Infinite Campus is not your ordinary student information system; it’s the fastest-growing student information system in America, with more than 10 million students being served in 46 states. If you’re weighing school platforms or just trying to understand why your district has just changed plans, here’s what matters.

What Actually Is Infinite Campus?

It’s mission control for K-12 schools. It ably fills a need, and its founder long ago started the Structure series, System—it’s all of the student records: Every school is required to track basic demographic information about students and their parents, as well as damages that detail failure to comply with a bunch of other ‘high-end tech people who left his job in Minnesota, which is where most states’ K–12 information, including grades, attendance records, and meal balances (we may call +48/390), is billed automatically, but then there are those exceptions.

The difference? You see, almost all of the competition forces you to juggle numerous logins. On average, Infinite Campus rolls up an incredible four third-party systems into just one. Parents can check grades, pay lunch money, and sign up for activities all in one place without downloading five separate apps.

Who’s Actually Using It?

The entirety of the K-12 ecosystem is our user base:

School Districts: From 100-student districts in small towns to Houston ISD (which has 27,197 employees), more than 3,000 of them trust the platform.
State Agencies: SISs of nine states (with North Carolina’s full migration in 2025-2026) chose Infinite Campus as their state official SIS. That North Carolina switch? In part because of PowerSchool’s giant 2024 data breach that exposed information about 62 million accounts.
Families: The Campus Parent and Campus Student apps provide real-time access to all of your students’ information, including, but not limited to, grades, assignments, and attendance.

Features That Set It Apart

The Census Structure

Here is where the smart part comes in: The infrastructure of Infinite Campus is based around a “Census” mode where each person lives one time within the database. Change your name once you’re married? It synchronizes automatically everywhere—not six places like old-time systems.

They call it OHIO: Only Handle Information Once.

Core Tools

Gradebook: Teachers can grade and create rubrics that serve as custom gradebooks for opponents so you can track scores, rubrics, and standards-based grading alike.
Session: On-the-fly tracking with parent notification
Schedule: Advanced course request and master schedule tools
State Reporting: Automatically fulfill reporting requirements by state
Special Ed: Full IEP functionality already in place

Premium Add-Ons

Campus Learning Suite: Full LMS built into the SIS (68% of districts)
Campus Payments: In a nutshell—a one-time fee of $150 for unlimited payment processing. School stores, activity registration, tuition billing—it’s all in one system. No monthly subscriptions.
Campus Messenger – Send emergency and day-to-day information with live SIS data.

How It Stacks Against Competitors

vs. PowerSchool

Actual District Cost Comparison: Infinite Campus Approximately $11/student with premium options. PowerSchool? $15–20/student, while a district reports PowerSchool was “$45,000 more for 18 months.”

Infinite Campus also offers a 99% renewal rate, which is higher than PowerSchool’s.

vs. Canvas/Schoology

Both Canvas and Schoology are true learning management systems. They do not manage attendance, enrollment scheduling, or state reporting. Some districts support both—using Canvas for instruction and Infinite Campus for everything else—synced using OneRoster integration.

vs. Moodle

What You Get It’s free, although you’ll need some serious tech chops. You’re building your own infrastructure. Infinite Campus provides turnkey services to support an implementation with 13 updates per year—at no extra cost.

Pricing Reality Check

No public price lists exist. Districts report:

$6-$20 per student annually based on size and modules
Smaller districts are paying more on a per-student basis.
One 1,850-student district: about $20/student for complete access

What’s included:

Zero setup fees
Monthly updates at no cost (13 editions a year)
Complimentary customer support to all.

Hidden costs: One 8,000-student district paid over $1 million for migration, training, and implementation over five years.

What Makes Them Different

Employee-Owned: 100% ESOP company—each of their 600 employees is an owner. No pressure from venture capital forces long-term thinking ahead of quarterly profit.

Developer-Heavy: More than 250 in-house developers (comprising more than half of their staff). That’s why they ship software every month, not once each year.

Tier 4 Data Centers: They have 2 fully redundant Tier 4 data centers with a guaranteed uptime of 99.995% (26 minutes of downtime max) per year. PowerSchool uses Microsoft Azure instead.

Award-Winning Support: Winner of multiple HDI awards for customer service excellence (Best Service Culture, 2019 and 2024)

Bottom Line

It tends to work well for districts that are tired of duct-taping together five different systems. It’s more expensive than free alternatives but less than PowerSchool, with better support and faster innovation cycles. The 99% renewal rate indicates that districts stay after they switch.

For parents? It’s one app instead of four. For teachers? More teaching time, less admin time. For administrators? An actual gust that speaks to itself.