Rating
4.2
154 reviews
Starting price
$30,000
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5
Founded
1980
Employees
680
Funding
1.5M
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Skyward offers a K-12 student information system and enterprise resource planning software. It provides solutions for school districts and municipalities. The student information system manages administrative tasks, classroom tools, family engagement, and student services. The ERP handles human resources, fiscal management, payroll and timeclocks, employee portals, and asset management. Skyward aims to streamline workflows and provide a better experience for administrators, office staff, teachers, parents, and students. The software provides reporting, training, and support to help schools operate more efficiently.
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(154 reviews)
The Skyward Student Management Suite has been a major improvement over the past two SIS/BIS systems we have used with the ISD. Support has been excellent, it easily integrates with ClassLink and MFA, and the system has been extremely easy to maintain and upgrade.
Pros: The Skyward Student Management Suite is the best available SIS/BIS for K-12. The product is 100% web based, all Windows integrated software with IIS and MSSQL, is fast, efficient, and the best database table layout of any product we have every used. 10/10
Cons: The only real improvement I would like to see with the Skyward Student Management Suite would be the ability to easily identify and kill long and expensive reports that can slow down the system.
Ben S. · Infrastructure Architect · Education Management · April 27, 2026
Honestly, it's an outdated system with a terribly overcomplicated setup, and the worst setup ever. If I could, I'd stick with a better option.
Pros: Skyward is a fairly complex and comprehensive system with plenty of options for employees to use at work, and decent privacy systems.
Cons: We recently had to switch over to Skyward because the state required it. It's been an utter nightmare. We've had more problems with expense reimbursement and student and teacher management than we've ever had.
Kimberly L. · Teacher · Primary/Secondary Education · October 2, 2025
| Category | Page | Rank | Placement |
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| Student Information System | 1 | 9 | Shortlist |
Domain confidence 97%
CRAPPY. I've had this app for 5-6 years now and I've only ever been able to log into it 3 times. I hate that. It's really annoying
Pros: Can see the kids grades and that's about it. I don't like much else about the app. It's not user friendly
Cons: Customer support SUCKS. Can't log in half the time because the website/app forgets your password. Says you will get an email soon but never sends one. App is not user friendly. Every time I try to log in it forgets my password and I have to contact I.T. for a reset and even if I remember my password it will still not let me log in if I log out after that. Absolutely ridiculous.
Amanda W. · Sub · Education Management · September 6, 2025
Pros: Easy access to all of the student information such as schedule, contact info, test scores, records, etc.
Cons: It doesn’t really give a place to reach out to teachers directly. Or it’s not easy to find if it is an option.
Pam N. · Principal · Education Management · July 23, 2025
We only the use the Skyward's financial system. We use it for every financial aspect of running our District. Overall, the experience has been positive, we have become more efficient with timekeeping and time cards and Q has allowed other staff to record transactions which saves the business office from having to touch everything.
Pros: Initially, I started on the SMS version and loved it. It was so easy to use, had great reporting and provided me what I needed. I am now on Q and the District users like this . They find it easier to use compared to our old software.
Cons: I wish there were more useful reports and that the reports that are available, I wish they had the ability to limit the data or query it. I also wish that support was quicker with responses. The capital asset module is very disappointing. There could be so many useful reports added but it's like they started developing it and then just suddenly stopped and called it good.
Kara L. · Director of Business Services · Education Management · February 28, 2025
If your looking for a app that shows grades! THIS IS THE ONE YOU NEED! 10/10
Pros: I love how the layout of it is. It makes it easy and I love the app itself it tells my grades.
Cons: The Charts are a little confusing but other wise great
James b. · Student · Accounting · January 24, 2025
I spent five years as an elementary secretary. The trainings offered and skydoc are really useful.
Pros: The ease of reports and data mining creativity.
Cons: I honestly do not use much as I do special education mostly.
Holly E. · Special Education Administrative Assistant · Education Management · December 17, 2024
Pros: Able to manage all kids in one place. View grades, attendance records and transportation information
Cons: A lot of unused apps or functions that is confusing
Lindsey Raye P. · DI Captain, Substitute Teacher, Mom of Three · Education Management · February 15, 2024
Pros: This allows us to reach both the students and caregivers at once and have all of the information in one place. It also allows them to reach us or return a message quickly and easily.
Cons: If there is more than one student sometimes linked to one parent/guardian it doesn't always connect them easily.
Rachel P. · Administrative Assistant · Human Resources · January 5, 2024
Pros: I like the ease of functions Skyward offers. My current school uses a program called TAC and compared to Skyward, it's very difficult. Skyward made it very easy to find student information, input grades, and copy assignments. The attendance was also easy to input. I also like how different schools can change the layout of Skyward to suit their needs.
Cons: One thing I do not like about Skyward is the rostering system. Because it goes by period, if a school has A and B days, this causes Skyward to have multiple rosters for each class. This makes it difficult because it takes time to choose the correct roster for the date/period. It's not done with a glance in which I can just click on the period number. It takes much too long to decipher which roster to pick for that date/time attendance.
Alexis Z. · Teacher · Education Management · December 11, 2023
Pros: It has lots of features and ships with a mobile app and website. It also has a domain and total control of all data.
Cons: Horrible UI, bad graphics and design, slow and clunky, features that just don’t work, overpriced
Noel W. · IT Managment · Education Management · December 7, 2023
Horrible
Pros: Nothing at all do I like about Skyward.
Cons: Very difficult to use and a waste of time and energy
DaNae E. · None ya · Education Management · November 2, 2023
Pros: Many different areas to get to something looking for as in reports or registration.
Cons: Integration want a seamless as proffered but change takes time
Savannah A. · Helpdesk · E-Learning · August 21, 2023
It was a major hassle. I had to go to my moms house to use her old computer so that the website would function. Learn how to develop a mobile site or get out of the business.!!!
Pros: I don't like anything. I am tired of using a platform that requires me to get out an old computer to use it. Fix your mobile site to function.
Cons: Everything was a waste of my time as a parent. All workflows are not intuitive.
Aaron K. · parent · Education Management · August 14, 2023
Speaking strictly as a parent of a middle schooler, every time I log on to Skyward, I feel like I'm stepping back to the 1970s. The interface is completely unintuitive. The prompts confusing. The mobile app is even less forgiving than the online app, and the online app has me tied up in knots. Even the windows don't resize properly, fer heaven's sake. I honestly wonder if the product design is frozen at a pre-online point in time.
Pros: Nice to have everything in one place, but....
Cons: ... it's very difficult to use. Unnecessarily so.
Woody L. · Self · Computer Software · March 10, 2023
Muy buena
Pros: Es fácil de utilizar y orienta como operar el software
Cons: Contratar el servicio y lo poco accesible q se hace para un estudiante por recurso financiero escaso
Brenda G. · Medica · Alternative Medicine · January 18, 2023
Pros: I use this for attendance, looking up student information, and for a gradebook. The gradebook is very user friendly and easy to use.
Cons: The messaging center feature could use some improvements. It is not easy to respond to emails within this platform.
Cortney T. · Teacher · Education Management · December 1, 2022
Pros: Very easy to use for students and teachers. I love how as a student I am able to see every single detail about my grades and what is submitted and what did not get submitted.
Cons: Through my use of Skyward for high school, I have loved it!
Heta P. · Student · E-Learning · November 24, 2022
Pros: It is a very good software, full of features and options, to some extent easy to use specially for the daily basis tasks. Very good support.
Cons: Not very opened to customizations, and being an international customer our requests are not heard or taken into consideration.
Fadi E. · Administrative Systems Coordinator · Education Management · November 22, 2022
Pros: Ease of useFlexibility managing complex schedules, reports, etcProduct RangeCustomer Support
Cons: The interface is dated but that is solved with the new Qmlativ product.
John C. · Chief Technology Officer · Education Management · October 26, 2022
Excellent 2.5 years in. Good training, good support, great tool, and it does everything we need the SIS to do.
Pros: Skyward does a good job of meeting teachers needs, making grading and attendance easy, and simply making teachers' jobs easier.
Cons: Adding columns or data within a screen is easy to do (2 clicks to start), but the process of choosing the correct data you want is a rabbit hole. There is SO MUCH data in the database, that you need to know an exact pathway in order to add the correct data to a screen.
Keith M. · Director of Technology · Education Management · October 19, 2022
Overall, my experience with Skyward is pretty good. I don’t have any other complaints. Other than that annoying password reset thing that it does. Fix that and I would say you are completely perfect.
Pros: The user interfaces designed very well, and the ease of use is not notch. I was able to learn skyward within one day when I started working for the school district. So I would say that ease-of-use is by far my favorite part of the software.
Cons: Having to reset my password every couple of weeks is rather annoying. If we could fix that, I would really appreciate it. I don’t like having to call tech-support to reset my password every two weeks to one month.
Damon F. · Blogger · Writing and Editing · September 24, 2022
Pros: Course management and scheduling are very straight forward, making it easy to adjust class sizes & sections
Cons: While the student profiles are thorough, the number of inputs & options tend to get tedious.
Annie H. · Data Clerk · Education Management · September 9, 2022
Pros: It so easy to register with no problems and it helps navigate with ease with step by step instructions
Cons: It’s kind of hard to do the attendance on there, but after a try or two it’s okay
Kiara C. · On the go, no worries · Hospital & Health Care · August 27, 2022
With us having a family account, we can see both children. This makes accessing important information really easy for us!
Pros: We have a family account with SKYWARD and we used it several times a week for our high school aged children. The software is very user friendly. We are able to check grades, add lunch money, see announcements, etc ..
Cons: Since using the software, we have not found anything we don't like. Having family access allows everyone to see our account.
Susan V. · Insurance Agent · Insurance · August 23, 2022
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