ParentSquare Honored as 2024 Acquia Partner Award Winner for Accessibility Partner of the Year

SANTA BARBARA, CA—February 25, 2025—ParentSquare, the award-winning unified school-home engagement platform for K-12 education, is proud to announce its recognition as a winner of the 2024 Acquia Partner Awards for Accessibility Partner of the Year—Accessibility Champion. This esteemed accolade highlights ParentSquare’s commitment to delivering superior customer outcomes, driving innovation, and achieving outstanding revenue performance within the Acquia partner ecosystem.

Acquia, a leader in open digital experience software, honored 22 organizations worldwide for their exceptional use of Acquia technologies. These awards celebrate partners who have set new standards for technical excellence by implementing high-quality solutions that help customers improve marketing outcomes and enhance business results.

“As a proud Acquia partner, we see ParentSquare customers using our Smart Sites school website solution benefitting from the Acquia Optimize product for expanded compliance services,” said Anupama Vaid, ParentSquare Founder & President. “This product helps districts and schools ensure an inclusive user experience for all website visitors—and to us, that’s so important. We are proud to be recognized alongside such an esteemed group of global partners and remain committed to advancing the digital experience landscape through our innovative solutions.”

The Acquia Optimize product is an all-in-one web governance platform which includes tools schools and districts need to keep their websites compliant while providing an excellent and inclusive user experience. It automates finding and addressing website errors across content, accessibility, site performance, brand policies, and SEO. Specifically, the platform maintains an inclusive site experience by consistently tackling accessibility issues in line with WCAG 2.1—including helpful recommendations on how to prioritize and improve compliance for regulations like the ADA and Section 508.

As an integral partner with Acquia, ParentSquare’s Smart Sites serves as a powerful tool that is changing the way districts and schools engage with families to improve student outcomes. With Smart Sites, schools can trust their websites remain compliant as they create a powerful online presence that helps them build an engaged school community and showcase their brand to attract new students, staff, and teachers. Smart Sites fully integrates with ParentSquare, creating one, seamless platform to publish directly to website pages and social media channels. 

About ParentSquare

ParentSquare is the leading family engagement infrastructure helping K-12 districts nationwide reach every family with an award-winning, all-in-one communication platform. Reaching over 22 million students nationwide, ParentSquare helps districts consolidate disconnected tools and outdated communication systems with personalized messaging, websites, forms, payments, and more — in one easy-to-use platform. With powerful features for achieving 100% contactability, two-way translation into 190+ languages, and purpose-built AI enhancements, ParentSquare empowers districts to invite every family to be involved in their student’s education, no matter their home language or the device they use.

Recognized for growth and innovation by Inc. 5000, GSV 150, and more, ParentSquare was founded in 2011 in Santa Barbara, California. Learn more at parentsquare.com.

About Acquia

Acquia empowers ambitious digital innovators to craft the most productive, frictionless digital experiences that make a difference to their customers, employees, and communities. We provide the world’s leading open digital experience platform (DXP), built on open source Drupal, as part of our commitment to shaping a digital future that is safe, accessible, and available to all. With Acquia Open DXP, you can unlock the potential of your customer data and content, accelerating time to market and increasing engagement, conversion, and revenue. Learn more at https://www.acquia.com/partner-of-the-year.