founded february 11 1999 ; 17 years ago 1999 02 11 founder matt drakard simon booley headquarters oakham rutland united kingdom key people richard whalley md graham lyden td phil barker fd website 1 educationcity provides educational software to schools and homes . the elearning service was founded in 1999 and the company said the site has over 15 500 schools registered and 8 000 families . the service provides educational learning experiences mapped to the national curriculum in english mathematics science language education and computing . the company has won awards and was recently a bett and era finalist 1 and has been reviewed by the times educational supplement a number of times . 2 in april 2010 educationcity.com became one of the first ict content providers to receive accreditation by south west grid for learning swgfl merlin 3 for the integration of the resource into the merlin learning platform through the use of shibboleth and the systems interoperability framework sif . on 16 may 2011 the site had an alexa 4 rating of 78 987 . educationcity.com have recently launched a new module learn english to address english as an additional language english language learning and teaching needs in primary school . educationcity.com has offices in rutland uk and naperville us . contents 1 products 1.1 educationcity.com at school 1.2 educationcity.com at home 2 characters 3 history 4 references 5 external links products edit educationcity.com at school edit educationcity.com has interactive learning materials currently used by over 15 000 classrooms . educationcity.com at home edit educationcity.com assists children s education . parents register their children on educationcity.com and subscribe for a period of time which grants access to all the subjects in one academic level . characters edit stig focus on english sten focus on mathematics manu focus on science klara focus on learn english emma focus on french hilda focus on german chip and meg focus on computing history edit in june 2010 archipelago learning nasdaq arcl acquired educationcity.com . educationcity.com is planned to remain a stand alone business unit of archipelago . its headquarters will remain in rutland u.k. and naperville il . 5 references edit https www.emapawards.com emap frontend reg totherpage.csp pageid 178592 & ef sel menu 2657 & eventid 75 & eventid 75 http www.tes.co.uk article.aspx storycode 6004956 http www.swgflmerlin.org.uk merlin merlin in action works with merlin http www.alexa.com data details traffic details educationcity.com archipelago learning buys educationcity for 87m boston.com . the boston globe . 10 june 2010 . retrieved 11 june 2010 . external links edit educationcity.com company website archipelago learning company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title educationcity & oldid 709586131 categories educational software companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 march 2016 at 20 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view