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PowerSchool Parent Portal
PowerSchool gives families with students in pre-K through grade 12 easy access to class grades, attendance information and student schedules. The portal also gives you “single sign-on” access to other online services without having to create accounts specifically for those sites. The online student information tool comes in two versions: one for students and one for parents and guardians. While students get their accounts automatically, parents and guardians need to create an account.
PowerSchool Parent Portal can be accessed using a browser on a computer, phone or tablet, or by downloading the app for Apple or Android devices (use the school division’s assigned code, MXZM). For a list of current menu options see the PowerSchool Parent Portal information sheet.
- Please note that the app has some restrictions and does not display all menu options.
- Note: Families can use a related online service, PowerSchool Enrollment, to start the enrollment process for new students. PowerSchool Enrollment requires a separate account from the one created by parents and guardians to access PowerSchool Parent Portal.
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Click here to access PowerSchool Parent Portal.
Welcome back! If you created a Parent Portal account last year, including during last year’s course recommendation window, you will continue to use that same account. Usernames and passwords have not changed for any parent accounts created last school year. See the “Information for New Users” tab if you need to create an account.
To find out more about what information is on the PowerSchool Parent Portal, check out this PowerSchool Parent Portal information sheet.
PowerSchool Parent Portal allows parents and guardians with more than one child to see all their children’s information at one time with one login and password. This also allows parents and guardians to have separate accounts for your children.
What do I need to add a student to my account?
- An email address (different from your student’s email account).
- Your child’s student number.
For returning students, this number can be found on a report card or secure school document. If you can’t locate your child’s student number, please contact your school. If your child is new to HCPS, a student number should have been assigned at the time of registration. If you registered your student online, you should receive the number once the registration process is complete.
- Student’s date of birth.
- Student’s initials (first, middle and last).
How do I add a student to my account?
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Why create an account?
To use the service, parents and guardians with students in pre-K through grade 12 must create a PowerSchool Parent Portal account.
Because some other digital services and access codes are accessed through the PowerSchool Parent Portal, you should create this account first.
PowerSchool Parent Portal can be accessed using a browser on a computer, phone or tablet, or by downloading the app for Apple or Android devices. Please note that the app has some restrictions and does not display all menu options. To find out more about what information is on the PowerSchool Parent Portal check out the PowerSchool Parent Portal Information Sheet.
What do I need to add a student to my account?
- An email address (different from your student’s email account).
- Your child’s student number.
For returning students, this number can be found on a report card or secure school document. If you can’t locate your child’s student number, please contact your school. If your child is new to HCPS, a student number should have been assigned at the time of registration. If you registered your student online, you should receive the number once the registration process is complete.
- Student’s date of birth.
- Student’s initials (first, middle and last).
How do I create a new account?
Follow these step-by-step instructions to create a new account.
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ECollect Forms has replaced Rycor Online Forms. Find eCollect Forms in the parent PowerSchool Parent Portal by selecting the “Forms” button on the left.
ECollect makes it easy for families to stay involved year-round with their student’s education and reduces the need for paper with its secure electronic format.
ECollect is also available in the PowerSchool Parent Portal app.
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Graduation Plan Progress is a feature of PowerSchool. Find Graduation Plan Progress in the PowerSchool Parent Portal by logging into the portal and selecting the “Graduation Progress” icon on the left. For further assistance in accessing Graduation Plan Progress, please follow these step-by-step directions.
This tool serves to illustrate a high school student’s progress in earning the standard credits needed to earn a Standard Diploma (22 standard credits), Advanced Studies Diploma (26 standard credits) or an Applied Studies Diploma in Virginia.
Information in Graduation Plan Progress should not be viewed in isolation. Additional Virginia requirements for the Standard and Advanced Studies Diploma that do not appear on the Graduation Plan Progress Page include:
- Required verified credits (five) or locally awarded verified credits.
- Successful completion of an advanced placement, International Baccalaureate, dual-enrollment or honors course; or completion of a work-based learning experience as established by board guidance; or an earned board-approved career and technical education credential.
- Successful completion of one virtual course, which may be noncredit.
- Completed training in emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators, including hands-on practice of the skills necessary to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Demonstrated foundational skills in the five C’s: critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication and citizenship in accordance with the Profile of a Virginia Graduate approved by the board.
While the Graduation Plan Progress feature helps students and families in the academic- and career-planning process, it does not guarantee student eligibility for graduation.
For students in grades 9-12, please consult your student’s official transcript, available in Parchment, for details about a student's academic history. Additionally, ongoing collaboration with HCPS school counselors and use of the HCPS Academic and Career Planning Guide will ensure that students and families have the support they need for academic and career planning. This includes help identifying and selecting specific courses to meet diploma requirements, as well as future educational and career goals.
Schoology for Parents and Guardians
Schoology is HCPS’ online learning management system, and helps support “anytime, anywhere” learning. The common platform connects students, families, teachers and academic content. Sign up for a parent account to stay abreast of announcements, assignments and assessments at your child’s school.
Schoology can be accessed using a browser on a computer, phone or tablet, or by downloading the app for Apple or Android devices. Please note that the app has some restrictions and does not display all menu options.
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Who can sign up?
Parents and guardians with students in pre-K through grade 12 can set up a Schoology account.
You must sign up for a PowerSchool Parent Portal account before creating a Schoology account, in order to get the necessary access code.
Schoology can be accessed using a browser on a computer, phone or tablet, or by downloading the app for Apple or Android devices. Please note that the app has some restrictions and does not display all menu options.
What do I need?
- An email address (different from your student’s email account).
- A Schoology access code
The Schoology access code is available in PowerSchool Parent Portal under the Schoology icon.
Having trouble?
Make School Payments
Online School Payments lets you make secure online payments for school fees for a variety of products and services.
Please note that a 4% service fee is added to fee totals to pay the vendor for this service.
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Who can sign up?
Parents and guardians with students in grades 6-12 should set up an account to pay school fees.
What do I need?
- Email address (different from your student’s email account).
- Student number.
For returning students, this number can be found on a report card or secure school document. If you can’t locate your child’s student number, please contact your school. If your child is new to HCPS, a student number should have been assigned at the time of registration. If you registered your student online, you should receive the number once the registration process is complete.
- Student’s date of birth.
Having trouble?
Pay for School Meals
MySchoolBucks enables parents and guardians to easily pay for school meals, track balances and review purchased items. MySchoolBucks is for all students, in pre-K through grade 12. To use the service, go directly to the MySchoolBucks site and create an account. MySchoolBucks can be accessed using a browser on a computer, phone or tablet, or by downloading the app for Apple or Android devices. Please note that the app has some restrictions and does not display all menu options.
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Who can sign up?
Users can access this site directly and create an account at MySchoolBucks website.
MySchoolBucks can be accessed on a computer, phone or tablet or by downloading the Apple or Android apps. Please note that the app has restrictions and does not display all menu options.
What do I need?
To create an account using the MySchoolBucks website, you will need:
- An email address (different from your student’s email account).
- Your child’s student number.
For returning students, this number can be found on a report card, secure school document, or if logged into the PowerSchool Parent Portal, it is listed under the Account Access icon on the left. If you can’t locate your child’s student number, please contact your school. If your child is new to HCPS, a student number should have been assigned at the time of registration. If you registered your student online, you should receive the number once the registration process is complete.
- Student’s date of birth.
Having trouble?
Parent Square
Email, text and app notifications are used for daily communication by individual schools and the school division’s central office to communicate important news and information. Those notifications will include things like snow days or other time-sensitive alerts, a principal’s weekly message, a late bus, a student absence, a low meal account balance or event information. Read more about ParentSquare or watch a video introduction to ParentSquare for parents and guardians.
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Here is some help for two common login problems:
- Your login no longer works and you cannot reset your password.
- You are trying to register but can’t – your email or phone number isn’t recognized.
What to do:
- Ask the school’s in house PowerSchool administrator to confirm that you are in the school’s database and that your contact details match your ParentSquare account.
- Once the school updates your contact details (the most common issue), the change should be reflected the next business day. Updates made by 5 pm will be reflected the next day.
- If you still have problems, the next step would be for the school PowerSchool to contact the school division ParentSquare administrator.
Academic Planning Guide
The Henrico County Public Schools Planning Guide is updated annually and is designed as a comprehensive tool for students and parents. The guide will help you locate information about HCPS middle and high school programs and courses, and engage in meaningful academic and career planning.
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Once you are at the HCPS Planning Guide homepage, navigate to key sections of the planning guide by selecting one of the tabs at the top of the page:
- Career Exploration (This includes direct access to MajorClarity, HCPS’s online college- and career-readiness platform. It is designed to help all students in grades 4-12 discover future careers aligned with their interests and abilities and merge their career exploration with academic planning.)
- Diploma Requirements
- General Info (This includes important information about secondary school programming, such as adding or dropping courses, cumulative GPA and class rank, diploma seals, earning college credit while in high school, transferring, grading scale and honor role, promotion and more.)
- Specialty Centers and Programs
- Course Descriptions (This includes a catalog of all middle and high school courses as well as a searchable course database. Please note that course offerings my vary by school depending on a variety of factors, including student requests and staffing allocations.)
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Not sure where to start? The homepage includes a “Step 1” button to walk you through a simple three-step process for academic, course and career planning:
- Step 1: Explore and Select a Career Cluster/Path. Use MajorClarity to explore career clusters and pathways, take self-assessments and learn what additional education, skills and abilities you need.
- Step 2: Choose a Diploma. Familiarize yourself with graduation requirements and decide which diploma to pursue.
- Step 3: Follow Your Path. Identify courses, specialty centers or programs that relate to your diploma choice and academic and career path.
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- Who can access the HCPS Planning Guide?
The HCPS Planning Guide can be accessed by anyone using a browser on a computer, phone or tablet.
- What do I need?
You need internet accessto view the HCPS Planning Guide. If you don’t have internet access or would like a hard copy of specific sections of the planning guide, you can contact your school counseling department and request them.
Securly Home
Securly Home is a family engagement app that extends digital safety beyond the school day by giving families greater visibility into and control over their child’s online activity on their school-issued device.
- If you’d like to learn more about Securly’s online safety solutions, click here.
- To watch an informational video on Securly Home for parents and guardians, please go to Securly Home | Parent Walkthrough.
- Review this simple guide to help get the most out of Securly Home: Home App Walkthrough (French and Spanish).
- To access Securly support articles and guides, visit Securly for Parents.
For additional questions, email Securly.
Google Educational Services in HCPS
Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) provides students with Google Workspace for Education Core Services. These include everyday classroom tools like Google Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Sites, and Drawings to help students learn, create, and collaborate. To expand on these basics, HCPS also makes a select number of Google Additional Services available. While not every classroom or student will use these extra tools, they are ready to support specific learning activities throughout the year.
Google Additional Services Enabled by HCPS
Below is a list of the extra Google services available in HCPS. Parents and caregivers review and grant permission for these services each school year through eCollect forms in the Parent Portal. This annual process ensures you have clear oversight and a voice in your child's digital learning environment.
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- What it is: A digital library that lets students view high-resolution artwork and cultural artifacts from over 2,000 museums and archives worldwide.
- How it helps: Offers an immersive way to experience global history, science, and art traditions right from the classroom.
- Resources: Google Terms of Service | About Google Arts & Culture
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- What it is: A locked-down version of the Chrome Web Store that allows students to download only HCPS-approved extensions and apps while blocking all unvetted downloads by default.
- How it helps: Provides elementary school Chromebooks with a highly structured digital environment, ensuring that students interact only with safe, age-appropriate learning tools.
- Resources: What is Google Chrome Web Store | Chrome Web Store Terms of Service
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- What it is: A digital globe that combines satellite imagery, aerial photography, and 3D maps to let students explore locations across the world.
- How it helps: Brings geography, history, and science lessons to life by letting students visually track landscapes, terrain, and environmental changes.
- Resources: Google Terms of Service | Google Earth Terms of Service | Google Earth Content Policy
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- What it is: A web-based mapping tool that provides detailed geographic data, points of interest, and global navigation.
- How it helps: Builds spatial awareness and mapping skills as students trace historical routes, analyze regions, and study landmarks.
- Resources: Google Terms of Service | Google Maps Terms of Service | Maps Content Policy Help
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- What it is: An interactive tool where students build their own custom maps by dropping pins, drawing lines, and adding text to a map interface.
- How it helps: Allows students to visualize data and tell stories, such as plotting a novel's timeline, tracking scientific data points, or mapping historical timelines.
- Resources: Google Terms of Service | Google Maps Terms of Service | My Maps Help Guide
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- What it is: A news aggregator that organizes and surfaces current-events articles from trusted global media publishers.
- How it helps: Promotes critical thinking and media literacy by allowing students to research current events and explore multiple perspectives on global topics.
- Resource: Google Terms of Service
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- What it is: A tool that translates text and speech across dozens of different languages in real time.
- How it helps: Breaks down language barriers, providing critical communication support for multilingual learners and world language students.
- Resources: Using Google Translate | Google Translate Terms of Service
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- What it is: A heavily filtered version of YouTube that lets students watch school-approved educational videos while blocking comments, live streams, video uploads, and playlist creation. Note: This is only available to High School students. YouTube is restricted for Elementary and Middle School Students.
- How it helps: Ensures that video-based learning remains strictly educational, relevant, and free from public social interactions.
- Resources: YouTube Student Restrictions Info | YouTube Terms of Service
Parent Square Online Services and Resources
HCPS parents and students can access important information using a host of online tools.
HCPS makes it easy for parents and students to access important information by using a host of online tools:
- The Edulog Parent Portal Bus App lets you follow the progress of your student’s bus, receive notifications when a bus enters a user-defined zone, and receive important messages from HCPS Pupil Transportation.
- The Henrico Digital Resource Menu is a list of digital learning resources approved for use in the school division. It includes descriptions, audience, access details, instructions, data privacy, troubleshooting and support information for each resource.
- An application for free and reduced-price meals can be filled out online.
- Student Records Request is a secure site for former students to get transcripts, attendance information and employment verifications.
- The HCPS Library Services website gives students access to the HCPS Libraries catalog, e-books and powerful online resources. Use your student computer login to get started.
- Use the links below to see dashboards that show the status of certain services the division uses for instruction:
- Common Sense Media provide reviews for what your kids are into (before they get into it). Trusted ratings created with families in mind.
- Microsoft’s Self-Service Password Reset portal lets an enrolled user (HCPS student or staff) reset their own password. First-time users need to enroll in the portal and supply user information that will be used to reset your password when needed. Here are some important links for using the password reset tool:
- Enrollment Guide (HCPS guidance)
- Registration (Microsoft video)
- Register here (Enrollment link)
- Resetting Guide (HCPS guidance)