Forge
Forge Web Development Lab
FGBEAM Forge
9-12HybridMilwaukee
Students build production-ready websites and learn version control, UI systems, and deployment workflow.
Wisconsin Graduation Audit
20 points. The gap between belief and outcome.
BEAM Education exists to close it with research, real-world programs, and zero tolerance for the expectation gap.
Black students
0.0%
Wisconsin four-year graduation rate benchmark used as the front-door accountability metric.
White students
0.0%
The gap is not a mystery. It is measurable, durable, and correctable.
The Fiscal Audit
Taxation without adequate educational return.
The BEAM Education audit starts with a basic question: what does Wisconsin ask Black families to pay into a system that consistently underdelivers for Black children?
Families in the lower and middle income quintiles shoulder higher effective state and local tax rates than the wealthiest households, while the public system still produces a persistent outcome gap. That is a fiscal integrity problem, not a narrative problem.
We treat that mismatch as an auditable public obligation. The intervention model is direct: pair rigorous evidence with supplemental programs tied to live BEAM tracks so students gain both academic lift and real-world pathway exposure.
Wisconsin Black vs. white graduation rates
Source: Wisconsin DPI / WISEdash annual graduation reporting. Seed data shown for front-end build, spanning 2000-2025.
The Programs
Supplemental tracks connected to the wider BEAM system.
Finance
Finance Money Maps
FNBEAM Finance
9-12RemoteAny
A personal finance studio on banking, credit, taxes, and capital strategy for first-generation wealth building.
Environment
Environment Water Science
ENBEAM Environment
6-8HybridMadison
Students investigate watershed quality, environmental sampling, and public health through local water systems.
Food
Food Entrepreneurship Lab
FDBEAM Food
6-8In-PersonMilwaukee
Students turn neighborhood food knowledge into pricing, branding, and vendor-day business projects.
Orchestra
Orchestra Theory Foundations
ORBEAM Orchestra
K-12RemoteAny
Music theory, score reading, and ensemble listening exercises that connect directly to BEAM Orchestra pathways.
Transportation
Transportation Automotive Systems
TRBEAM Transportation
9-12HybridAtlanta
Students learn diagnostics, electrical systems, and systems thinking through automotive engineering workflows.
Join The Research
Grant writers, researchers, and educators are part of the intervention stack.
This work is not just student-facing. We need records requests, grant development, educator partnerships, and classroom pilots moving at the same time.