not assessed here
What the test deliberately did not measure given your profile, and any answers that matched no known error and deserve a teacher’s eye.
- 08
Family summary
A separate, shareable page for parents: where the child shines, one honest note, the plan, and what to do at home. No raw scores and no item-level detail.
Three offerings that compose
Buy one, two, or all three. Nothing is bundled and nothing is gated.
Placement
Applicants, when an application is on the desk.
Diagnostic
Enrolled students, any time of year a teacher says “this student is lost and I don’t know where.”
Bridge Plan
Every tier. The gap skills in teaching order, materials, rough hours, milestones, and a retest. Hand it to any tutor. Free, always.
Coming next, in development
Bridge tutoring
For the family that leaves the meeting asking “who can help us with this?” Practice built on the child’s own Bridge Plan, aimed at exactly the skills it names, with a short check on new questions as each skill looks ready. Families or schools will be able to add it. It is not sold yet, it will never be required, and the report reads the same whether or not anyone buys it.
Two things are true by design
Gap thresholds are versioned data and are never tuned for commercial reasons. The rules that separate “ready” from “needs support” live in one versioned file, and every report prints the version that produced it.
Testing never requires buying intervention. The Bridge Plan is free at every tier. If your school has its own tutors or resource teacher, that is exactly what the plan is for.
And one thing the product is not: a substitute for evaluation. Certain patterns raise a plain flag, “warrants a conversation about a professional evaluation,” rather than a plan, and placement waits for that conversation. That flag is never softened into an upsell, and Placement Genius never claims to diagnose a learning disability.
Built with a working admissions office
Placement Genius is being built with the admissions office at the founder’s own Christian school, which runs the same calendar you do: spring applications, rolling transfers, and a receiving teacher who needs to know where to start. Their admissions director shaped three parts of it directly: the one-page debrief card for the meeting with each family, the follow-up on conditional offers so they do not quietly lapse, and a retest that uses different questions wherever the bank allows.
A pilot at that school comes next. We will publish what it finds, with the numbers and the sample size, whether or not the results flatter us.
Questions schools ask
- Is a machine deciding about my child?
- No. Scoring is deterministic: the same answers always earn the same score. There is no AI in the scored path. The report describes what your child showed; the admission decision is the school’s, and the report says so on its face.
- We already have tutors. Do we have to buy anything else?
- No. The Bridge Plan is free at every tier and works with any tutor: gap skills in teaching order, named error patterns where the evidence supports one, materials, rough hours, milestones, and a retest. Bridge tutoring, now in development, will be an option for families who want one, never a requirement.
- Where does the data go?
- Names and records stay with the school that tested the child, and each school’s data is used only for that school: never combined with other schools’ data, never sold, never used for marketing. A parent reads a plain notice before the test. We collect the minimum, and there is no student account to create.
Ready when the next family sits down
Request a pilot and we will run a sample applicant against your curriculum profile, so you can see the card in your own course names before your next family meeting.
One of the first 10 schools? The founding offer starts with your first 3 applicants free.