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Community Groups
Engage your entire community from one platform
Expand your reach beyond parents and connect with alumni, volunteers, booster organizations, and community partners—all in the same platform you already use for family communication.
Simple group signups
One place for your broader community
No more spreadsheets, paper forms, or scattered links. Create a single, easy-to-share signup page where community members can discover and join the groups that matter to them, from athletics and PTA to after-school programs and volunteer opportunities.
Built-in Management
Oversee groups with confidence
Maintain full control over how community groups are created, managed, and moderated. Choose which groups are open to anyone and which require approval, assign group owners, and set permissions that fit each use case
Unified Experience
Replace multiple tools with one outreach platform
No more Facebook Groups, email lists, or messaging apps. Community groups have the same capabilities as the rest of ParentSquare, so everyone benefits from centralized contact management, automatic translation, and delivery via text, email, and app.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
What is ParentSquare Community Groups?
ParentSquare Community Groups lets districts create and manage groups for audiences inside and outside the school community, such as PTAs/PTOs, athletics and booster clubs, after-school programs, clubs, volunteers, alumni, and more. Community members can sign up for the groups relevant to them on one shareable page, making it easy to deliver targeted school communication without relying on separate apps or mailing lists.
Can staff control who can join and participate in a community group?
Yes. Districts can choose whether a group is open to the public or limited to approved members. Admins can manage signups, control participation, and tailor permissions so each group reaches the right audience with the right level of access.
Can Community Groups deliver messages in families’ preferred languages?
Yes. Messages sent through Community Groups include ParentSquare’s automatic translation features, helping districts reach multilingual community members in the languages they prefer.
How is ParentSquare Community Groups different from Facebook Groups, GroupMe, Remind, or WhatsApp?
Consumer apps can be hard to manage, don’t integrate with school systems, and often create extra work for staff. ParentSquare Community Groups keeps outreach in the same platform districts already use for school communication, with translation, multi-channel delivery, contact management, and admin controls built in. Everything stays centralized, consistent, and designed for K-12, not spread across multiple apps.
The platform behind family engagement: All of your tools, one platform
We meet families in the channels they actually prefer, like text, app, and real-time messaging, and let them choose how they want to connect. Parents have one place to go, and schools have one engagement platform to use.
Parent and community engagement
Power meaningful communication to engage families, schools, and communities.
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Keep classroom-level communication simple and consistent.
Mass alerts and notifications
Reach the right people quickly with district-controlled alerts and updates in one system.
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