Pearspark vs TeacherEase
For small private schools & micro schools · pricing verified July 2026 · written by the Pearspark team (how we compare)
The short answer
TeacherEase prices per teacher (about $175.67/teacher/year for 5–19 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, portal.
Pricing: $50/mo including 20 students, then $2.50/student/mo stepping down to $1.00 at volume. No setup fees, no contract, 30-day free trial.
Setup is self-serve, with importers that preview every row before anything is written — no setup fees, and free email support 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 5–19 teachers (the 1–4 teacher band isn't published); 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 (as of July 2026).
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, no contract. 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 July 2026 — see sources 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. On texting: Pearspark reaches families as push notifications through the installable parent app, plus email — not SMS. 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 roughly $35/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 flat 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 — from a dozen students to several hundred: micro schools, classical schools, Montessori programs, hybrid academies, and homeschool co-ops. Everything is included at one published price: student records, a spreadsheet-style gradebook with built-in 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/student portal. Setup is self-serve, and 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 5–19 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 flat 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.
See Pearspark for yourself
Every task is on video — one minute each — and your first 30 days are free. No sales call.
Support: email support answered by a person is included with every plan, along with how-to videos and guides — there are no paid support tiers.
Sources
- TeacherEase pricing
- Capterra: TeacherEase
- TeacherEase Online Registration guide
- Reports in SchoolInsight (official PDF)
Last reviewed July 2026. Spotted something out of date? Email us and we'll fix it.
TeacherEase in a wider comparison
These guides price TeacherEase alongside every other system in this list, at 25, 50 and 100 students.