Stride, Inc. (LRN)
Online school operator, teachers counted. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026, filed August 5, 2026. Ranked 3 of the 71 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
24%
End of 2028
34%
Employees, annual report
9,200
Leading staffing pattern
Elementary and Secondary Schools
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now24%
- End of 202732%
- End of 202834%
- End of 203035%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 64%
- Becomes checking a model's work 26%
- Handed over with lighter checks 8%
The filing states 9,200 employees with 5,900 teachers among them and substantially all in the U.S., so the schools' pattern leads on the teacher count and the platform and corporate staff take the rest by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 24% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 35% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 35% desk work, 47% people work and 18% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 64% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 26% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
9,200 employees as of June 30, 2026 (stated). Stated in words: substantially all employees are located in the United States.
The filing: “As of June 30, 2026, we had approximately 9,200 employees (including teachers), and substantially all of these employees are located in the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Elementary and Secondary Schools | 85% | By (a) and description (c): the filing counts 5,900 teachers among its employees, 64% of 9,200, and describes the online and blended public schools it manages whose administrators, counselors and enrollment staff are also school work, so 85% is read at elementary and secondary schools. |
| Educational Support Services | 15% | By description (c): the curriculum, learning platform, career learning and corporate staff that serve the schools have no stated count, so the remainder is read at educational support services. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 9,200 employees including teachers as of June 30, 2026 (8,600 a year earlier), substantially all in the United States; Stride manages approximately 9,600 teachers, 5,900 of them employees and 3,700 employed by the public schools it manages; none of its employees unionized, though certain schools it serves employ unionized teachers.
What the filing says about AI
33 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names automated and AI-assisted learning among its product focus areas, and the growing number of state laws regulating AI use and privacy among the regulations that affect its business.
- “These risks, uncertainties, factors and contingencies include, but are not limited to: ● reduction of per pupil funding amounts at the schools we serve; ● inability to achieve a sufficient level of new enrollments to sustain our business model or to meet financial or operational guidance; ● limitations of the enrollment data we present, which may not fully capture trends in the performance of o...”
- “Areas of focus include: (i) integration and user experience; (ii) mobile enabled products; (iii) portability; (iv) personalization; (v) flexibility; (vi) reading and oral fluency scoring; (vii) state standard alignment; (viii) tutoring & support; and (ix) automated and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted learning.”
- “The state laws and regulations that impact our business are primarily those that authorize or restrict our ability to operate these schools, the applicable funding mechanisms for the schools and the increasing number of states with their own, unique privacy laws and laws regulating AI use.”
- “There is also a growing trend of laws and regulations being established to regulate the use of AI, including with respect to the education of children and the interaction of minors with AI.”
- “A variety of federal, state and non-U.S. laws and regulations apply to this aspect of our business, including laws and regulations related to consumer protection, payments, marketing and advertising, taxation, privacy, data security, and artificial intelligence. See risk factors under Item 1A, "Risk Factors - Risks Related to Government Funding and Regulation of Public Education" for addition...”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20232median 1
- Fiscal 202421median 4
- Fiscal 202522median 10
- Fiscal 202633
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 9,200 | 2026-08-05 | 10-K |
| 2025-06-30 | 8,600 | 2025-08-06 | 10-K |
| 2024-06-30 | 7,800 | 2024-08-07 | 10-K |
| 2023-06-30 | 7,800 | 2023-08-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-06-30 | 7,500 | 2022-08-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-06-30 | 7,100 | 2021-08-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-06-30 | 4,950 | 2020-08-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-06-30 | 4,550 | 2019-08-07 | 10-K |
| 2018-06-30 | 4,700 | 2018-08-08 | 10-K |
| 2017-06-30 | 4,750 | 2017-08-09 | 10-K |
| 2016-06-30 | 4,800 | 2016-08-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-06-30 | 4,800 | 2015-08-04 | 10-K |
| 2014-06-30 | 4,200 | 2014-08-15 | 10-K |
| 2013-06-30 | 3,500 | 2013-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2012-06-30 | 3,300 | 2012-09-12 | 10-K |
| 2011-06-30 | 2,500 | 2011-10-07 | 10-K |
| 2010-06-30 | 1,065 | 2010-09-13 | 10-K |
| 2009-06-30 | 993 | 2009-09-14 | 10-K |
| 2008-06-30 | 763 | 2008-09-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The 3,700 teachers employed by the virtual and blended public schools it manages are not its employees and are not counted (rule 8).
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 from the filing's words, substantially all.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-26-090515, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Stride, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 24% now and 34% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Stride, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Stride, Inc. employ?
- 9,200 as of June 30, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Stride, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Elementary and Secondary Schools; by those patterns the work is about 35% desk work, 47% people work and 18% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Stride, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 33 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 0, 0, 2, 21, 22 and 33 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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