K12 reviews

3.6

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,456 total reviews)

James Rhyu

59% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

K12 has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,456 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The K12 employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Aug 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many colleagues are super focused and dedicated on creating great educational experiences for students from all walks of life. It is great to work with people from all over the country.

Cons

The company leadership consists of mostly Ivy League MBAs and former corporate executives from all industries except education. The focus is on generating enrollments (which equals $). Top executives pay, bonuses and stock options are inordinately high, which fuels the argument that for profit companies should not be running public schools.

1.0
May 16, 2014

SEC

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I can't say, there are any pros about this company anymore. Maybe, just benefits and let's face it, you can get health insurance at most jobs now a days.

Cons

Constant changes in performance metrics. No one seems to ever be on the same page and was a daily battle to even want to go to work. Environment is horrible. Everyone has their own way of doing the same things and caused too much confusion and animosity. Ever since they have tried to change the whole company a year ago, every month that went by I got more disgusted. Management and Supervisors are lazy and don't do much but complain and take things out on employees.I used to love working there and then it went to garbage. Glad myself and many others have, or are leaving as well. What a dump.

1.0
Jan 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many resources, good teachers, nice families.

Cons

Training for teachers is horrific and incomplete. Teachers are only given 1/4 of what they need to know before teaching. It is even worse when this incomplete training ends weeks after school starts and students have to wait four weeks to get a welcome from their new teacher. Lack of communication between participating schools and K12. Some students were not switched into proper class. Instructors have no clear classroom and can view all students enrolled in the school system (FERPA issue anyone?). Impossible to know when new students start. Long chit-chatty virtual meetings that have a lot of content not needed by certain teachers outside of that particular region. It seems that the trainers,the school liason, and the teacher supervisors are not on the same page. No one seemed to know the rules and expectation for my particular school district. Staff joked about how steep the learning curve was for new teachers - it seems like sick joke now. The only true help I received was from the only other teacher working for the school district. Total nightmare!

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