PowerSchool 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

PowerSchool

4.3

(181)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About PowerSchool

PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with integrated technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments and analytics. PowerSchool supports over 50 million students globally and more than 15,000 customers, including over 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in over 90 countries. Visit www.powerschool.com to learn more.

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PowerSchool Features

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Applicant Tracking
Background Screening
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Employee Management
Employee Profiles
Goal Setting/Tracking
HR Management
Self Service Portal
Training Management
More features of PowerSchool
Activity Dashboard
Assessment Management
Attendance Tracking
Career Development
Classroom Management
Communication Management
Curriculum Management
Document Management
Enrollments/Onboarding
Faculty/Staff Management
Financial Management
Forms Management
Gradebook
Independent/Private
Individual Development Plans
K-12
Learning & Development
Learning Management
Onboarding
Online Payments
Parent Portal
Payroll Management
Performance Management
Progress Reports
Records Management
Recruitment Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Student Information/Records
Succession Planning
Third-Party Integrations

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PowerSchool User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

56%

29%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.2

Aaron L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

PowerSchool: Nice Interface and Easy to Use Features

Overall, PowerSchool offers an easy to navigate attendance and grading system for schools. They have done a nice job with the layout in that most things are easy to find and where you would be expected to find them. There are many customizations available at the district level, so successful implementation will also be dependent on your district set up and ensuring that they are getting input from the appropriate stakeholders.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

My school district switched over to PowerSchool about a year and a half ago. I now use it for grades, attendance, lunch counts, reports, and many other things. What I like most about PowerSchool is the interface. As a teacher, when I log in, the initial screen shows the things I use on a daily basis- attendance, lunch count, and contact information. I like that it is set up in a way that the things I use the most are right there. There is then an additional menu called "Power Teacher Pro" that is used for things like grade entries and reports that I might use more on a monthly basis. The report options offer lots of different variables and allows the user to create PDF, excel, and other types of files. Having these different options has been helpful.

Cons:

The user experience has been a positive one for me. However, the initial training we received could use some improvement. The training modules are fairly dry to sit through and can be confusing to navigate.

Reasons for switching to PowerSchool

It was determined that PowerSchool would match up better with our Learning Management System- Schoology.

Isiah E.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

PowerSchool Excellence

PowerSchool is one of the best tools for schools or businesses dealing with students. It’s a great tool!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It’s user friendly for the staff and students, allows us to keep track of what’s going on with the students.

Cons:

I can’t say I didn’t like anything about PowerSchool it was really helpful for attendance and grading system.

Reasons for switching to PowerSchool

We switched in the middle of the 2024-2025 school year.

Adelyn C.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Does the job, could be better

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 3

Functionality

Previously 2

Pros:

You can see your grades at a glance and this is really convenient for students. You can make submissions through Google Drive without relinquishing your ownership of the document like Google Classroom does (I understand the premise of that strategy, but it's majorly inconvenient).

Cons:

Unlike in Canvas, you can't test what kind of grades you'll need on weighted assignments to maintain a certain overall grade. The UI/UX are also designed kind of poorly and my school frequently gets errors saying that PowerSchool is undergoing development. I never get those messages from Canvas. It's also extremely frustrating that I can't submit documents from Google Drive if they're in a Team Drive, whether or not they're owned by me.

Nicole W.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Awful platform

it won’t save any of my data to apply for a career. It times out, refreshes page and everything is gone that I spent 45 minutes entering in.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

None. First experience with it is from a school district that just adopted this platform. I’m using it to apply for a position in Tucson unified school district. I tried to apply through this platform and each time it’s has a different problem, but the end result is always that my data is erased. When I called my district HR, they said several people have complained of this problem. Yet when they give me the number for the platform/website/program, no one answers the phone. The chat is just as useless. It said it was transferring me to an engineer and then timed out. There are tons of pop-up ads when I’m trying to apply for a job. The ads cover the content that I need to see. As soon as I exit out of an ad, Another pops up. Many times I inadvertently I’m trying to exit the ad and I click to exit and it takes me to the AD page! The website also overheated my laptop today. It hasn’t the other five times I’ve tried to apply. Please fix your software program!!

Cons:

The support chat is useless as it’s kind of answer question. It asked more questions of you than it is helpful to respond to you. No one answered the phone number given to me by my districts HR dept. No one has responded to my email. I’m told I’m not the only one that has had the problem of the platform, not saving the data and wiping out everything you’ve inputted if it refreshes or times you out. It’s frustrating enough that it is required to do the whole application in one sitting. Today I was almost done with it for the seventh time and it had trouble uploading my résumé. So it refresh the page and I lost everything I had input so far. And I had saved after every page.

Crysta B.

Verified reviewer

Insurance

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Review on PowerSchool

Overall, I have had a great experience using PowerSchool since my child has been enrolled in school. I like being able to keep up with their assignments and know which classes he is struggling to keep up with for assignments.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

PowerSchool allows me to keep track of my child's grades, upcoming assignments, late assignments, and absences.

Cons:

PowerSchool is only updated when the teachers decide to add in the grades, which makes it hard to keep up with things that might be late.

Melissa C.

Verified reviewer

Retail

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Great for employee training!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

We loved using Powerschool for new employee training. It had so much to offer and was very easy to use!

Cons:

There is nothing that I dislike about Powerschool.

Reasons for choosing PowerSchool

The options it offers seemed better suited for us

Kyla C.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

It's Great But We Need Instructional Videos Please...

Overall experience is positive, but I also feel like I'm underutilizing it. If I knew it better (and actually had the time to know it better) I feel like I'd be using it to its potential.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It gets the job done and the new updates make everything more streamlined in terms of accessing information and utilizing it to build classes.

Cons:

Setting up bins gets clunky--there's an expectation that teachers completely understand the math that Powerschool uses with percentages vs. numerical values, that we don't all have mastery of, right away. It would be nicer if we could just pick it up and go, rather than refer to a manual.

Chareen L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Good SIS Program

I have used the program for the past 7 years. They have done a lot to improve it over time, especially within the last year or so. I can find most things I need but reports are something that is still more difficult than Aeries

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is visually easy to see the information on the page. Once I get to the page I need, which isn't always straightforward.

Cons:

Difficult to run reports or find the reports I needed without a lot of trial and error. I still can't always find what I am looking for.

Nathan K.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Has to be better systems

I find it to be disappointing as to how difficult and needlessly complex it is. I hate to be harsh, but with today's software it is becoming expected to be easy to use and simplistic in it's operation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I'm sure there is good points about it, just like any program, however overall the structure is convoluted.

Cons:

Leaves a lot to be desired. Complex to create an account without much logic as to why. Additionally customer service was pointless, if you have product you should be able to assist all customers, our Powershool isn't unique to my school district.

Joseph K.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

Effective LMS

Our school adopted Powerschool in the last 5 years. This program is way better than the system we use to use. Great for overall attendance, student records, and grading.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Fairly easy to use for K-12 education. Attendance is a breeze and helps maintain accurate class grades and records.

Cons:

Not too many cons to report. Data records for families and emails tend to be a little hard to access, but this could be how our technology department uploaded this information.

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