ParentSquare

4.6
40.7K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

What is ParentSquare?
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ParentSquare is a safe and secure platform for all school-to-home communication. The two-way group messaging, private conversations, district-wide alerts and notices, and simple user interface keeps everyone connected, creating a vibrant school community.

In today's ed-tech world, schools need a better communication system than relying on hard-to-track emails, lost flyers, missed robocalls, website updates that are never read, or piggybacking on SIS or LMS tools meant for student communication. ParentSquare brings the power of ed-tech revolution to the parents. It reverses the trend for disparate, one-way communication that keeps parents as 'spectators' to their child's education.

Understanding the need for a whole-school adoption, we strive to keep an easy to use interface for ParentSquare, much like the social tools you are used to in today's online digital world. ParentSquare caters to every parent, including those who rarely use technology.

ParentSquare for Android
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With ParentSquare for Android, parents can easily connect with teachers and staff at their children’s school from their Android device. The app allows parents to:

- View posts, appreciate and comment
- Sign up for wish list items, volunteer, and RSVP and view your sign ups
- Check dates for upcoming school and class events and add them to your device calendar
- Send private messages (with attachments) to staff members (or other ParentSquare users*) in your school
- Participate in group conversations
- View posted pictures and files
- View the directory of your child’s school*
- View notices (attendance, cafeteria, library dues)
- Respond to absences or tardies*
- Purchase for goods and services offered for sale by the school

* If allowed by your school's implementation
Updated on
Nov 25, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Messages and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
40.1K reviews
Drew N
November 8, 2024
Never works for media. I can't believe how much trouble this app has given me. I love to post videos and pictures throughout the week to show my students' parents and it always says unable to attach media. I emailed the company and reached out for support, it took them about 3 weeks to finally have their programmers " fix" what was wrong but it still didn't work. If you use it on your desktop, it seems to work better. Seesaw and ClassDojo were so much more functional as far as sharing media.
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Tracey Keitt
October 4, 2024
Overall a solid app but a bit glitchy at times and won't allow me to click into certain sections/tabs. Usually closing and reopening fixes this. The big issue is that PS doesn't allowing parents to CC each other on messages. For example, if a teacher messages my spouse and me, those messages are sent separately and we can't see each others responses. Additionally I can't even add non-teachers (just classroom parents) to messages I send. This makes communicating on parents square ineffective.
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Tiffany Westerly
September 26, 2024
Very cluttered interface, not at all intuitive. Needs major UX improvements. Our district is rolling this out, starting with the communication section. The communication feed is a mess. It's a wall of repetitive text. The graphic design/visual aspect is so cluttered and overwhelming. Zero attempt at visual hierarchy. Get rid of the heart/comment stuff if disabled, use logo vs text - didn't clutter screen. Update 9-26: 6 months later and zero improvements.
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ParentSquare
March 2, 2024
Hello, Tiffany. Feedback from our users is important to us, so thank you for taking the time to submit a review. UX improvements take time, so although you may not see huge changes in the very near future, please know that we hear you loud and clear, and we are on it.

What's new

Bug fixes.