In Africa, 4 out of 5 children and young adolescents attending school - that’s 133 million children - are not mastering the basics.

There are still too many children out of school, especially in countries affected by conflict and humanitarian emergencies.

But for the first time in history, most non-learners are actually to be found in school. Every day, millions of children make their way to classrooms where they fail to learn anything because the quality of the education they receive is so poor.

The World Bank calls it The Global Learning Crisis - and girls are at the frontline. In Sierra Leone and Liberia, 95% of young women who finish their schooling after Grade 6 can’t read a simple sentence.

 

Our mission is to create the best schools and the most powerful teaching and learning tools for the people that need them most

 

Through great curriculum materials, intensive teacher coaching and actionable data, we help teachers and school leaders bring quality to every classroom. We innovate through low-cost private schools we own and operate ourselves, then take these learnings and work with governments and other partners to improve the quality of their schools at scale.

We’re one of the fastest-growing quality-focused education companies in Africa, and a Certified B Corp®.

Founded in Sierra Leone in 2014, Rising provided emergency education to children kept out of school by the Ebola Epidemic before opening our first school in April 2015.

Today, we serve more than 250,000 students across 700 schools in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and Rwanda.

 

We use great curriculum materials, intensive teacher coaching and actionable data to bring quality to every classroom. And independent studies show that it works, delivering best-in-class learning gains at a third of the cost of our leading competitors.

rising values

We put shared values at the heart of our schools. We are not academically selective because we believe in the potential of every student.

great cURRICULUM

We put engaging lesson plans in the hands of every teacher, and high-quality learning materials in the hands of every student.

TEACHER COACHING

Our powerful, in-your-pocket, teacher coaching app provides teachers with regular high-quality feedback and support, supplementing our intensive pre-service training modules.

DATA AND FEEDBACK

Through regular spot-checks, student assessment, technology-enabled data analytics, and rigorous impact evaluation, we monitor schools closely and provide school leaders with the feedback they need to create great schools.

Investors

Rising benefits from a fantastic group of partners who share our commitment to making quality education accessible and affordable for all.

 

Government Partnerships

Rising proudly works with 5 government partners to improve the quality of education for more than 250,000 students across 4 countries.

 

Funding Community & Program Partners

Rising works with industry-leading philanthropists, fund managers and social-impact organisations to power and improve our impact.

 

Research & Learning Partners

Rising works with some of the world’s leading research organisations to continually evaluate and improve the quality of what we can offer schools. You can learn more about our research outcomes here.