Tutoring in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Kolu is software. Nobody from Kolu will drive to your house in Tulsa, and we have no office there. If you want a person, this page says how we would look for one. If the question is which skill is missing, we can help with that part.
Tulsa Public Schools serves most of the city, and it lets families apply beyond their neighborhood school. For the coming school year a family can list up to six schools, and placements are announced in March. Magnet schools such as Booker T. Washington High School and Carver Middle School have their own enrollment rules, and the district also counts charter partners among its schools. South and southeast Tulsa are in the Union and Jenks districts, which run their own schools and calendars.
State tests Tulsa students take
| Grade | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading and writing | OSTP | OSTP | OSTP | OSTP | OSTP | OSTP | Not tested | Not tested | CCRA (ACT) | Not tested |
| Math | OSTP | OSTP | OSTP | OSTP | OSTP | OSTP | Not tested | Not tested | CCRA (ACT) | Not tested |
| Science | Not tested | Not tested | OSTP Science | Not tested | Not tested | OSTP Science | Not tested | Not tested | CCRA Science | Not tested |
- OSTP (Oklahoma School Testing Program): reading and writing, math, grades 3 through 8
- OSTP Science: science, grades 5 and 8
- CCRA (ACT) (College- and Career-Readiness Assessment): reading and writing, math, grade 11
- CCRA Science: science, grade 11
Third-grade retention returns in 2027-28. Under Senate Bill 1778, signed in April 2026, a third grader who scores below basic on the state reading test and does not reach an acceptable score on a second approved test is held back unless a good-cause exemption applies.
Testing dates and graduation rules for the whole state are on a separate page. Oklahoma guide
Kolu finds the missing skill and goes back to it
It starts with a skill check, a short test that gets harder or easier depending on the last answer. The result is a map of the subject broken into skills with their prerequisites drawn in, each one marked as solid, still being learned, or a gap.
After that, each session is a handful of activities picked for that student, usually something due for review, a gap to repair and one new skill. When an answer is wrong, Kolu looks at which earlier skill the mistake points to and goes back to it. Here is what that looks like for a sixth grader who can't divide fractions.
The problem on the page
3/4 ÷ 2/5
Dividing fractions
Grade 6
Multiplying fractions
Grade 5 · rests on the one below
Equivalent fractions
Grade 4 · usually where it started
Multiplication facts
Grade 3
Kolu does not call a skill mastered after one right answer. That takes correct work on different kinds of problems on different days, and a skill that fades gets brought back.
Kolu is not test prep for OSTP. It has no bank of released questions. It teaches the skills the test draws on, and it will not do tonight's homework.
It runs in a browser, so it works the same in Broken Arrow, Jenks, Bixby, Owasso, Sand Springs and Sapulpa as it does in Tulsa.
When to hire a person instead
Some students need a person, and software is the wrong purchase for them. That includes a child who shuts down when the work gets hard, a student with a learning disability who needs someone trained in it, and anyone with an exam in ten days.
In Tulsa, ask the school first. Teachers know who tutors, and a counselor at Tulsa Public Schools can tell you what the district already offers at no cost. After that, try students at University of Tulsa, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa Community College or Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, who took these courses recently and usually charge less than an agency.
Whoever you hire, ask one question before the first session: how will you find out what my child doesn't know? If the answer is that they will go over the homework, keep looking.
Free for one subject, $15 a month for 5
Kolu is free for one subject at a time, with one full skill check every 30 days and up to 4 sessions a day. Plus is $15 a month, or $120 for a year, and covers 5 subjects at once with unlimited skill checks. A learner under 13 needs a parent or guardian to set up the account.