Pearspark vs TeacherEase

For small private schools and microschools. Pricing verified September 29, 2026. Written by the Pearspark team (how we compare).

The short answer

TeacherEase prices per teacher (about $175.67/teacher/year for 1–19 teachers) and is strongest at standards-based grading, which it has refined for years. Pearspark also includes standards-based grading — a school-defined standards catalog, per-skill mastery tracking, and standards report cards — plus the whole school operation (records, admissions, library, volunteers, scheduling) at $50/month including 20 students.

Pearspark

All-in-one platform for small private schools: records, academics, admissions, library, volunteers, scheduling and the portal.

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.

TeacherEase

A standards-based learning platform and gradebook priced per teacher.

Pricing: TeacherEase lists $175.67 per teacher per year for schools with 1–19 teachers; admin accounts about ⅔ of teacher rate; parent/student accounts free. Report cards are a separate purchase, storage is 500MB then $1/GB/year, and subscriptions run over the summer and cannot be suspended.

What each costs at small-school sizes

Students	Pearspark	TeacherEase
25 students	$62.50/mo	≈$44–73/mo (3–5 teachers)
50 students	$125/mo	≈$73–117/mo (5–8 teachers)
100 students	$250/mo	≈$117–176/mo (8–12 teachers)
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.	Per teacher, for the standards-based gradebook and learning platform; admin accounts about two-thirds of the teacher rate and parent/student accounts free. Report cards are a separate purchase, storage past 500MB is $1/GB/year, and subscriptions run through summer without pausing.

TeacherEase pricing from its published list rates as of September 29, 2026. Sources are below. Always confirm current pricing with the vendor.

Feature comparison

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

= varies by plan or not published; check with the vendor. We mark unknowns as unknowns rather than counting them against TeacherEase. The last three rows are jobs Pearspark does not do, listed for the same reason: a school that runs an annual fund, texts its families, or bills an agency should find that out here. 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, so you can check what our ✓ actually means.

Where TeacherEase shines

Deep standards-based grading and mastery tracking
Per-teacher pricing is very cheap for teacher-light schools
Free parent and student accounts

Worth knowing

Report cards cost extra — they're not in the base subscription
It's a learning-management/gradebook core, not a full school-operations platform
No lending library (book circulation), volunteer, or facility-reservation module on its published per-module price sheet
Online Registration handles new families with an approve/decline step, but there's no applicant pipeline — no inquiries, interviews, waitlist, or decisions

When TeacherEase is the better choice

If a standards-based gradebook is the whole job, TeacherEase is the low-price answer — a 3-teacher school pays about $44/month, and its mastery tooling has more years in classrooms than Pearspark's newer implementation. If you want standards-based grading AND the rest of the school (an applicant pipeline, library, volunteers, scheduling, transcripts) in one system, that's Pearspark's job. Tuition is part of that: billing is included in Pearspark's one price, with plans that bill weekly, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or on your own academic calendar, fixed plan terms, family autopay and payments landing in the school's own Stripe account. A school already using a third-party tuition service can keep it and import the records into Pearspark.

When Pearspark is the better choice

Pearspark is built for small private schools of a couple of students to a few hundred: microschools, classical schools, Montessori programs, hybrid schools and homeschool co-ops. One published price includes student records, a spreadsheet-style gradebook with student analytics (trends, score distributions, missing-work tracking), report cards, printable transcripts with GPA, school-year attendance calendars, admissions, class scheduling, tuition billing with online payments, 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 TeacherEase CSV exports with a dry-run preview.

The parts this comparison turns on

Common questions

How is TeacherEase priced differently from Pearspark?

TeacherEase charges per teacher ($175.67/teacher/year for 1–19 teachers, with report cards sold separately); Pearspark charges per student ($50/month including 20 students, then $2.50/each stepping down at volume, everything included). Teacher-heavy schools favor Pearspark's model; teacher-light gradebook-only needs favor TeacherEase. One seasonal note: TeacherEase subscriptions run over the summer and can't be paused, which matters for co-ops that only meet part of the year.

Does Pearspark support standards-based grading?

Yes — fully, and it's included in the one price. Schools define their own standards catalog (or import it from CSV), tag assignments with the skills they practice, and rate mastery per standard. Current level follows the newest evidence (reassessment replaces, never averages), and report cards print per-skill levels — alongside letter-graded classes on the same card for hybrid schools, and report cards are included rather than sold separately.

Can I import TeacherEase gradebooks into Pearspark?

Yes — export a gradebook as a CSV matrix (students down, assignments across) and Pearspark's per-class import creates the assignments and grades, previewing unmatched rows before anything is saved.

Sources

Last reviewed September 29, 2026. Spotted something out of date? Email us and we'll fix it.

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