ST Math cost: ST Math price and how much ST Math costs a school or district

Short answer: ST Math is sold as a site subscription, not per student, and MIND Education does not print a price on its website. MIND told Education Next in a 2021 interview that a site subscription "starts at three-thousand five-hundred dollars annually and varies by enrollment." A public tier listing puts it at $3,500 a year for up to 150 students, $6,000 for 151 to 250, and $12,000 for 251 or more. A 2024 Texas quote priced ten elementary sites with 251+ students at $10,000 per site per year before a need-based discount.

The ST Math product page ends at a contact form, and stmath.com/pricing now redirects to that same page. Once a quote or a purchase order lands in a public board packet, though, it is a public record. Every figure below comes from one of those documents or from MIND itself, each linked and read in September 2026. Coeducate is not affiliated with MIND Education. We sell a different kind of product, and the section near the end says plainly where ST Math is the better purchase.

How much does ST Math cost? The public documents

Few of these print a unit price. Most print a total and a license name, which is still enough to test your own quote against.

Source and date	What was bought or stated	Amount	What it works out to
Education Next interview with MIND, May 31, 2021	Site subscription for the entire school population, all grade levels	"Starts at three-thousand five-hundred dollars annually and varies by enrollment"	$3,500 per school per year as the floor
EdTech Impact product listing, undated	School enrollment tiers, plus an Early Learning (PK/TK) tier up to 150 students	$3,500 (1 to 150), $6,000 (151 to 250), $12,000 (251+)	Flat per school, so the per-student cost falls as enrollment grows
College Station ISD, TX, quote 00019626 dated 4/19/2024, board memo 6/5/2024	2-Year ST Math Site Subscription License for TX School with 251+ Students Enrolled, 10 sites, three virtual professional learning offerings, via Region 19 Allied States cooperative contract 23-7458	$200,000 list, minus $30,000 "MIND in Kind", total $170,000 ($85,000 a year)	$10,000 per site per year list, $8,500 net (our division)
Lowell Public Schools, MA, open purchase orders, October to November 2024	Annual renewals of ST Math site subscriptions at several schools	$3,500 each on three POs, $2,500 for a 251+ site "reflects $1000.00 discount", $2,408 on another	Well under the tier listing, likely grant-linked (see below)
MIND Massachusetts ST Math grant, awards by 3/24/2025	K to 6 public schools: licensing, implementation, professional development and support over three years	Valued at over $55,000, with a $3,500 annual participation fee	$3,500 a year for the school during the grant
Matawan-Aberdeen Regional SD, NJ, minutes 6/14/2021, item 20	ST Math for identified special needs students, PreK to 8, 2021-22	Not to exceed $1,200	A narrow license for a small group, not a site subscription
East Aurora SD 131, IL, Annual Statement of Affairs, FY2018	All payments to MIND Research Institute that year	$111,316.66	Total spend only, no breakdown by site

Review sites repeat two other figures: "$30 to $50 per student" and "$25 to $29 per student annually". Neither comes with a date or a document, and ST Math is not sold per student, so we would not bring either one to a negotiation.

ST Math pricing by enrollment tier

ST Math pricing follows the school, not the student. One site subscription covers every student, teacher and administrator in the building, and the tier is set by enrollment. College Station's quote shows how it is written: one line per site, a named tier ("251+ Students Enrolled"), a subscription period, and the professional learning bundled into the same line.

School enrollment	Listed annual fee	Per student at the bottom of the band	Per student at the top of the band
1 to 150 students	$3,500	$3,500 at 1 student	$23.33 at 150
151 to 250 students	$6,000	$39.74 at 151	$24.00 at 250
251+ students	$12,000 (listing) or $10,000 (2024 Texas quote)	$47.81 or $39.84 at 251	$20.00 or $16.67 at 600

The per-student columns are our arithmetic, not MIND's. They show the one thing that matters for a budget: a school just over a tier line pays the most per student, and a large elementary school pays the least.

How much does ST Math cost per student?

ST Math does not have a per-student price, because the license covers the whole site. Divide the site fee by the students who actually use it and you get the real number. On the published tiers that lands between about $17 and $48 per student for a school of 150 to 600, and far higher if only one grade logs in. That last point is where most of the waste happens: a K to 5 license used only by grades 3 and 4 costs roughly three times as much per active student as the same license used school-wide.

For comparison with per-student products, the DreamBox cost per student article found $19.72 to $28 per student on district order forms, and the i-Ready cost per student article covers the Assessment and Personalized Instruction lines.

What brings the ST Math price down

MIND runs more discount and grant programs than most math vendors, and the public documents show them doing real work on the final number.

• MIND in Kind. College Station's quote carries a $30,000 line that "is based upon the LEA's demonstrated financial need and has been awarded at the discretion of the MIND Education's School Grants team." That is 15 percent off a $200,000 two-year order.
• State grants. The Massachusetts program gives K to 6 public schools three years of licensing, implementation and support valued at over $55,000 for a $3,500 annual participation fee. Lowell's $3,500 renewals line up with that fee.
• Verizon Innovative Learning. MIND lists a two-year free site license for schools selected into that program.
• Time-limited offers. A special pricing offer ran from November 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026 for new and expansion sites: free access for the rest of the 2025-26 year and virtual PD at an offer rate.
• Cooperative contracts. College Station bought through a Region 19 cooperative contract that had already been competitively bid, which skipped its own bid process.

What the quote terms say

The College Station agreement is a two-year Software-as-a-Service agreement, invoiced once a year, net 30 from the invoice date. The offer expired a month after it was written. It states that fee changes must be agreed in a written amendment and that sales tax is not included for buyers who are not tax exempt. Three virtual professional learning offerings, ST Math Academy on-demand modules and implementation support are listed inside the same subscription line, so PD is not a separate charge on that quote.

Two-year terms paid annually are easy to lose track of: the second invoice arrives a year after the board vote, with nobody on the thread who remembers the discount. A business office that holds a lot of these can keep every renewal date and fee clause in one contract register so the year-two invoice gets checked against the signed quote.

ST Math cost for a 600-student elementary school, three ways

Option	Annual cost	Per student	What you get
ST Math site subscription, 251+ tier, listing	$12,000	$20.00	Visual math puzzles for every student PreK to grade 8, dashboards, PD bundled
ST Math, 251+ tier, 2024 Texas quote after MIND in Kind	$8,500	$14.17	Same, at a need-based discount
Coeducate School plan	$3,480	$5.80	AI tutor for grades 3 to 12 that names the misconception behind each answer, per-skill records, CSV export

These are not substitutes, and the table is not saying Coeducate is a cheaper ST Math. They do different jobs. ST Math gives every student a sequence of visual puzzles. Coeducate reads a student's written reasoning on a problem you choose and tells the teacher which idea broke. Some schools buy both.

Six questions to ask before you sign the ST Math quote

1. Which enrollment tier is each site in, and what enrollment figure was used to set it?
2. Does the school qualify for MIND in Kind, a state grant or a partner program such as Verizon Innovative Learning?
3. Is there a cooperative contract our state already uses, such as the Region 19 contract College Station used?
4. What is included in professional learning, and is any of it billed separately?
5. Is year two locked at the same fee, or can it change at renewal?
6. What usage data will we get, by grade, so we can see what each active student really cost?

Where ST Math is the better buy, and where it is not

Buy ST Math when you want a whole-school, visual, language-light math program for the younger grades. Evidence for ESSA rates it Strong for grades 3 to 6, based on four studies covering 346,248 students, with an average effect size of +0.07. Its puzzles work with very little reading, which suits kindergarten to grade 2 and many English learners. Coeducate has no efficacy study of its own, and it reads a written explanation, so it is the wrong tool for students who cannot yet write a sentence about their work.

Coeducate does a different job. A puzzle program shows progress through its own sequence. It does not tell the teacher, in words, why a student keeps getting 0.25 and 0.3 backwards. That is what Coeducate does: the student answers a problem from your own material, the tutor asks the next question instead of giving the answer, and the session ends with a dated record naming the misconception per skill. It also runs past grade 8, where ST Math stops. The elementary math intervention programs page shows the record on a fraction item, and students with a math learning disability are covered on the math programs for dyscalculia page.

Coeducate's price is on the pricing page: $89 a month for one teacher and up to 60 students, $3,480 a year for a school of up to 600 students, and $1,290 a month for a district with PO billing.

Frequently asked questions

How much does ST Math cost for a school?

An ST Math site subscription starts at $3,500 a year for a school of up to 150 students and runs to $12,000 a year for 251 or more students on the public tier listing. A 2024 Texas quote priced 251+ sites at $10,000 each per year, $8,500 after a need-based discount. MIND does not publish a price, so every school gets a quote.

Is ST Math free?

Not for schools. MIND made ST Math Homeschool free from March 14, 2020 through June 2022, and its 2024 FAQ described the homeschool version as free until further notice. Schools pay for a site subscription, though grants such as the Massachusetts program and the Verizon Innovative Learning partnership can cover most or all of it.

Can a teacher buy ST Math for one classroom?

Not directly. MIND's FAQ says individual teacher licenses are not available and that schools and districts must contact sales. The site subscription covers every student in the building, so the realistic path for one teacher is a school-level purchase or a grant application.

What grades does ST Math cover?

ST Math covers PreK to grade 8, with a separate Early Learning version for PreK and TK. MIND lists no high school or Algebra 1 course. Schools that need support past grade 8 buy a different product for those students, such as the tools described on the math intervention software for middle school page.

Is ST Math worth the cost?

For a large elementary school that uses it across every grade, ST Math costs roughly $15 to $20 per student a year and has Strong ESSA evidence for grades 3 to 6, which is a reasonable price for that evidence. It is worth much less when only one or two grades log in, because the site fee stays the same.