# PowerSchool SIS Reviews **Vendor:** PowerSchool **Category:** [K-12 Student Information Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/k-12-student-information-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 742 ## About PowerSchool SIS PowerSchool SIS is the leading student information system software solution for K-12 educational institutions, focused on driving your success. Power your operations with flexible, innovative, easy-to-use technology that plays a central role in your school or district. ## PowerSchool SIS Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **centralized information** provided by PowerSchool SIS, enhancing access to student performance and schedules. (8 reviews) - Users value the **ease of access** with PowerSchool SIS, enhancing communication and navigation for all stakeholders. (7 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** of PowerSchool SIS, enabling efficient connectivity with various systems and tools. (7 reviews) - Users value the **easy customization** options in PowerSchool SIS, enhancing integration and user experience across platforms. (6 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of PowerSchool SIS, facilitating quick data manipulation and seamless grade tracking. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **real-time updates** that enhance communication and streamline school operations effectively. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **comprehensive features** of PowerSchool SIS, enhancing school operations and integrating with various platforms. (3 reviews) - Users commend the **responsive customer support** of PowerSchool SIS, ensuring timely resolution of issues and enhanced satisfaction. (3 reviews) - Users value the **user-friendly interface** of PowerSchool SIS, facilitating easy data manipulation and information retrieval. (3 reviews) - User Interface (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users face a significant **learning difficulty** with PowerSchool SIS, especially in training staff and navigating the system. (5 reviews) - Users face **technical issues** such as glitches and orphan records, causing confusion and frustration with the system. (5 reviews) - Users find **poor usability** in PowerSchool SIS, struggling with its complexity and navigating through numerous menus efficiently. (4 reviews) - Users struggle with **customization issues** , finding it difficult to manipulate fields and create custom report cards effectively. (3 reviews) - Users express concerns about the **high cost** of PowerSchool SIS, emphasizing its financial burden and customization challenges. (3 reviews) - Users experience **integration issues** with PowerSchool SIS, finding customization and report card functionality cumbersome and inefficient. (2 reviews) - Access Limitations (1 reviews) - Module Limitations (1 reviews) - Not Intuitive (1 reviews) - Outdated Interface (1 reviews) ## PowerSchool SIS Reviews ### 1. Beware of the Bumbling Giant! **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2026 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is the most commonly-used SIS in Virginia, so it works with more other programs than most **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Their operations and business functionality are terrible. They are too big and cannot function properly. They overlooked the project merging two school districts' SIS instances into a single SIS, getting us off to a disastrous start for the school year, dropped the project a month in, and I ended up doing over 50% of the work for the project, moving data over, correcting mistakes made, and at the end of it, they're still asking for over $60k for their "services." The business side was not able to handle the invoice and account changes right, and we are still working with them to resolve it all, on top of all of the countless hours being diverted from supporting instruction to having to manage the mess they gave us. PowerSchool is the worst EdTech company to work with in a field where the bar is already set very low. Large companies ruin EdTech - go with smaller companies' products, they manage it better. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing and organizing student data and rostering with other systems. ### 2. Intuitive Reporting Makes Student Data Easy to Organize **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carolyn H. | Success Specialist, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2026 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I enjoy all of the intuitive reporting features on Power School. It makes it easy to sort and organize student data efficiently. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There can be a steep learning curve when you’re adapting to the software for the first time. For example, generating all of the student data can take some getting used to. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Power School makes it easier to have a “one-stop shop” for student behavioral data and grading. It simplifies reporting and makes student behavior easy to track, while also offering helpful tools for grading. Student demographic information is also easy to find when I need it. ### 3. Ease of use for student info **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lori R. | Teacher / SPED Designee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2026 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like that the SIS is web based. I can access it outside of school, even on my phone. It's a user friendly interface. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There are some reports and / or queries that are not necessarily intuitive. I end up clicking on every menu option to find what I'm looking for. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily access student records and progress toward graduation, including total credits earned. I can easily print unofficial transcripts. ### 4. PowerSchool is an Essential Part of Managing our School. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Garrett H. | Technical Support Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2025 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** While PowerSchool SIS may not be the most intuitive system to learn at first, its depth of features and integrations make it an incredibly powerful tool once you begin to tap into its capabilities. Over time, we’ve discovered just how seamlessly it connects with other platforms we use daily—such as Finalsite, Edlio, and Clever—streamlining many aspects of our school’s operations. In the last two years, we’ve fully embraced its inventory system, which has become an essential part of managing our technology resources. The built-in sample reports have also been invaluable, serving as a model for how we communicate with parents this year. One standout for us has been the integration with MBA Add-Ons, which truly opened our eyes to features and efficiencies within PowerSchool that we hadn’t realized were possible. This combination has helped us unlock an entirely new level of functionality. Lastly, the customer service deserves recognition—they are responsive, persistent, and committed to resolving any issues until we’re completely satisfied. Overall, PowerSchool SIS has proven to be a robust and evolving solution that continues to grow with us as we explore its full potential. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** My biggest challenge with PowerSchool is its complexity. While the system is powerful, it can be difficult to figure out how to complete certain tasks or pinpoint the source of an issue. Navigating its many layers often takes time and patience, especially for new or infrequent users. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before we started using PowerSchool more fully, we maintained all Tech Inventory and Student Attendance in a Google Spreadsheet. PowerSchool at the very least is helping to streamline our processes and provide a professional solution that is backed by an industry leader. ### 5. Powerschool for grades **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marie S. | Computer Science Teacher, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I love that I am able to use Powerschool as my primary grading LMS. Students can get all of their grades in one location. Grades from the Canvas LMS are synched and easily transferred into PowerSchool which saves me a step. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I don't have any dislikes. It is very user friendly. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to enter student grades or have them synched from Canvas and add comments in one location. ### 6. Centralized, Secure Platform for Student Info **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shefali R M. | Account Support Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2025 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like centralized information about my kids performance, schedule, assignments, grades for his school. Also feel safe using it due to its focus on security and compliance. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I feel the UI is outdated and it definitely needs a revamp. Also during certain times the system seems to have performance issues. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solves the problem of fragmented student information across multiple systems, it provides a simple goto solution for all student information to my kids. ### 7. Highly Customizable PowerSchool with Easy CSV Exports **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2026 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool is highly customizable. I can quickly add custom field that allows me to track special fields for my international school settings. The year-to-year records are clearly stored and I am able to export data into CSV files easily for integration with my spreadsheet apps. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Sometimes the yearly tasks are too complicated to remember from year to year. It can be difficult training new staff to take over the admin responsibilities. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking student records, including attendance, grades, schedules, report cards, comments, transcripts, and contact info. ### 8. Power School is an effective data management platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bethany C. | Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2025 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Easy to manipulate data and locate important information in a user friendly platform **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Some features often glitch, most notably grade book set up **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used for taking attendance, viewing and posting grades, communicating with families, disciplinary interventions ### 9. User- friendly SIS **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like the ability to add plug-ins that make it easy to customize gathering data. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I dislike the customer service restrictions. We had to purchase Computer Logic Group to help us manage technical issues. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was promised that I could benefit from the plug-in, but this never materialized. ### 10. PowerSchool SIS for K-12 Education **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2024 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The ability for PowerSchool SIS to sync information to multiple PowerSchool products, such as Professional Learning, Curriclum and Instructions (Chalk), Perform, Records, PowerTeacher Pro, etc. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There are so many features, you really should attend a PowerSchool training such as PowerSchool University to get a deeper understanding of how to utilize different features to their fullest. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability for PowerSchool SIS to pull our faculty and staff information from eFinancePlus, and then push that to other attached products makes sharing of data seemless throughout our district. We use Single-Sign on to streamline ease of access and the addtional PowerSchool apps are housed in the apps switcher for seamless login to other platforms (depending on access rights). Our district decision to use PowerSchool SIS along with multiple PowerSchool applications has autmated our account creation across multiple products. ### 11. Simple, robust SIS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2023 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** * Vast selection of integrations * Relatively seamless integration with Active Directory and Google Admin * Intuitive interface for end-users **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** * Has no easy way to differentiate staff/certified teachers, especially for IT management purposes * No easy support for multi-site staff (you make a new entry for each one) **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool SIS is aiding not only our state reporting process but also our integrations for several education software suites (online books, Active Directory, Google Admin), along with helping with student safety. ### 12. Terrible Customer Service **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2023 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Nothing, from the platform - which we are moving on from - to the terrible customer service - I would never recommend working with this company unless you need to save your job or life - even then, you are not in good hands. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The service is god awful - it takes weeks to get a response if you need to change anything about your contract. They are unhelpful or unwilling to help. They don't escalate customer issues appropriately and it seems like I have 3 different account reps - but only one of themcan help me. The emails she sends me are either auto-generated or she misspells common English phrases and misassociates most of my SCHOOL references with something else..Their reps don't care to understand the tax rate setting process or the fact that tax dollars are being spent on their products. They carefully sculpt each deal to scalp your local school district and refuse to negotiate. WELL, THAT COULD CHANGE, CONSIDERING THERE ARE SERIOUS COMPETITORS NOW - MAYBE POWERSCHOOL SHOULD RESEARCH WHAT SCHOOLS NEED AND WORK WITH THEM. Easy to push fancy tech that anyone can push - harder to actually deliver and support a good - complete -product. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Technically it works but customer service is complete and utterly disgusting given that they are working with public school districts. ### 13. Good SIS and Support. They acquire ALOT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It is very customizable, either in house (if you can do some basic coding) or through the many contractors Powerschool can reccomend. It does the job but there is a bit of a learning curve. Being able to query student data and spit out what you are looking for is really nice. Thier customer service platform is pretty efficent as well. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I feel like Powerschool is always aquiring another platform and forcing it to work with the student information system. I feel like this has led to a bit of neglect on the SIS. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to customzie our data and make changes on the fly. While some basic features are lacking on the 'frame' you can add back pretty much anything you might need. ### 14. Great School Management! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harrison D. | Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2023 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool SIS provides streamlined communication with students, staff, and families. Users can view attendance reports, grade summaries, assignment due dates, and message teachers. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool SIS is a big investment. Time and money should be thought of before making the switch. Parents will have a big learning curve due to all of the functionalities it provides. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We managed our middle school information systems after switching from other programs. We wanted software with better support and more integration functions with families. PowerSchool is widely used in our area so it kept us on par with other districts and schools ### 15. Powerful systems that can be tailored to any district. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M L. | Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2023 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The ability to add modules so that subsystems and 3rd party systems and tools integrate and work similatinously with each other makes such a big difference in providing the best education possible to students. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There are many different ways to accomplish the same task, so keeping all employees on the same path can sometimes be confusing. Orphan records are an ongoing issue with the system; it is very unforgiving if you create an orphan record. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Becoming a part of the PS ecosystem allows us to utilize one system that integrates with all of our other systems. Add in single sign on and the app switcher and users can navigate to the different programs they use with ease. ### 16. Keeping parents informed of student grades **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Daily attendance is super easy. It is very easy for a teacher to update grades as well as for parents to see grades and missing work. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** There really are no negatives with this program. As long as the internet works it’s great for parents, students, and teachers. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** I would recommend it **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gradebook, report cards, attendance records, and missing work rrports ### 17. Very Responsive and Agile SIS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mildred W. | Education IT Specialist/Registrar, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Everything is web-based! admin/teacher/student-parent portal. They have great integration with State/Provincial reporting. Awesome User Groups meetings. I'm a hosted client the response is. They have outstanding support and other products added to PS SIS, like enrollment and unified classroom. They also have good approved vendors for other needs like notifications to parents and alerts. Our district has been using PS SIS for the last 9 years, always as a hosted instance. No downtime issues in all these years, nor loss of data. Training for admins is amazing. Teachers with really little training can confidently use PowerTeacher Pro. PowerSchool SIS has been an excellent tool overall. New features are being pushed regularly, making it better and more responsive to the province's changes and requirements and our stakeholders (students and parents). The layout and navigation are clean and user-friendly. Parent Portal is easy to navigate, and the new contacts unlimited is a great feature and will be amazing when it is all rollover in the system when PS will remove the legacy fields. The Parent Portal can be customized as well. We added an online payment option that helps lots to solve some fees and tuition payment issues. When our organization implemented PS, they assigned a representative to work with us to set up the system and provide us with all the needed contacts to succeed. We bought a 3-day intensive in-person training for our school admins and trained a district-wide employee to maintain the system and keep up to date with internal training. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Customization is not that easy to do. Pages like demographics and medical information should be easier to manipulate and customize without making costume fields; just re-arranging or hide some fields will be really good. One more thing I with they have integrated is Google classroom. Custom report cards should also be easier to solve. It's a little cumbersome, and many districts are deciding to go with third parties to solve the issue. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Go for it! The company is excellent and reliable. Great product Be sure you have a full-time employee to manage the implementation, integration, and ongoing administration. Stay on top of the new releases and train your admin for customizations. Be sure to join PS User Groups in your area. Train your teachers and use a teacher to train them afterwards. A good piece of advice will be to train parents as well to use the portal. Lots of communication can be done via the parent portal. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provincial Reporting is a must for our system, and this solves the issues very well. Teachers Gradebook and keeping track of assignments Attendance records and Student documents to submit to the government. ### 18. Easy to understand **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2023 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** It's a great tool to use for viewing students schedule and a way of communicating with parents and teachers. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The app sometimes does not work and it takes a while to get it back working. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool not working for a few days is not the best improvement. Not benefiting anyone. ### 19. Great product we have used for years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2023 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** We use it for attendance, grades, and many other things. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I do not have any downsides to report about using this product. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for grade books, student information, and integration with other products such as Schoology. ### 20. Great platform with some room to improve **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samuel S. B. | Executive Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool has many other platforms to integrate, Unified Talent, Enrollment Express, Naviance, Performance Matters,...etc. It is like one shop for all **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The price for customization of the reports is very expensive. Also, the Sped, ESL, GT alerts are not great. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Talk with a current user and see how it goes **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can conduct enrollment directly into the SIS, and send forms to parents. With performance matters, we can analyze the data more effectively. ### 21. My two cents about PowerSchool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christy T. | High School Secretary/Registrar, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Import and export features are best for me. For example, yearly locker assignments are a breeze using this feature. PowerScheduler is a great tool with enough scheduling options to make it useful even for tiny schools like ours. We use automated scheduling, then the manual features to tweak. Additionally, I appreciate the reporting features for attendance letters, report cards, and fees due. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Demographic and contact information pages are not up to date, requiring us to create custom pages for what seems like basic information (cell phones, etc.). I also wish the pre-requisites worked better so we can use this feature while registering students in the spring before they've completed their classes. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** You will be happy with PowerSchool. It isn't perfect, but I am able to complete my work and I fully trust information pulled out, because we're very careful with information going in. PowerSchool allows me to be more productive. If you do implement PowerSchool SIS, take advantage of all training they offer. If your budget allows, consider purchasing some training (onsite or online). Their customer service is improving and it doesn't take as long to wait for a live person. I especially like their newer chat feature. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Record-keeping problems are solved with PowerSchool. Transcripts are correct, as well as other data. Users must be willing to put in the time to enter data into fields that may seem too time-consuming at the time. If they do, information is correct and most importantly ready to report in a few clicks. ### 22. A depressingly bad SIS **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Powerschool U is decent. However, the menus themselves are totally unintuitive. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Everything. -The databases are a nightmare to wrangle--they just keep on adding tables instead of reorganizing them. You'll spend hours poring through documentation, which may not even be accurate. -Support is extremely condescending, but at the same time ignorant of the product. Don't expect them to help you migrate your data--hire a consultant if you feel you can't do it on your own. -Powerschool claims to have an integrated environment, but in reality, its myriad acquisitions are barely integrated, or integrated in an illogical way. There's three different support sites with different logins. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Beware the upsell. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We only switched because Illuminate's SIS was going out of business. ### 23. Powerschool SIS is not the K-12 Solution they promise to be **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aubrey D. | Child Accounting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The customizations and reports are more robust than some other solutions. This SIS seems to be better suited to a smaller district. They have many options for enhancements to the SIS, but at a cost. Power Teacher Pro seems to be a good fit for our district. UPDATE: We have been live for two months now, and are still experiencing issues with the software. I do like the student field value and school id override fields for state reporting purposes. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The implementation process is impossible. They do not provide the level of support that I would expect from a company of this size. Many other SIS products, including the one we came from, have a much deeper understanding of the needs of a district. The data management and validation are nearly impossible to complete. They do not have data crosswalks for their other SIS (eSchool PLUS) to the Powerschool SIS. One department doesn't know what the other is doing. They want you to do most of the work yourself while they collect their money. We were promised so many things that are not coming to fruition. The entire process for us, from start to finish has been a disaster. It feels as though we are beta testers and not end-users of a "proven product." The system navigation is not user-friendly and requires SQL and HTML knowledge to perform basic searches and tasks. Reports are sometimes hard to find. Grades have to be sorted through to find anything. It is much more difficult to use than others I have used in the past and has less functionality. UPDATE: We have been live for two months now, and are still experiencing issues with the software. This software feels like a step back for our district compared to eSchoolPLUS. End users are still struggling to find what they need, reports are very difficult to find, accessing student data takes 10 steps instead of 1 or 2. There are so many illogical sequences to complete a task, that it seems like a waste of time and is counterintuitive. There are no true Progress Reports...a custom report was written so we could print a progress report, but they are simply 'Live Grades' and not a progress report as of a specific date and time. Data for state reporting (PIMS) was horrific...it took weeks to do data cleanup and we are still not close to done. User security leaves so much to be desired...it is very difficult to assign users with appropriate access privileges without giving them more than is needed. We have to have customized reports for our report cards and transcripts because what comes out of the box is terrible. We are still experiencing numerous integration issues with every single third-party software we use (Clever, Primero, Transfinder, PowerSchool Special Programs!?). If we could go back in time, we would. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Look elsewhere. There are many other more robust solutions that will meet your needs without the headache. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are not many problems being solved, only created. No benefits so far. UPDATE: No update to provide...we are encountering issues every day that the software does not do what our old system did. ### 24. Great and relatively easy to manage student information. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ethan T. | Teacher, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like that the program is simple and easy to navigate. The grade book is pretty easy to use once you know where to look for the menu. Very easy to copy assignments from one class to another. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I dislike how much time it takes to enter grades into the gradebook. There should be a bulk edit option, and the lack of one makes me want to enter grades in Schoology instead. If the two are owned by the same parent company then why is the gradebook in Schoology better equipped for online classes. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Powerschool lets us enter attendance and grades in the same place. It also helps parents stay involved in their student education by allowing them to check their child's grades from a parent portal. ### 25. PowerSchool is the best available SIS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug S. | District Instructional Data Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The most beneficial thing that PowerSchool offers districts is the ability to customize it on the fly to fit your district's needs. Every district is different and most other SIS will customize their products, but for a price, with PowerSchool you can do it yourself. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The weakest aspect of PowerSchool might be technical support, but where it lacks in that area the network of users and power users is super strong and I've never had an issue that I couldn't solve contacting school that use PowerSchool. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Customizability, strong user network, easy UI. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data tracking is easy with PowerSchool and our primary focus this year has been chronic absences. With the built in reports and the addition of some custom reports we've been able to get a handle on some of our repeat attendance issues. ### 26. Not the most user friendly **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Veronica J. | Paraprofessional, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2022 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I can access some of my student data through this. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It does not seem to synch well with other platforms. It is also not customizable by users. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had problems with our old system so this was the replacement. ### 27. Efficient for Grading purposes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharon B. | Music Specialist - Heritage Elementary, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The convenience of one place for assignments posted to communicate with students and parents is what I like most. I also like to ability to import projects from Teams into PowerSchool. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It would be helpful if I didnt' have to scroll all the way through my list of classes after entering grades on one class. When I "save" grades and go back to the list, I wish we could pick up where we left off in the list, rather than the page beginning at the top. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to link PowerSchool to Teams is a great way to post assignments and have them turned in for a grade without needing to check two separate places. I have all my grades in one place for grade reporting periods automatically. ### 28. Adequate Student Information System **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christy S. | Autism Support Teacher, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I appreciate that all student data is housed in a central location. Improvements have been made to the PowerTeacher Pro portion and tools that make grade input more convenient. SchoolNet assessments are also helpful. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** When utilizing administrative features, searching for students is difficult. It shows that it should have capabilities such as searching with different fields, however they are not at all intuitive and some of them do not work. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Continue giving feedback on things that are not working, the company regularly makes updates/improvements based on feedback they have received. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Students contact information Housing student data Teachers tracking grades and additional data Teachers able to track checklists Reports for grades, checklists, etc. ### 29. Easy to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Powerschool is user-friendly. It allows for quick and easy grade entry. Commenting ability for individual assignments and individual students is useful. Easy ability to flag assignments as missing, late, etc. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I can't say that I have any complaints. The program was easy to learn and has been used in our district for quite a few years. I can easily look up student data and information. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Powerschool interfaces with Power Teacher to allow me to enter student grades and view all of a student's information in one place. As a special education teacher, this is time-saving as compared to having to track down data from several sources. ### 30. PowerSchool SIS Good and Bad and the Ugly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Oracle database, able to query things from back end using sqlplus or SQL Developer. Ability to modify PowerSchool front end pages is good. Latest versions of PowerSchool, version 19.11 and 20.4 do address normalization far better than previous versions we have used. Now on to 20.11.3 and Oracle database 12.2 or 19c. PowerSchool's FrontEnd GUI is great to be able to modify. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool leaves much to be desired with ability to add / modify without using APIs, which most districts are not able to leverage. PowerSchool also has yet to have a way to archive out old data. Yes, we must keep data for students from Pre-K through 12th grade, including attendance, grades, discipline, etc., but without a way to archive-out data, your database can become quite large and difficult to test on. Let's face it, even with proper Indexing, when you query through numerous tables joined together to get the data you need for decision making, these queries can become unreasonable. We have several tables in the database with more than a million rows. There are many times that we can do things so much quicker in SQL but PowerSchool highly discourages this in PRODUCTION environments. Of course, you can do whatever you like on the Test and Development servers. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Update data on PowerSchool Community to include only supported PowerSchool version, i.e. 12.x and 19.x. I feel it is useless waste of manpower to pull from PowerSource KB articles and use them for 12.x and 19.x when not all parts are usefull. I have recently discussed this with the PowerSchool LLC Support team and they saw my issues with some of their documentation. Their intent is to update the documentation, especially for versions 19.x and 20.x. I am in a wait and see pattern on this. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping up with Student data in central database. We then use this to go into our Data Warehouse. We can push data back to PowerSchool, either through the APIs or through Data Import Manager. Some tables allow automatic imports, but not nearly enough, in my opinion. There are also limitations to the tables you can Insert or Update information into with the APIs. I would prefer to have the APIs available to all tables, not just a select few. But for the tables that the APIs can write to, it is a potent tool. Combining PowerShell with PowerSchool APIs allows us to do much automated work. ### 31. Lots of Great Features! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Data regarding all of our students are right at your fingertips. You only need to make sure all data has been entered and is updated. The state reports are very helpful. In PowerSchool SIS after running the report, you just down the template from the state and merge your data into the template. It is a time saver when completing state reports. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** More step by step instructions on how to do certain things should be more readily available in PowerSchool or PowerSource. I usually will need to do a Google search to find information. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool SIS state reports are very helpful. They are formatted to align with the reports needed by the state and makes it very easy to generate these reports. I have learned how to do simple customizations on pages, which has been very helpful. Also, PowerSchool Quick Export is very useful and informative. ### 32. PowerSchool Student Information System fulfills our needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David T. | Director of Information Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Full disclosure: I am a PowerSchool Champion based on my years of use of the PowerSchool products and services. I am not employed by PowerSchool. What I like best about PowerSchool SIS is that you can use it as a very basic level (rosters, attendance, grades) or go to very deep levels of integration with other PowerSchool systems (Registration, Human Resources, Special Education). **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** What I don't like is that it sometimes too complex for the typical user. Secretaries live in PowerSchool as part of their duties. Some of the knowledge necessary to get the most out of PowerSchool SIS requires some level of programming knowledge, which is beyond most secretaries. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool SIS helps us keep all of our student data in one place, with a long history of past student enrollment data. As we have grown as PowerSchool users, we have implemented more features, often plugins, that allow us to become more efficient in our district. ### 33. Great tool for Teachers, Parents and Students **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool SIS is very helpful as far as grading. It's easy to navigate for teachers. It also gives real time notifications to parents when grades are entered. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** The downside to PowerSchool is it's connectivity to other resources used in the school. If something is not listed correctly in PowerSchool, connected resources become useless. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool helps solve the issue of communication with parents and students about grades. There is a connected app where both students and parents and check their own grades with little question to the teacher. ### 34. Teacher review of PowerSchool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caroline B. | History/Government Teacher, Primary/Secondary Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool makes it relatively easy to enter grades and keep up with attendance. I like that I can access the tool from home or in the go. PowerTeacher is my favorite part. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I wish the scoresheet page was easier to view. Perhaps, a way to shrink the text. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** When analyzing test data, I am able to cross reference low performance with attendance relatively easily. I am able to see the "whole picture" of my students more easily. ### 35. PowerSchool SIS was designed to simplify the workload of teachers and admins **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philip M. | Math Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool SIS is the best record keeping software I have ever used for my students. I have been using this software for 5 years now at Somerton Middle School. The software has user -friendly interface that the first time I used it I did not have hard time using and navigating the features and functionalities. As a teacher, it is very important to me that the software I am using is functional, usable, reliable, performed well and adaptable and all of these characteristics are in PowerSchool SIS. This software maintains accuracy when it comes to keeping the records of the students specially the automatic computation of grades. I also like the I can easily do and manipulate the database operations such as Add, Edit, Delete and Update records in any way. Another great feature of this software that I enjoy using everyday is the seating plan and I can easily check the student's attendance. This is one of a kind software for me because it generates a lot of reports that teachers really need for the classroom instruction. Kudos to the designer/developer of this online software because anytime and anywhere I can interact and update the records of my students. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool SIS has everything that I need in making sure that I am doing a great job with my students. I never experienced any problem accessing and using this user-friendly online record management/keeping software. It works in any types of device where there is na Internet connection. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** If you want a software that maintains accuracy of the records, PowerSchool SIS is what you are looking for. It gives you "power" as an end-user and as a teacher all in all. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool SIS is really a helpful record keeping software because I don't need to use manual class records to make sure that I give immediate feedback to the academic performances of my students. This software provides productivity on my end because in just a tap of my fingertip it generates reports needed by the parents of my students. ### 36. Power School for small schools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shane A. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Power school has expanded into a powerful tool for us to effectively track student behaviors and well as grading within the school system. Administrators can see all students from multiple schools in the district. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Power school has a learning curve and is difficult to find previous years' data if you are unfamiliar with the software shortcuts to make the data more accessible. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Student academic data and discipline can be tracked by the school and parents. Parents can see their student balances for fines, fees, lunches etc. Students can track their own grades as well. ### 37. The system many use **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janel B. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2022 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** There are a lot of features with info poweschool. They're often underutilized or staff are under trained on the system **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Rigid in its design (too tightly held to the tradtion School model to effective serve purposes in non-traditional programs. Required a lot to input any varations (alternative schedules, etc). **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Feeding data/integration to other systems (LMS) was a challenge - also even with many different SIS elements - the level of customization was lacking. ### 38. Good overall, sometimes doesn't work **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Autumn S. | Educator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The attendance and student info features are easy to use. Some new gradebook features, like class grouping, are nice. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Ever since PowerTeacher Pro was implemented, importing grades from a spreadsheet has been next to impossible. If one student number is wrong, nothing will import. I miss being able to import for all classes at once. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** It's decent but still has some large gaps in usability. Keep researching other alternatives as well. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Teachers and admins can see student info across classes. ### 39. The site would be more accurate if the teachers were required to submit grades timely. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2022 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** access to classes at any time of the day **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** By the time the teachers post grades, it's to late and most assignments are overdue. If they post in a timely manner, the student has a better chance of making up the assignments. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The teachers don't stay up to date with posting of assignments. ### 40. Visual Scheduler is Amazing! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael L. | Assistant Principal, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Visual Scheduler allows me to see my master schedule in the same manner I created it in a master spreadsheet. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Things keep changing. We spent months updating all students demographic and contact information and then it disappears or moves. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Definitely suggest taking as many trainings as possible! **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The system is getting better and is being cleaned up. ### 41. Efficient Student Information System **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** As a kindergarten teacher I need something quick and simple when it comes to taking attendance. PowerSchool is a great platform for daily tasks such as taking attendance and unique tasks like looking up student data and files. PowerSchool is organized in a way that makes it easy to upload grades that are tied to your state standards. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** It can be frustrating when PowerSchool is "down" for the day. It seems that the software needs frequent updates. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool has streamlined the school information systems that once were separate. It's great to have student, parent, medical and diagnostic information readily available to the teacher when you need it. ### 42. Director of Culture **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose A. | Director of Culture, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Powerschool is a rich platform whose utility is only limited by your imagination. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** That there is a learning curve; takes some playing around with to build confidence. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Please consider using Powerschool SIS. Prepare for a massive undertaking upfront but a smooth utility afterwards. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Attendance capturing (during remote instruction). The data powerschool houses and helps organize is an added benefit. ### 43. Easy and comfortable to use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephanie S. | Technology Support Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2019 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** All of your buildings in your district are in one system and they transfer so easily from year to year. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Some things that you think should be included in the base are not. You have to purchase them separately. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ease of adding fields and linking (so to speak) to different pages so that everything is only entered once instead of multiple times. ### 44. Invaluable student data during remote instruction **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristen A. | Special education department chair, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** During remote instruction, staff and students are siloed at home. This could have been problematic when it came to reviewing student progress, especially students with IEPs where their goals need to be monitored closely! But, PowerSchool SIS keeps all of our information in one central location- no digging through Google drive etc for important spread sheets! This kept our teams on track to monitor and support students. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Being able to share student data right from the SIS would be more time conducive than downloading reports. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Set up a demo! It’s a great tool to keep schools on track during the Pandemic. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring of attendance and grade data to develop appropriate student interventions. ### 45. School teacher uses for grades **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Felicity I. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2020 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** PowerSchool allows for a space where student data and personal information can all securely live **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Can sometimes be difficult or confusing to navigate **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** A place for all student information in one space ### 46. Use in my duties as a teacher and assistant principal to assist students and parents **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2016 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** Ease to access all info for a student - including grades, past discipline and contact info **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** System logs out too fast and it is tough to go from one student to the next without going to the main screen Frequently "down for upgrades" almost every weekend This year - been operating VERY slow **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Go to training with a few known students in mind to navigate the pages ... Makes it serve as a point of reference **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to look at past incidents for a student and interactions that they might have had with other administrators ### 47. SIS is a GREAT addition! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen S. | Teacher of 4th grade ELA, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** As a teacher, it is helpful to see student performance, demographic information, and behavioral trends all in one place. It also makes it easier for families to engage in their students' performance. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I can't think of anything that I dislike about SIS. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it easier to get information and cuts down on the time I have to spend. ### 48. Useful for Many Things **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** I like the ability to see all students' grades and missing work in one place. This is for any class for any student I teach. It is more organized than Compass. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** I wish that there was a way to communicate with students and parents through the actual app. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use PowerSchool to store grades, take attendance, locate demographic information, and log student behaviors. ### 49. The pros and cons of using PS as your SIS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lindsey C. | English teacher, Primary/Secondary Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The upsides of using Powerschool is PS's integration with Schoology. PS is very user friendly and very few teachers have issues taking attendance or inputting grades. The program is just that intuitive. This integration with Schoology (we are only one year in this partnership) helped our teachers tremendously and has saved them time in grading. The importing of students and classes works really well too, and this sync happens every night, so if a new student registers, the student is automatically added to their Schoology courses. This is helpful for teachers. We also like the submit log entry feature in PS, as we use them as a way for teachers and admin to connect over behavioral or academic interventions for academic success. We also like the different attendance codes we can create. This is helpful for state reporting. We like the comment banks for assignments and for report cards. PowerSchool seems to integrate with most other educational programs, which is helpful. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** Sometimes it seems like PS goes down quite a bit and this is frustrating for our users. I wish running reports from PS was easier for admin and teachers alike. More teacher autonomy for creating assignments across platforms with categories. Setting up mastery scales should be easier, as more schools are moving in that direction. We'd also like to create a category or grading exclusion where if a teacher marks something "missing" or "late," the grade automatically reflects a 50%--this is a new district-wide grading policy. How do we set up new grading exceptions? How do we set up mastery level grading scales? How do we stack classes in scheduling? One downside to using PS, in our district, is that this program does so much, but very few people know how to use it at its full capacity. Our resident PS guru is retiring, and I fear we will lose all of her institutional knowledge. What are the best resources for self-training? It also seems that our contact feature is no longer available or it moved and this is has been confusing for teachers. We don't know why or how this moved, but teachers look up the contact info of students all the time. We now find it in the Powerteacher gradebook pro side of things. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Online registration was easier because of the program's integration with PS. We are also looking into using their Talent platform. We use PS for attendance and state reporting. We are trying to use it as a one stop shop for teachers and students. We are still learning a lot about scheduling and the platform. Constant trainings would be helpful. We are also trying to use PowerSchool as a way to measure academic benchmarks for mastery based learning. We are learning how to do this, so any support for this would be appreciative.We use PS for scheduling, attendance, and grading. This is all important to have in order as it is also considered state documents. What are the features of PS Unified Classroom? We also like using PS as a way to designate special education and emergent bilingual students. ### 50. PowerSchool Has it All at a Price **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lawrence E. | Director of Technology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?** The GUI is great and the metaphor for finding students and then reporting or processing is perfect. The ability to customize is amazing. Using customizations we have ben able to provide tools for administrators and teachers to follow students for the first day in the district until they graduate. **What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?** In the beginning PowerSchool promised a broad spectrum of tools and apps in a single place but now each new tool adds to the price and some of the new tool are not fully integrated. **Recommendations to others considering PowerSchool SIS:** Make sure your team is will trained and teachers have time to learn the system. **What problems is PowerSchool SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** PowerSchool tracks our students and reports to the State UTREX system. We are able to track At Risk students and provide interventions. Parents can become part of their students' education, viewing progress, checking attendance, and communicating with teachers. 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