PowerSchool's Public Portal gives parents and students access to real-time information including attendance, grades and detailed assignment descriptions, school bulletins, and even personal messages from the teacher. Everyone stays connected: students stay on top of assignments, parents are able to participate more fully in their student's progress, and teachers can use their gradebook to make decisions on what information they want to share with parents and students.
Your Powerschool Login
Parent Access Management provides parents with the ability to have their own individual parent account, including username and password. Your school’s PowerSchool administrator may create your account or may have you create your own account using the appropriate access credentials. Once your account is created, you can manage your account information, link any and all students to your account (for whom you have parental and legal rights to), and set email and notifications preferences for each student linked to your account. If you've forgotten your account sign in information, you can retrieve them by using auto-recovery.
To get started, sign into the PowerSchool Public Portal using your username and password. If you do not have this information or have questions, contact your school’s PowerSchool administrator.
Note: do not use someone else’s username/password or give your username/password to anyone else.
- Open PowerSchool.
- Enter your username in the first field.
- Enter your password in the second field.
Note: The characters appear as asterisks (*) to ensure greater security when you log in. - Click Enter. The PowerSchool start page appears. For more information, see PowerSchool Overview.
If your school’s PowerSchool administrator has issued you a temporary password, you will be required to change your password upon signing in.
- Sign in to PowerSchool. The Change Your Password page appears.
- Use the following table to enter information in the fields.
| Field | Description |
| Current Password | Enter your current password. |
| New Password | Enter a new password. If your school has established password complexity rules, password requirements will display. Enter your password based upon these requirements. Note: Your new password must be different from old password. |
| Re-enter New Password | Enter your new password again exactly as you entered it in the above field. |
| Click Enter | The PowerSchool start page appears. |
If you have forgotten your PowerSchool Public Portal password, you will be unable to sign in. Use this procedure to recover your password.
Once you provide your username and email address, the system authenticates your information and sends a security token to your email address. Using the security token, you can then sign back into PowerSchool, where you will then be required to change your password. For more information, see How to Reset Your Password.
Note: The security token is only valid for 30 minutes. If it expires before you can reset your password, perform the How to Recover Your Password again.
- Open your web browser to the PowerSchool. The Sign In page appears.
- Click Forgot Username or Password? The Recover Account Sign In Information page appears.
- Click the Forgot Password? tab, if needed.
- Enter your username in the first field.
- Enter your email address in the second field.
- Click Enter. A confirmation message appears indicating an email has been sent to you with instructions for resetting your password.
Use this procedure to recover your current user name. Once you provide your email address, your current user name will be sent to your email.
- Open your web browser to the PowerSchool Public Portal. The Sign In page appears.
- Click Forgot Username or Password? The Recover Account Sign In Information page appears.
- Click the Forgot Username? tab.
- Enter your email address in the first field.
- Click Enter. A confirmation message appears indicating an email has been sent to you with your current username.
The Account Preferences page provides you with the ability to manage your parent/guardian account information, including your name, username, password, and email address. In addition, you can add any and all students for whom you have legal and parental rights to your account in order to view their information by way of your account.
- Note: To edit or remove a student associated to your account, contact your school’s PowerSchool administrator.
- Note: If you are not able to access this page, parent single sign-on security may not be enabled. For more information, see Parent/Guardian Access Management.
How to Change Your Account Preferences
Use this procedure to change the name, email address, username or password associated with your parent/guardian account.
- On main menu, click Account Preferences. The Account Preferences – Profile page appears.
- Click the Profile tab, if needed.
- On the Profile tab, use the following table to enter information in the fields:
Note: The Cancel and Save buttons appear shaded until information is entered.
| Field | Description |
| First Name | Enter your first name. |
| Last Name | Enter your last name. |
| Enter your email address. | |
| User Name | Click the Pencil icon and then enter the username you would like to use when logging into the PowerSchool Parent Portal in the New User Name field. |
| Current Password | Click the Pencil icon and then enter:
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- Click Save. A confirmation message appears indicating your account is updated. Additionally, an account changes confirmation email is sent to your email address.
Note: If you change your email address, the account changes confirmation email is sent to both the old and new email addresses.
When finished working in PowerSchool Public Portal, it is important to sign out of the application.
Sign Out of PowerSchool Public Portal
You can sign out of PowerSchool Public Portal from any page in the application. Click Sign Out in the navigation bar. The Sign In page appears.
Note: If you are not actively working in PowerSchool Public Portal, your session may timeout. If so, you need to sign in again.