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Pearspark for microschools

School management software for microschools

Thirty kids, three staff — and one of you is also the librarian, the bookkeeper, and the school nurse. You don't need more software. You need one place.
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A teacher on a leather couch reads a picture book aloud to children sitting on cushions and a rug in a living room lined with bookshelves.
The 3-minute tour: the whole school in one place. Real screens, no slides.

Sound familiar?

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

The answer is always in another tab

Guardians in a spreadsheet, allergies in a binder, grades in a second app, invoices in a third. When a parent calls, you're three systems away from a complete answer.

With Pearspark: One student page carries guardians, allergies, attendance, grades and invoices, so a parent's call is answered from the screen already open.

Founders do five jobs

The head of school is also the registrar, the nurse, and the accounts department. Tools built for a district office assume staff you don't have.

With Pearspark: All five jobs are one login: attendance in a tap, report cards that assemble themselves, billing that runs once a month, a library that scans.

Per-module pricing punishes small

The big student information system (SIS) vendors license attendance, billing, and the parent portal separately — at prices that assume 500 students are splitting the bill.

With Pearspark: Attendance, billing, the family portal and the library are inside one price — $50/month including your first 20 students, nothing licensed on top.

In short

Pearspark is school management software built for microschools: every student's guardians, health records, attendance, grades, and invoices on one page, a gradebook that becomes report cards and transcripts by itself, tuition billing families pay online, and a family portal that answers questions before they're asked — all at one price with no per-module fees.

The whole child on one page

Start with a student: one page carries guardians and the billing contact, allergies and medications, attendance, classes and grades, and report cards. Severe allergies badge the student for every adult who views them — the three-ring binder in the office, retired.

More on health & safety

Attendance in the time it takes to say good morning

A tap per kid — Present, Absent, Late, Excused — and it feeds everything downstream: the student page, the family portal, the transcript.

More on attendance & scheduling

A gradebook that does the math

A grid that autosaves as you type, categories and weights if you want them, drop-the-lowest if you're merciful. At term end, report cards assemble themselves from what's already there, and transcripts print with GPA the day a receiving school asks.

More on gradebook, report cards & transcripts

Tuition without the spreadsheet

Put each family on a plan, click Run billing once a month, and read four tiles: billed, collected, outstanding, overdue. Connect Stripe and families pay online, straight to the school's account. Overdue reminders send themselves.

More on tuition & billing

A real library, not a bookshelf

Barcode labels you print yourself, a scan station for checkout, due dates, and a history of who has what. The classroom bookshelf becomes a library in an afternoon.

More on library & resources

Families see it all — without asking you

The portal answers questions before they're asked: grades, attendance, what we're learning this week, library books due back, invoices they can pay online. Fewer Friday-afternoon emails; more Friday afternoon.

More on parent & student portal

June takes an afternoon, not a month

A four-step wizard rolls the whole school into the new year — classes carried, students promoted, seniors graduated. The setup work you did once keeps paying.

More on admissions & enrollment

Watch it work, 60 seconds a task

Real screen recordings of the tasks microschools run every day.
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Add a student and their guardianAdmins
Take attendance for a classTeachers
Enter grades in the gradebook gridTeachers
Run this month's billingAdmins
Check library books out and inAdmins
Pay a tuition invoice onlineFamilies

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 microschools.
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I love the interface. Very user friendly! This will make such a HUGE difference in how the school presents itself and the SIS system is absolutely beautiful!

Lauren Johnson, Family First Education Center, a microschool in Maryland

Common questions

We're 22 students. Is Pearspark overkill?
Pearspark is sized for exactly that: $50/month includes your first 20 students, then $2.50 per additional student, so a 22-student school pays $55. There's nothing to license per module and nothing you're paying for that only a district would use.
We run everything in spreadsheets today. How do we move?
Students, guardians, applicants, historical transcripts, and assignment-level gradebooks all import from CSV, with a dry-run preview so you check every row before anything is written.
Do we need separate tools for billing and the parent portal?
No. Tuition plans, monthly billing runs, Stripe online payments, and the family portal are all part of the same price — invoices show up in the portal where families already see grades and attendance.

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Every task is on video, one minute each, and there's no sales call. Then start yours at $50 a month including 20 students.

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