PowerSchool API
PowerSchool SIS has a real REST API with OAuth 2.0 client credentials, but credentials exist only after each district installs and approves your plugin.xml. Docs sit behind a PowerSource login, and acquired products (Schoology, Naviance, eSchoolPlus) each carry separate APIs and auth.
Frequently asked questions
PowerSchool scores F on the API Report Card. PowerSchool SIS has a real REST API with OAuth 2.0 client credentials, but credentials exist only after each district installs and approves your plugin.xml. Docs sit behind a PowerSource login, and acquired products (Schoology, Naviance, eSchoolPlus) each carry separate APIs and auth.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
PowerSchool is the largest education-technology vendor focused on K-12, providing an integrated 'connected operating system' that spans student information systems (PowerSchool SIS, eSchoolPlus), learning management (Schoology Learning), assessment (Performance Matters), college-and-career readiness (Naviance), special programs / IEP (Special Programs), enrollment (PowerSchool Enrollment, formerly InfoSnap), unified classroom, talent / HR (PowerSchool HR, formerly TalentEd), finance and ERP (PowerSchool ERP, formerly BusinessPLUS), analytics (Connect, Analytics), communications (SchoolMessenger), and predictive enrollment.
Vertical: K-12 Education (Student Information System, LMS, ERP, special programs, talent, enrollment, analytics). Daily attendance, period attendance, tardies, and ADA reporting to state departments of education. Gradebook, grade entry, report cards, transcripts, GPA, class rank, and graduation requirement tracking.
10/10 within U.S. K-12. PowerSchool SIS is the default SIS for U.S. public K-12 - frequently cited as serving the majority of the largest U.S. districts and roughly half of all U.S. K-12 students.
Yes - PowerSchool is the canonical system of record for an extraordinarily sensitive data set: minors' PII (full name, DOB, SSN in many states, home address, parent/guardian PII, custody arrangements, ethnicity, free-and-reduced-lunch eligibility), academic records (grades, transcripts, GPA, attendance, discipline, IEP/504 plans, RTI tiers), health records (immunization, medications, allergies, health-office visits), state-reported data (CALPADS, PEIMS, EMIS, TEDS, CRDC), and in many districts integrated HR/payroll/finance via PowerSchool ERP and HR.
Founded 1997.
Every integration requires a per-district plugin.xml install + sysadmin approval - multi-tenant SaaS vendors must repeat the process for every customer. Developer docs sit behind a PowerSource login, requiring an existing district-side contact to even evaluate the API pre-sale. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Infinite Campus, Skyward Student Management Suite (Skyward), Synergy Education Platform (Edupoint), Tyler SIS / Tyler ERP for Schools, FACTS SIS (formerly RenWeb), Alma. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.