482 PowerSchool Testimonials

"The PowerSchool Performance Matters online assessment, student support, and data analysis products have helped our district become more successful. Lafayette County School District is the second–highest performing school district in the state of Florida. We believe Performance Matters has played a noteworthy role in our success. Due to having access to Performance Matters, we have a platform to create and administer assessments that are aligned to state standards. This gives our students valuable practice, while giving our teachers valuable data in order to revise their instruction based on results. This has been a powerful tool in aiding district and school administration with planning and instruction. The Performance Matters system has impacted our ability to look for strengths and weaknesses by allowing us to analyze and manipulate all types of data, even allowing us to compare pieces of data that were not possible before. This tool has allowed school leadership to make informed decisions on professional development opportunities and school initiatives. We are extremely proud of the accomplishments our schools have achieved."

“We are a K-12 public charter school with approximately 1,300 students. Prior to utilizing PowerSchool Enrollment, the application, enrollment, and re-enrollment process was still all paper based. This meant a lot of time and [energy] were spent on photocopies and data entry, including errors in trying to decipher handwriting. There were also countless phone and email reminders, as well as multiple paper packets, given to the same families over and over to be completed. We were able to transition from pen and paper to electronic very smoothly. All notifications are now done directly through PowerSchool Enrollment. We no longer print out letters and mail them, and emails are more streamlined, and there is no more mail merge. Tracking of the forms was done all in one place and could be handled by one person more efficiently. All aspects—from implementation to going live—were very structured and detail oriented. Any questions that arose was answered promptly, usually within the same day. The trainer was very thorough and well versed in all aspects of the product. With every module we were shown, the connection was made from what was being done to how it would be accomplished now.”

“If it saves you money, do it! It’s such a nice feeling to see the email communicating about new updates, and knowing we don’t have to do that anymore! We also like that we still have the choice to either have updates done automatically or to do them when it’s more convenient with what we have going on at that specific time.”

“After working with PowerSchool for approximately 15 years, we continue to be excited about the upcoming enhancements that PowerSchool is providing. The product continues to evolve to better meet our specific needs.”

“When we were limited either by cost, or by timelines for new enhancements, we found that in many cases we were using ‘work arounds’ to solve different problems. In many cases these ‘work around’ solutions were not the most efficient way for our end users, or central support staff to be functioning on a daily basis, but they were the only solution we could offer to the problem.”

“Factoring in the cost of labor resources, paper, and ink, our [PowerSchool Registration] solution saves us an average of $82,000 per year. If you analyze the time that staff would previously spend on printing 154,000+ sheets of paper, following up with families, and manually processing and polishing student data, it came at a significant cost to our school district."

“In the past we were guessing at what our kids’ needs were. With PowerSchool Assessment we are able to pinpoint areas that allow us to individualize their learning experience. We are able to pinpoint areas where they do well and those areas we need to revisit. That is the purpose of education, you meet the kids where they are.”

“They came to ask why they had to complete the same forms for each of their kids at the beginning of every school year, year after year, often with the same information. They were understandably annoyed at having to repeat the drill time and time again, even though most of the information they provided – names, addresses, contact information – had not changed.”

“We prepared parents with a notification that went out about [PowerSchool Registration] with report cards at the end of that school year, and Dr. Berlin followed up with a letter that went out to families with their ‘snap codes’ – their passwords for the online enrollment and forms system."

“We’ve never had a grade platform that updates in real time like PowerSchool does.”

"The central department may think this is a complicated request, but Performance Matters makes it so that I can just send them a quick link and they have the report they requested. The ability to get that out to them in a timely manner prompts them to call me and ask, “Wait, how can I do this myself, so I don’t have to call you next time?” Showing them how to dig into the data themselves is one of my favorite things because they do not always know all the data that is available to them."

"So now, we can utilize Unified Talent products for more beneficial things such as how to not only improve teaching, but how to improve student achievement. And that’s where we’re heading into now and getting into the analytics of that. So, it’s exciting and it keeps me energized to keep doing this. One of the nice things I think that the state of Connecticut has done is they’ve really outlined what the objectives are in the regions that they’re looking at, and what observations the teachers and administrators are going to be looking for in the classroom. And now that we can take that data, analyze it, and say, “Okay. How does this affect student achievement?” And with student achievement insights now, we can bring all the packages together. We couldn’t do that before. We had an idea of what made good teachers, but now we can really look at test scores, analytics, and the evaluation, and really see what’s going on in the classroom."

“We’re able to capture true data that’s really going to help us enhance professional learning for teachers, which in turn affects our student learning outcomes.”

"The PowerSchool Unified Talent solution has allowed us to hire and retain the best possible talent in all capacities of our school division which ultimately impacts our student and their performance in the classroom. One login for Applicant Tracking, Employee Records, and Perform helps to streamline all of the processes for staff. It is our goal to continue to streamline processes for staff, so they have more time to impact student achievement in the classroom."

"The implementation process of PowerSchool Unified Talent Applicant Tracking was great. Our implementation specialist was very knowledgeable and went over all the various areas for set up. Once we were on our own, we felt Applicant Tracking was easy to navigate. The best thing is we are no longer searching for paper applications. Any principal, office, or interview committee has access to the information they need. An individual can be set up to receive email notifications when an application has been submitted. We can color code the applicants accordingly, on a personal level, to make our review clearer. References can be automatically sent and resumes, transcripts, reference letters, etc. can be uploaded. The hiring process is great, with approval coming to both the board secretary and me, Director of Human Resources. We both have the information we need for board approval and the applicant’s contact information. I feel it has made our jobs much easier. The program can easily be customized. I highly recommend this product. It’s very flexible and can be customized to our specifications. Once groups are set up with the processes each group needs, it is very helpful to our building principals."