PowerSchool SIS Reviews & Product Details

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.

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PowerSchool

Discussions

PowerSchool SIS Community

Languages Supported

Arabic, German, Greek, English, Persian, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Sarah Bennett

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

29 months

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Implementation Time

3 months

Perceived Cost

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PowerSchool SIS Integrations

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What is PowerSchool SIS, and what problem is it built to solve?

PowerSchool is a provider of cloud-based software for K–12 education. Its platform connects educators, students, administrators, and parents and helps schools and districts manage student and school operations, including reporting, attendance, grading, registration, and related administrative work.

What languages does PowerSchool SIS support?

PowerSchool SIS supports 16 languages, including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, and others.

What company sizes and industries is PowerSchool SIS the best fit for?

PowerSchool SIS has the strongest fit among positively rated users in mid-market and small-school settings, particularly in education-focused organizations. The most represented segments include:

Organization size — Mid-market: The most prominent size segment among positively rated users.
Organization size — Small business: Also well represented.
Organization size — Enterprise: A visible segment among users as well.
Industry — Primary/Secondary Education: The leading industry group.
Industry — Education Management: Another strongly represented group.

How long does it take to implement PowerSchool SIS across a team?

Implementation timelines vary, but 1–3 months is the most common reported range, with 3–6 months also frequently reported. Some teams describe shorter or longer rollouts, so the amount of setup and data preparation can affect the schedule.

Time to go live	Relative frequency
1–3 months	Most common
3–6 months	Also frequently reported
Under 1 month	Less frequent
6–12 months or more	Less frequent

What customer support options does PowerSchool SIS provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

PowerSchool SIS provides chat support. The support experience can be helpful and knowledgeable, especially when an issue reaches someone familiar with the system, but users also describe slow responses, escalations, and inconsistent answers that can make resolution frustrating.

What is the experience like for teams switching to PowerSchool SIS from another tool?

Switching to PowerSchool SIS has often been about gaining more flexibility, stronger reporting, web access, or a more unified place for student information than a previous SIS provided. Transitions from other SIS platforms, including Infinite Campus and Synergy, as well as legacy or in-house systems, can bring those gains, but migration, setup, and learning the system may take substantial effort. Once configured, teams describe using it to consolidate student records and connect workflows that previously sat in separate systems.

What tools and platforms does PowerSchool SIS integrate with, and how do these integrations help users get more value from the product?

PowerSchool SIS offers four listed integrations, spanning learning, rostering, assessment, and student health workflows.

Learning platforms: Canvas LMS
Rostering and access: Clever
Assessment: MasteryConnect
Student health: SNAP Health Center

In daily use, integrations can reduce duplicate data entry and help keep student and course information aligned across systems. Users also describe benefits such as smoother roster setup and grade transfer, though the reliability and ease of individual connections can depend on how they are configured.

What features or capabilities could make PowerSchool SIS even more useful?

The most useful improvements would make common administrative and teaching tasks easier to find, build, and connect. Users would benefit from:

Simpler reporting: Make it easier to build, customize, and export reports without specialized technical knowledge.
Clearer navigation: Reduce the number of steps and make less-used settings and student information easier to locate.
More dependable integrations: Improve synchronization and data exchange across SIS, learning, and other school platforms.
More flexible data workflows: Expand options for bulk imports, exports, and automating routine data updates.

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Verified User in Education Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 11/5/2019

"PowerSchool SIS Good and Bad and the Ugly"

4/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 useful. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 10/29/2020

"Lots of Great Features!"

4.5/5

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 download the template from the state and merge your data into the template. It is a time saver when completing state reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 make 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David T.

Director of Information Technology

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 7/11/2020

"PowerSchool Student Information System fulfills our needs"

5/5

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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/26/2022

"Great tool for Teachers, Parents and Students"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caroline B.

History/Government Teacher

Primary/Secondary Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/23/2021

"Teacher review of PowerSchool"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?

I wish the scoresheet page was easier to view. Perhaps, a way to shrink the text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Philip M.

Math Teacher

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 5/13/2020

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"PowerSchool SIS was designed to simplify the workload of teachers and admins"

4/5

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 a user-friendly interface that the first time I used it I did not have a 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 especially the automatic computation of grades. I also like that 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 every day 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 on any type of device where there is an Internet connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shane A.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/20/2021

"Power School for small schools"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janel B.

Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/22/2022

"The system many use"

2/5

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?

Rigid in its design (too tightly held to the traditional School model to effectively serve purposes in non-traditional programs. Required a lot to input any variations (alternative schedules, etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Autumn S.

Educator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 9/19/2019

"Good overall, sometimes doesn't work"

3.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/13/2022

"The site would be more accurate if the teachers were required to submit grades timely."

2.5/5

What do you like best about PowerSchool SIS?

access to classes at any time of the day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PowerSchool SIS?

By the time the teachers post grades, it's too late and most assignments are overdue. If they post in a timely manner, the student has a better chance of making up the assignments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.