What We Do

Red Schoolhouse Software specializes in web-based software applications for schools and school districts. Our software is powerful, user friendly, cost effective, and easy to deploy.

The Online Assessment Reporting System (OARS) is a comprehensive suite of tools for collecting, reporting, and analyzing student assessement and demographic information.

Learn more about our products here.

Company History

Red Schoolhouse Software was founded in 2002 when we took on our first client, Paramount Unified School District, an urban district of about 18,000 students located in Southern California. Paramount Unified uses OARS for the collection, reporting, and analysis of benchmark assessments in several subject areas, including reading, math and High Point (an intervention program for English Learners). Read a case study here.

In 2003, Red Schoolhouse Software was selected as an approved provider of data management software for Reading First school districts across California. Eighty school districts--large and small, urban and rural--are now using OARS. Learn more about our clients and what they've said about our software here.

Axel Shalson, Lead Developer

Axel started his teaching career in Compton Unified School District in 1995 as a participant in the Teach for America program. He taught a 4/5 combination class for two years before transferring to the Los Angeles Unified School District where he taught a bilingual Kindergarten class.

With the guidance of some excellent mentors, Axel got involved in grant writing and program evaluation, successfully writing more than $100 million in grants for school districts across California. During this time, Axel also continued to develop his lifelong interest in technology.

It was during his time as an Instructional Technology Applications Facilitator for LAUSD's Local District G that he first conceived of developing an easy to use web-based tool for capturing and analyzing assessment results. OARS started as a pet project that Axel developed during his free time as a favor for his friend and colleague, a Reading Coach Coordinator.

Axel is the Founder, President, and CEO of Red Schoolhouse Software. You can reach him by sending a message on our contact form, or by sending him an email directly at axel@redschoolhouse.com.