Pearspark for Montessori schools
Mastery records, not letter grades
Your guides track presentations and mastery; your software assumes A-through-F and percentages. Pearspark speaks both languages — and runs the office besides.
The 4-minute tour: mastery records, not letter grades — real screens, no slides.
Sound familiar?
What Montessori schools live with today — and the part of Pearspark that answers each one.
The Montessori stack is three tools taped together
A record-keeping app for the classroom, a billing tool for tuition, spreadsheets for everything else. The classroom app stops at the classroom door — no admissions, no invoices, no transcripts.
With Pearspark: The classroom record and the office are one system: mastery, admissions, per-family billing and the lending library at a single price.
School software fights the pedagogy
Most systems assume letter grades, percentages, and one grade level per classroom. Your school runs on mastery and mixed ages, so every screen needs a workaround.
With Pearspark: Classes carry no grade level at all, and a standards scale has no letters, no percentages and no GPA — the bands are the ones your albums use.
The transfer-out scramble
A family moves and the receiving school asks for a transcript and attendance record — artifacts a mastery-based school never kept in a printable form.
With Pearspark: A records packet prints in minutes: mastery as ratings, attendance, health records, and any traditionally graded courses with their credits.
In short
Pearspark gives a Montessori school one system for the classroom record and the office: multi-age classes with no grade levels required, your own scope and sequence imported as standards grouped by curriculum area, mastery tracked on bands you name — Presented, Practicing, Mastered — report cards and a family portal that speak in ratings rather than letter grades, and the admissions pipeline, tuition billing, lending library, and transfer-ready transcripts that Montessori record-keeping apps leave out — all at one flat price.
Multi-age classrooms, no grade levels required
A class in Pearspark is just a group of students — there's no grade field to fight. Enroll your 6–9 classroom as one class, leave each child's grade level blank or use your own program names, and every downstream record follows suit.
Your scope and sequence becomes the record
Import your curriculum as standards from a spreadsheet — Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics, Cultural — each grouped by curriculum area. From then on, lessons and student work are tagged against your sequence, not a state checklist.
More on standards-based grading & masteryPresented, Practicing, Mastered
Grade scales are school-defined, and a standards scale carries no GPA and no percentages — name the bands whatever your albums say. The mastery matrix shows every child against every standard, so a guide sees at a glance who's ready for the next presentation.
More on standards-based grading & masteryReport cards in your language
Post term mastery and report cards assemble as ratings grouped by curriculum area — no letter grades, no class averages. The conduct section is yours to name too: call it Grace & Courtesy and define the levels yourself.
More on gradebook, report cards & transcriptsLessons tied to materials and books
The planner tags each lesson with the standards it presents and the books it uses, so the record of what was presented builds itself as you plan. Families can see mastery progress in the portal — ratings, not percentages.
More on lesson plannerThe office your classroom app doesn't run
An admissions pipeline with interviews and a public application form, per-family tuition billing with online payment, health records with immunization tracking, and a barcoded lending library for the classroom collection — the same flat price covers all of it.
More on tuition & billingTransfers to traditional schools, handled
When a child moves on, a records packet — transcript, attendance, health records — prints as one bundle. Mastery-based classes appear as their ratings; any traditionally-graded courses carry their credits.
More on records, roles & complianceOnly the parts you use
Pearspark's modules are switchable per school: skip the period-by-period schedule that a three-hour work cycle doesn't need, and the app simply stops asking. Turn anything back on later — nothing is ever deleted.
Watch it work — 60 seconds a task
All how-to videosReal screen recordings of a real school — the tasks Montessori 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 Montessori schools.
Pearspark vs Transparent Classroom
Montessori record-keeping — lesson tracking, observations, and a parent window into the classroom.
Read the comparisonPearspark vs TeacherEase
A standards-based learning platform and gradebook priced per teacher.
Read the comparisonPearspark vs spreadsheets
Google Sheets + Forms + a shared drive + group texts — how most micro schools actually start.
Read the comparisonCommon questions
We don't give letter grades. Does the gradebook force them?
No. Each class picks its grade scale, and a standards scale has no letters, GPA, or percentages — just the mastery bands you define, like Presented / Practicing / Mastered. Report cards and the family portal show those ratings, grouped by curriculum area.
Our classrooms are multi-age (3–6, 6–9, 9–12). Do we have to assign grade levels?
No. Classes have no grade level at all, and a student's grade level is optional free text — leave it blank or use your program names. Rosters, attendance, and reporting all work either way.
What do we hand a family transferring to a traditional school?
A records packet: transcript, attendance summary, and health records in one printable bundle, in minutes. Standards-based classes list their posted mastery ratings; past academic history can be imported from CSV so nothing is missing.
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.