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K-12 LMS Market Update & Insights: May 2026
Over the past decade, the K-12 Learning Management System (LMS) market has undergone significant consolidation and shifting user preferences. Our historical data shows that while some legacy systems have steadily declined, a clear trio of dominant platforms has emerged to capture the vast majority of the K-12 market share. Using the latest data from the…
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RFP Trends & Market Priorities – December 2025 Update
What five years of RFP activity tells us about shifting institutional needs in HigherEd and K–12 As this will be our last post of the year, we wanted to take a moment to look back at RFP activity across Higher Education and K–12. Each year, RFP patterns give us an early indication of where institutions…
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The 2025 K-12 SIS Market: Steady Leaders, Emerging Shifts
The North American 2025 K-12 SIS market continues to show the hallmarks of a mature industry: steady leadership among top vendors, slower implementation cycles, and a growing emphasis on product differentiation through AI and integrated analytics. Yet beneath this stability lies meaningful change. Mergers and acquisitions, new state-level migrations, and evolving expectations around data intelligence…
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Google, Instructure, and PowerSchool in the Classroom: Usage Insights and Legal Concerns
As K–12 schools increasingly rely on digital platforms like Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology, usage data reveals a clear trend: strategic dual-LMS adoption is on the rise. However, alongside this growing reliance on EdTech tools, a parallel story is unfolding—one marked by legal scrutiny. In the second part of this post, we shift focus to…
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IT Staffing Comparison: Higher Ed and K-12
In today’s educational landscape, the role of IT staff has never been more critical. From supporting research-intensive universities to managing devices in K-12 classrooms, IT teams ensure the technology backbone of institutions runs smoothly. But how do staffing levels differ within higher education or school districts? An IT staffing comparison reveals the factors driving these…
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The State of the LMS Market in 2024: Trends in K-12
Key Takeaways: The Learning Management System (LMS) landscape for K-12 schools in North America has undergone remarkable changes in the last few years. Driven by factors such as the pandemic and funding surges, the market has seen rapid evolution. With 9,658 LMS implementations across the United States and Canada in our database, digital learning platforms…
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RFPs Trends and Updates – December 2023
The ListEdTech team has been tracking RFP data for just over three years now (you can read previous posts on our website). During this time, we learned how much value RFPs bring to institutions looking to replace one of their edtech solutions. In addition to giving insights on upcoming popular product categories, past RFPs can…
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An Update on the K-12 SIS Implementations
We think it’s time for another update on the student information systems used in the K-12 submarket. We published our initial post on K-12 student information system historical implementations in April 2020 and did an update in July 2021, then in October 2022. Let’s dig once again into the SIS used in K-12 to ensure…
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Justin’s Thoughts on Ellucian Live 2023
Almost a month has passed since my return from Ellucian Live 2023. I am still processing everything I saw and the announcements that Ellucian made. I must be honest: Ellucian Live 2023 was my first Ellucian conference. My first impression: it was big, almost as big as Educause. A little over 5,000 participants gathered in New…
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Dual View: Another Perspective on the Market Share
We usually present the market share for the product categories using the number of institutions. This is currently our default view. However, this way of presenting does not tell everything, and stakeholders should have access to other metrics when making product selections. This post compares market share by the number of institutions and enrollment to…
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The New Face of Finalsite
When Finalsite purchased Blackboard K-12’s product suite in mid-September, we finally got the answer to the question from September 2021: what is the fate of Blackboard’s non-LMS products? At the time of the purchase last year, we said that “[b]y merging with Blackboard, [Anthology] gains a robust LMS to complete its product offering.” But we…
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SIS and LMS Used in School Districts
Have you ever asked yourself: which SIS is used with a given LMS? When an institution considers replacing its learning management system, it may want to know what is the most implemented LMS with its current SIS. At ListEdTech, this type of question fuels our creativity as we like to better understand the data we…
