482 PowerSchool Testimonials

“If we miss one student [in a state report] it could mean $100,000 gone in state funds for an intensive special education student. So if we miss a couple of our 2,000 kids, we’re just out of luck. We still have to provide the services, but without the funding.”

“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 – PowerSchool.”

“Every day that goes by, students and teachers become more familiar with the product. We continue to get bigger and better ROI. A teacher will discover something new and say, ‘Wow, this is a new feature I didn’t know about!’ We no longer have disparate tools and the limitations they bring. We can now share data between physical and virtual classrooms, and we are collaborating to help improve the education experience. Every day, we are increasing our ROI, and it keeps getting better.”

“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 look back and see comprehensively how they did in middle school, and what factors may have affected their performance.”

“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 got home. We started having conversations about how we could unify this experience. How do we decide on one platform, one LMS which would provide one-stop shopping for teachers, student and parents, so that we could all speak the same language? We wanted to make sure we could use the technology easily to make sure the kids’ experience was heightened.”

“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 system and provides everyone with a higher level of efficiency."

“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."

“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 with a previous teacher. They could only tell you what that child was doing TODAY or maybe yesterday. And they were making decisions based on gut instincts.”

“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, but at the school as a whole.”

“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, or accidentally transpose a number or email. We’ve been very pleased with all aspects of our solution.”

“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 that’s in our system.”

“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 with. Now families can work on their applications, save them, return to them, and then submit them when they’re ready. Families love this because it has given them time to work with the application and really do a good job in terms of submitting something that they feel good about.”

“We saw an increase in first day attendance of 24% over the previous year for our Texas College Preparatory Academies who use [PowerSchool Registration]. That is significant. It shows our post-lottery recruitment communication with families over the summer was effective. We implemented those marketing strategies only because we can, now that we have [PowerSchool Registration].”