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PowerSchool

PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based K-12 student information system (SIS) software in North America, serving over 5,300 districts and 17 million students across 56 states and provinces. The PowerSchool REST API enables third-party developers and district integrators to access and manipulate student records, grades, attendance, enrollment, scheduling, and district-level reporting data programmatically. Authentication is handled via OAuth 2.0 client credentials, with client IDs and secrets provisioned through the PowerSchool Plugin Management Dashboard. PowerSchool supports 75+ certified third-party integrations and custom API partnerships aligned with Ed-Fi Alliance and 1EdTech interoperability standards.

PowerSchool publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Courses API, District API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include K-12, Education, Student Information System, SIS, and Students.

The PowerSchool catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

PowerSchool’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 17 more developer resources.

43.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
1 APIs
K-12EducationStudent Information SystemSISStudentsGradesAttendanceEnrollmentSchedulingEdTech

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

PowerSchool Authentication API

OAuth 2.0 token operations

PowerSchool Courses API

Course catalog information

PowerSchool District API

District-level resources

PowerSchool Metadata API

System metadata and configuration

PowerSchool PowerQuery API

Named PowerQuery endpoints for complex data retrieval

PowerSchool Schools API

School information and management

PowerSchool Sections API

Course sections and scheduling

PowerSchool Students API

Student demographics, enrollment, and records

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Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

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GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

PowerSchool GraphQL API

PowerSchool provides K-12 student information systems. The API covers students, enrollments, courses, grades, attendance records, assignments, teachers, sections, parents, and d...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Powerschool Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Powerschool Context

0 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

PowerSchool API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

PowerSchool School

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PowerSchool Section

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PowerSchool Student

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Powerschool Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Powerschool Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Powerschool Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Powerschool Agentic Access

15 operations · 2 acting

15 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: powerschool
name: PowerSchool
description: PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based K-12 student information system (SIS) software in North America,
  serving over 5,300 districts and 17 million students across 56 states and provinces. The PowerSchool REST API enables third-party
  developers and district integrators to access and manipulate student records, grades, attendance, enrollment, scheduling,
  and district-level reporting data programmatically. Authentication is handled via OAuth 2.0 client credentials, with client
  IDs and secrets provisioned through the PowerSchool Plugin Management Dashboard. PowerSchool supports 75+ certified third-party
  integrations and custom API partnerships aligned with Ed-Fi Alliance and 1EdTech interoperability standards.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/powerschool.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/powerschool/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-13
modified: 2026-06-13
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- K-12
- Education
- Student Information System
- SIS
- Students
- Grades
- Attendance
- Enrollment
- Scheduling
- EdTech
apis:
- aid: powerschool:powerschool-authentication-api
  name: PowerSchool Authentication API
  description: OAuth 2.0 token operations
  humanURL: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  baseURL: https://{district}.powerschool.com
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/powerschool-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/powerschool-graphql.md
- aid: powerschool:powerschool-courses-api
  name: PowerSchool Courses API
  description: Course catalog information
  humanURL: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  baseURL: https://{district}.powerschool.com
  tags:
  - Courses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/powerschool-courses-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/powerschool-graphql.md
- aid: powerschool:powerschool-district-api
  name: PowerSchool District API
  description: District-level resources
  humanURL: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  baseURL: https://{district}.powerschool.com
  tags:
  - District
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/powerschool-district-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/powerschool-graphql.md
- aid: powerschool:powerschool-metadata-api
  name: PowerSchool Metadata API
  description: System metadata and configuration
  humanURL: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  baseURL: https://{district}.powerschool.com
  tags:
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/powerschool-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/powerschool-graphql.md
- aid: powerschool:powerschool-powerquery-api
  name: PowerSchool PowerQuery API
  description: Named PowerQuery endpoints for complex data retrieval
  humanURL: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  baseURL: https://{district}.powerschool.com
  tags:
  - PowerQuery
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/powerschool-powerquery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/powerschool-graphql.md
- aid: powerschool:powerschool-schools-api
  name: PowerSchool Schools API
  description: School information and management
  humanURL: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  baseURL: https://{district}.powerschool.com
  tags:
  - Schools
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/powerschool-schools-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/powerschool-graphql.md
- aid: powerschool:powerschool-sections-api
  name: PowerSchool Sections API
  description: Course sections and scheduling
  humanURL: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  baseURL: https://{district}.powerschool.com
  tags:
  - Sections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/powerschool-sections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/powerschool-graphql.md
- aid: powerschool:powerschool-students-api
  name: PowerSchool Students API
  description: Student demographics, enrollment, and records
  humanURL: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  baseURL: https://{district}.powerschool.com
  tags:
  - Students
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/powerschool-students-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/powerschool-graphql.md
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/powerschool-capability-edges.yml
  name: PowerSchool Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/powerschool-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/powerschool-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/powerschool-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/powerschool-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.powerschool.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.powerschool.com/developer/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/powerschool
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/powerschool-group-llc/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.powerschool.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.powerschool.com/contact/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.powerschool.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/mypowerschool
- type: Plans
  url: plans/powerschool-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/powerschool-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/powerschool-finops.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/powerschool-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/powerschool-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/powerschool-student.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/powerschool-school.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/powerschool-section.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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