Turing School of Software & Design
Closed Denver nonprofit coding school that trained career changers for junior developer jobs.
On the record
Checkpoint: Colorado nonprofit registry check for any brand sale, licensing, or relaunch under new ownership
The call
Turing School shut down as the junior developer jobs its graduates needed largely disappeared under AI-driven hiring cuts.
Turing School was a coding bootcamp that taught people to become software developers, then shut down in spring 2025 after losing students and money for two years straight. The company is not hard to replace because AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot now do the entry-level coding work that bootcamp graduates used to do, so fewer companies hire junior developers at all (job postings dropped 70% from 2023 to 2025). The one thing that could matter: figuring out whether any part of Turing is actually relaunching under a new model or if the website just has old pages still live after the closure.
Why
01
AI pressure: GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude. AI coding tools cut junior developer job postings roughly 70% from 2023 to 2025, erasing the jobs Turing trained people for. Could AI do the core job? Yes, likely.
02
Bigger players: None apparent. No large company took Turing's customers; the entry-level job market it depended on simply stopped hiring. Could a giant copy it? Yes, easily.
03
What protects it. None. Turing closed in April 2025 after enrollment fell to 37 students and losses piled up.
What would change this call
Colorado nonprofit registry shows Turing School reinstated or assets sold to new operator. Would indicate a relaunch attempt rather than permanent closure.
turing.edu domain changes ownership or content shifts from stale marketing to active enrollment. Would show brand acquisition or genuine relaunch under new management.
CIM Group judgment enforcement or asset liquidation filings appear in Denver court records. Would confirm creditors are recovering funds from the defunct nonprofit's remaining assets.
turing.edu domain changes ownership or content shifts from stale marketing to active enrollment. Would show brand acquisition or genuine relaunch under new management.
CIM Group judgment enforcement or asset liquidation filings appear in Denver court records. Would confirm creditors are recovering funds from the defunct nonprofit's remaining assets.
Key numbers
- Revenue fell from $10.3M to $7.9M, 2021 to 2023
- Enrollment dropped to 37 students at closure
- Landlord won $500,371 default judgment for back rent
Named risks
- Entire bootcamp category structurally undermined by AI eliminating entry-level developer jobs.
- Unresolved legal/financial fallout from $500,371 landlord judgment during nonprofit wind-down.
- Ambiguity over stale turing.edu marketing pages creating confusion about operational status post-closure.
- No AI curriculum pivot attempted before closure, unlike surviving peers like Ada Developers Academy.
Rivals, as read in July 2026
| Rival | Direction | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 2U | contesting | 2U itself shut down university bootcamp partnerships Dec 2024, calling model misaligned with market |
| Kenzie Academy (Southern New Hampshire University) | losing to | Closed 2023 citing AI-driven demand erosion, part of same sector collapse as Turing |
| Ada Developers Academy | losing to | Reopened in 2024 with an AI-focused curriculum, a pivot Turing never made before closing |
| Momentum Learning Triangle | losing to | Closed August 2024 citing AI-driven demand erosion, same category-wide pressure |
| Codesmith | contesting | Reported pivoting toward AI-literacy curricula while Turing showed no visible AI pivot pre-closure (2025-01-30 report) |
Questions people ask
- Is Turing School of Software & Design still open?
- No. Founder Jeff Casimir announced on April 17, 2025 that Turing School would close, citing a long period of struggle. The Denver nonprofit coding bootcamp wound down operations between April and June 2025 with only 37 active students and about a dozen staff remaining.
- Why did Turing School close?
- Turing School's revenue fell from a peak $10.3 million in 2021 to $7.9 million in 2023 with a $1.8 million loss, while enrollment collapsed to 37 students by April 2025. It also faced a $500,371 default judgment from landlord CIM Group over unpaid rent, ordered April 8, 2025.
- Did AI kill Turing School's business model?
- Turing School never announced an AI-specific pivot, and its closure statement cited broad economic disruption rather than naming AI. Third-party data (Revelio Labs) shows software-developer job postings fell about 70% from Q1 2023 to Q1 2025, the exact junior-dev market Turing trained students for.
- Who owned Turing School of Software & Design?
- Turing operated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit registered in Colorado, funded by tuition and philanthropic donations with no external equity investors or VC funding, per its GuideStar nonprofit profile. Founder Jeff Casimir led it from founding in 2014 until its 2025 closure.
- How many people graduated from Turing School?
- Turing School reported graduating approximately 2,500 students over its 11-year run from 2014 until its closure announcement on April 17, 2025, according to Denver Post reporting citing the school's own tax filings and statements.
- Was joining Turing School as a student risky before it closed?
- In its final years, yes: enrollment had cratered to just 37 active students by the April 2025 closure announcement, down from a peak of roughly 250 graduates per year, and the school was already carrying a $1.8 million loss in 2023 and a landlord lawsuit.
Timeline
- 2025-06Wind-down of Turing School operations, refunds and student transfers, completes
- 2025-04-17Turing School announces closure, citing long period of struggle
- 2025-04-08Default judgment: Turing ordered to pay CIM Group $500,371 in back rent and fees
- 2025-0437 active students and about a dozen staff remain at time of closure
- 2024-122U shuts down university bootcamp partnerships, calls model misaligned with market
- 2023Turing revenue falls to $7.9 million with a $1.8 million loss
- 2022Turing revenue drops to $8.4 million against ~$9.3 million expenses, a deficit year
- 2021Turing hits peak revenue of $10.3 million with about $1 million surplus
- 2014Turing School founded in Denver by Jeff Casimir
Revision history
24 July 2026
First assessed. Little protection left. The text above is fixed as of this date and is not edited afterwards.
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Sources
- Coding school in Denver will close after 'long period of struggle' (2025-04-17)
- Outcomes Spotlight: Turing School (2025-12-01)
- School Overview (2025-06-04)
- Tuition and Costs at Turing
- With Intention: An Introduction (2021-12-10)
- How AI is rewriting the software development industry (2025-08-18)
- Coding Bootcamps in 2026: Who Survived the Shakeout (2026-07-16)
- The Rise and Fall(?) of Coding Bootcamps (2025-01-10)
- Recent closures signal changes in the tech training market (2025-01-30)
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- TURING SCHOOL OF SOFTWARE AND DESIGN
- As Coding Boot Camps Grow, One Tries a Nonprofit Model (2020-07-22)