PowerSchool Reviews in January 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Great SIS

What do you like best? It's easy to use and they are always updating and adding content. What do you dislike? Sometimes there is slowness in our hosted server but this is rare. Recommendations to others considering the product Our teachers who have joined us from other districts not using PowerSchool prefer the PowerSchool platform. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Our parents and teachers like the system It's easy to use ...

Powerschool

What do you like best? I like that the program is statewide. Consistency from district to district. Easy to navigate. Like the parent portal feature as well. What do you dislike? Training and communication is not the best. This may be a district issue, but coding of course codes, etc have been a mess in our district. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We use is for the mandated reasons, but we are excited about the possibilities ...

PowerSchool

What do you like best? PowerSchool has many portals. One for Admin, one for Teachers, one for Subs, and one for parents and students. It is a great way to communicant with everyone. There are also enough schools using PowerSchool it allows for user groups to get together and learn from each other. What do you dislike? The training for learning how to customize fields is a lacking. We have information we collect and need to be able to keep it in our SIS. PowerSchool allows for school ...

Great tool for student information

What do you like best? Powerschool is a great place to centralize student information. We are able to save a variety of information and even print many reports off of this website. I love that I can add log entries that can either be seen or not seen by my colleagues. It is pretty intuitive. What do you dislike? I have not been able to save my password, which would be nice on my personal computer. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you ...

A timely tool

What do you like best? I enjoy getting alerts as my child's grade changes. What do you dislike? I wish PowerSchool could link to Schoology so there would only be one place to got for assignment and grades. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I am able to keep track of grades on a daily basis vs waiting until progress reports are issued

I have used this product for 3 years now and have enjoyed that time.

What do you like best? It's convenient and easy to navigate ONCE you figure out where everything is. I have dealt with many people who are not used to such intricate technology, and it can be hard to find everything they are looking for. I just hunt and peck until I find what I'm looking for, so I have no issues. What do you dislike? Sometimes it's hard to find what I'm looking for simply because there is so much information available to choose from. I can generally 'remember' that I ...

My experience with Power School I would consider to be Satisfactory.

What do you like best? Being able to call Tech Support when I encounter a dillema that I cannot resolve or that cannot find support in Power Source. What do you dislike? The most frustrating thing for me is trying to find solutions to problems that I encounter in Power Source. No matter how I try to "search" for a solution to my issue, Power Source very seldom provides me with the answer I am looking for. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have ...

7 year admin user

What do you like best? The ease of use & and how the system allows other system to sync with it. What do you dislike? frequent updates, and not enough instruction of new features once an update does come out. Recommendations to others considering the product I still think it's the best out there. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? With being able to sync with other systems we are alleviating duplicate entry. So that benefit ...

Passaic BOE POwerschool Review

What do you like best? I enjoying the easiness of using the program and the availability of all different reports I can create What do you dislike? At times the application going of line at most inappropriate times Recommendations to others considering the product Get it. Its a valuable tool. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? All that arise

PS Review

What do you like best? Customizable pages and reports. They are super helpful. What do you dislike? State reporting updates lag behind; they should be updated sooner What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Customizeable reports have allowed me to meet many new data needs for my organization.