PowerSchool

PowerSchool was founded in 1997 and has grown into the dominant student information system (SIS) platform in K-12 education across the United States and Canada. From Folsom, California, the platform manages student enrollment, attendance tracking, grade reporting, scheduling, special education records, and family communication for tens of thousands of schools and districts. It is the administrative backbone of K-12 education for a significant portion of North American schools.

Parents, students, and teachers interact with PowerSchool daily through its parent and student portal, which surfaces grades, attendance records, assignment scores, and teacher comments. School administrators use it to manage district-wide data, generate state-required compliance reports, and handle enrollment workflows. The platform also powers school-to-family communication, including absence notifications and progress report delivery.

PowerSchool outages cascade across multiple stakeholders simultaneously: parents cannot check their child's grades, teachers cannot enter attendance or assignment scores, students cannot view their academic standing, and district administrators lose access to reporting dashboards. During report card season or state testing periods — when accurate grade and attendance data is most time-sensitive — even brief outages create downstream delays in record-keeping and compliance.

Outage.gg tracks PowerSchool service disruptions through community reports from parents, educators, and administrators. If the portal is down, grades are not updating, or attendance tracking is failing, check the live status page to confirm whether the issue is widespread and get notified when access is restored.