StudentGigs for Schools

The platform that makes peer tutoring frictionless.

Willing tutors already sit in every classroom. What schools lack is the machinery: matching, booking, parent consent, safe payments to student tutors, and proof it works. StudentGigs handles all of it, so your program runs itself.

Pay as you go. Unused funds stay with your school.

15–20%
of students fail a class each year
1:1
Students want in-person tutoring... not online video calls

StudentGigs is the platform built for schools

Willing tutors already sit in every classroom. What's missing is coordination, safe payments to minors, and proof it's working. StudentGigs was designed for school peer tutoring from the ground up and runs the entire process, matching, booking, consent, payments, and tracking, seamlessly in one system.

Right-fit matching

A peer who aced the exact class: same teacher, right grade, compatible schedule. Students pick from a short list, not a directory.

Scheduling and reminders

Booked in the app for 7th period or after school. Text reminders get students to actually show up.

Tutoring in Spanish

Bilingual peers explain chemistry in Spanish, reaching underserved students and supporting WASC equity goals.

Safe payments to minors

The school is invoiced; funds route through the tutor's parent with consent and a full audit trail. Service hours are an option too.

Teacher focus areas

Teachers attach a note or materials to a session: "here's what to work on." Targeted help, not generic tutoring.

Tracking and transparency

Every session logged: attendance, hours, topics. Visible to teachers, parents, and administrators, with grade movement reviewed each grading period.

Same program, none of the friction

Most schools already believe in peer tutoring. The paper-and-drop-in process is what fails.

What it takes
Paper & drop-in
StudentGigs
Sign up in two minutes, no PDF applications or transcript uploads
Matched by exact class, teacher, and availability
Scheduled sessions with text reminders, instead of drop-in and hope
Hours, attendance, and progress logged automatically, not in pen
Parent consent and visibility built in
Tutors paid safely, or credited service hours, without manual tracking

Hand a teenager a PDF and the program stalls. Put it on their phone and it runs.

Scheduled 1:1 works. Drop-in and opt-in don't.

Schools already spend big on tutoring students never use. The fix is not more tutoring, it is a different delivery.

1.5% → 90%

New Mexico offered free opt-in tutoring on evenings and weekends: about 1.5% of eligible students enrolled. Once sessions were scheduled into the regular school day, 90% of assigned students attended at least one session.

MDRC: Tutoring Lessons from New Mexico and the follow-up
1 in 5

Only 19% of students ever tried the free on-demand online tutoring their schools bought. Students doing well were twice as likely to use it as students who had failed a class.

Brown University / Annenberg, EdWorkingPaper 22-654 · Hechinger Report
50th → 64th

Across 96 randomized studies, tutoring raised learning by a pooled 0.37 standard deviations, the equivalent of moving the typical student from the 50th to the 64th percentile.

NBER Working Paper 27476 (Nickow, Oreopoulos, Quan)

How a pilot runs

Three moving parts. The platform coordinates all of them.

1

Your school funds a small pool

Sized to your school, from existing tutoring dollars. No license, no long contract. You only pay for sessions delivered.

2

Top students tutor for pay

Students earn around $20/hr (or community-service hours) helping classmates in subjects they have already aced.

3

Struggling students get help, free

Matched with the right peer, booked with reminders, held on campus with staff present. Free to their family.

50 to 70% cheaper than commercial tutoring services, and far more likely to be used. Success metrics agreed up front: D and F grade movement, reviewed together every grading period.

The best tutor is the one who had the same teacher.

We match on exactly that: same class, same teacher, compatible schedule. Scheduled 1:1 sessions instead of drop-in, with bilingual tutors for the students who need help most.

Who it serves

Students

Help from someone who's been there

A peer who took the class, speaks their language, and remembers what was hard about it.

Peer tutors

Paid to do what they're best at

Real earnings or service hours, leadership experience, and they learn by teaching.

Teachers & parents

Visibility without extra work

Teachers send focus areas into sessions. Parents see the schedule, attendance, and progress.

Administrators

Measurable impact

Every session logged. Grade movement and attendance reviewed together each grading period.

Bring peer tutoring to your school.

Start small, pay only for sessions delivered, and review the results together each grading period.