“It’s not lost on me that improving education comes down to people and relationships. That’s a big part of the reason we continue to move forward with PowerSchool.”

“Accomplishing the Agnews redistricting was no small feat. But throughout it all, I always felt I had a partner in [PowerSchool, formerly Hoonuit]. Their consultants were there, day or night, to help us navigate unexpected hurdles and land on a redistricting decision everyone was confident in.”

"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] …

“PowerSchool is the core of most of our school information needs and is very important to us. It saves us time, gives us flexibility, and makes a positive impact on the communication between parents, students, and teachers as grade and attendance information is available immediately and continually."

“I love PowerSchool. We use the PowerSchool SIS for everything, especially as an informative tool. Any information about a student, including academically, socially, health, behavior, and so on, is in PowerSchool and available immediately. It’s very helpful, and as an example, when a student gets into high school, we can …

“With technology integration, we have to make sure that whatever tools we use are good for students’ learning, and they also have to be easy to use so teachers can seamlessly integrate them into their instruction. Different, disparate systems impacted the students’ experience and the parent experience when the child …

“The paper-based registration process was very time-consuming for both our families and managerial staff. The distribution and collection of a 20-page form per student meant that a family new to our district with three students would be going through 60 sheets of paper. Partnering with PowerSchool Registration modernizes our registration …

“The polishing component is so important for ensuring entries are consistent when entered into our databases. Something as simple as entering ‘St.’ instead of ‘Street’ can alter the performance of a database if it’s not caught and corrected. The polishing component takes care of this for us."

“I invited multiple vendors and told them we need to get to a place where we were logging into just one system. For all of our stakeholders, we needed single sign-on in one location. We got to that place, and now our users have one log in through one system …

“Before using PowerSchool Analytics, our division really didn’t have a warehouse to store student information. You could go to a teacher and ask them about a specific child, however, they weren’t able to give you that longitudinal perspective of how that child did last year, or how that child did …

“At ACS, we try to present ourselves as being very focused on technology. I don’t think that message would be very strong if we had paper applications. Our [PowerSchool Registration] online application has been important to demonstrate to families that what we value is not just technology in the classroom, …

“Parents love [PowerSchool Registration], the secretaries love it, and administration loves it. From a school stand point, we like the fact that the parents are the ones inputting their answers and it goes directly into our system. We really love that we don’t have to re-key information, decipher someone’s handwriting, …

“All of our parents—all 8,300 of them—access [PowerSchool Registration] every year. Parents are delighted with [it]. We’ve saved a huge amount of hours in manual labor, but I think what is more important is the data accuracy over the last two years has really increased. We now trust the data …

“We also collect information that does not go into Aeries, such as Student Acceptable Use Policy and Liability Releases. This information also needed to be easily accessible, and we could not have achieved that without [PowerSchool Registration].”

“Since switching, we’ve obviously streamlined the admission process. [PowerSchool Registration] took our paper application and created a solution that was exactly what we needed. We were able to implement deadlines to give us flexibility to cut off application dates. Families would know exactly what time frames they had to work …