PowerSchool Students API
Student demographics, enrollment, and records
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: PowerSchool SIS REST Students API
description: The PowerSchool SIS REST API provides programmatic access to student information system data including student demographics, enrollment records, grades, attendance, master scheduling, and district reporting.
version: 1.0.0
contact:
name: PowerSchool Developer Support
url: https://help.powerschool.com/
termsOfService: https://www.powerschool.com/legal/
servers:
- url: https://{district}.powerschool.com
description: District PowerSchool instance
variables:
district:
description: The subdomain of the school district's PowerSchool installation
default: demo
security:
- BearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Students
description: Student demographics, enrollment, and records
paths:
/ws/v1/district/student:
get:
operationId: getStudentsInDistrict
summary: List all students in district
description: Returns all students enrolled in the current district. Supports pagination via pagesize and page query parameters, and filtering via the q parameter (e.g., q=id=ge=10000).
tags:
- Students
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/PageSize'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Page'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Query'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Projection'
responses:
'200':
description: List of students
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/StudentsResponse'
'401':
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
/ws/v1/district/student/count:
get:
operationId: getStudentsInDistrictCount
summary: Count students in district
description: Returns the total count of students enrolled in the current district.
tags:
- Students
responses:
'200':
description: Count of students
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ResourceCount'
'401':
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
/ws/v1/district/student/{studentDcid}:
get:
operationId: getStudent
summary: Get a specific student
description: Returns a single student record by their DCID (district-level unique identifier).
tags:
- Students
parameters:
- name: studentDcid
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: integer
description: The student's DCID (not student ID or student number)
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Projection'
responses:
'200':
description: Student record
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/StudentResponse'
'401':
description: Unauthorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
'404':
description: Student not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
schemas:
Name:
type: object
description: A person's name parts
properties:
first_name:
type: string
description: Given name
middle_name:
type: string
description: Middle name
last_name:
type: string
description: Surname / family name
Student:
type: object
description: A student record with demographics and contact information
required:
- id
properties:
id:
type: integer
description: Student DCID (district-level unique identifier)
local_id:
type: integer
description: Student number (local identifier within district)
student_username:
type: string
description: Student's portal username
name:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Name'
demographics:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Demographics'
addresses:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Addresses'
phones:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Phones'
Error:
type: object
description: API error response
properties:
message:
type: string
description: Human-readable error description
error:
type: string
description: Error code or type
status:
type: integer
description: HTTP status code
Address:
type: object
description: A mailing or physical address
properties:
city:
type: string
description: City name
postal_code:
type: integer
description: ZIP or postal code
state_province:
type: string
description: State or province abbreviation
street:
type: string
description: Street address line
Addresses:
type: object
description: Collection of address types for a person or school
properties:
home:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Address'
mailing:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Address'
physical:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Address'
PhoneNumber:
type: object
properties:
number:
type: string
description: Phone number string
StudentResponse:
type: object
description: Single student record response
properties:
student:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Student'
Phones:
type: object
description: Phone numbers for a person or school
properties:
fax:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PhoneNumber'
home_phone:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PhoneNumber'
main:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PhoneNumber'
ResourceCount:
type: object
description: Count of a resource collection
properties:
resource:
type: object
properties:
count:
type: integer
description: Total number of records in the resource collection
Demographics:
type: object
description: Demographic information for a student
properties:
birth_date:
type: string
format: date
description: Student's date of birth (YYYY-MM-DD)
district_entry_date:
type: string
format: date
description: Date the student entered the district
gender:
type: string
description: Gender identifier as defined by the school/district
projected_graduation_year:
type: integer
description: Projected graduation year
StudentsResponse:
type: object
description: Paginated list of student records
properties:
students:
type: object
properties:
student:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/Student'
- type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Student'
description: Single student object or array of student objects depending on result count
parameters:
Page:
name: page
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
default: 1
description: Page number for paginated results (1-indexed).
Query:
name: q
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
description: 'Filter expression using FIQL-like syntax. Example: id=ge=10000 to filter records with id >= 10000.'
example: id=ge=10000
PageSize:
name: pagesize
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
maximum: 1000
default: 100
description: Number of records to return per page.
Projection:
name: projection
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
description: Comma-separated list of fields to include in the response. Omit to return all fields.
example: id,name,school_number
securitySchemes:
BearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: Bearer token obtained from /oauth/access_token/ using client credentials. Tokens expire and must be refreshed.
BasicAuth:
type: http
scheme: basic
description: Basic auth with Base64-encoded client_id:client_secret for the token endpoint only.