482 PowerSchool Testimonials

"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.​"

"[Unified Administration Atrieve Payroll] gives the speed, accuracy, and stability that are essential for the vital task of payroll and it keeps getting better. I’ve used it for over 15 years and love it!"

“We’re not technology people. We’re educators.”

"We're making sure feedback is relatable to what administrators see in the classroom, and then they're able to suggest professional learning and follow up with a conversation."

“Our hope is the continued use of formative data, in combination with state summative assessments, will support teachers and administrators in responding to the needs of students in real time.”

“The thought process has been there. The equity lens has been there. Now we have the data system to let us do what we’ve been wanting to do. This is reinvention. This is something we never would have dreamed of being able to do with the data we used before.”

“We are finding tremendous value in the ways that data dashboards have empowered our educators to quickly tend to the individual needs of their students and engage families in the process.”

“Often, users have an idea of what they’re looking for but don’t have the full requirements. Or they don’t know exactly how to ask,.

“We have had [PowerSchool Special Programs] for 4 years. The product is very user-friendly, and the trainer was absolutely fabulous at explaining everything, answering questions, and helping us walk through some specific questions and needs for our district, specifically how to pull reports. You don’t know what you don’t know. I wanted to know more about what PowerSchool Special Programs could do and what options there were for customization and functionality. I feel like I am a lot more knowledgeable now than before the training.”

“I have worked in education for 12 years in various roles within Special Education. I now work at a non-profit training center that works with public high schools in New Orleans. We decided to use PowerSchool because we had been housing our records with Google Drive and all of our partner schools use PowerSchool, so we want to be compatible. The record storage and reporting features, among the many other uses of PowerSchool [SIS], make us very excited to start using PowerSchool [SIS]. PowerSchool SIS is already making it easier for us to track student data and generate reports. We are excited to use the system for the upcoming and future school years for our enrollment. We occupy a unique space of being a non-profit training center that works with partner high schools, and using the same SIS will make communication and coordination far easier in the future. Our [PowerSchool] implementation team made the process seamlessly easy… Whenever I had questions, the team either had the answers or found them within 24 hours. Whenever scheduling conflicts came up on my end, they were adaptable and made it work.”

“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.”

“I have worked in the education field since 2010. My degree is in education, and I have experience in the kindergarten classroom. However, my passion is in administration, operations, and technology. [Over] the past 11 years, I have worked in enrollment, campus administration, IEP therapy management, and student systems. Ecollect is providing our parents with a solution that allows them to complete required tasks on the go. [It] gives school staff back time in their day with reduced paper filing and provides all levels in the district and schools with the ability to sort responses to answer the questions we have using Forms Reporting. [PowerSchool] provided us with a train-the-trainer type of implementation, so we can now support rolling this out to 90-plus schools. We could not do this without all the support they gave us. They allowed us to create the forms and run through the process while using our implementation hours to train us at a higher level. This, in turn, will save Ecollect support time as schools will reach out to my team first when they have questions.”

“Schoology has redefined how educators teach, how students learn and how learning is demonstrated.”

“PowerSchool Enrollment and Ecollect [brings] our district into the 21st century in terms of enrollment for new students and collecting data for returning students.”

“Although we still have much left to accomplish, Schoology has provided us with a pathway to reach our goals of becoming a blended learning school system in the near future.”