482 PowerSchool Testimonials

"During class, if a student doesn't understand the lesson, they can ask PowerBuddy later at home, allowing them to learn at their own pace. PowerBuddy provides students with continuous support even when a teacher is not near."

"Streamlining all of our business practices from student information and registration to budgeting, payroll, purchasing, and human resources will allow greater integration of information and a more seamless delivery of our services across the board."

“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 see huge improvements since moving to Unified Classroom. I am getting feedback that student engagement has improved. Also, the parents are more engaged through using the parent portal. They have more access to see what’s going on in the classroom—things they couldn’t see before. I recently spoke with a parent of a highly involved fourth grader. He says using PowerSchool’s organizational tools has made a difference for his busy child to stay on top of schoolwork. He is learning how organizational tools can help him to be successful because of PowerSchool. His dad said, ‘I can’t believe the transformation I’ve seen in my son since we went to Unified Classroom.’ The teachers who are fully utilizing [Unified] Classroom and class pages are the ones seeing the most success. Overall, everyone is more engaged than they were last year due to Unified Classroom. In fact, parent engagement has doubled based on the number using the parent portal."

"Schoology has given us the ability to be consistent on how we do business across all grade levels, K through 12. It’s given us direction for our technology professional development so that we can supply our teachers with direct and meaningful learning opportunities. I love how easy it is for students, parents, and teachers to learn how to use the system. By the second year of adoption, we were able to have 95 percent of our teachers using Schoology every day."

"PowerSchool is an absolute dream in the special education realm. It is user friendly for the provider as well as the data team. The reporting feature is extremely helpful in managing caseloads, data, important dates, and state reporting components. We couldn’t be any happier with the product or the support we receive from the PowerSchool team."

"Unified Insights increases efficiency and helps district and school administrators make decisions and focus on key objectives such as MTSS."

“The chief academic officer of secondary and the EC executive director used the data to work with schools to improve supports for our most at-risk students. That’s now on everyone’s radar across the district about whether we’re appropriately and fully implementing behavior plans or beginning to take important steps to put behavior plans in place for both non-EC and EC students. This all came from this one simple Unified Insights report."

“I would encourage any district, any school site to take a look at [Naviance], There’s life beyond high school.”

“A lot of them think they can’t go to school, or they’re only community college eligible, and when they go [to Naviance] and find out, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s a career I’m interested in, I didn’t realize I could do those things’–that helps spark purpose.”

"We had secretaries in various states of translating hieroglyphics essentially and hoping that the information was correct and in PowerSchool SIS so teachers and staff could use it."

“Everything took people and time, We didn’t have the expertise to do that at a very rapid pace—to give our board and superintendent data that they needed to make almost real-time decisions.”

"The longer you wait, the more difficult it’s going to be."

"And then all of a sudden, the whole grade-level and subject area are starting to use [Schoology Learning] more. Then you have the school site admin say, well, the teachers are using it, we’ll do our staff meetings through it. And then, you have the counselors say, well, the students are now in it, I want to have groups for seniors now."

"Everybody else we talked to told us 'no. PowerSchool was there for us in our time of need."