Brightwheel centers on childcare: daily reports, nap schedules, photo sharing, and subsidy billing. If you run a private K–12 school, a tutoring center, or a weekend program with grading and academic billing, you're working against the grain of the product.
If your organization runs more than one program, families can end up paying each one separately. Sirath rolls every program a family's children attend into one family billing portal, so parents pay in one place.
In Sirath, a child in your full-time school and your weekend program is one student — counted once for billing and reporting. Each program still runs its own way; the student identity and family billing are unified at the org level.
Grading, weighted averages, report cards, and academic billing — for schools with academic programs, not childcare.
One student identity across every program your organization runs — no duplicates, no separate record per program.
Every program a family's children attend rolls up into one family account, payable online in one place with automatic reminders.
Sirath charges per unique student, not per seat per program. One student in three programs still counts once.
Need-based aid applications, approvals, and award tracking — audit-ready for your board or governing body.
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Sirath is built for private K–12 schools, tutoring centers, weekend schools, and organizations running multiple programs. Unlike Brightwheel, which is optimized for early childhood and daycare, Sirath includes academic grading, report cards, multi-program student records, and family billing across programs — from $1.50/student/month with a free 30-day trial.
Brightwheel is designed for daycares, preschools, and early-childhood centers and excels at childcare-specific features like daily reports and subsidy billing. Sirath is designed for private schools, tutoring centers, and multi-program educational organizations. The core difference is the multi-program model: Sirath gives every program a shared student record and rolls all of a family's program fees into one billing portal.
Yes. Sirath includes a gradebook with weighted averages, exams, and PDF report cards — central to K–12 private schools, and not part of Brightwheel's early-childhood-focused core product.
Sirath starts at $1.50/student/month and charges per unique student regardless of how many programs they're in — for a 100-student school that's $150/month on Starter. Brightwheel's pricing varies by school type and size; check brightwheel.com for their current rates.
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