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95 Percent Group
95 Percent Group is a company based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, founded in 2005. It develops and provides literacy solutions for the education sector.
95 Percent Group
95 Percent Group is a company based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, founded in 2005. It develops and provides literacy solutions for the education sector. The company's products and services support reading instruction and intervention in areas such as phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
Corporate office
United States
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What does 95 Percent Group actually provide to schools?
95 Percent Group sells a suite of diagnostic screeners and intervention materials focused on foundational reading skills. Its core products are the Phonological Awareness Screener for Intervention (PASI) and the Phonics Lesson Library, which provide scripted, small-group lessons targeting specific skill gaps in phonemic awareness and phonics.
Who owns 95 Percent Group and how is it governed?
Leeds Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on the knowledge industries, acquired 95 Percent Group in 2020. This placed the company within a portfolio that includes other education and workforce-training businesses, signaling a growth-oriented, commercially driven governance structure.
How is 95 Percent Group's approach different from balanced literacy or whole language?
95 Percent Group's materials are built around structured literacy, an explicit, systematic approach grounded in the science of reading. This contrasts with balanced literacy, which typically includes three-cueing strategies that encourage students to guess words based on context and pictures. 95 Percent Group's interventions isolate discrete phonics and phonemic awareness skills and teach them directly.
Which states or districts are driving adoption of 95 Percent Group's products?
Adoption correlates strongly with states that have passed science-of-reading legislation mandating evidence-based curricula. While the company does not publish an exhaustive district list, it reports a presence in thousands of schools, with particularly high demand in states that have aligned their procurement and professional development funding with structured literacy requirements.
Does 95 Percent Group sell a full English Language Arts curriculum?
No. The company positions itself as an intervention provider rather than a comprehensive core curriculum publisher. Its products are designed to supplement a district's existing core reading program, typically occupying a dedicated 30-minute phonics intervention block rather than the full literacy period.
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