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Scholastic Corp. SCHL

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.6B
▼ 2.7% YoY
$56.7M

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

Scholastic Corporation publishes and distributes children's books, provides print and digital instructional materials for grades pre-kindergarten to grade 12, and produces literary and educational children's media. As of May 31, 2026, it had approximately 6,905 employees, of which 4,710 were located in the United States and 2,195 outside the United States. Scholastic has operations in the United States and throughout the world, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Asia, and, through its export business, sells products in approximately 145 international locations. The Company categorizes its businesses into four reportable segments: Children's Book Publishing and Distribution; Education; Entertainment; and International. The Education segment, formerly known as Education Solutions, includes the publication and distribution of children's books, classroom magazines, and print and digital instructional materials to schools and libraries in the United States. The Entertainment segment includes the operations of 9 Story Media Group Inc., acquired on June 20, 2024, including its studios in Canada, Ireland and Indonesia, and Scholastic Entertainment Inc. Scholastic was founded in 1920.

Written from the business description in SCHOLASTIC CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 24 July 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.6 · Net income 0.1
1B2B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−2.4%
+4.0%
−0.6%
−1.1%
−13.1%
+3.4%
+2.5%
−2.0%
+7.3%
+0.0%
+5.9%
+2.9%
+21.9%
+69.2%
+23.4%
+3.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +4.0% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

4 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 1.0% · Net 3.6%
5%10%15%-2%-4%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 6.7%
10%20%-1%-2%-3%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 7 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 285.9M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2018 · FCF 21.4
100M200M-50M-100M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 20.0 · Net buybacks 265.9
150M300MDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025

USD 20.0M in dividends and USD 265.9M in buybacks — 504% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 1.7B
EquityUSD 750.8M
CashUSD 134.9M
Gross debtUSD 75.0M
Net debtUSD -59.9M
Current ratio1.23×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
SCHL, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B1.61.61.61.71.61.31.51.71.61.71.71.61.61.52.11.91.91.8
Operating income $B0.00.00.00.10.1−0.0−0.10.00.10.10.10.00.00.00.20.10.10.1
EBITDA $B0.10.10.10.20.20.0−0.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.1◌◌◌◌
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.10.00.10.0
Net income $B0.1−0.00.00.10.1−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.10.00.30.00.00.10.00.1−0.0
Free cash flow $B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.00.00.1−0.10.10.10.10.20.20.20.1
EPS, diluted $2.34−0.070.402.492.27−0.32−1.270.43−0.141.471.168.801.360.953.211.161.52−0.38
Dividend / sh $0.800.800.800.800.600.600.600.600.600.600.600.600.570.500.450.350.300.30
Payout %35−11892043026−187−47135−422405174051132719−59
ROE %6.7−0.21.17.36.7−0.9−3.61.2−0.44.13.327.85.03.713.05.06.9−1.7
Shares out B◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌0.030.030.000.000.030.03◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityBooks: Publishing or Publishing & Printing
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsMay 31
Data on record since2007

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