482 PowerSchool Testimonials

“Two days prior to leaving the building, we asked every teacher to connect with parents using KiNVO. We made a list of parents and guardians that didn’t respond and set up a small team to reach out to any other family members we had on record. When we left the building, only 30 families out of nearly 500 had not responded. During the first week of remote learning, we got that list down to just one student that we were searching for.”

"Data in the absence of any context just isn’t useful data."

"We began posting with Applicant Tracking for K-6 teaching candidates and received over 400 applications."

"The ability to customize extensively has really made PowerSchool the best choice for the American School of Dubai. Though the system is designed for US public schools out of the box, we have been able to tailor fields, pages, and even build whole modules to the meet the needs of our international school environment. Some of these customized areas include aligning the display of grading data with our educational philosophies, storing information on a student’s activities and extracurricular enrollments over time, and providing an all-school student directory to teachers right within the teacher portal. We’ve also taken extensive advantage of the ability to add plugins, both paid and free, to enhance the core system in areas such as reporting, emailing, special education, alerts, and more. All this means that data is more centralized, consistent, and accessible; workflows are streamlined; and teachers and administrators have more time for what matters most — focusing on the students. Customization — couldn’t live without it!​"

"We use PowerSchool Registration for our annual student updates, applications for inter- and intra-district transfers, Katy Virtual Schools enrollment, Katy Summer Academic Term enrollment, and new student registration. Future use will include our Career and Technology center applications. Our district uses tags, which are alerts to better prepare the campus register for each student’s individual situation. This includes new students that register for Katy ISD and indicate their home language is one other than English, the system automatically flags the student and applies an alert to the student’s record. Therefore we can prepare and provide ELL testing prior to the student enrolling.​"

"These community support specialists are district heroes. Their dedication to students combined with their knowledge of the PowerSchool Parent Portal contributes to the overall success and student achievement in their schools."

"Our students have insanely busy parents. Many of them are already out the door to work before their kids wake up in the morning. Students are getting themselves ready, to the bus and to school without seeing their parents. This is why we make sure that all staff have [PowerSchool] Birthday Alerts; so no matter what kind of a morning a kid has, when they show up to school, staff are ready and waiting to wish them a happy birthday. You’d be surprised how big of an impact this has on the quality of a student’s day, and happy students are better learners."

"I have two sons with very different personalities and learning styles. They both use PowerSchool [student portal] in different ways to keep themselves accountable. One, the Type A personality, checks in daily to ensure he is receiving maximum available credit for assignments and the grades deserved and contacts his teachers if he sees anything worth following up about. My other son, the Type B personality, uses it like a daily planner because he would otherwise struggle staying organized. In both cases, they rely on PowerSchool as an accountability tool and do better in school because of it."

“It would be so much harder to keep things organized and get students fed without PowerSchool.”

“You get a lot of teachers and administrators that grumble, but when they see the ease of the software, where everything is made simpler for them, this light comes on.”

"I oversee everything that happens in PowerSchool at the school level. As the Assistant Principal, I’m in charge of the three B’s — books, butts, and buses. It saves me time. It saves me stress. I use it for discipline. I use it to ensure we protect students’ resources, like library books, from disappearing. It’s so helpful to have everything in one place. I can find out students’ addresses to ensure they are getting on the right bus so they get to and from school safely. It’s a great tool.​"

“As we continue to use eFinancePLUS, we are seeing the benefits in reduced costs and increased efficiencies from the all-in-one software.”

“Through the mobile app, PowerSchool has created an open line of communication for parents, teachers, and students."

"[PowerSchool Assessment] tracks data aligned with Virginia state standards. It allows us to personalize remediation after the 1st test so we are seeing 90% pass rates after the 2nd test. We use the [PowerSchool Assessment] data to see where they were strong and weak and track these details throughout their term to see where to target instruction and remediation."

"Also, we have standards-based grading. We use this beautiful graph in PowerSchool for Final Standard Grade where the kids are listed down the left and standards down the right — you can click on the standard and this graph pops up and you can drill down and see how the class is doing on every standard, so teachers can use their professional judgement about how to respond with instruction."