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PowerSchool Student Information System Review
November 09, 2017

PowerSchool Student Information System Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with PowerSchool Student Information System

PowerSchool is being used by the entire Catholic School to manage student demographic information, classes, registration, and grades. We have even expanded it out to now use PowerSchool's Learning Management System. It is a daily tool that is the center of how we keep and manage the abundance of our student information.
  • User Friendly for both our students and staff.
  • Very customizable, and supported by a lot of other vendors/services.
  • Solid performance.
  • Has shown to be very secure, and is trusted by families.
  • Sales department could be better.
  • Some features or settings can be hidden.
  • Installing certain services can require a complex series of steps, and things are sometimes not very intuitive.
  • The Registration addon replaced us having to use a Google Form and manually enter information. Although the cost associated was not ideal, we saw a great improvement in the user experience and accuracy of data entry. It also greatly reduced the labor involved for our Registrar.
  • The amount of services provided by PowerSchool is so immense, it is hard to quantify how much it would cost to individually support and sync separate services.
The systems seem to stack up pretty well, however we have stuck with PowerSchool mostly due to our history with the product. The cost and feature set differences wasn't substantial enough to warrant a migration. The amount of work involved with training staff and end users is too prohibitive. Other than that, Infinite Campus does appear to be a very comparable solution.
For a school, PowerSchool is a powerhouse. In the old days, every service we had to provide (grades, registration, lunch service, emergency notifications, etc...) was under its own system. Trying to sync information between providers became a hassle for the Technology department, and complicated things for our users. We can now bundle most of these services under one vendor - which is greatly reduces our overhead and labor. Also, as a large player in the SIS market, PowerSchool is widely supported by a ton of other vendors/services we use as a school.

For businesses/organizations, I wouldn't see it as useful tool - but for schools it works great!