Zearn cost, Zearn Math cost and Zearn pricing for schools and districts

Short answer: Zearn Math is free for one teacher with up to 35 students. Schools pay for a School Account, which Zearn prices per school building, not per student. The last price sheet Zearn published set it at $2,500 per school site a year for unlimited students, and district agreements from 2023 to 2025 still show $2,500 per school. District Accounts are quoted. Professional development, coaching and printed workbooks are billed on top.

Zearn's current pricing page lists three plans and no prices. Board packets, signed agreements and check registers are public records, though, and they fill in the numbers. Every figure below comes from one of those documents, from Zearn's own published sheets, or from a 2026 RAND cost study, each linked and read in September 2026. Coeducate is not affiliated with Zearn or Great Minds. We sell a different kind of product, and the section near the end says plainly where Zearn is the better purchase.

How much does Zearn cost? The public documents

Most of these print a total and a number of schools rather than a unit price. That is enough to check a quote.

Source and date	What was bought or stated	Amount	What it works out to
Zearn Math price sheet, 2018-19	School Account, plus optional professional development and print materials	"$2,500 per school site for an unlimited number of students, teachers, and administrators"	The last list price Zearn published
RAND, An Analysis of Zearn Math Implementation Costs, September 2026	Large Texas district, costs supplied by Zearn	"At the beginning of the study in 2022, the cost of Zearn licenses per school was $2,500 per year"	$2,500 per school in 2022
Seaman USD 345, KS, Zearn quote in the June 5, 2023 board packet	5 School Accounts	$12,500	$2,500 per school
Barrington Public Schools, RI, agreement dated March 7, 2024	School Accounts at four elementary schools for 2024-25	"The combined fee associated with the Services above is $10,000.00"	$2,500 per school
West Central SD 49-7, SD, minutes of July 14, 2025	Bill paid to Zearn Inc, curriculum	$2,500	Consistent with one school site
Colorado Springs D11, CO, disbursements, September 2025	"ZEARN SCHOOL ACCOUNT - LEGACY", plus a separate $1,000 educator line	$112,500	Equals 45 schools at $2,500 (our division, the document does not state the count)
Frisco ISD, TX, agreement in the January 21, 2025 board book	School Accounts plus on-demand PD, licensed through June 30, 2026	$110,000 combined fee	School count not visible to us, so no per-site figure
Gloucester Township SD, NJ, minutes of June 29, 2026	"Subscription-based math account" expiring June 30, 2027	$38,500	Not a multiple of $2,500, so likely a new price or a bundle

Two of those lines carry a label worth noticing. D11's payment is marked "legacy", and search copies of the Frisco agreement describe legacy customers as those who bought in 2024-25. That points to different terms for new customers from 2025-26, and the Gloucester figure fits that reading. We found no public document with the new per-school price, so treat $2,500 as the price existing schools have been renewing at, not a guarantee for a first purchase.

Zearn pricing by plan, what the free account leaves out

Zearn's 2025 account comparison says the product "is free for individual students and teachers, always. For schools and districts, we offer paid accounts." The difference is not the lessons. It is everything a principal or coordinator needs to run it across a building.

Plan	Price	Who it covers	What it adds
Teachers and individual classrooms	Free	1 teacher, up to 35 students	Digital lessons and class reports
School Account	$2,500 per school a year on legacy terms, quote for new schools	Every student, teacher and administrator in one building	Admin and Snapshot reports, Clever and ClassLink rostering, co-teacher sharing, roster setup by Zearn, priority support, a live orientation webinar
District Account	Quote	Multiple schools	The same, plus district-wide reporting and the Export Center

Add-ons are priced separately. The 2018 sheet listed professional development at $2,500 per school site a year, printed Student Workbooks at $28 per student and Teacher Answer Keys at $75 per teacher. Zearn's Colorado sheet from 2024 lists the Student Notebook at $12 per student and Curriculum Study PD at $2,500 per school. The $12 figure is often quoted online as a license price. It is a notebook price.

How much does Zearn cost per student?

Because the fee is per building, the per-student cost depends entirely on enrollment. At $2,500 a school, it works out to $10 per student in a 250-student school, $5 in a 500-student school and about $4.17 in a 600-student school. That is cheap next to per-seat products: our DreamBox cost per student research found $19.72 to $28 per student on district order forms, and the ST Math cost article found $10,000 per large site on a 2024 quote.

The license is not the whole bill. RAND costed a full rollout in a large Texas district, including $6,000 a year per school for coaching, training sessions, workbooks and staff time. It came to $20,601 per school in the first year and $16,944 in the second, or $39.02 and $32.48 per student in 2024 dollars. Most of that is people and time, not the Zearn invoice, but it is the number a board should see if the plan includes coaching.

When Zearn costs a school nothing

Several states have paid for Zearn directly, which is why some schools have never seen an invoice.

• South Carolina awarded $20.8 million over five years through the Palmetto Math Project, giving every public K-8 school free access, announced in August 2025.
• Colorado spent $6 million plus $3 million in federal relief funds on free licenses for 2023-24 and 2024-25, per Chalkbeat. That free access has ended, so Colorado schools now renew at their own cost.
• Louisiana provided school licenses to K-8 public schools for 2024-25.
• Ohio covered grades 6 to 8 through June 30, 2025 with federal relief funds, then offered a limited number of free School Accounts for 2025-26 to districts meeting implementation requirements.
• Texas approved Math Catalyst Texas with Zearn Math on November 21, 2025, and districts can apply state instructional materials funds to it. The price is by quote.

If your state program ended, the renewal is the moment to check what the building actually used. A flat site fee renewed for two grades that barely log in is the easiest overspend to miss on a per-school license.

Zearn cost for a 600-student elementary school, three ways

Setup	Annual cost	What the school gets
Zearn School Account only, legacy terms	$2,500	Daily digital math lessons for every student, building reports
Zearn plus coaching at RAND's rate	About $8,500 before workbooks and staff time	Lessons plus a coach helping teachers use the data
Zearn School Account plus Coeducate School plan	$5,980	Lessons for every student, plus a tutor that names each struggling student's misconception with a dated record

The first row is the cheapest serious math product we have priced for this site. The third row is what a school buys when Zearn's lesson data says a group is stuck and nobody has time to find out why.

What the agreement terms say

Zearn sells through a Master Services Agreement numbered per customer, as in the Barrington document, with a single "combined fee" for the listed services and a term tied to the school year. Read three things before signing: which schools are named (an unnamed building is not covered), whether PD is in the combined fee or a separate line, and the end date, since Frisco's and Gloucester's run to June 30. Districts adding a new vendor usually also ask for a certificate of insurance before the PO is cut, and a business office already juggling dozens of vendors can track every vendor certificate of insurance and its expiry in one place instead of chasing PDFs each July.

Six questions to ask before you sign the Zearn quote

1. Is this the legacy price of $2,500 per school, or new pricing? If new, what is the per-school figure?
2. Which buildings are named in the agreement, and what does adding one mid-year cost?
3. Is professional development in the combined fee or billed separately, and is it on-demand or live?
4. Does a state program cover any of it this year or next, as in South Carolina, Ohio or Texas?
5. Do we need printed notebooks, and at what per-student price?
6. Can the Export Center data go into our own MTSS tracker, and in what format?

Where Zearn is the better buy, and where it is not

Zearn is the better buy if you need daily core or supplemental math lessons for a whole K-8 building, especially one already on the Eureka Math or EngageNY sequence it mirrors. At $2,500 a site it is hard to beat, and one teacher can use it free.

Where it stops is the student who keeps getting the lesson wrong. Zearn's reports show who is struggling and on which lesson. They do not tell the teacher which idea broke, in the student's own words. Coeducate does that part: the student solves an item and explains it, the tutor asks the next question instead of giving the answer, and the teacher gets a card naming the misconception with a three-step reteach. The elementary math intervention programs page shows that card for fractions and place value, and the math intervention software for middle school page shows it for Tier 2 groups.

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. It is more than a Zearn site license, and it does a different job.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Zearn cost for a school?

A Zearn School Account has cost $2,500 per school a year for unlimited students on the published 2018 price sheet and on district agreements from 2023 to 2025. Zearn no longer prints a price, and 2025 documents label that rate as legacy, so new schools should expect a quote. Professional development and printed workbooks cost extra.

Is Zearn free?

Zearn is free for one teacher with up to 35 students, and Zearn says it will stay free for individual teachers and students. Schools pay for a School or District Account to get building-wide reports, rostering and support. Some states, including South Carolina, have paid for every public K-8 school.

How much does Zearn Math cost per student?

Zearn is not priced per student. At $2,500 per school, the license works out to about $10 per student in a 250-student school and about $4 in a 600-student school. With coaching, training and staff time, RAND put a full implementation at $39.02 per student in year one and $32.48 in year two.

What is the difference between a free Zearn account and a School Account?

The lessons are the same. A School Account covers every student and teacher in the building instead of one class of 35, and adds administrator and Snapshot reports, Clever and ClassLink rostering, co-teacher sharing, roster setup by Zearn, priority support and an orientation webinar. District Accounts add district-wide reporting and data export.

Is Zearn worth the cost?

For a K-8 school using it daily across most grades, a $2,500 site license is among the lowest per-student costs of any digital math program, so yes. It is worth less when only a few classes log in, and it does not diagnose why a struggling student is stuck, which is the gap schools usually fill with a separate intervention tool.