Kindergarten · the first full year of school, run for readiness not pressure
Kindergarten Software: features, marked honestly
Every capability that matters at Kindergarten, each marked honestly as shipped or early-access — and the real concerns and milestones each one answers.
One grade's view of the same K–12 platform. The plain-language module catalog front door is at schoolsoftware.app; the flagship platform home is at homeroom.software.
What leads at Kindergarten, and why
The platform is one system across all thirteen grades, but the capabilities that MATTER shift by grade. These are the ones that lead here, in order, each marked honestly as shipped or early-access.
One roster, imported once
The roster is how a five-year-old is known by name on day one -- imported once, the child is on the class list, the guardian is the contact of record, before any photo or page exists. Shipped
Consent, guardian-first
The youngest children cannot consent for themselves, so a guardian's explicit, reversible photo consent leads here more than at any older grade; facial recognition is off by default and a child is never auto-tagged. Shipped
Picture day
The first school portrait is the artifact of the year; picture-day portraits match to the child off the roster, no manual sorting of five-year-olds. Shipped
The class storybook
A class storybook -- a teacher-approved keepsake page per child -- fits kindergarten far better than a gradebook; every page passes the teacher-approval gate before anyone sees it. Shipped
Attendance off the roster
For a full-day-of-school first year, a parent's real question is 'was my child here and settled' -- attendance reflected off the roster answers that, not a grade. Shipped
What a family, a teacher, and a student are actually watching
The concerns of this year are specific to it — not a template with the age swapped. At Kindergarten the real questions are:
- Separation and the first drop-off; will my child be safe and known by name.
- Readiness, not academics: letter and number recognition, holding a pencil, listening in a group.
- Routines -- lining up, snack, rest, bathroom independence, following a daily rhythm.
- Social-emotional firsts: sharing, taking turns, using words instead of hands.
- A parent who wants to SEE the day without a grade pressure frame.
Milestones of the Kindergarten year
The developmental and academic markers this year is built around — distinct to this grade, not a shared checklist.
- First full day of school and first successful drop-off.
- Recognizes and writes own name; knows letters and counts.
- First school portrait and first class keepsake page.
- Moves through a full daily routine independently.
Common questions
Is there a gradebook for kindergarten?
There is a gradebook on the platform, but kindergarten does not run on it. This grade is built around the class keepsake, the roster, attendance, and a guardian-first consent posture. Grades-out is a later-grade story.
How are my child's photos handled?
Facial recognition is off by default and a child is never auto-tagged. A guardian gives an explicit, reversible photo consent; a portrait matches to the child off the roster, and the disclosure of any page is gated at the moment it is shared, not left open.
The K–12 ladder and the wider platform
Thirteen grades, one roster, one honest platform. Move a rung in either direction, or step out to the catalog and the flagship home.
The grade after: First Grade
The rung this year leads into, on the same roster and the same platform.
schoolsoftware.app
The plain-language K–12 module catalog front door. Every grade page is one grade's view of that same platform.
homeroom.software
The flagship platform brand home: the full product story behind every module and every grade.
Every rung, K to 12
What is built and what is honest-off
Live payment rails — checkout and any card charge — are founder-gated: no card is charged on these pages. The platform is SIS-adjacent: it imports the roster and reads against it, and the school keeps the authoritative enrollment record in its existing system. There is no AI over grade records — grades are recorded and projected deterministically, never inferred. Mailed report cards are honest early-access: the print-ready generation is built, and the postal send is the early-access step, named plainly. The school stays the FERPA custodian, and a rep-scoped session reads zero grade rows at the database engine. No competitor brand names appear here. Money, pricing, and checkout are not on this page.