One platform for your entire school's records
Academic years, classes, students, guardians, attendance, and timetables - in one self-hosted system. No more spreadsheets. No more paper registers.
Ready to self-host OpenSchool for your school?
Clone the repo, start Postgres, and run the backend and frontend locally in a few commands. The setup guide walks through the rest - first-run admin registration, the school setup wizard, and every module hands-on.
Read the Setup Guidegit clone https://github.com/openschool-org/openschool.git
cd openschool
# Postgres
cd backend && docker compose up -d
# Backend - migrations run automatically
go run ./cmd/api/main.go
# Frontend
cd ../frontend && pnpm install && pnpm dev
Every school operation, one platform
From opening an academic year to marking today's attendance, OpenSchool replaces disconnected tools with one consistent, API-driven system that scales with your school.
School Management
The school profile and the first-run Setup wizard that gets a fresh instance from empty to operational.
Guardian Management
A searchable guardian directory with notification history and portal-login status.
Attendance Management
Daily sessions for students and staff, with locking and guardian notifications.
Year-end Workflows
Guided workflows that move the school from one academic year to the next, with preview, apply, and undo.
Timetable
A config → build → validate → review → publish pipeline, built by hand or auto-generated.
Notifications
In-app notifications with role-scoped recipient targeting and a per-user Notification Center.
Infrastructure built for how Sri Lankan schools actually run
Most schools still track students, grades, and attendance across paper registers and disconnected spreadsheets. OpenSchool gives every school a structured, secure, self-hosted system of record - modeled around the full Grade 1-13 flow, from Scholarship years through O/Level and A/Level streams, and the people who keep a school running.
Learn more about our missionWe're building OpenSchool with you
It's a volunteer-run, open-source project - no sales team, no support inbox. Everything happens on GitHub.
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