ParentSquare

This app might be good for school but it is rough for sports.. there is no place for players to check in with and also other people cannot contact others on the team through parent square.

The app sucks.. It could be the fact that I have had to use the website, this year because every time I've clicked on the app to open it. This app is important for parents to access the notifications and alerts that are sent to parents to notify them of and emergencies.

I love being able to message my daughters teachers when I have an issue or concerns. Ms Kyle is amazing at responding and I love the pic she sends!! 💙

Notifications are spotty. Often I will get notifications for one child and not the other. I will miss information unless I check the app daily. I have all notifications turned on in the app and through my phone settings. Other than that, I enjoy this app more than other school apps.

This app is horrible. Don’t ever use it for your kids school. They’re constantly messing up always combining private information with other accounts. They cannot retrieve important information, especially when they relates to the kids and schooling is just an overall bat app.

5

There is so much noise pushed through this app that by the time anything important to a parent is put out it is ignored. The administration relies to much on this as a way to not actually communicate with parents.

I’m not sure how much I like the app. It’s one more thing for me to check on my phone. But, I do imagine I’ll get used to it, right around the time you change apps.

All the functionality of this annoying app is better served with simpler, existing means - a website, an email, MS 365, Adobe Connect, Google apps, etc. There’s no way to adjust font size or readability, the user is directed to access a document or image through the app instead of going directly to the item of interest. Just hugely frustrating.

Update Apr 2026: still sucks. Parents in our district hate it. Teachers in our district hate it. Impossible to clear notif badges. Just horrible UX.

Update Feb 2026: Still sucks. Everyone I know hates it. Why is it so freaking difficult to clear alerts like weekly progress from aeries?

Update Feb 2025: I hate this app so much. I wish I could delete it but the stupid district uses it. Navigation is awful. Tab controllers containing selection bars that change the view vs a drawer view that is also confusing. Still no way to just clear all outstanding notifications. And why … when I have EVERYTHING set to digest… can teachers put things down as “immediate notifications” which then immediately pushes to my phone for a school my kids don’t even go to. Shouldn’t my settings take priority? Why can’t I filter out schools we have no involvement with? This app is just so annoying.

Using this because I have to with our school district now. Notifications are very difficult to clear, usually involves going to the alert, scrolling to the bottom, refreshing the view, then going to another screen and hoping the alert count goes down. I’d really like a way to not be notified about everything. Some granularity would be nice. Like I don’t need it for the weekly progress reports from aeries, but I would want it on a direct communication from the teacher. Overall it does what it needs to but that’s about the best I can say. I dread seeing an alert badge because I’m going to spend the next five minutes getting logged in because it somehow lost my session, and then trying to clear the notifs.

It is a great platform, an area to be able to communicate.

Good communications

Should not have to have a new phone to get access,it’s ridiculous

It’sBad when I want to understand and feed I think I found principal text And my daughter came home she got beat up by the principal and no texts that’s very bad 1 star

I’ve been missing information since our school district started using this app. It sends me notifications but when I open the app and read it, it stays as unread. On the other hands, apparently it fails to notify me some important notifications. I wish the school district stayed the old school way which is simple emails.