State College, Pennsylvania, Oct. 8, 2010 —Schoolwires ranked on Inc. Magazine’s Top 500|5000 list for the fourth consecutive year and remains in the top 20 fastest growing companies in the private education sector.

Schoolwires placed 17th among the fastest growing private companies serving the education industry across the nation, according to Inc magazine, and it is the fastest growing provider of strategic website and community management solutions. This is the fourth consecutive year that the company has achieved a place among the top 20 fastest growing companies in this sector. In addition, the company ranked 1,202 in the list of the fastest growing private companies in the Inc.5000 in 2010. Schoolwires is one of the nation’s leading providers of strategic website and community management solutions for building stronger school communities, more effective schools and greater student success.

“Schoolwires remains the leader in our market because our immersion and singular focus on the needs of the K-12 market enable us to anticipate the market’s needs and deliver innovative transformational technologies that drive district and student success,” said Edward S. Marflak, founder and CEO of Schoolwires. “The addition of eight Top 200 districts and an additional 231 new customers during a time of school budget cuts and economic uncertainty demonstrates the positive impact that our solutions have in furthering mission-critical district initiatives.”

Marflak cited the following factors as contributing to the company’s ongoing growth and continued ranking in the Inc. 500|5000.
Schoolwires remains the vendor of choice for many of the nation’s Top 200 districts. New contracts signed over the past 12 months include Baltimore City Public Schools, Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Dallas Independent School District, Davis School District, Minneapolis Public School District, Newark Public Schools, West Contra Costa Unified Schools and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District.
A total of 239 new districts purchased Schoolwires solutions in 2009.
The innovation of Centricity2, Schoolwires new transformational and unifying platform that goes beyond website and community management to address some of the most pressing challenges facing K-12 education today.
The company consistently achieves an annual client retention rate that typically exceeds 97%.
The company’s solutions are in use at nearly 1,200 districts and educational entities serving an estimated 5 million users.

About Inc 5000 Methodology:
The 2010 Inc. 5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2006 through 2009. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by the first week of 2006, and therefore able to show four full calendar years of sales. Additionally, they have to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2009. Revenue in 2006 must have been at least $200,000, and revenue in 2009 must have been at least $2 million. The top 10 percent of companies on the list constitute the Inc. 500, now in its 28th year. For more information, visit http://www.inc.com/inc5000/2010/index.htm

About Schoolwires, Inc.
Schoolwires is the leading provider of community-based solutions that accelerate K-12 district and student success. Through its revolutionary Centricity2 platform, Schoolwires brings together the industry-leading website and community management solution, a powerful and unprecedented community engagement engine, along with a technology ecosystem that allows a district’s critical technologies and resources to be integrated within the Centricity platform for ease of access and accelerated adoption. Built upon the proven and award-winning Centricity website and community management solution used by nearly 1,200 school districts and educational entities, the Centricity2 platform enables turn-key integration of pre-configured Schoolwires applications, including Synergy Digital File Sharing and Assist Service Request Management. Through its many deep and long-term district relationships, Schoolwires works with an estimated 5 million users across the nation. Schoolwires also is recognized by Inc magazine as one of the top 20 fastest growing private education companies across the nation for four consecutive years. Schoolwires ranks in the Inc. 500|5000 as the 1,202nd fastest growing private companies after achieving Inc. 500 status overall for two consecutive years.
Schoolwires Inc. (www.schoolwires.com) is headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania, USA.