PowerSchool Customizations

Overview

PowerSchool is the Student Information System (SIS) used across the board. While it covers most standard workflows, there are always gaps where the out-of-the-box product doesn't meet specific operational needs. This work covers a range of customizations built over time to fill those gaps.

What I Built

• Custom reports — built SQL-backed custom reports for scheduling, attendance, and compliance data that the standard reporting engine couldn't produce
• Extension tables — added custom database tables and fields within PowerSchool to store organization-specific data without modifying core schema
• Data validation rules — implemented validation logic to catch data entry errors before they propagate to ministry submissions or downstream systems
• Google Places integration — integrated the Google Places API into address entry forms to reduce bad address data at the point of entry

Notes

PowerSchool customization is heavily constrained by the platform — it's Oracle-backed with a plugin architecture that limits what can be done. Most of this work required deep familiarity with the platform's internal data model and SQL dialect quirks.