Power School
The Power School Parent Portal is a unique web-based tool that allows you to securely view your child's grades and attendance, register to receive e-mail or text notifications when your child is absent or when his or her grades drop below a point you specify, and to communicate directly with your child's teachers.
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What do I need to sign-up?
You will need your child's access number as well as your unique password prior to creating an account. Please contact your child's school to learn how to obtain your access information.
Upate your Contact Information
Attention parents: Please call your child's school to give them your current contact numbers. Updating your contact information in the Power School Parent Portal will NOT automatically update school records on emergency information.
What does Parent Portal include?
Here are a just a few features of Parent Portal:
- Assignments: View your child’s upcoming assignments as well as past assignments, including due dates and grades received.
- Triggers: Create a customized ‘alert event’ that will prompt an email or text message notification for attendance or grade activities. Note: Prior to configuring a cell phone text alert, please confirm your text message plan with your provider as standard rates will apply.
- Manage multiple students: You only need one account to manage multiple students, regardless of the school. This feature allows you to add additional students to your account.
- My settings: Manage your account, including updating passwords and email addresses.
- Grades: View a summary of student averages from each report card period for all classes. Additionally, this screen serves as the point of entry for teacher-parent dialogue through email communication.
- Attendance: View a list of all non-present attendance events, such as absences and tardy codes, recorded during the school year.
- Calendar: View non-present attendance events by date as well as a high-level description of any campus or District events entered by the school administrator.
- The amount and frequency of information entered into Power School may vary from school to school and teacher to teacher. Talk to your child’s school about their grading policies for more information.
- The Parent Portal is not meant for school announcements. Please visit your school’s main Web site for upcoming events.
- If you do not have a home computer, please check with your child’s school to see if they have a designated computer. Alternatively, you can use your valid Dorchester County Public Library card at any branch to access the Parent Portal. You are also encourage to use your smart devices to access Power School.
Resources:
2016-17 Middle School Program of Study
2016-17 High School Program of Study
2016-17 Middle School Program of Study
2016-17 High School Program of Study