American Public Education Retirement Plan

401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About American Public Education Retirement Plan

American Public Education Retirement Plan is a 401(k) retirement plan sponsored by American Public Education Inc., headquartered in West Virginia. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $259M in total end-of-year assets and covers 5,728 participants across the Educational Services industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 010724376, and the plan has been effective since 2002-04-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew sharply from $215M at the beginning of 2023 to $259M at year-end - up 20.7%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $259M, with reported net income of $44M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 3 plan years American Public Education Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $215M to $303M, a gain of 41.1%, while reported participants moved from 2,951 to 5,717 (+93.7%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $303M; the softest was 2022 at $215M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $215M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,951 participants; 2023 - $259M in assets across 1 plan covering 5,728 participants; 2024 - $303M in assets across 1 plan covering 5,717 participants.

By assets, American Public Education Retirement Plan outranks 96% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 2.6x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.

Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.

How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2023 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (126,618 plans), rank American Public Education Retirement Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.