Get your PowerSchool SIS reports through an API

What you can build on PowerSchool

• Get the Consecutive Absences report

  Build this

  Runs Attendance Reports > Consecutive Absences Report for one attendance code and date range, waits in the Report Queue and reads the result.

  Takes

  Attendance code, begin date, ending date, number of consecutive days

  Returns

  Student, student number, grade level, attendance code, first and last absent date, days in a row

• Export student fields with Quick Export

  Build this

  Selects the students of one school and grade, then reads a Quick Export of the Students table fields you list, with the DCID.

  Takes

  School, grade level (optional), list of fields

  Returns

  DCID and the fields you listed, one row per student

• Enroll a new student

  Build this

  Fills in Enroll New Student for the selected school, without family linking, and stops with the matches if Check for Duplicate Students appears.

  Takes

  School, last, first and middle name, DOB, enrollment date, grade level, entry code, track, FTE

  Returns

  Enrolled or possible duplicate, student number, matching students

Automate PowerSchool with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• New consecutive absences for the attendance office

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 7:00

  Step 1

  Run the Consecutive Absences report for the last 14 days with 3 consecutive days and your unexcused code.

  Step 2

  Keep the students who were not on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the list grouped by grade level, with student number and absent dates.

• Changed student fields, posted to your other systems

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 6:00

  Step 1

  For each school you name, export the Students table fields you list with Quick Export.

  Step 2

  Keep the rows that changed since the last run, matched on DCID.

  Step 3

  Post the changed rows to your webhook, one school at a time.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get the Consecutive Absences report” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "powerschool.com/get_consecutive_absences",
    "input": {
      "attendance_code": "U",
      "begin_date": "2026-10-26",
      "ending_date": "2026-11-06",
      "consecutive_days": 3
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "school": "Northwind Middle School",
    "attendance_code": "U",
    "students": [
      {
        "name": "Rivera, Sam",
        "student_number": "204518",
        "grade_level": 7,
        "first_absent": "2026-11-03",
        "last_absent": "2026-11-06",
        "days_in_a_row": 4
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

PowerSchool’s own options

Other systems read PowerSchool SIS data through plugins: when a district installs a plugin that uses data exchange, PowerSchool SIS generates its OAuth client ID and secret, and the plugin's publisher uses them to get an access token. Without a plugin, staff use Quick Export, export templates and the reports, and Quick Export needs a role with access to the Students table.

Read on November 12, 2026: View OAuth client credentials, Quick Export, Security.

Signing in to PowerSchool

Staff sign in to PowerSchool SIS with a username and password, or through the district's single sign-on by SAML or OIDC. From version 25.12.0.0 admins and teachers can add a time-based one-time password, which a district can require. With Fous you sign in once through PowerSchool's sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, and a password-only account is signed back in when its session expires.

Worth knowing

Attendance reports run in the Report Queue

The Consecutive Absences report is processed in the Report Queue after you submit it, and you find it under Report Queue - My Jobs. It produces no file: you print the results or save them to another application.

Your role decides what Quick Export returns

Quick Export is only available when your role includes the Students table. If some extended tables are restricted for you, their fields come out masked in the export.

Enrollment checks for duplicate students

A student with the same name and DOB as an existing record sends you to Check for Duplicate Students. Without a DOB, only Name, Phone Number and Social Security Number are compared.

Plugin credentials belong to one plugin

Each plugin with data exchange gets its own client ID and secret. From version 21.11.2.0 you can regenerate them; before that the plugin had to be deleted, reinstalled and enabled again.

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