Pearspark vs ClassReach

For classical Christian schools and other small private schools. Pricing verified October 19, 2026. Written by the Pearspark team (how we compare).

The short answer

ClassReach and Pearspark both run a small private school's records, grades, billing and family messages in one system. ClassReach also covers homework handed in online, and texts families from its $350 Basic plan up. What it doesn't publish is the price for a school past 50 students: only its $175 Lite plan is tied to a size, and a larger school learns its plan from a quote after a demo. Pearspark publishes its price at every size and holds nothing back for a higher plan: standards-based grading, ESA billing, a lending library and records that outlast the school are all in the one plan.

Pearspark

One system for a school growing a grade a year: admissions, attendance, home days, report cards, transcripts with GPA, tuition and ESA billing, library, volunteers and the parent app.

Pricing: $50 a month including 20 students, then $2.50 a student a month, stepping down to $1.00 at volume. No setup fees, month to month, 30-day free trial.

Setup is self-serve: the importers preview every row before anything is written, and email support is free when you're stuck.

ClassReach

An all-in-one system for private K-12 schools with published plan prices — though past 50 students, which plan a school needs comes from a quote.

Pricing: ClassReach's pricing page shows four monthly plans — Lite at $175, Basic at $350, Pro at $700 and Enterprise at $1,320 — plus two without a price: Lite Starter, for schools in their launch year, and Special, for large schools and districts. The Lite Starter page says a new school keeps an introductory price for 24 months, without saying what that price is. Only one plan is tied to a school size: the product FAQ says pricing starts at $175/month for 0–50 students. No page says which plan a school of 60, 100 or 150 lands on, and the plan cards don't list what each plan includes. The buying path is a 30-day demo account with sample data and a virtual demo of 30 to 90 minutes, at the end of which its sales team gives a quote. ClassReach's separate Lite page still shows Lite at $150/month, so confirm the figure with them.

What each costs at small-school sizes

Students	Pearspark	ClassReach
25 students	$62.50/mo	$175/mo — Lite plan (0–50 students)
50 students	$125/mo	$175/mo — Lite plan (0–50 students)
100 students	$250/mo	Plan for this size not published; quote after a demo (plans run $350–$1,320/mo)
What the price includes	Everything in one plan: records, attendance, gradebook, standards-based grading, report cards, transcripts, admissions, scheduling, tuition billing with family autopay, lending library, equipment booking, volunteer check-in, messaging, and an installable parent app with push notifications. No setup fee, month-to-month. No fundraising CRM, no subsidy billing, and no SMS broadcast — announcements reach families as push notifications and email instead.	ClassReach publishes plan prices but not what each plan includes, beyond Lite covering 0–50 students. Standards-based grading and text alerts start on Basic. The financial suite — invoicing, payment forms and tuition agreements — and administrator support are included at no extra cost; card and bank payments run through Stripe, with fees the school absorbs or passes to families. A quote follows the virtual demo.

ClassReach does not publish a full rate card; figures shown are the best public information we could verify as of October 19, 2026. Sources are below.

Feature comparison

Feature	Pearspark	ClassReach
Student records (SIS)
Attendance
Gradebook & report cards
Standards-based grading & mastery		Partial
Records protected if the school closes
Transcripts & GPA
Missing-data reports & scheduled delivery		Partial
Admissions pipeline
Class scheduling & rooms
Lending library & checkout
Equipment & room booking
Volunteer tracking & check-in
Parent & student portal
Messaging
Self-serve transcript & gradebook import		Partial
Tuition billing & payments
Published pricing (no sales call)		Partial
Fundraising & donor CRM
SMS / text broadcast to families		Partial
Subsidy & agency billing

= not published, or varies by plan. Pearspark reaches families by push notification through the installable parent app, and by email, not by text. Underlined feature names open the Pearspark page for that capability.

What ClassReach offers

Classroom tools in the same login as records: lesson plans, agendas, class discussions, and homework handed in and graded online
Text alerts to families and staff on its Basic plan and up: 500 free texts a month, then $8 per 500
Families can register for courses, with schedule-conflict checks; seat limits and waitlists are on its Pro plan
Report cards with conduct marks and teacher comments; transcripts with regular, honors and AP GPA scales
An implementation team that moves a school's data in

Where ClassReach falls short

Plan prices are published, but past 50 students no page says which plan a school is on, so a growing school learns its next price from a quote
The plan cards don't list what each plan includes; its help center puts standards-based grading and text alerts on Basic ($350/month) and up, so a Lite school goes without both
Buying runs through a sales demo and a 30-day demo account filled with sample data rather than a trial on the school's own records
Its implementation team leads setup, and a salesperson sets the timeline; no page publishes one
Its materials don't describe a lending library, volunteer-hour tracking, equipment booking, or ESA and voucher billing, and nothing published says what happens to student records if the school closes
Its Lite page still shows $150/month against $175 on the pricing page

Where ClassReach fits

If teachers want homework handed in and graded online, class discussions and agendas inside the school system, ClassReach covers that and Pearspark does not. The same goes for a text alert on a snow day, which ClassReach sends from its Basic plan, for families picking their own courses with waitlists on its Pro plan, and for a school that would rather have the vendor's team move its data than run importers itself. What those features cost a school past 50 students is the part its pages leave out: only the $175 Lite plan is tied to a size, the plan cards don't say which plan carries which feature, and the number comes from a quote after a demo.

When Pearspark is the better choice

Pearspark is built for classical Christian schools and other small private schools of 20 to a few hundred students. One published price includes student records, a spreadsheet-style gradebook with student analytics (trends, score distributions, missing-work tracking), a report card for each grade with the virtues on it, printable transcripts with GPA (Latin and Bible as credited courses), home-day lesson plans, school-year attendance calendars, admissions, class scheduling, tuition billing with online payments and ESA invoices, a lending library with barcode checkout, equipment booking, volunteer check-in, messaging and a parent and student portal. Setup is self-serve, and the built-in migration tools import your rosters, transcripts and gradebooks from ClassReach CSV exports with a dry-run preview.

The parts this comparison turns on

Common questions

How much does ClassReach cost?

Its pricing page shows four monthly plans: Lite at $175, Basic at $350, Pro at $700 and Enterprise at $1,320. Two more carry no price — Lite Starter for schools in their launch year, and Special for large schools and districts. The one plan tied to a size is Lite, which its product FAQ puts at 0–50 students. For a larger school, ClassReach's sales team quotes a plan at the end of a virtual demo, and its separate Lite page still shows $150/month. Pearspark publishes one schedule for every size: $50/month including 20 students, then $2.50 a student to 100 and $2.00 to 300 — $150 at 60 students, $250 at 100, $350 at 150.

Which ClassReach plan includes standards-based grading and text alerts?

Basic and above, according to its own help center. Its support team switches standards-based grading on for Basic-tier schools, and its help center shows Lite Starter schools how to approximate it in the gradebook. Text alerts go out with announcements, with 500 free texts a month on Basic, 750 on Pro and 1,000 on Enterprise, then $8 for each further 500. Pearspark sends no texts — families get push notifications through the installable parent app, and email — and standards-based grading is in its one plan, so a 25-student school has per-standard mastery and standards report cards without moving up a tier.

Which fits a classical Christian school better, ClassReach or Pearspark?

Both sell to them. The difference shows over a young school's next few years. A school adding a grade a year soon passes the 0–50 students ClassReach's Lite plan is priced for, and from there its plan comes from a quote; Pearspark's price moves by a published amount per student — $150 a month at 60 students, $350 at 150. Pearspark is also built around the whole of a classical school's record: Bible and theology are courses on the transcript beside Latin, chapel and holy days are calendar entries the planner respects, the report card's conduct section carries your handbook's name for it, admissions runs as a pipeline with dated interviews, and ESA and voucher funding is billed per student.

Can I try ClassReach before buying?

ClassReach offers a 30-day login to a demo account filled with sample data, and a virtual demo with a salesperson, 30 to 90 minutes long, that ends with a quote. Pearspark's 30-day free trial runs on your own school's records, with no sales call; Pearspark takes card details at signup and charges nothing until day 31.

Can a school move from ClassReach to Pearspark?

Yes. ClassReach's report creator exports to CSV, and Pearspark imports rosters with parent contacts, historical transcripts and assignment-level gradebooks from CSV files, with a dry-run preview of every row before anything is written. Pearspark is month to month with no setup fee, and support@pearspark.com will help with an export at no charge.

Sources

Last reviewed October 19, 2026. Spotted something out of date? Email us and we'll fix it.

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