SchoolPass vs The Calhoun School
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SchoolPass
This K-12 platform streamlines campus management for schools, handling student arrivals, departures, and attendance. It modernizes visitor and staff screening, ensuring accurate accountability for everyone on campus, especially during emergencies.
- Campus movement management
- Attendance tracking
- Campus wellness screening
- Visitor and staff management
- Emergency preparedness
- Cloud-based platform
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SchoolPass is a K-12 platform that helps schools manage campus movement, attendance, and campus wellness, in the cloud. Schools can consolidate and modernize the arrival, screening, and departure of students, visitors, and staff in one place, while enabling staff to more quickly and accurately account for everyone on campus throughout the school day, especially during an emergency. Please note that you must have an SchoolPass account with a participating school in order to use this app.
The Calhoun School
This app centralizes essential information for parents, students, and faculty, including news, events, and contact directories. Users can easily access photos, documents, and filter content for personalized updates.
- Blogs, news, and announcements
- Photo and document access
- Calendar events with filtering
- Constituent directory
- Faculty contact information
- Direct email from device
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The Calhoun School app provides parents, students, and faculty members with all the information they need in one place, conveniently accessed and explicitly formatted for consumption on their mobile devices. The App includes: - Blogs, news and announcements - Pictures and documents - Calendar events - Constituent directory and more Download the app today to ensure you are always aware of the most important news, announcements, and calendar events, and you have access to the most current community directory. Users can: - Browse the latest published photos - Filter content and store those preferences for subsequent use - Catch up on current news - Browse calendars for information about upcoming events. Filter calendars to see the events most relevant to their interests - Quickly find faculty contact information - Email a constituent directly from your device The information in the The Calhoun School app is drawn from the same source as The Calhoun School website. Privacy controls restrict sensitive information only to authorized users
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SchoolPass at 4.7 against The Calhoun School's 3.2. SchoolPass also leads on ratings volume (5K vs 11) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SchoolPass holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolPass has 5K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SchoolPass ships an update monthly, The Calhoun School every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SchoolPass | The Calhoun School |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5K ratings) — better | 3.2 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raptor Technologies, LLC | THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC |
Customer experience
SchoolPass
The Calhoun School
Bugs and requests
SchoolPass
Reported bugs
5 issues- App freezes or crashes on launch
- Login credentials not working
- Calendar functionality not working
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between students
- Profile photos and phone numbers not saving
Requested features
5 requests- Single login for multiple children across schools
- Automatic password saving and facial recognition
- Ability to edit driver/contact information
- Customizable UI for schools
- CarPlay integration
The Calhoun School
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SchoolPass
No in-app purchases
The Calhoun School
No in-app purchases
Questions
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