Pricing & how to buy
Published rates.
Plain arithmetic.
Every rate is on this page. There is no "contact sales for pricing" — a public buyer shouldn't have to book a call to find out what something costs.
What does CCMRI cost?
One agreement. A $1 per-student base, and 5% of the increase in Bonus-Outcome revenue above your own pre-platform baseline. Your existing baseline is never billable, and almost all of what we charge is contingent on results we helped produce.
Base Payment — $1 per student, per year
All K-12 students, from the annual PEIMS snapshot. All-inclusive: the platform, onboarding, integrations and support. This is the only part that is not contingent on outcomes.
Outcome Fee — 5% of the increase
Charged only on Bonus-Outcome funding above your baseline — 5¢ on a new dollar the state actually paid you. In a flat year you have paid the $1 base and nothing else.
| Additional graduate | TEA pays your district | CCMRI fee | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not economically disadvantaged | $3,000 | $150 | $2,850 |
| Economically disadvantaged | $5,000 | $250 | $4,750 |
| Not economically disadvantaged + special education | $7,000 | $350 | $6,650 |
| Economically disadvantaged + special education | $9,000 | $450 | $8,550 |
You keep 95% of every new bonus dollar. The $1 base is a separate, all-inclusive platform charge, so your combined cost in any given year is that 5% plus the base — both are itemised in your agreement and on your Outcomes Value dashboard, because a number you cannot check is not transparency.
Your guaranteed cost floor
The $1 per student base is the only cost you are guaranteed to pay. The 5% Outcome Fee is entirely contingent: if your Bonus-Outcome revenue does not rise above your baseline, you owe $0 in outcome fees. There is no minimum on the performance side, no true-up in our favour beyond what your contract encumbers, and no clawback of anything you have already earned.
Worst case, best case
Worst case — nothing improves: you pay the base and nothing
else, and you keep every dollar of the funding you were already capturing.
Best case — your capture climbs: the new money lands with your district
first, and 95 cents of every new bonus dollar stays there. On a mid-sized district a
five-figure floor sits against a six- or seven-figure gain; your own numbers are on the
district projection page.
Special education is the leg most districts leave untouched: it carries no threshold and stacks on top of the other amount, so a special-education graduate who is also economically disadvantaged earns immediately and counts toward clearing the economically-disadvantaged threshold that unlocks the larger amount for other students. Bonus amounts are set by TEC §48.110; thresholds are 11% of economically disadvantaged and 24% of non-economically-disadvantaged graduates.
Rigorously structured around TEA Outcomes Based Contracting
CCMRI rigorously follows the core Outcomes Based Contracting structure published by the Texas Education Agency: outcomes are defined before service; a guaranteed base payment supports delivery; a separate payment is contingent on verified outcomes; and the district and provider share risk. CCMRI implements that structure with reconciliation against independent evidence.
Our district agreement uses the Center for OBC “EdTech Instructional Intervention” template that TEA hosts as an OBC resource, adapted to the CCMR readiness domain. Review TEA's Outcomes Based Contracting resources. Structural alignment does not mean certification or endorsement: CCMRI is not TEA-certified, TEA-endorsed, TEA-approved, or a TEA preferred vendor.
How does the 5% actually work?
The performance fee is 5% of the increase in Bonus-Outcome revenue above your own pre-platform baseline — not 5% of your funding. Your existing baseline is never billable.
Invoiced in-year, trued up to TEA's finals
CCMRI invoices an estimated advance against your projected outcomes during the year, then settles to TEA's published finals roughly two years later — refunding the difference if we over-estimated, and collecting only up to the maximum encumbered in your contract. Absent your own history the advance is struck at the contractual default of 100% of your BO-Eligible students; upload your prior-year CCMR Part 1 and Part 2 and that default is replaced by your district's measured conversion, which lowers the invoice.
Only positive deltas count
A down year owes nothing on the performance component. There is no clawback and no penalty. If Bonus Outcomes never rise, the district has paid only the per-student floor.
Written as a rate card
In contract the 5% is expressed as a fixed rate card per additional qualifying outcome — the structure Texas outcomes-based contracting already uses, procured best-value under TEC §44.031. Mathematically identical, cleaner for your counsel.
What does that look like on a real district?
A de-identified example built entirely from published TEA CCMR Outcomes-Bonus finals, so you can run the same arithmetic on your own district.
A 27,500-student North Texas district
| Bonus revenue received, 2021 → 2024 | $149K → $219K → $214K → $493K |
| Maximum potential at current cohort size | $9.98M / year |
| Current capture rate | 4.9% |
| Left unclaimed each year | ≈ $9.5M |
The district's 2024 result more than doubled 2023 without any new platform — the outcomes are there when someone goes looking for them.
Modelled three-year trajectory
| Yr 1 | Yr 2 | Yr 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capture rate | 17% | 21.5% | 23.5% |
| Bonus revenue | $1.69M | $2.14M | $2.35M |
| New money vs. baseline | +$1.2M | +$1.65M | +$1.85M |
How does a Texas district actually buy this?
Three routes, depending on your purchasing threshold and board calendar.
Cooperative purchasing
Texas districts can buy through competitively procured co-op contracts without running their own RFP — BuyBoard (TASB), TIPS (ESC Region 8), and Choice Partners (Harris County Dept. of Education).
Ask us where we currently stand on each contract before you plan around it — we'll tell you straight rather than imply coverage we don't have.
Sole source
Where a district's policy allows it, CCMRI provides a signed sole-source letter on company letterhead stating the factual basis, including patent-pending status (App. #64/068,075).
Open RFP
We respond to formal solicitations and can supply a completed K-12CVAT or HECVAT, our VPAT 2.5 accessibility report, and the full vendor security packet as standard attachments.
The paperwork, in order
Data privacy agreement
We have signed the SDPC National Data Privacy Agreement with the Texas exhibit (TX-NDPA) unmodified, so your team executes the instrument it already knows. Districts in the Texas Student Privacy Alliance can leverage an existing signed agreement through the SDPC Resource Registry.
Security review
K-12CVAT / HECVAT, VPAT 2.5, subprocessor list, encryption and retention detail — all available before you commit, not after.
Master Services Agreement
Pricing and terms live in the MSA; student data lives in the DPA. Two separate instruments, both for your counsel's review.
Pricing questions
How much does CCMRI cost?
One agreement: $1 per enrolled student per year across all K-12 grades, plus 5% of the increase in Bonus-Outcome revenue above your own pre-platform baseline. Your existing baseline is never billable. The 5% is published as a rate card per additional graduate — $150, $250, $350 or $450 depending on economic disadvantage and special education, which stack. You keep 95% of every new bonus dollar, plus the separate $1 base.
How does CCMRI follow TEA's Outcomes Based Contracting structure?
We rigorously follow the core structure TEA publishes: outcomes are defined before service; a guaranteed base payment supports delivery; a separate payment is contingent on verified outcomes; and the district and provider share risk. CCMRI implements that structure with reconciliation against independent evidence. Our agreement uses the Center for OBC template TEA hosts as a resource. This is structural alignment, not TEA certification, endorsement, approval, or preferred-vendor status.
When is the performance fee invoiced?
In-year, and then trued up to TEA's published finals roughly two years later. We invoice an estimated advance during the year. Absent your own history that advance is struck at the contractual default of 100% of your BO-Eligible students, on top of those already BO-Confirmed — TEA's own Outcome-Based Contracting encumbrance convention, and a contractual ceiling rather than a forecast. Upload your prior-year CCMR Part 1 and Part 2 and that default is replaced by your district's measured historical conversion, which lowers your invoice. At settlement we refund the difference if we over-advanced — without limit, down to zero — and can collect additional amounts only up to the maximum contract value encumbered in your agreement, never open-ended.
What happens in a year when Bonus Outcomes go down?
Nothing is owed on the performance component. Only positive increases above your own pre-platform baseline are billable. There is no clawback and no penalty, and your existing baseline revenue is never billable in any year. In a flat year a district has paid only the $1 per-student base and nothing else.
Can we buy CCMRI without running an RFP?
Often yes. Texas districts can purchase through competitively procured cooperative contracts such as BuyBoard (TASB), TIPS (ESC Region 8) and Choice Partners (Harris County Department of Education). A district may also proceed under a sole-source justification, for which we provide a signed letter stating the factual basis including our patent-pending status. Ask us where we stand on any specific co-op before planning around it.
What data privacy agreement do you sign?
We have signed the SDPC National Data Privacy Agreement with the Texas exhibit — TX-NDPA — unmodified, so districts execute the instrument they already know. The Master Services Agreement covering pricing and the Data Privacy Agreement covering student data are separate instruments; both go to your counsel for review.
How do districts typically fund CCMRI?
Common sources are Perkins V career and technical education funds, ESSA Title IV-A Student Support and Academic Enrichment funds — which districts frequently use for college and career counselling — Title I-A where the population qualifies, state CTE allotment funds, and the local general fund technology or accountability budget. We'll map the standard to the codes you actually have, including saying when we think a source doesn't fit.
Is there a minimum contract term?
Terms are set in the Master Services Agreement and are open to negotiation with your counsel. Because TEA settles bonuses on roughly a two-year lag, the agreement includes a survival clause so that a fee earned during the term is still payable when the state funds actually arrive — and equally, so the district is never billed for an increase it did not receive.
Want these numbers run on your district — free?
Send us your district name and we'll come back — at no cost and with no obligation — with your published TEA capture rate, a 2031 differential-weighting estimate, and what the agreement would actually cost you. A demo loaded with your own TAPR data comes with it, before any meeting.