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PowerSchool: The Answer to all of your District's Educational Data Needs
December 17, 2019

PowerSchool: The Answer to all of your District's Educational Data Needs

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with PowerSchool Student Information System

Our school district utilizes PowerSchool throughout the district. It is our primary data hub for all student information including demographics, grades, attendance, and discipline. Every department in the school uses PowerSchool including, teachers, students, administrators, business office, and nurses.

PowerSchool addresses all of our student data needs. We have to collect and manage an enormous amount of student data and PowerSchool offers the ability to handle all of our student data needs.
  • Manage demographic data to help us manage constantly changing state reporting requirements.
  • Provide an excellent Gradebook for teachers that provides instant sync of grades to both the PowerSchool database and parent apps.
  • At this time I wish PowerSchool would do a better job in attendance tracking. The current system works without errors, but can be cumbersome with the amount of data available.
  • Uploading standardized test scores is also cumbersome. It can be done but takes some time to complete, and we had to create custom screens for people to be able to utilize that data effectively.
  • Data collected in PowerSchool has helped us improve student attendance.
  • Data collected in PowerSchool has helped us decrease student discipline.
Nothing stacks up against PowerSchool in terms of usability and flexibility. Every other product I have used has not come close to the user friendliness of PowerSchool, nor they do not allow immediate flexibility.
Customer support has always been the one area where improvement could be made. That said, there is an amazing network of user groups that are easy to find that create a support cushion when the primary customer support fails.

Do you think PowerSchool Student Information System delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with PowerSchool Student Information System's feature set?

Yes

Did PowerSchool Student Information System live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of PowerSchool Student Information System go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy PowerSchool Student Information System again?

Yes

I honestly think PowerSchool is the best Student Information System available. It also may be the most expensive, but the flexibility it provides with worth every penny. Every other SIS that I have used does not allow for in-house customizations. You usually can get the SIS to build custom pages for you, but at a cost. PowerSchool allows the admin user to create custom pages on the fly without extra cost. This ability has allowed for the creation and growth of a huge network of users making unique and shareable customizations all over the country. If I can't figure out how to build something, I know I can find another user who already has.