Now serving 142 schools across 18 states

The modern operating system for K–12 schools.

One platform for grades, attendance, communication, transportation, admissions, billing, and AI — replacing the seven legacy systems your school stitched together a decade ago.

SOC 2 Type II · FERPA · COPPA · No credit card to demo
142
Schools using daily
86k
Active students
99.99%
Uptime SLA
4.9★
G2 admin rating
🚌
Bus #14 arriving in 4 min
Maple & 3rd · 12 students aboard
AI drafted 18 parent emails
Reviewed by Ms. Chen · 6m ago
Westview Academy · Spring 2026
Principal · Live overview
LIVE
Attendance
96.8%
+1.2 pts
On-track
91%
+4 pts
At-risk
23
↘ 5 vs Q3
Daily attendance · last 7 days
Upper Lower
AC
Ava Chen · Grade 11
Algebra II · Assignment due in 2h
A−
MO
Marcus Owens · Grade 9
3 absences in 14 days · flagged
C+
Trusted by independent schools, charter networks, and districts
🎓
Westview Academy
🌲
Pine Ridge Schools
Harbor Country Day
🦅
Eagle Crest Charter
🏛️
St. Bartholomew's
🌅
Sunrise Academy
One platform · twelve modules

Everything your school runs on, in one system.

Stop paying for Veracross, Brightwheel, MyBusBuddy, Smartsheet, Mailchimp, Blackbaud Tuition, and the spreadsheet that runs your facilities. SmartSchool OS replaces all of them, with shared data and shared sign-in.

Academics & Gradebook

Standards-based, weighted, and narrative grading. Assignments, rubrics, GPA, transcripts, report cards.

Drag-to-reorder gradebook
Auto-calculated GPA per term
Common Core standards mapping

Communication

Slack-style channels for classes, departments, and announcements. Parent–teacher DMs with audit trails built in.

Auto-translated to 24 languages
Threads, mentions, file sharing
Moderation tools for admins

Transportation

Live bus tracking on a map. Parents see ETAs the moment their child boards. Safety check-in/out at every stop.

Route optimization & ridership
Push notifications by stop
Driver mobile app included

AI Assistant

Drafts parent emails, generates lesson plans, helps grade open-ended work, predicts at-risk students. Always with audit logs and PII guardrails.

FERPA-grade redaction
Per-tenant prompt library
Built on Claude · enterprise

Attendance & Scheduling

Daily and period attendance in one tap. Conflict-aware master scheduler — builds an entire term in under an hour.

SIS-grade attendance reports
Constraint-based scheduler
Room & resource booking

Admissions & Enrollment

Public application portal, interview scheduling, decision letters, waitlist, and re-enrollment — without leaving the platform.

Custom application stages
Document collection & e-sign
Financial aid workflow

Billing & Financial Aid

Tuition, invoices, payment plans, donations. Stripe-powered, ACH and card. Reconciles to QuickBooks and NetSuite.

Family-level payment plans
Financial aid & sibling discounts
Auto-generated 1098-T statements

Facilities & HVAC

Work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, and asset registry. Track every HVAC unit, boiler, and filter from one screen.

Cadence-based PM schedules
QR-code asset lookup
Vendor portal & PO tracking

Content Filter

Block games and non-educational sites during school hours. Whitelists, time-of-day rules, and weekly parent reports.

Schedule-aware policies
Per-student override requests
Integrates with Jamf & Mosyle

Health & Wellness

Nurse logs, medication tracking, immunization records, and counseling notes — separately permissioned, FERPA-clean.

Allergy & condition flags
Daily nurse visit log
State immunization exports

HR & Staff

Employment records, credentials, performance reviews, professional development hours — without buying a second HR system.

Expiring credential alerts
PD hours per teacher
Substitute pool management

Advancement & Alumni

Donor CRM, campaign management, pledges, alumni directory, and giving day tools — built on the same database as your students.

Constituent timeline view
Pledge schedules & reminders
Auto-tax-acknowledgement letters
Honest comparison

The first SIS built this decade.

Most school systems were architected in 2008 and have been bolted-onto ever since. We started from scratch with one Postgres, one sign-in, and the assumption that teachers shouldn't need three tabs open to mark a child absent.

Capability
SmartSchool OS
Veracross
Blackbaud
Single sign-on across every module
Native
Partial
Partial
Slack-style chat for classes & parents
Built-in
Email only
Email only
Real-time bus GPS & parent ETAs
Native
3rd party
3rd party
AI lesson plans & communication drafts
Claude-powered
None
None
Mobile-first parent app
iOS & Android
Web-wrapped
Web-wrapped
Facilities & HVAC asset tracking
Native
None
None
Implementation time to go live
6–8 weeks
6–9 months
9–12 months
Per-student annual cost
$24 / student
~$48 / student
~$62 / student
Stories from real schools

Heads of school switched once — and never looked back.

"We replaced Veracross, RenWeb, and a separate transportation system with SmartSchool OS in eight weeks. Our teachers got three hours a week back. Our parents stopped calling the front office about pickup."

DR
Dr. Diane Reyes
Head of School · Westview Academy

"The AI email drafts alone would justify the switch. My 6th-grade team writes 200+ parent updates a week — SmartSchool drafts the first version, we approve in seconds. Nights and weekends came back to us."

MK
Marcus Kowalski
Middle School Director · Pine Ridge

"Our IT team was running 11 separate vendor contracts. SmartSchool ate nine of them. The integration was painless — they imported 12 years of grade history and zero data got lost."

JT
Jamil Tran
CTO · Eagle Crest Charter Network
Spring 2026 onboarding cohort · 4 spots left

See your school running on SmartSchool OS.

A 30-minute demo, configured around your enrollment, calendar, and the legacy systems you're trying to leave. No pressure, no sales theater.

Free data migration · No contracts · SOC 2 / FERPA / COPPA