The School Office program is the easy way to manage the details of your parish schools. Keep track of the related family, student, teacher, and class details. Print letters, report cards, and statements with ease.

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Key Features and Benefits

• Track student enrollment history, schedule, grades, attendance, activities, discipline, bus information, health, vision, and permanent record.


• Track teachers' professional background, teaching experience, and credentials with detailed teacher screens.


• Ensure that  all proper background checks have been performed including having fingerprints on file or federal background check.


• Enter and manage large amounts of data such as student, family, financial, and school processes.


• Streamline the process of compiling and submitting your information for The Official Catholic Directory™ (with which PDS has no affiliation) with the PDS Catholic Directory feature.


• Produce a wide variety of reports including personalized letters, certificates, financial statements, demographics, and billing statements. You can even create your own reports.


• Archive information and get inactive records out of your way


• Flag Special Information by clicking on the "Red Flag" icon to display Special Circumstances for a student or Catechist that has critical information that everyone needs access to.


• Recognize expired immunizations with the field for Expiration Date. Those that are past the immunization date appear in red.


• Track your hot lunch program by using our School Office interface for PocketLunch. PocketLunch tracks your hot lunch program, and our easy interface pulls totals into School Office to include on your statements and financial analysis reports.


• Sort student reports (that don't already sort in a special order) in home room number order.


• Choose from a variety of Attendance Types such as "ED - Early Dismissal (Excused)", "MM - Morning Medical Absence (Excused)" and "AA - Afternoon Medical Absence (Excused)."  You can, also, to enter total attendance if you do not wish to enter attendance detail.


• Save time entering information at the beginning of every year. With Quick Posting Class Schedules, you can add the subjects in the schedule onto the student's grade screen.


•  With a variety of C/O salutations, you can address mail to either the oldest student in the family or the youngest. You can also print their grade level.


• Share data with the Church Office™ and Formation Office™ programs. This can add families and members to the other programs without retyping them.


• Import term averages from Chalksite™.