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Adding a new building in PowerSchool

jshinabargar — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:58:14 GMT

We are adding another elementary to our district in PowerSchool. Any tips?

Re: Adding a new building in PowerSchool

Mvonehren — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:14:11 GMT

In PowerSchool Professional Learning go to the Administration tab, go to Schools and click Enter New School. Fill in the school information and click Create School.

Next, you'll need to set up the school as a new office. Go to the Professional Learning tab, then Configuration. Under Office Set-Up, click Create New Office. Here, enter the new school information, assign users, and set roles as needed.

Re: Adding a new building in PowerSchool

jsonsiadek — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:27:27 GMT

Here are a few things you want to make sure you have completed. I hope it helps. 🙂

If your new school does not have an assigned state (RTHS) number, give it the same number as an equivalent school. For example, if you are making another Middle School but were not given an RTHS number for that school, give the new one the same number as your current Middle School.
Create your years and terms
In Years and Terms, add your periods and days
Set up your calendar
Make your courses available in your new school
Set up your periods and Cycle Days
Create your bell schedule(s)

That is what I can think of so far. Good luck with creating your new school!

Re: Adding a new building in PowerSchool

KendallR — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:47:13 GMT

This is my base for creating a school. I found this order to be most efficient for me. Things will need to be adjusted to your needs, but hopefully this will be helpful.

District Office
1. Create School at District Office
2. Add Course Catalog to new school
a. NOTE: This can only be done AFTER the Year is created at the building, Step 1 below
3. (For High School) Set up Class Rank
4. (For High School) Set up GPA Calculations

At The New School
1. Create Year
2. Create Terms S1-S2,T1-T3,Q1-Q4 - (edit the year)
a. Terms NEED to be done in order: Year,S1,S2,T1,T2,T3,Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4
3. Set number of Days and Periods
4. Cycle Days
5. Period settings (rename)
6. Next Schools
7. Departments
8. Attendance Preferences
9. Full-Time Equivalencies (FTE)
10. Attendance Conversions
11. Attendance Code Categories
12. Attendance Codes
13. Bell Schedule
14. Calendar Setup (Preferred)
15. GPA Student Screens
16. Class Rank Methods
17. Final Grade/Reporting Term Setup
18. Current Grade Display
19. Class Rank Recalculation
20. Build Email List Preferences
21. Graduation Plan Setup
22. Miscellaneous
23. Mobile Browser Settings
24. Parent/Student Access (Available Features Tab)
25. Quick Lookup Preferences
○ Needs to be done after Final Grade/Reporting Term Setup
26. School Alert Preferences
27. Activities Setup
28. AutoComm
29. AutoSend
30. ReportWorks Developer