Operations management for PTAs and PTOs
Run your PTA from one place.
SchoolPTA is the operations platform for your PTA: events, volunteers and sign-ups, your people and their roles, and a dashboard that shows the board what needs doing — built for the phone in your pocket. More modules are on the way, and a public website is there when you want one.
An Operations Management Platform
Every module. Every plan.
Every plan includes every operations module. Plans differ on limits, not on what your PTA can run. We label what has shipped and what is coming, so you know exactly what you get today.
Operations dashboard
Available nowOne screen for what needs the board's attention this week.
People and roles
Available nowYour roster, invitations by email and role-based access for the board.
Events
Available nowPlan every event, cancel or reschedule it, and keep families informed.
Volunteers
Available nowSee who is helping where, with a live roster for every coordinator.
Volunteer sign-ups
Available nowFamilies claim a slot in one tap and get a confirmation.
Calendar
Available nowOne school calendar families can subscribe to on their phone.
Rooms and resources
Available nowMembers and faculty request the library, gym or a projector, an admin approves, and double-booking is blocked.
Forms and e-signature
Coming soonPermission slips and agreements, signed in the browser.
Requests and approvals
Coming soonRoute a request to the right approver and keep the decision on record.
Faculty
Coming soonTeachers and staff sign in with their school email.
Finance
Coming soonIncome, expenses, receipts and reimbursements in one ledger.
Budget planning
Coming soonBuild next year's budget and check each line against your mission.
Board governance
Coming soonMeetings, agendas, motions and actions for the board.
Member directory
Coming soonAn opt-in directory only signed-in members can see.
Inventory
Coming soonLabel what the PTA owns, and check it out and back in.
Five tools. Zero coordination.
There's a better way.
Coordination in five places
Volunteer lists in one spreadsheet, events in a group text, roles in somebody's head. Nobody on the board sees the whole picture.
Sign-ups on a separate platform
SignUpGenius works, but it sends families off your site, asks them to create another account, and shows them ads. It shouldn't be this hard to fill a volunteer slot.
No calendar sync
Events buried in a bullet list that nobody reads. No way to add to Google Calendar, no reminders, no subscribe link. The information exists — families just never see it.
Less coordination work. Better for families.
What the modules that have shipped do for your board today.
Parents stop asking when things are
Every event has an Add to Calendar button. Families subscribe once and every future event appears automatically in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook. One link. Zero friction.
Slots fill without you chasing anyone
Families sign in with their Google account — no new password. One tap to claim a slot. Automatic confirmation email with the event in their calendar. Coordinators see a live roster.
You stop being the school help desk
An AI assistant answers families' questions about events, programs, volunteering, and membership — 24 hours a day. Powered by Claude, grounded in your school's real data.
Everyone has the right access
Invite board members and volunteers by email, and give each person the role they need — no more shared logins.
The board sees what needs doing
The operations dashboard puts upcoming events and what is waiting on you on one screen, scoped to your school.
Your PTA. Your URL.
Your PTA gets its own address — yourschool.schoolpta.org — from day one.
Pro-tier features
A public website when you want one.
Operations come first. A new school's public website starts switched off; on a Pro-tier plan you switch it on when you are ready. Mailchimp and Givebacks join it there.
Public website
Available nowOff by default. Switch on your school's public pages for events, volunteering and news. A drag-and-drop site builder is coming soon.
Mailchimp
Coming soonKeep your Mailchimp audience in step with your members and volunteers.
Givebacks
Coming soonBring donation and membership totals into your finance ledger.
AI that works for your board
AI handles the admin. You handle the community.
The PTA president role is too big for one person. AI doesn't fix that — but it takes the coordination work off your plate so you can focus on the part that actually matters: your school community.
The chat assistant answers parent questions at any hour. The newsletter drafter turns your bullet points into a family email in minutes. The volunteer system chases nobody — slots fill and reminders send automatically.
You didn't sign up to run a help desk. SchoolPTA makes sure you don't have to.
Why we chose Claude
AI built for human benefit. Not engagement metrics.
Most AI tools use whichever model is cheapest. We chose Claude, built by Anthropic, because their founding mission is the responsible development of AI for the long-term benefit of humanity — not engagement, not profit, not growth at any cost.
For a platform that sits inside school communities, handles family data, and answers parents' questions, that distinction matters. The AI we put in that context should be one built with honesty, safety, and human benefit as core design principles — not added as a feature later.
Claude is also notably straightforward about what it knows and doesn't know. It won't invent an answer about your school's events or programs. In a community where wrong information means a parent showing up on the wrong day or a volunteer slot going unfilled, that honesty is worth more than sounding impressive.
Your school community deserves AI that was built thoughtfully. That's why we chose Claude.
Claude is built by Anthropic. Learn about their mission at anthropic.com
Privacy & security
Your community's data is safe here.
We built SchoolPTA for schools from day one — which means we thought about data protection from day one. Not as an afterthought.
No passwords stored
Sign-in is handled entirely by Google. We never see or store passwords. If Google's authentication is good enough for your Gmail, it's good enough for volunteer sign-ups.
Schools can't see each other's data
Every school's data is isolated at the database level — not just the application level. Wellington's volunteers, events, and members are physically inaccessible to any other school on the platform.
No ads. No tracking. No selling data.
We don't run ads. We don't sell data. We don't share your community's information with third parties. Our business model is your subscription — not your data.
Your data is always yours
Export everything any time — events, volunteer records, member lists, news posts. If you ever leave, we send you a complete data export before deactivating your site. No data held hostage.
SchoolPTA does not store children's personal data. Volunteer and membership records contain parent information only.
Built for the way PTAs actually work.
PTA boards turn over every year. The president who set everything up moves on. The logins disappear. The institutional knowledge walks out the door. The next board starts over from scratch — and so do the families.
SchoolPTA is designed for this. Google sign-in means no lost passwords. Everything lives in one dashboard any admin can access. The school's history — events, volunteers, sponsors, programs — carries forward automatically. Year after year.
The PTA/PTO/PTSA owns the content. The board changes. The website doesn't.
How SchoolPTA compares
We looked at every PTA tool on the market. Here's where we fit.
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| Feature | Google Sites | WordPress.com | Wix | OurSchoolPages | SignUpGenius | WildApricot | SchoolPTA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile-first design | ~ | ||||||
| Built for PTAs specifically | ~ | ||||||
| Calendar sync (Google, Apple, Outlook) | |||||||
| Volunteer sign-up built in | External site | ||||||
| AI assistant for families | |||||||
| AI newsletter drafting | |||||||
| No technical skill needed | ~ | ||||||
| Starting annual price | Free | $108/yr | $204/yr | $120/yr | Free (ads) / $149/yr Pro | $720/yr | Free |
Competitor pricing and features based on publicly available information as of May 2026. Sources: OurSchoolPages ($120/yr), WordPress.com ($9–$40/mo), Wix ($17–$29/mo billed annually), WildApricot ($60–$900/mo), SignUpGenius (free with ads, $149/yr Pro). Google Sites is free with a Google Workspace account. WildApricot scales by contact count; price shown is the 100-contact monthly tier. SchoolPTA features verified by direct product review. OurSchoolPages customers: see our migration offer at /pricing#migration.
What SchoolPTA replaces
Google Sites (free) + SignUpGenius Pro
$149/yr · No calendar sync, no AI, two separate tools, ads on sign-up pages
OurSchoolPages + SignUpGenius Pro
$269/yr · Desktop-era design, no mobile optimisation, no calendar sync, no AI
SchoolPTA Core
$140/yr · Mobile-first, calendar sync, volunteer sign-up, AI assistant — built for PTAs from day one
Less than what most PTAs already pay. More than any other platform offers.
How much does your current setup actually cost you?
Not in dollars. In hours. In repeated emails. In volunteers you didn't get because the sign-up was too hard. In parents who gave up looking for the event time and just didn't show up.
The question isn't whether you can afford SchoolPTA. It's whether you can afford not to.
Free
Free — no card needed
See detailsCore
$14/mo — most schools
See detailsPro
$24/mo — includes migration
See detailsEvery amount above comes straight from our catalog — it is the same price you will see at checkout.
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