PowerSchool Reviews

As a student, my school and grades RUN on this app, so it’s helpful to always have PowerSchool on my phone so I can check my grades anytime. Personally, I think there’s nothing spectacular about PowerSchool that gets it 5 stars, but is a problem that I find to be very aggravating at times. Mainly, when my grades are updated, I get the notification, but on PowerSchool , they are not actually updated, no matter how many times I refresh. I normally have to wait a long time for this to happen, or I just log on to my computer to check my grades (they are updated immediately on there). I would also recommend that instead of notifying us when our letter grade changes, we get notified when the actual percentage changes (e.g. “Your grade is Pre-Calculus H is now 95”). I also wish PowerSchool was less glitchy, updated quickly, AND we had access to see our grade history from previous years, as I can only see this on my computer as of now. Plus, it would be great if our GPA, shown on the home screen also updated with our grades for that quarter/trimester/semester, and not keep showing the GPA from the LAST term. Other than that, I do appreciate the convenience of checking my grades and attendance on my phone, but PowerSchool has a LONG way to go.

PowerSchool is a EXCELLENT idea, quick access to your grades without dealing with opening your browser, however PowerSchool does not work as promised. Honestly i’ve just stopped using it altogether, I hope that this will get an update to fix all its errors but until then it’s just gonna stay in a folder on my phone. Everyone complains about how you must login several times to see your grades but that is the least of my concerns. For me I can’t even access them anymore. I used to login twice and see grades that are very out of date and a GPA that didn’t change with the fluctuations in my grades. Now I cant see anything. Don’t get me wrong, I am able to get notifications when a teacher puts a new grade into the grade book but when I attempt to login to see them I only see the word “Authenticating” and a spinning wheel. Nothing, i’ve waited 30 minutes before and nothing has happened. I’m not sure if that applies to everyone but from peers i’ve talked to they’ve just resorted to signing in through a browser like me. this app please fix your app, we understand that the multiple logins can be for our safety but not being able to access it at all is ridiculous.

I've been using this app Mobile for about 2 years now, and ever since I first opened PowerSchool , it's had serious issues. For starters, I have to sign in not once, but twice to check my grades. This alone wouldn't be such a large issue if it didn't take nearly a minute for the page to refresh to even allow you to sign in for a second time. I remember at the start of the 3rd quarter of last school year, PowerSchool had a massive malfunction, affecting all those attending my school at the time. We were left unable to check our grades for nearly a week. As I am typing this, PowerSchool again is experiencing difficulties, as notifications appear to be turned off all across campus. I checked my settings, and nothing seems to be preventing notifications from coming through. I've even talked to my peers about this concern, and it appears to again, be a school-wide issue. PowerSchool itself is a great concept, allowing students to check grades on the go. However, with so many issues and new ones popping up every other week, it just seems like little care and effort is put into this app Mobile.

The school will update my child’s grades in PowerSchool and I will get notifications of the changes.... for some reason PowerSchool presumes that the kids are morons and the grade changes begin at an F and then climb as the teachers make adjustments. The actual frustrating part of PowerSchool, tho, is that the notifications will come across the Notification Center and then when you go to PowerSchool to view things...... nothing. No notifications to follow in-app plus the Notification Center clears and you can’t look back. So the changes are made and you come to look things over.... but have no clue where to look. And my vestment in PowerSchool is far from enough for me to spend the time to learn my way around it... I downloaded a required app for my kid’s school.... it’s the school’s app and responsibility to make sure they communicate correctly, but PowerSchool is hampering everything by simply being confusing and in the way. It needs a lot of work to become more “parent friendly”.

I really liked using the this app app for school being able to rearrange the way I saw my GPA, recent assignments graded, and overall class scores etc. I also really liked the blue and white theme—as I’ve gone through school I’ve associated certain classes with certain colors and now this new update has chosen random colors for all of my classes. Also another thing is I like my grades to be private and now the letter grade for each class is HUGE! So prying eyes are most likely going to be able to see my grades. And my GPA is super tiny now. Weird. Also another annoying thing about PowerSchool is that it doesn’t show how your teachers weigh their grading (if like a class was 70% tests and quizzes & 30% class work) Oh one last thing: you can’t change your little profile photo. It sticks with you school photo (which 9 times out of 10 looks really awful.) You are the only person who sees this picture so why not let us change it to a picture we like better? Like I said PowerSchool works great other than the new color theme/update. There are a few things that bother me but it’s still doing it’s job: showing you your grades etc. Hope this helps!!

Some of the issues that I don’t like about it is that it does not allow a copy of the emails you send to a teacher and with having short term messages loss I like to keep a copy of the emails. They taught me in the Air Force to always keep a paper trail. The application does not keep up to date all the assignments. For example it may be good with keeping up with the grades from Canvas but not in AR assignments. Also some of the answers on the quizzes are wrong and need to be fix for instance an example if congruent triangles has only one correct answer and the question asks for two answers when there is only one correct one. When you answer the question with the correct answer it is counted wrong. Who are writing these questions with the wrong answers or there is more than one correct answer? It is teaching our students that it is okay to choose a wrong answer and it will be right. WRONG!

I’ve been trying to catch up on my grades for the LONGEST and I’ve been doing good. My teacher graded everything on the main app where we get our assignments and my grade went up there, get this.... if my teacher grades something it will AUTOMATICALLY upload to this app. Now this has been happening for awhile and this app needs to up their game BIG TIME! anyways yea.... if you want to keep track of your grades I recommend it but if your that type of person that does‘ like to wait long ( aka not being patient) then get another app that does it fast and doesn’t wait long to upload your grades. Okay I’m done 😂🤚🏽

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I think power school is a really good app. It updates my grade right away and it notifies me every time I get a grade. Power school is really easy to use I also like how it lets u change ur profile picture. The only thing I do not like about this is that some times it will show old grades instead of ur grades at the moment and I get confused about it. Power school can be used for many ages it’s really nice to use and u can easily get into it all u have to is ur email and ur school thingy.

It’s also really easy for my mom to use to see my grades and my siblings grades so we don’t have to go though a hassle to see them. And my mom can give use things like tv and stuff if we have good grades. That’s what it’s very useful for it also lets u email ur teacher if u have a question or smth. It also lets u see ur old grades from last quarter and it tells u if ur missing any assignments.

This is why I give Power school 4-5 stars:)

PowerSchool is pretty good for the current online environment in which it is hard to see my family's grades. But I think it can be given a few more features to excel in the hybrid and online schooling environment. The first thing they could add is form support for iPad and iPhone. Doing the forms on an iPad is much more convenient then having to open the desktop version whenever you want to fill a form. PowerSchool can succeed in today's market but it needs to be a lot more like the website. The Website offers many more features that are of use to parents than the iPad. Previously I just used it to check my family's grade, but now since my school has integrated more with this app more I have found myself resorting to my desktop more. Devs if you are reading this, please make PowerSchool more like the website.

It’s a good app and doesn’t seem to have many issues but I have just a few tips and things that might make it better. For starters, the class overview I believe should show the grades for your current marking period/semester. My school year is split into two semesters with three marking periods each, and the class overview shows my grades for marking period 1, but currently I’m in marking period 3. I think it’d be easier and much less confusing if it showed your current grades. Second, when you tap on a class in the overview it takes you to the grades for that class but again, not to the current marking period. Other than these small details PowerSchool seems to work well and I haven’t had many other issues with it. I think fixing it so it shows you your current grades and not grades from the start of the year will make PowerSchool much better and easier to use.

I love PowerSchool because it helped me see my grades quickly and easily. Although sometimes my grades would not be shown when updated which makes me have to sign in and out I still liked the old update better. It was clearer to see my grades. Some may want to have privacy about grades since they don’t want people knowing their business but for me it was quick and easy. I would use this in class to quickly see my grades for the class and then be able to know whether or not a assignment would put me down a lot or bring me up. Also the colors I really did like the old white background with the black text but I don’t know how I feel about this one. I really hope you can add some settings where you can choose a display rather then having a display I’m not comfortable with or doesn’t work with me.

I’m sure 4th-6th grade parents are are a little annoyed that grades are hardly updated. I know my daughters main teacher always finds the time to enter grades and to watch the class carefully.
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Not once has SS or Science been updated. We now have 15 minutes for each of those classes🤦‍♀️ once the beginning of the year started it was bumpy, then it was smooth. Now every time they bring the kids back 5x’s a week 1/2 days “ for consistency” it’s a gigantic mess again. Half days were said to help with consistency, however it’s more confusing than ever.
My child needs remote however the risk of losing her teacher, and. Of course nothing normal & of course they will be and back home. What consistency is there?

This is a great app but not all teachers use it daily to update grades on assignments Idea San Benito Texas 4th grade teachers don't use because they try to cheat the system (giving students till the last day of a quarter day to submit assignments) on the students that aren't turning in assignments on time and are not on the virtual meetings on time/don't attend which it's like let's hurt the students that are doing their part on attending the meetings and submitting assignments for the students that don't. I've addressed this with the assistant principal and the lame excuses they now are going with changes of submitting grades well when a student attends day-to-day in-person us parents see our child's daily progress same goes with this app app it allows us, parents, to see our child's daily virtual progress which helps us to see how our child is doing in a daily basis and if we need to intervene and help in an area. I don't believe Idea Public School's head administration invested in PowerSchool to misuse taxpayers' money in which teachers/principals are not using PowerSchool entirely.

I would appreciate it if you updated my kids school that they are no longer to attend..... we got a call Tuesday night the day before school started at 4:55 PM telling me that my kids could not attend the school that they just had a back to school night zoom meeting with their teachers, supplies bought for their classrooms, letters in the mail from the school that they were told they could no longer attend the night before school started......
saying they were excited to start the new school year!!!!😡
PLEASE UPDATE MY CHILDREN'S POWER
SCHOOL...!
Your and that principal Were so quick to make my children’s life miserable. And all you have to do is type in words on a computer.... to update which school they attend....

PowerSchool has logged me out and locked several times... my school has had to also reset it numerous times which has taken so long for what seems like no reason. The stars like many would probably say make you feel bad about yourself and grades because of the GPA rating system with stars they have created. If they would have never updated PowerSchool this year there would be no problems with anyone and their school probably?! Overall the idea is great and it tracks my grades pretty accurately but some things could be improved and added such as color customization and the allowance to change your ID photo. :) also are we all just trying to get PowerSchool banned?! 😂👌🏻

It’s inappropriate and violent and if you stop texting messages messages and then click click delete delete them then yyyyyTy delete them then delete delete them delete messages and then delete messages lol I don’t want to be mad lol I’m not saying anything about that lol I’m not sure if you have a problem I can’t do anything about it I love it I don’t know if ur phone on ur off or just stop making ur messages stop making me mad I love you too lol I just woke you up lol lol I don’t want you to have anything to do lol lol oh I don’t want you in here I’m not sure lol I’m not like that lol lol I’m just saying I hate that I’m not u the the one that was in a hurry to do something wrong with the one I got in my phone and I didn’t even ask about that I lol but I’m sure it would have a lot more sense than to get it lol I love you too bro I’m so bored lol I’m so bored and I’m bored and chill out lol I’m not like I’m not sure what I’m talking to lol I’m so sorry lol I just saw this one I was like lol lol I’m not mad at me lol I don’t want to go lol I’m so sorry I can’t talk right now but I can’t talk lol I’m so mad I don’t have to I

The this app app is as smooth as butter on a mobile device. The website glitches sometimes on the web if you are using your phone, and the mobile app is the best solution for that problem. There’s not much to complain about PowerSchool except the fact that it doesn’t connect to the mySchoolBucks account correctly. It’s always going to say $0 for the food balance, but it is a small bug that can be fixed later. I am very satisfied with PowerSchool, but would like to see it integrated with Schoology in the future. instead of using the two apps for school, I can access both my grades and school work from just on app.
Overall though, the this app app deserves 5 stars; must download.

Okay so how useful PowerSchool is depends on district involvement. The only thing my district uses through this app is grades and attendance. Not the lunch or schedule or calendar or anything. PowerSchool is pretty useful but I turned in one assignment late and it was under the late tab alllll year. Like seriously I turned it in it got graded it wouldn’t leave the late tab. Sometimes the faults in PowerSchool is the teachers fault like wrong grades or wrong icons so I can’t be mad at that. I have noticed you can do a lot more on the computer than phone with this app. You have all the different tabs like a+ signing up for classes and more and on app you have none sooo yeah it’s a helpful useful app with a couple annoying imperfections but overall it’s not like there’s much of an alternative but it’s a good quality app and easy to navigate.

The power school has given me pain, suffering, anger, I have even thrown my phone from rage. So, that’s the reason it’s a 5 star, pain suffering and anger, it gives me strength, and it gives me the motivation to do my homework in class, and still do decent at it. I have been gives grades I love, and grades I hate, they have all given me strength to watch TV and call my friends and sleep,at it be so that I never care for doing my schoolwork, I care more about feeding my cats then I do using the bathroom, I have even only gone to the bathroom at school, to finish my area, that at witch I pray to my all Lordy cats, of names they are Alberto,Zari, And Cutie pie.I’m conclusion power school has distracted me and I have been praying to my cats for 24 hours now, I’m almost done with my prayers, so, I must be off to feed my all Lordy cats, now, good bye, they are summoning me to the land of cat heaven to feed them, and pet them. Goodbye.

To be honest, I don't know where all of these negative reviews are coming from. I've used a lot of different grade systems at different schools and this app is by far the most effective. The new schedule feature is something that is SO convenient with my schedule at school, and it has replaced the annoying calendar on the back of my lanyard. this app should continue to innovate and expand the apps functionality to accommodate new grading systems, and reduce its contracting price and market more heavily so that more schools adopt this system, because it will increase students overall effort and attendance. Seeing the grades on PowerSchool is so convenient and PowerSchool itself doesn't look like it came out 5 years ago, the user interface is very good and although it can use a few aesthetic changes, it's super effective.

The school is honestly horrible. Us students here don’t learn anything and we have some very disrespectful teachers. I have witnessed so many fights at south it’s ridiculous! Everyone does whatever they want or try to and end up getting in school detention with a rude isd teacher. Me and my friends were walking down the hall and he told us to watch our mouths and we got smart with him and said “are you are parent” because he was being VERY RUDE so why not send the same energy. And he told us “I don’t care about your mom I could care less, while your at school we are in charge” and we told him “ why don’t u keep our parents names and all out ur mouth” the teachers only work here to get paid, they could care less about our education because they already graduated. We don’t learn anything that can help us with the “real world” and substitutes teach us nothing, we’re handed little worksheets and being talked to about there personal lives! There is honestly no point in this school or bringing your student to it! Valley view is probably 10x better because the staff are actually helping you.

Although it may seem this rating is harsh, the process to log in every single time you want to open PowerSchool is very annoying. I like to check this app often to see how my progress is and in each class. When I heard about the this app app I was thrilled. In order to escape from the dreadful error messages for not using this app for a certain extent of time, I downloaded PowerSchool. I was very disappointed because of the numerous times I would quickly check my grades and research more in depth half an hour later only to find I needed to log in again. To the devs, please fix these problems. It is absolutely unnecessary to log in every time you want to use PowerSchool . Such “security precautions” are unacceptable. In the meantime I will use the more convenient this app which can be found by searching it up in safari(google chrome etc.).

There’s one big problem I have with PowerSchool, but it’s not on the iPhone. Instead, it’s on the watch app, which has one major flaw, that being that your grades only update when they are updated on the phone. This is a major annoyance as I’m not allowed to use my phone in school, making my watch the most convenient way of checking my grades if not for the updating problem. I guess they might do this to not drain battery, but if the watch is connected to the phone or WiFi, it shouldn’t even be a problem (even on cellular, it won’t drain it more than any other app). If the devs for the watch app see this review, I hope they’ll take it into consideration.

this app is good. I’m a student and it told me which class I should be in and when a new grade comes out or when I miss a class. The only problem is that when u log on it’ll say buffering and then u have to close the tab and then go back to PowerSchool but then if u leave PowerSchool again you’ll have to log back on and it’s not hard it’s just annoying. I don’t suggest this for parents I’m just telling u that your child will like it better if u don’t have it and u just trust them to tell u the truth. Cause Hover parents that hover all around your life are annoying. So parents u shouldn’t get PowerSchool and students u should

Recently whenever I try to check my grades it will not allow me to log in at all. And I’ve been using PowerSchool for about three years. But I believe that PowerSchool is a huge help when I need to check my grades but it is very frustrating when my parents check my grades because I’m always hounded on what I have and have not turned in. While at times I can understand why having parents checking grades can be useful, being a high school student I feel as though I don’t get any freedom because it is so simple for a parent to check my grades. Along with the fact that there is what I guess would be considered an email option which emails parents when the students grades drop past a certain point.

it's perfect for me because i forget my assignments a lot so i can check the assignment board for upcoming due dates and you can check the calendar as well. you can also quickly check your grade overviews and it doesn't have any bugs. you can add your lunch balance to it, look at attendance, email your teachers, find your overall GPA, etc. it's a good app, if your school approves it into their system, definitely get it!! every person at my school has PowerSchool on their phone and most parents do too! please please please get it, it makes your school life a breeze and helps with senioritis xd :)

I have to be more hands on this school year due to less than stellar grades last year. I was dreading the usual slog though the this app data presentation that kept me from checking grades as often as I should have, but I was pleasantly surprised at the updates in PowerSchool for the new school year. The customizable page presentation, progress emails, and, attendance alerts help me keep up to date with my child’s progress so that I can be more proactive sooner that I was in the past, rather than dealing with damage control when it all collapses. Public school parents, teachers and students need all the help we can get. Kudos to the developers! Don’t stop striving for every little improvement.

My son likes to say that he forgot what homework assignments he has and always forgets. But PowerSchool keeps him on track and tells us exactly what needs to be done. Also the teachers are so awesome with updating the grades as they go so everything is clear and if you ever have a question, you can reach out to a student or email the teacher and there right there to help with an assignment. This is probably the best App that doesn’t only help our son but helps us as parents to also be able to watch his GPA grow since the GPA is always posted. Love that we can see his grades daily, help him when he needs help and not get surprises when reports cards come out months later. I’m definitely loving the digital age.

this app has been a very helpful app to keep up with all my grades. You can log on from more than one device, such as your phone, if you have PowerSchool , or your computer. As long as I have my phone it shows me my grades and it updates them automatically soon as one is put in. More than one person can have PowerSchool too. My parents look at it to make sure I’m keeping up. It shows you how many absences you have had, it also shows you the reviews your teacher gives you after the quarter of school. You can also see grades from previous classes you had and the ones you will have coming up. It shows you the grade of each individual assignment and any comments your teacher had about it.

Before downloading PowerSchool, the usually conversation between my child and I were fairly basic; “hey baby, how was school?” Followed by; “Do you have homework?”. PowerSchool allows you to check assignments and grades on the fly. My daughter failed to turn in a piece of homework and I received a notification in the middle of the afternoon through PowerSchool the her assignment was missing. When she got home, we were able to figure out what it was and get it taken care of. I’m guessing this all comes down to the school and the teachers following SOP’s and PowerSchool working properly. If there are any parents out there considering PowerSchool, give it a shot. You will not be disappointed.

I love PowerSchool my grades are even better than they are before or is it just because I’m amazing is my I don’t know but PowerSchool is amazing I just take me a new one to two seconds to update your grades but otherwise it’s a very good app and you can see your GPA and like if you have missing assignments late assignments or anything like that or how to get your grade up I think PowerSchool is a very good another reason is because because it has like this like keto friendly type of style so kids don’t get confused or frustrated I actually have fun checking their grades and what else I like about it is they have like have announcements so I know if schools canceled or if there’s new activities or any clubs that are canceled so I think this ad is very good and you should very definitely get it it helps me more than any add anything because are used to fail in school before I found PowerSchool to help me keep my grade that I was doing amazingNot only was I overage achieving I’m not over age I don’t know why I love that I am sober how many pages each

This really helped me when it came to my grades because my grades kept going up and down like a stock market so I did not want to wait until I got my report card I wanted to see my grades as soon as possible if I made a mistake I would know and fix my grade this app is great with its nonfiction if your those organized people I highly recommend PowerSchool this will help you to become the top kids in the class and a better student mentally I would give shoutout to the Developer and the teachers who are grading and making accounts to puts grades into this app with time and effort