The SchoolDeck parent app shows one screen per child: attendance, what is due and what was paid, marks as the school publishes them, homework, and messages from the school. It carries no advertising, sells no data, and does not require a parent to pay for anything to see their child’s record.
It shows what the school chooses to publish. A school that has not released results will not show them here either.
Most school parent apps are uninstalled within a term. The reasons are consistent: they ask for a login the parent loses, they show a menu of eleven modules instead of an answer, they send notifications that are not about that parent’s child, and a surprising number try to sell something.
A parent opens a school app to answer one of about four questions. Was my child marked present. What do I owe. What did they score. What did the school just message me about. Everything else is the school’s convenience, not theirs.
The first screen is not a menu. It is the answers, for the child the parent most recently looked at, with siblings a tap away.
These are commitments rather than current settings, which means we do not get to change them when it becomes commercially convenient.
A parent who turns off notifications is a parent the school can no longer reach in an emergency, so the bar for sending one is high. Notifications are about this child specifically — an absence, a fee falling due, a result published, a message addressed to them.
General school announcements go to a section of the app the parent can read when they choose. The distinction is what keeps the notification channel worth having.
Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.
No. The school is the customer and the app is included. A parent is never asked to pay us for access to their own child’s record, and there is no premium tier for parents.
Yes, each with their own login on their own number, and separated guardians can be given access independently. Siblings across different classes appear on one login.
Everything that matters also goes by SMS or WhatsApp from the school’s own number, and receipts and report cards can be printed at the office. The app is a convenience, not the only channel.
It sees delivery and read status for messages it sent, which is what schools need before saying a parent was informed. It does not see what else the parent does in the app.
Checked by the Implementations desk on 7 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.
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