Built for classical Christian schools.
Admissions, tuition, grades, and family communication in one place, organized around the family.
Too many tools, and none of them talk to each other.
When family communication, tuition, and grades live in separate systems, each one keeps its own list of who belongs to which family.
The cost lands on the office. Every additional tool is another login and another list to keep current. When a family moves, someone updates the address three times. When a student changes sections, someone moves the parents to a different mailing list. When tuition comes in, someone checks it against the roster by hand.
ClassicalOS puts admissions, tuition, grades, and family communication in one system, with one record of each family behind all of it.
Today, a mailing list for every grade and division, maintained by hand.
Send to a grade, a division, or the whole school. The mailing lists are built in.
Write the field-trip notice once. Address it to the whole school, a division, a grade level, one course section, or a contact group the office maintains, and attach the permission slip. The recipients come from the roster, so when a student changes sections the parents move with them. If you’re writing on Sunday night, schedule it for Monday at 7:00.
It arrives in each family’s inbox as a plain email from the school. When a parent hits Reply on their phone, the reply comes back into ClassicalOS as a private conversation with the person who sent the message. The parent can reply from their own mail app or from inside ClassicalOS, whichever is closer to hand.
Teachers and parents carry on conversations about one student the same way. The school and the family both see every message and every reply in one place.
- Address by school, division, grade level, course section, or contact group
- Attachments, scheduled sends, drafts
- Parents reply from their own mail app and the reply comes back as a conversation with the sender
- Delivery status per recipient: sent, failed, bounced, or no email on file
Today, a tuition system with its own family list, kept in step with the roster by hand.
One bill for every child, paid in one place.
Tuition starts from the same roster as everything else. The school sets its tuition, fees, and payment plans once, and each family’s agreement for the year comes from those.
A family with three children gets one bill per due date, not three. Families pay online by card or bank account, or turn on autopay. Checks and cash are recorded against the same bill. When something changes mid-year, a withdrawal, a new fee, a moved due date, the bills follow.
Parents see their balance, their bills, and a Pay button on the same login they use for grades and messages.
The office’s view
The family’s view
- Enrollment agreements signed online before billing begins
- The school’s payment plans, or a custom schedule for one family
- One bill to pay, with every child on it
- Autopay by card or bank account; checks and cash recorded on the same bill
- Mid-year changes without starting over: a new fee, a moved due date, a withdrawal
- A parent can let a grandparent or another family member see and pay the bills
Today, assignments in one tool, attendance and grades in another.
Attendance, assignments, and grades together in one tool.
A teacher opens their class and everything for it is there: today’s attendance, the assignments, the gradebook, and the students in the room. Younger grades take attendance once a day and older grades take it every period, and the school decides which is which.
Teachers can grade over the weekend and hold the scores back until class on Monday. At the end of the grading period, they post grades, and the school chooses the day report cards go out to families.
Report cards and transcripts are built from those grades, in the same place they were entered.
- Attendance once a day or every period, chosen by the school for each division
- Attendance, assignments, gradebook, and class list together for every class
- Teachers post grades; the school picks the day report cards go out
- Hold an assignment or its scores back from students until you’re ready
- Report cards and transcripts built from the grades teachers already entered
And the rest of the year.
The three things above are where a school’s week goes. The rest is here too, built the same way.
- Admissions
- Applications with a checklist the school defines; a new family’s household is created at the first inquiry.
- Enrollment
- Record each family’s intent for next year, work the chase list of families who haven’t answered, graduate the senior class.
- Report cards & transcripts
- Release report cards by division and grading period; finalize each graduate’s transcript from posted grades.
- Reports
- Attendance and attendance corrections; billing overview, A/R aging, upcoming invoices, and contract fulfillment.
- Getting started
- Import students and staff from a spreadsheet; set up the year, calendar, class schedules, divisions and grade levels, grade scales, courses, and tuition.
- Parents and students
- Families see their children’s attendance, report cards, classes, and billing under one login. Students see their classes and gradebook.
See it with a school like yours.
A walkthrough takes forty-five minutes. Bring your real questions: the grandparent who pays tuition, the sibling discount, the parent who never reads the newsletter.