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Pearspark for hybrid schools

School management software for hybrid and university-model schools

One plan for campus days and home days. Students are on campus two or three days a week and a mother or father teaches the rest at home — Pearspark holds both halves: attendance on the days each class meets, one gradebook, tuition billing, and the lesson plans parents run the home days from.
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Campus day at a hybrid school: a teacher leans in to look at a student's binder while middle-school students work at wooden tables in a sunlit classroom lined with bookshelves.

What a hybrid school gets, included

  • Gradebook, report cards, transcriptsOne gradebook per class covers campus and home-day work alike. Term grades become report cards, and the record becomes a transcript with GPA.
  • Attendance that knows your weekTaken per class, on the days that class meets. A home day is not a missing sheet: the chase-list and the attendance-gap report both read each class's meeting days.
  • One planner for the whole weekEvery lesson is tagged Campus or Home Day, and that tag decides what families see. Attachments ride along with the lesson.
  • Home-day plans in the family portalParents open the teacher's actual plan for the days they teach, with a checklist that carries minutes and materials — and check it off as the day happens.
  • Tuition billing families pay onlineWeekly, every two weeks, monthly, by term or annually, at whatever amount fits each family. They pay by card or bank through your own Stripe account, with autopay and automatic reminders.
  • Admissions and enrollmentTour booking, phone calls and an application form on your own website, and a reply the moment a family asks. Enrolling an accepted student creates the record and invites the parents to the portal, with nothing retyped.
  • A parent app, on their phoneThe portal installs like an app and sends push notifications. The week, grades, invoices and messages, in one login.
  • And the rest of the officeMessaging, health records, a lending library, resource booking, volunteer scheduling and the reports a small school gets asked for.

Every item above is on every account. There are no modules to add, no per-feature tiers and no setup fee: $50 a month including 20 students, then $2.50 a student, stepping down at volume.

The 3-minute tour: one plan for campus days and home days. Real screens, no slides.

Sound familiar?

What hybrid schools live with today, and the part of Pearspark that answers each one.

Two systems taped together

A school system for campus days, email and PDFs for home days. Every week, someone re-explains the handoff.

With Pearspark: One planner holds the whole week, every lesson tagged Campus or Home Day, and that tag decides what families see.

The Sunday-night email

Five attachments, a bulleted list, and a prayer that every family reads to the bottom. By Tuesday, three haven't.

With Pearspark: Publish the week in one click: one email per family, worksheets attached to the lesson, and a checklist with minutes and materials per day.

You find out Friday

Whether the home days worked is invisible until the work comes back — or doesn't. The regrouping that didn't click stayed stuck all week.

With Pearspark: Families check items off as the day happens and flag what didn't land; Monday's reteach list is waiting on the Home Days dashboard.

In short

Pearspark is school management software for hybrid and university-model schools — programs that meet on campus two or three days a week while a parent teaches at home the rest. It runs the whole school: gradebook, report cards and transcripts, attendance that only expects a sheet on the days a class actually meets, tuition billing families pay online, and home-day lesson plans parents open in their own portal, check off, and flag when something didn't land.

The week is one plan

Monday, Wednesday, Friday on campus; Tuesday and Thursday at home — same planner, same week, one plan. Every lesson carries a 'Where it happens' tag, Campus or Home Day, and that one tag drives everything families will and won't see. A two-day week, a three-day week, or a lower school on Mon/Wed and an upper school on Tue/Thu: each class carries its own meeting days, and everything downstream reads them.

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Whatever your model is called

University-model schools and hybrid academies, classical hybrids, cottage schools, homeschool co-ops, tutorials, collaborative and part-time programs — two-day weeks, three-day weeks, alternating weeks. The shape underneath is the same: some days a teacher runs, some days a mother or father runs, and both have to end up in one record. The at-home day's name is yours to set — Home Days, Satellite Days, Co-op Days — and whatever you choose is what families read in the portal, in the weekly email, and on the printed week.

A checklist written for the kitchen table

Home-day lessons carry a family checklist written for the mother or father running the day: every item has the minutes it should take and the materials to pull out. Math workbook, pages 31–32, twenty minutes. A parent knows exactly what 'done' looks like before the day starts — and each item says who signs it off: parent checks, or teacher grades.

Attachments there, photos back

Worksheets and readings attach straight to the lesson — no more Sunday-night email with five PDFs. Photo moments flow the other way: little windows into the classroom that families see in the portal.

You control what leaves the building

Every class has a 'Families see' setting with four levels — nothing, titles only, full plans, or the one built for hybrid schools: home-day plans only. Families get everything they need for the days they teach; campus planning stays private. Drafts and staff-only notes never appear, at any level.

Publish the week in one click

When the week is ready, Publish to families sends each family a single email and puts the week in their portal. A send icon on every lesson keeps you honest: green is published, amber means you've edited since.

The parent's Monday morning

Families see This Week — every child, every day, one page, with a 'Have ready' line listing the materials to gather before the day starts. As they work, they check tasks off; when something doesn't land, they flag it with a note instead of a 9 p.m. text.

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The teacher's Monday morning

The Home Days dashboard puts every family flag at the top — that's the reteach list — and below it, every student against every task: checked, flagged, or untouched. You walk into class knowing exactly how the home days went. Call them Home Days, Satellite Days, or Co-op Days — the label is yours, and a Sunday digest emails every family their week ahead automatically.

Watch it work, 60 seconds a task

Real screen recordings of the tasks hybrid schools run every day.
All how-to videos
Set up Home Days for a hybrid scheduleAdmins
Plan a home day with a family checklistTeachers
Publish the week's plans to familiesTeachers
Work through the This Week home checklistFamilies
Flag a home-day struggle for the teacherFamilies
See how home days went on the dashboardTeachers

Weighing it against something else?

If one of these is on your list too, read the comparison. Every claim is sourced, pricing was last checked in September 2026, and each page says plainly when the other system is the better choice. Or start from the ranked view: the best systems for hybrid schools.
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We love the immediate response we get from the Pearspark team when we would like new features or we have new ideas about how to serve our teachers and families. … There is no other platform like it on the market. … It was so easy to start with Pearspark …

Jenny Clark, co-founder of Redeemer Classical, a hybrid classical school in Phoenix

Common questions

Can parents see the teacher's actual lesson plan, or only the assignments and grades that come out of it?
The actual plan. Where a class shares home-day plans, families open the lesson itself in the portal — its sections, its attachments and its checklist — not a summary written after the fact. You choose the level: nothing, titles only, home-day plans only, or all published plans. A head can set one answer for the whole school rather than leaving it class by class. Drafts and staff-only notes never reach families at any level.
Can we tell campus attendance apart from what happened on home days?
They are two different records, deliberately. Attendance is taken per class on the days that class meets, so a Tuesday at home is not a missing sheet — the "no attendance yet today" chase-list and the attendance-gap report both read each class's meeting days. Home days are recorded as completion instead: every checklist item is checked or flagged, per student, with the name of whoever checked it. A home-day check-off never posts to the attendance register.
Can a parent mark work complete without being given teacher access?
Yes. Parents work from the family portal, which shows their own children and nothing else — no gradebook, no other families, no staff screens. They tick items off, and can flag one with a note ("we hit a wall on fractions") that is waiting at the top of the teacher's Home Days dashboard on Monday. Items the teacher will score are labelled as such, so a family knows which work comes back to be graded.
Can one class hold both campus teaching and parent-led home instruction in a single gradebook?
Yes, and that is the default. Campus and home lessons sit in the same class, so there is one gradebook, one average, one report card and one transcript line, whichever day the work was done. A parent's check-off is not a grade and never becomes one — it records that the work happened. The teacher grades the work.
Do tuition and academics live under the same parent login?
Yes. One portal account carries the week's plans, each child's grades and attendance, invoices with card or bank autopay, messages with staff, forms, and the documents the school shares with families. Parents don't keep a second login for billing.
Can families see home-day plans without seeing our campus planning?
Yes — that exact case has its own visibility level. Set 'Families see' to home-day plans only and families get full plans, checklists, and attachments for home days while campus lessons stay completely private.
How do parents tell us something didn't work?
Each checklist task has a flag: the mother or father running the day adds a short note ('struggled with regrouping') and it lands on the teacher's Home Days dashboard, at the top, before Monday's class. No email chain required.
We call them 'Satellite Days.' Is the wording fixed?
No — the at-home day label is a school setting. Home Days, Satellite Days, Co-op Days: your vocabulary shows up everywhere, including the family portal and the weekly digest email.

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