Homeroom, the K-12 operating system by Stanley Studios
One platform for your whole school program — not a dozen vendors stitched together.
Yearbook and student media, picture day, student records, fundraising, and family email all share one student list, one login, and one privacy wall the database itself enforces.
No contract. No minimum order. No overprint — you print on demand, so there is zero leftover-inventory risk. Ready now? Set up your account in one step.
Our promise
We never charge extra for you to do the right thing.
Being accessible, multilingual, safe, and following the law are not add-ons we sell back to you. They are built in, and they stay free. If the law says every family deserves it, we will not put it behind a higher price.
Accessible to everyone
Online editions read on any device with screen readers, text that reflows, and keyboard control, plus a screen-reader-friendly PDF export. Never an upgrade fee.
Built for every family’s language
Reaching families who speak another language is part of the platform, not a paid tier.
Safe by default
Sensitive incidents are hidden with extra care, and submitted photos and text are checked before anyone sees them. Safety is never the expensive plan.
Following the law is included
Permission and privacy rules (FERPA and COPPA), accessibility, and language access ship in the base product, not as a “premium” line item.
This is our written commitment, and it is how the platform is built today. We are still finishing the code that makes it impossible to ever turn these off, even by accident — until then, it is a promise we keep, not a switch we have removed.
One spine under everything you run
Most schools run six to fifteen disconnected tools — one for the yearbook, another for picture day, another for records, another for the money, another for email. Homeroom puts them on one shared foundation: your student list, who is allowed to do what, where the money goes, and a privacy wall built one layer below the screens. Turn on what you need; the rest stays hidden until you do.
Permission is the engine
One permission, checked on every read
A single do-not-publish off-switch hides a student everywhere at once — candid photos, pages, the online edition, sales, and the graduate archive — and it is checked fresh on every single page load, so a withdrawn permission stops serving right away. No cleanup job, no out-of-date copy. Shipped
Built one layer below the app
A privacy wall the database itself enforces
Keeping schools apart lives in the database, not in a policy paragraph. An adviser, a student staffer, or a studio sales rep at one school can never read another school’s students — proven blocked by default against a real database, across hundreds of tables. Shipped
The money pays the school
Every dollar settles to the school
Print, portrait, product, and fundraising money settle in exact-cent splits that always add up, with a fundraising lane where Homeroom adds no platform fee on top of a gift (card fees still apply). Shipped
Everything your program runs on, in one place
The same platform, read from wherever you sit. Turn on only the arms you need today.
Yearbook & student media
A desktop-class editor — undo and redo, version history, layers, masking, auto-layout, brand-locking, and full keyboard control — with a print check that refuses to send a broken job. One student list runs the yearbook, newspaper, literary magazine, and a public online edition together; write a story once and reuse it across publications. Shipped
School photography — Pholio, powered by Homeroom
Picture day with facial recognition off by default — “find my child” is a student-list lookup, not a face match, so normally no face data is created at all. A photo is sellable only when permission allows. A live dispatch board schedules the season. The parent portrait store and its four-way split that pays the school are building now on top of that shipped pipeline. Pipeline shipped Parent store & four-way split in early access
School news & journalism
A real scholastic newsroom — story assignments, a planning board, and a pitch-to-editor-in-chief approval chain you can rename but never remove, which is the correct shape for student-press law. A writing coach checks the facts and reading level to teach, never to block, and a blind-review mode judges the literary magazine with author names hidden. Shipped
Student records
The school’s official record, hidden until you turn it on. The records foundation is live: online registration that captures permission at sign-up, the student roster, the school-year terms and class periods, enrollment and withdrawal, guardians, and class assignments — all on the same permission-walled spine. Attendance with absence alerts, transcripts and report cards, special-education (IEP and 504) authoring, behavior tracking, and prepaid meal accounts are new and growing on top of it. Records foundation shipped More records new and growing
Commerce & fundraising
The money engine that pays the school. Tiered book pricing with an always-open late store, a donate-a-book drive, a spirit-wear shop, the ad-sales engine across every publication, a tamper-proof treasurer journal for the parent group, athletics fees, and a homeschool Education Savings Account (ESA) record — accounting only; Homeroom never holds the money. A student who qualifies for free or reduced-price meals can have a book fee waived on the authorized staff path, with the fully automatic version turning on once a school data feed is connected. Shipped Fee waiver in early access
Parent & school communications
Send newsletters from an address families recognize — a managed Homeroom address or the school’s own verified domain — so the school is the real sender, with a separate list per publication and a proper unsubscribe footer. More sending options are coming. A simple school website builder publishes only on a verified domain and re-checks permission on any student photo or name. New and growing
Safety
Built so the wrong message can never go out the wrong way. The emergency message scope refuses any non-emergency call by construction — there is no marketing or fundraising call lane. Sensitive incidents are redacted, self-harm and harassment cases get extra-care hiding, submitted photos and text are checked before anyone sees them, and a re-send never notifies a family twice. New and growing
Built for both buyers: advisers and schools run the whole program in one login, and photography studios bring their whole book of business and keep the portrait revenue.
The privacy advantage
Facial recognition off by default — and a photo is never sold without permission
Every other combined-package vendor makes “find my child” work by sending a portrait to an AI cloud and matching by face. Homeroom does not. Facial recognition is off unless a parent turns it on, and finding a child is a permission-checked student-list lookup — not a face match. A photo is sellable only when permission allows. That is a sentence a combined-package vendor simply cannot say to your privacy officer.
Facial recognition is off unless a parent turns it on. Finding a child is a student-list lookup — not a face scan. And a photo is only available to buy when permission allows.
The promise, in one sentenceFind your side of the school
The same platform reads differently depending on where you sit. Start from the view that fits you.
For sports
Team pages, a picture-day pipeline with facial recognition off by default and photos never sold without permission, and a fundraising lane where the whole gift goes to the school — for teams, cheer, band, and boosters.
See it for sports →
For the arts
The book builder, a real newsroom workflow, public online editions, and a teach-as-you-build curriculum — for theatre, band and music, journalism, and yearbook classes.
See it for the arts →
For families
Find your own child with a student-list lookup, not a face match; photos never sold without permission; facial recognition off unless a parent turns it on.
See it for families →
Pricing
Transparent, school-friendly pricing
Print-on-demand books with a code-enforced cost floor (nothing sells below cost), a deliberately modest platform take-rate, and the larger leg of the portrait sale left with the studio. No contract, no minimum order, no overprint. The specific numbers are set for your program and shared during onboarding — here’s how the model works, and a quote when you’re ready.
The model, plainly
- Print-on-demand books — zero overprint risk.
- A code-enforced cost floor — never below cost.
- A deliberately modest platform take-rate.
- The studio keeps the larger portrait leg.
- Specific pricing shared during onboarding.
What’s true today
The proof is the architecture
We’re pre-launch on customers, not on substance — these are properties of the platform you can verify in a demo, not claims that wait on a pilot.
Facial recognition off by default — and no photo sold without permission
Facial recognition is off unless a parent turns it on — “find my child” is a permission-checked student-list lookup, not a face match. A photo is sellable only when permission allows. See the security architecture →
A single-school FERPA wall, at the database
Keeping schools apart is enforced one layer below the screens, proven against a real database — an adviser at one school can never read another school’s students. How the privacy wall works →
Built and running, not a roadmap
The editor, the newsroom, ad sales, the fundraising lane, the picture-day pipeline with consent-gated sales and facial recognition off by default, the student-records foundation, and the permission spine are live today — book a demo and run them. The parent portrait store is building now on top of that shipped pipeline. Shipped Parent store in early access
Pre-launch on customers: pilot references will appear here as our first studios go live — until then, the demo is the proof.
We’re honest about what’s shipped
The core is live today: the yearbook and newspaper builder, the newsroom, ad sales, the picture-day pipeline with consent-gated sales and facial recognition off by default, the student-records foundation, and the permission spine. The fundraising lane is live too — and the whole gift goes to the school. Still new and growing: the parent portrait store and its four-way split, the rest of the records suite, family communications, and safety. We show only the parts that work today and name what we do not do yet — we never sell a plan for later as if it shipped.
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