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 API contracts indexed 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.

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AccessEnterprise

1 published contract

K-12 Education Student Information System SIS Students Grades Attendance Enrollment Scheduling EdTech

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Student Enrolment & Records Management

BC-4720

Students

GET /ws/v1/district/student GET /ws/v1/district/student/{studentDcid}

Curriculum & Programme Management

BC-4700

Courses

GET /ws/v1/school/{schoolDcid}/course

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 33.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 15

Access Clarity 2.4 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 2.1 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 15.8 — up to +16.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 56.7 — up to +10.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Education and Edtech	builds-on	43.4	-	-
TX-RAMP Certified Cloud Products (Texas DIR)	builds-on	43.4	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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 8

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

PowerSchool SIS REST Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

PowerSchool SIS REST Authentication Courses API

OPEN COLLECTION

PowerSchool SIS REST Authentication District API

OPEN COLLECTION

PowerSchool SIS REST Authentication Metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

PowerSchool SIS REST Authentication PowerQuery API

OPEN COLLECTION

PowerSchool SIS REST Authentication Schools API

OPEN COLLECTION

PowerSchool SIS REST Authentication Sections API

OPEN COLLECTION

PowerSchool SIS REST Authentication Students API

OPEN COLLECTION

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PowerSchool API pricing

Not yet checked against PowerSchool's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
District License (Small) enterprise	—
District License (Mid-Size) enterprise	—
District License (Large / State) enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Powerschool Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Powerschool Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

PowerSchool

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Powerschool Finops

FINOPS

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 — jsonschema 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.

Powerschool Get Schools Response

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Powerschool Get Students Response

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Powerschool Oauth Token Request

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Powerschool Powerquery Section Enrollments Request

5 fields

EXAMPLE

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

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

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: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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/
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
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

PowerSchool API — frequently asked questions

Does PowerSchool have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from PowerSchool, including PowerSchool Authentication API, PowerSchool Courses API and PowerSchool District API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the PowerSchool API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for PowerSchool, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the PowerSchool API?

PowerSchool uses bearer-token authentication (http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Powerschool Authentication.

How much does the PowerSchool API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for PowerSchool, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the PowerSchool API ready for AI agents?

PowerSchool has a Kin Score of 33.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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