Sycamore School 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Sycamore School

4.4

(55)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Sycamore School

Sycamore School is a cloud-based solution designed to help schools manage various administrative operations, such as attendance tracking, communication management, event scheduling and more. Students and parents can use the self-service portal to access performance reports and examination or assignment grades.

Sycamore School allows educational institutions to schedule lesson plans on a calendar, maintain discipline logs and create individualized curricula for classes. Schools can accept donations and process online payments via e-checks or credit cards. Additionally, it lets teachers facilitate communication with students via messages, chats or emails.

Sycamore School facilitates integration with various third-party applications such as G Suite, MailChimp, Clever, PayPal, PayJunction and more. Pricing is available on monthly subscriptions and support is extended via phone and an inquiry form.

Sycamore School Screenshots

Sycamore School Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Automatic
Complete Data Migration
Comprehensive Training Program
Entire School Management System
Free Upgrades and Enhancements as They Become Available
Secure
Unlimited Customer Support
Worry-Free Data Storage and Backup

Sycamore School Features

Popular features found in Student Information System
Assessment Management
Attendance Management
Classroom Management
Class Scheduling
Discipline Management
Fee Collection
Financial Aid Management
Online Payments
Parent/Student Portal
Report Cards
More features of Sycamore School
Admissions Management
Alerts/Notifications
API
Attendance Tracking
Cafeteria Management
Class Registration
Class Summary
Collaboration Tools
Communication Management
Course Management
Curriculum Management
Curve Scores
Enrollments/Onboarding
Facility Management
Faculty/Staff Management
Financial Management
For Classroom
Gradebook
Grade Calculations
Independent/Private
K-12
Lesson Planning
Library Management
Online Calendar
Parent Portal
Progress Reports
Reporting/Analytics
Scheduling
School District
Student Information/Records
Support Audio/Images/Video
Tests/Assessments
Transcripts
Weighted Assignments

Sycamore School Integrations

Twilio

SparkPost

PayPal

PayJunction

Mailchimp

Clever

Sycamore School User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

60%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.4

Debra B.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

Bringing Sycamore to Japan

My experience has been truly outstanding!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I used Sycamore Education for years at a Christian school in Illinois. When I came to Japan last year, I realized that my new school was not using a school management system. I was very happy to have previous experience with Sycamore. As the principal, I was able to address the school board with our great need, and they approved the purchase of Sycamore. Our teachers are very happy to be able to post grades, our parents are happy to have direct access to their child's academic progress on a daily basis, and our office administrator is happy to be able to print report cards in minutes. I continue to be very pleased with the functionality of Sycamore as well as the outstanding customer support!

Cons:

On occasion, a screen pops up notifying me there is an error. When I click on the drop down bar again, the error screen is gone. It's not a big issue, and hasn't slowed us down. This never occurred when I previously used the software.

Reasons for choosing Sycamore School

I chose Sycamore School because I knew it was cost effective, user-friendly, and efficient.

Vendor Response

Thank you Debra for your continued loyalty! Customers and schools like you are a pleasure to help and work with. We are always here to help. Let us know if you need help with anything.

Replied December 2020

Bill K.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2022

Sycamore School

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the variety of features that Sycamore has available. From attendance to correspondence, Sycamore has all the features that a school might need.

Cons:

Sycamore is very click heavy. To find a feature generally requires several clicks, and may not be where you think it would be.

Vendor Response

Thank you Bill! We want to make it easy for schools to find everything they need to run their school at a price point that makes sense. Thank you as well for the feedback. We are excited to slowly release features in our 3.0 environment which will address some of the feedback above!

Replied February 2023

Dustin H.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

Sycamore

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

There are very little pros, except that I easily reached a customer service rep when I needed help with an issue.

Cons:

I did not like Sycamore as an LMS. I found its interface to be clunky, filled with unnecessary options, and difficult to navigate. For example, to this day, I still have no idea how to create an assignment so that a student can upload there work. Believe me, I tried to figure it out. Eventually I gave up and used another system. The grade book was another problematic feature. At the end of the semester, it does not show final grades computed with the final exam. You have to go into each individual student and look at there "grade report" to see the end computation. I do not recommend this system. There are much better LMS's available.

Vendor Response

Dustin, You mentioned in the Pros section of your review that customer service was easy to reach. That's great, as we hear this often. A phone call or a Teacher Chat would have cleared these issues up quickly. You would have received instructions on how to use the dropbox for student assignments and also directed to the Help section where there are specific instructions. Regarding your issue with final grades, this is a simple configuration issue. Schools definitely have the ability to see final grades computed with the final exam. Should you use Sycamore in the future, we will gladly help you with your classroom setup. We will also point you to our comprehensive help system with an extensive microlearning library to help you learn all the features of Sycamore at your own pace. We would also recommend that you check out our full integration with Google and Google Classroom it's a great addition to Sycamore School. We wish you well with your seminary classes! -SE

Replied September 2019

Melodye B.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

Sycamore enabled us to get into the 21st century by using an online management system. We love it!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Communication has increased between parents and teachers as grades can be tracked and paper grades don't get lost. It also has provided accountability in that teachers are posting grades on a more timely basis. It allows consistency between grades and years. The system is very powerful; customer service is probably the most helpful that I have encountered. I love the ability to create transcripts and that these are kept on the system. It tracks attendance much better than we were doing previously. The medical logs have been helpful. Doing online admissions has taken us to a new level as well.

Cons:

The system isn't as intuitive as I would like. Because I have worked with it several years, it's much easier now and people end up coming to me to figure out how to do specific things with it. I have been frustrated a bit b/c it doesn't allow for creative flexibility (for instance transcripts don't have a lot of space for extra activities) or for things that aren't the same in different countries. We have worked around a lot of the barriers, and Sycamore has been very helpful to put things on the list of potential fixes.

Lee Ann C.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed August 2009

Administrator

1. I would love to see you all at the Mid-Atlantic Convention in Lancaster PA. 2. I had a new family comment that they were telling a group of people their child was coming to the school. Someone in the group, who does not have a child at our school and we are not sure how they even know about the school, spoke up and said "Well they have Sycamore and it is a wonderful program!". Someone is talking!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Pros:

1, Very cost effective 2. You are purchasing all that the program has to offer. There are no additional fees for upgrades 3. Customer Service is awesome! Quick to respond, helpful and you can reach them by phone or PAN. 4. Very user friendly 5. HIGH HIGH rate of parent satisfaction with being able to access grades, teachers, one another, etc. All of them rave about the program! 6. Sycamore Leaf keeps us updated 7. Sycamore is always seeking to improve their program 8. PAN - we absolutely LOVE this feature. Our high school classrooms are in "learning cottages" aka trailers - and the teachers are separated. This feature allows all of us to feel so connected!

Cons:

1, Not too many or serious... we did notice that if you make a change on the family or student information (you have the mother's name wrong ex.) then when you correct it, you cannot do it in just one area, you have to go into multiple areas. 2. We had some issues with the GPA configuration. I did not deal with it, but I know our high school conselor had numerous phone calls and PAN' s to get it figured out properly. For some reason we now have to do something different to get our proper grading. 3. Getting my parents over the learning curve of using the program. It is frustrating to hear them say " We seldom check Sycamore" and in our memos and everything else we keep saying HOW MUCH we put on Sycamore and to check it out. Word of mouth is helping this... I hear parents telling other parents that they really need to use it, or someone asking another how they knew about something and they will say "on Sycamore" .

Jon C.

Primary/ Secondary Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

Comprehensive School Information System

Centralized Student Records and Report Cards. Centralized Calendar and Attendance.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Moving from paper report cards a few years back to centralized report cards and student information through Sycamore has been an excellent transition. Their setup team worked to make it a smooth transition. We probably only use half of its functionality at this point but we saw immediate wins with a centralized calendar, documents and family data. The reporting functionality of the system is also very helpful. As we compared Sycamore to other SIS options, it became clear that it was one of the best values that we researched. The live US based tech support has been outstanding. Every staff person I have talked to knows the system well and has been extremely helpful. I highly recommend Sycamore.

Cons:

The user interface can be difficult to navigate sometimes and find the exact feature you are looking for. It is an excellent School Information System (SIS) but we did realize that its functionality around lesson plans and curriculum is very basic.

Melissa S.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Streamlines School Functions

Overall I like the product. My school has started using more of the functionality of the software and receiving announcements and other important information has been helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the app for my phone. It streamlines my ability to quickly send attendance to our office. I also like the school directory so that I can easily pull up information for any school family.

Cons:

Sending group emails (batch emails) isn't obvious to me. I wish the email portion seemed more like gmail or other email applications.

Reasons for switching to Sycamore School

I believe they closed their doors.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much Melissa! We are so happy to see many schools like yours finding our system helpful for the tasks you encounter. We thank you for your feedback regarding your experience with batch email. We are always working to make ourselves better and make a better product for our Sycamore family.

Replied March 2020

Kathleen G.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

Using Sycamore Daily

The problems we have been able to solve mainly are having the ability to look up information at a few clicks of the computer. We have the ability to see many needs for our students and our faculty.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The features that are most useful to me are the attendance and ease of updating when students are tardy or leave early. Our daily health screening is something that has been helpful with our new guidelines.

Cons:

ALL the Clicks to get to where we need to be.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review Kathleen! We are so happy that the new COVID checklist is of benefit to schools like yours! Feedback from our schools is always welcome and we use that feedback to always try to improve our product. Hopefully you'll enjoy working in the pieces of Sycamore 3.0 as it comes out. Feel free to always reach out to support for help as well as offer us suggestions on how to improve.

Replied December 2020

Sharon W.

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

Sycamore is a great solution for small and medium sized schools. It is very reliable.

This database keeps all of our school management information secure and well-organized. There are fields for lots of information and the ability to add custom fields as well. There are features for organizing events, room use, cafeteria management, etc. It does allow teachers to record grades and the grades are then accessible by parents and report cards are easy to generate.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The support is fantastic. Trouble tickets are answered quickly and phone support is great. The database is securely hosted on-line so it can be accessed anywhere and there is no set-up for a new computer. The cafeteria feature works really well even with 24 teachers entering attendance / lunch orders at the same time. Easy to send batch emails and individual emails to parents.

Cons:

We don't use the "pass-a-note" feature very much. Sometimes parents use it and it comes up on the teacher's screen when they log-on in the morning.

Shauna C.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

Easy to Use

Overall, my experience with the program has been good. The customer service has always been great to help with any issues or questions that we may have, no matter how big or small.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Sycamore is a fairly easy school management system to navigate .

Cons:

There have been some features and reports that would be nice to have that aren’t included as of yet.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your review Shauna! We are always excited to help schools keep track of and use their data efficiently. We also appreciate feedback from our front-line users to help improve the experience over time, so we also thank you for your requests for future enhancements to make our product progress along with the needs of our schools.

Replied December 2020

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