Attendance, grades, transcripts, tuition with auto-pay, and a parent portal with real messaging — one simple system, whether you teach two kids at the kitchen table or run a full campus.
On the EFA? Homebook is an ADE-approved Arkansas EFA vendor. It works alongside ClassWallet: ClassWallet handles the money — Homebook handles running the school.
One family or a full campus — you’re still running the whole school on sticky notes, spreadsheets, or a platform priced for districts.
Run a tiny school right here: take attendance, tap in grades, then open the report card they roll into — all live, no signup.
No sales call, no form. These are live logins to a practice school with made-up students. Poke anything — it resets every Sunday night.
Same simple system — geared to the way you actually run things.
For microschools and co-ops — up to 100 learners.
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Attendance, grades, transcripts, tuition with real online payments, and two-way family messaging. On the Arkansas EFA? The compliance work is built in too.
Tap in grades — or drag in your teachers' Google Classroom gradebook — and Homebook computes the semester, GPA, report card, and a running transcript, printed with a QR code any college can scan to verify. Weighted categories, extra credit, excused work: handled. Letter grades or 4·3·2·1 standards-based for K–8.
Daily check-in that auto-saves to your compliance log, and a parent’s sick-day report is flagged right on your roll. Run a bell schedule? Teachers take class roll calls, and a “Missed Period” note opens that exact roll call so the office can follow up.
Sign children in and out at the front desk, or turn an iPad into a family sign-in kiosk. Pickups are checked against the approved pickup list each family keeps in their portal, and every late arrival and early pickup is logged with who collected the child.
Log a notice on the student’s record, then choose Email parent and see the exact email before anything is sent. Sent a child home? A restorative reset letter, in your school’s own wording, goes out the same way.
Families message the school from their portal; the right teacher gets an email and replies in one place. Every word stays on the student's record — a paper trail, not a group text. English or Spanish.
A clean ledger of who owes what — tuition, a prepaid lunch account, and activity fees each kept separate, the way your bank accounts are. Turn on payments and parents pay online or split tuition into auto-payments that stop themselves at zero. Funds land in your school’s own Stripe account.
Class rosters — one grade or combined, like a Grades 6–8 science block — with whole-class grading, and substitutes who inherit a class for exactly the days you set. Staff request time off and log their hours, chat as a team, and send problems through Tickets.
Drag in your roster from Google Classroom or any spreadsheet, and let families enroll themselves with a link or QR code — one link works for both households when parents live apart. Every invite carries a short walkthrough video.
Attendance by month, perfect attendance (with an optional first-period-only tardy rule), who wasn’t marked, absences by period, class lists and emergency rosters. Every report prints or exports to a spreadsheet.
Log every learner’s assessments — and for EFA students, the state-required annual test is tracked with reminders before it’s due.
A real school calendar — closures, multi-day breaks, events, and your EFA deadlines in month, week, or list view. A Monday email puts your whole school in your inbox; families get their student’s week every Friday.
Track IEP and 504 accommodations, the services each learner receives — speech, tutoring, therapy, many of them EFA-funded — and measurable goals with progress. Every teacher follows the plan; the family sees it in their portal. The back office built for special-needs families on the EFA.
Short walkthroughs for families, teachers and directors, recorded in the real app, with chapters you can jump between.
Watch the videosThree steps to a school that runs itself — records and report cards for everyone, and EFA deadlines and assessments tracked in one place if you need them.
Import your roster from Google Classroom or any spreadsheet — every learner, grade, and family in one place in minutes.
Ten-second daily attendance, grades, and family messages — Homebook keeps the running record of your school that ClassWallet doesn’t.
Assessments, renewals, and enrollment — Homebook tracks the dates and details and reminds you before each one comes due.
Grades 9 to 12 college, career and scholarship help, from a licensed school counselor, built right into Homebook.
Bright Pathway's career quiz and scholarship and deadline tracker, built right into Homebook as an optional add-on your school turns on for grades 9 to 12. One login for students, and staff see who is on track. $30 per senior and $15 per student in grades 9 to 11, per school year; the school pays, or lets families buy it for their own student.
See what is in it →A complete grades 9 to 12 college, career and scholarship curriculum, built by Amber Bartolotta, a licensed school counselor. Bright Pathway is an approved Arkansas EFA class vendor, and families can use it directly today.
Visit Bright Pathway →Prefer your own curriculum? Bring it. Homebook works with whatever you teach. Search the official Arkansas EFA provider finder →
Grades, attendance, report cards, messages, absence reporting, and tuition auto-pay — families handle it all in their own portal, in English or Spanish. A search bar finds homework, a message, the pickup list or the Pay button in a tap. That kind of transparency fills seats and keeps them full.
The free Homebook School app is on the App Store and Google Play — and Homebook works beautifully in any phone browser too. On iPhone, families get a notification the moment the school messages them.
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From our first school
“Homebook has truly made Star City Christian Academy more successful. It gives our staff one place for all our records, and it gives parents access to everything they need — charges and balances, grades, attendance, calendars, and a direct line to each child’s teacher. As the office admin and a parent of three, I can’t say enough about the ease and versatility of this platform. Every request I’ve had has been accomplished above and beyond. Give it a try — you won’t be disappointed.”
Gradelink is listed from $121/mo. Sycamore runs $4 per student. For a whole school, Homebook is one flat price with no per-student fees and every feature on every plan. No setup fees under 500 students; schools of 500 or more pay a one-time $500 onboarding that covers importing their records and a live kickoff with their staff. Homeschool families pay per student, designed to come straight from their EFA funds. Parent messaging, tuition auto-pay and weekly family digests are simply included.
Per enrolled student — a family with three learners has three subscriptions, and each one is covered by that child’s EFA funds. Nothing out of pocket.
Designed to be paid from your student’s EFA funds through ClassWallet — about 5% of each child’s yearly allotment. Homebook is an ADE-approved Arkansas EFA vendor — join the founding list and we’ll get your family set up.
A real school you can click through — three kids, a transcript in progress and EFA deadlines. No sign-up, nothing to undo.
Renews monthly until you cancel. Cancel anytime in the billing portal.
Try the microschool demo →A real school you can click through — a 23-learner collective mid-term. No sign-up, nothing to undo.
Renews monthly until you cancel. Cancel anytime in the billing portal.
Try the private school demo →A real school you can click through — six students in grades 9–11, three classes and tuition owing. No sign-up, nothing to undo.
151 to 499 students? Subscribe hereThe $500 onboarding covers importing your records from your old system and one live kickoff session with your staff. Our how-to videos cover the rest. No per-student fees, ever.
Renews monthly until you cancel. Cancel anytime in the billing portal.
Founding Arkansas schools lock this pricing for life. Cancel anytime. Billing handled securely by Stripe — we never see your card number.
Optional Homebook Payments: parents pay tuition (one-time or monthly auto-pay), lunch and fees right in the portal, and funds go straight to your school’s own Stripe account — never ours.
Online tuition payments: Homebook keeps 1% of each payment, paid by the school, in addition to Stripe’s processing fees. No Homebook fee on lunch and fee payments. Homebook never adds a fee for families. A school may choose to add a $2 online convenience fee to lunch and fee payments; paying at the school office is always free.
“A student’s records should be right from day one.”
Homebook started while Amber and I were building Bright Pathway. Amber has spent 20 years in schools and colleges, and she kept seeing the same thing: homeschool, microschool and some private-school students were transferring to public schools or applying to college without the records they needed, and they showed up unprepared.
She knows exactly what a school asks for and what a college asks for. I build software. So the idea clicked: build something that keeps a student’s records right from day one.
Then I dug into Arkansas’s EFA program. Schools needed real help with EFA guidance and assessments to stay compliant, and I couldn’t find a platform really doing that. So I built one, and set out to make it better than the tools schools were stuck with.
We’re starting with Arkansas and getting it right. Then we’ll take Homebook, one state at a time, to every state with an EFA program.
My co-founder Amber Bartolotta is a working high-school counselor with a master’s in school counseling. The support plans, counselor roles, and student records work the way a real school runs, because someone who runs one built them with me.
No ticket queue, no support bots. When you email sam@gethomebook.com, I’m the one who answers.
In December 2024, the biggest name in school software was breached — about 62 million students’ records.1 Our answer isn’t a bigger lock. It’s holding less worth stealing.
Online tuition goes straight from the parent’s card to your school’s own Stripe account — never through ours. EFA dollars stay in ClassWallet. We hold no balances, and card numbers never touch our servers.
We never ask for SSNs — the #1 thing thieves target in school breaches. Data we don’t collect is data no one can take.
Isolation is enforced by the database itself (row-level security), not just app code — each school’s records are walled off from every other school on Homebook.
Encrypted in transit and at rest, hashed passwords, and uploaded documents served only through private, expiring links. Built on the same infrastructure trusted by thousands of companies.
1 PowerSchool breach, December 2024: 62,488,628 student records, as reported by BleepingComputer (Jan 22, 2025)
Not at all. Attendance, grades, GPA, transcripts, report cards, tuition with online payments, and family records work for any school — EFA or not. If your students are on the EFA, the Arkansas compliance pieces (assessment deadlines, eligibility reminders) are already built in.
Never. ClassWallet moves every EFA dollar, exactly as it does today. Private-pay tuition is separate: if you turn on Homebook Payments, parents pay in the portal and the money goes directly to your school’s own Stripe account — it never sits with us. Homebook still runs everything around the money: attendance, roster, assessments, deadlines.
Yes — optionally. Turn on Homebook Payments and families can pay their balance in the portal with one click, or split it into monthly auto-payments that stop automatically when it’s paid off. Every payment records itself in your ledger, and the money goes straight to your school’s own Stripe account — we never hold it. Families can pay lunch and fees online the same way. Online tuition payments: Homebook keeps 1% of each payment, paid by the school, in addition to Stripe’s processing fees. No Homebook fee on lunch and fee payments. Homebook never adds a fee for families. A school may choose to add a $2 online convenience fee to lunch and fee payments; paying at the school office is always free. Prefer checks and cash? The ledger works great on its own.
Yes — the free Homebook School app is on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android, included for every family and staff member at no extra cost. It’s the same Homebook with the same sign-in. On iPhone it also sends push notifications — families hear the moment the school messages them, staff hear about new family messages and reported absences — and staff can turn on a Face ID lock. Rather not install anything? Homebook works beautifully in any phone browser too, and parents can add it to their home screen in two taps.
No problem at all. Teach with whatever curriculum you like, or bring your own. College & Career, the Bright Pathway add-on, is optional ($30 per senior, $15 per student in grades 9 to 11, per school year). A school turns it on for the grades it chooses, and either buys seats or lets families buy it for their own student. Homebook works exactly the same without it.
ClassWallet is the payment system — it moves the money and tracks spending per student. What it doesn’t do is run your school: no attendance, no roster, no assessment tracking, and no single view across all your learners. That’s exactly the gap Homebook fills, right on top of ClassWallet.
Arkansas first — we’re going deep before we go wide. More EFA/ESA states are on the roadmap, and founding schools help us decide which one comes next.
For homeschool families it’s $29 per student a month — paid from your student’s EFA funds through ClassWallet, and Homebook is an ADE-approved Arkansas EFA vendor. For schools it’s flat: $59/mo for microschools and co-ops up to 100 students, $99/mo for private schools up to 150, $149/mo for 151 to 499, and $199/mo ($1,990 a year if paid annually) for schools of 500 or more, never a per-student fee. There are no setup fees under 500 students; schools of 500+ pay a one-time $500 onboarding that covers importing their records and a live kickoff with their staff. (Gradelink is listed from $121/mo for up to 50 students.) Prices are before sales tax; where your state or county charges it, checkout adds it and shows the exact amount before you pay. Founding Arkansas schools lock their pricing for life, and you can cancel anytime.
You get the founder, not a ticket queue. Send us your roster, master schedule, or old gradebook export and we’ll load it into Homebook for you, free for schools under 500 students. Schools of 500 or more pay a one-time $500 onboarding, which covers the records import plus one live kickoff session with your staff. Feature requests go straight to the person who builds them, usually within days, not quarters.
We take a different approach than the big platforms: hold less worth stealing. Homebook never holds money — online tuition goes straight to your school’s own Stripe account and ClassWallet moves all EFA dollars — and we never collect Social Security numbers. Every school’s records are isolated at the database level, so another school’s login is refused yours, and everything is encrypted in transit and at rest. Families sign in to their own account, which the school approves, and uploaded documents open only through private, expiring links. Subscription billing runs through Stripe, the processor used by millions of businesses, so card details never touch our servers. You can export your data as CSV anytime; it’s yours.
We’re onboarding Arkansas schools now — homeschools, microschools, and private schools. Lock founding pricing while it lasts, and help shape what we build next.
Made in Central Arkansas, because the tools schools were stuck with cost too much and did too little, and someone needed to do it better. When you need help, an import, or something custom, you email me and I answer.
Arkansas microschools first. More EFA states coming.