Pearspark for classical schools
Records as rigorous as the curriculum
Your school teaches Latin, logic, and rhetoric to a standard families chose you for. The record of that work should be held to the same standard.
The 3-minute tour: records as rigorous as the curriculum — real screens, no slides.
Sound familiar?
What classical schools live with today — and the part of Pearspark that answers each one.
Admissions lives in one person's head
Applications in email, interview notes on paper, and only the admissions director knows who's waiting on what.
With Pearspark: Every applicant sits on a checkpoint board, interviews dated and assigned, so anyone can see who is waiting on whom.
The transcript is the product — built by hand
Families chose you for the academic record, and it's assembled each spring from grade sheets and memory.
With Pearspark: Post term grades once and the transcript builds itself — every year, every course, credits and GPA, ready the day a college asks.
Transfers take two weeks
A receiving school asks for records and someone spends an afternoon at the copier assembling transcript, attendance, and health forms.
With Pearspark: One click prints the packet a receiving school expects — transcript, attendance, health records — in about ten minutes.
In short
Pearspark keeps a classical school's whole paper trail in one system: an admissions pipeline with checkpoints and named interviewers, a public application form for your website, real grade scales behind every mark, posted term grades that become report cards and GPA transcripts, records packets that print in minutes for transfers, and CSV import for years of existing academic history.
Admissions is a pipeline, not a pile
Every applicant family moves down a checkpoint board — applied, recommendation letter, interview scheduled, interview done, accepted, letter mailed, registration paid. You see at a glance exactly who is waiting on you. Interviews get a date and named interviewers, and each interviewer sees theirs coming up on their own dashboard.
More on admissions & enrollmentThe application form is your website's
The application is a public link you put on your school's site — your questions, sibling applications in one submission — and every family lands on the board automatically. When they're accepted, one click turns the applicant into an enrolled student.
More on admissions & enrollmentThe academic spine
Years, grading terms, and real grade scales sit under every record. When someone asks what an A− meant in 2026, it's written down.
A gradebook with a spine
The gradebook is a grid that autosaves, with categories and weights per class. At quarter's end, post term grades: review each student's mark, adjust where your judgment says so, and it's on the record. Report cards assemble from grades already in the book — print one student's or the whole class in one job.
More on gradebook, report cards & transcriptsThe transcript is the product
Every year, every course — Latin included — credits earned, accumulating automatically, ready the day a college or receiving school asks. GPA computes with two credit modes, and graduation dates appear on their own.
More on gradebook, report cards & transcriptsTransfers, gracefully
When a family moves on, a records packet — transcript, attendance, health records — prints as one bundle for the receiving school. Ten minutes, not two weeks.
More on records, roles & complianceChapel, Bible, and the calendar you actually keep
Most classical schools are Christian schools, and nothing here assumes otherwise. Bible, theology and doctrine are courses like any other — on the weekly schedule, on the report card, on the transcript with credits beside Latin. Chapel sits on the schedule too. Holy days and the days you close for them are entered once as school calendar days, and the planner, the rotation and attendance all follow that one entry. The conduct section of the report card is yours to name and to define — Virtue, Character, whatever your handbook calls it — and the behavior ladder follows your handbook rather than a built-in one. Report cards and transcripts carry your school's own name and logo.
History comes with you
Already have years of paper records? Past academic history imports from a spreadsheet, so transcripts are complete from day one — not from the day you switched. And parents see grades, report cards, and attendance in the portal, so the hard conversations happen early, with the numbers already on the table.
More on records, roles & complianceWatch it work — 60 seconds a task
All how-to videosReal screen recordings of a real school — the tasks classical schools run every day.
Weighing it against something else?
All comparisonsIf one of these is on your list too, the comparison is an honest one: every claim is sourced, pricing was last checked in July 2026, and each page says plainly when the other system is the better choice. Or start from the ranked view: the best systems for classical schools.
Pearspark vs FACTS
The enterprise suite for private K-12 — SIS, tuition management, and financial aid under one roof.
Read the comparisonPearspark vs Gradelink
A well-established student information system popular with private and faith-based schools.
Read the comparisonPearspark vs Sycamore
An all-in-one K-12 SIS priced per student, popular with independent schools.
Read the comparisonCommon questions
Can transcripts include our full course catalog — Latin, logic, rhetoric?
Yes. Courses are whatever you teach; transcripts list every year and course with credits and GPA, and print cleanly to PDF from the browser.
We grade on our own scale. Can Pearspark match it?
Grade scales are school-defined and versioned by year, so every posted mark is backed by the scale that was in force. Standards-based grading is also built in if lower-school skills reporting uses E/S/N or a 1–4 scale.
We're a classical Christian school. Does anything have to be worked around?
Not that we have found, and it is worth saying plainly, because most classical schools are Christian schools. Bible and theology are courses like any other — scheduled, graded, credited, printed on the transcript. Chapel days and holy days are calendar entries the planner and the rotation respect, entered once. The conduct or character section of the report card carries your name for it and your own definitions of each level, and the discipline ladder is the one in your handbook. What Pearspark does not do is the church side of a church school: no giving or tithing records, no parish membership, no fundraising or donor CRM.
Can we import a decade of existing transcripts?
Historical academic records import from CSV with a dry-run preview — years, courses, grades, and credits — so transcripts are complete from day one on Pearspark.
See it with your own eyes
Every task is on video — one minute each, no sales call. Then start yours at $50/month including 20 students.