LIVERMORE FALLS — PowerSchool, a computer program that allows parents and students to check school grades, is up and running at the Spruce Mountain High School’s campus in Jay.

Regional School Unit 73 is piloting the program that also allows parents and students, with their password access, to check attendance and teacher grade books and assignments, at the Jay school. It is expected to go online at other schools in the district soon.

Both Jay and RSU 36 previously had a program that parents and students could monitor academic grades. When the two school systems combined in July they changed over to the PowerSchool program, which is supposed to be easier for parents and teachers to use and access.

Jay campus Principal Gilbert “Specs” Eaton told RSU 73 directors Thursday that the start up of the program went smoothly.

Students were given instructions and passwords on Nov. 21 and 23. Passwords and instructions were mailed home to all parents Nov. 24.

A parent training session was held Dec. 5 for anyone who needed help, Eaton said.

As of Thursday, Eaton said, not one call had come to secretaries and no parent appeared at the meeting.

But the program is being used, he said.

Between Friday, Dec. 2, and 2 p.m. Thursday, there were 110 parent logins and 789 student logins for a total of 899.

Eighty-eight percent, or 206, of the 234 students’ records were accessed, he said.

The average length that a parent stayed on was 6.2 minutes and for the students it was an average length of 11.3 minutes.

The average number of parent and student logins combined were 63.9 per day. Of that, the average number of parent logins that logged in each day were 7.9 and the average number of student logins per day were 56.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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