For Catholic schools & dioceses · 2026

One platform for every Catholic school in your diocese.

SIS, gradebook, admissions, tuition, financial aid, parent app, communications, and donations under one license at $4 per student per month. District pricing for diocesan school offices standardizing across parishes. One household login for families with children at multiple schools.
$4
Per student, per month
4.8
Parent app rating
46+
Countries served
4–8
Weeks to switch from FACTS Management
Why Sycamore for Catholic schools

Built for diocesan scale and parish autonomy at the same time.

A diocesan school office wants one view across every school. A parish school principal wants control of the classroom. The platform has to serve both. Sycamore is built to standardize the reporting, purchasing, and family experience while leaving each school room to run its own house.
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Diocesan reporting from day one.

The superintendent's office sees the same enrollment, financial aid, tuition, and giving reports across every school in the diocese, whether the school just cut over or has been live for years.
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One household login across schools.

Catholic families with children at multiple diocesan schools see all balances, all parent app feeds, and pay through a single flow. No separate account per school.
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Financial aid inside the platform.

Aid application, review, awarding, and reporting live inside the same record as SIS and tuition. The aid office reviews, the family applies once, and the tuition ledger reflects the award.
What's included

Every module. One price. Priced for the diocese, not the module.

The eight modules below are all in the base $4 per student per month. Financial aid, refund protection, donations, sacramental record fields, and multi-school household login are included. Nothing is a paid upgrade for Catholic schools.
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Student Information System

One record per student, per family, and per financial account. Sacramental fields included.
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Attendance

Real-time attendance with push notifications the moment a student is marked tardy or absent.
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Gradebook

Grades, assignments, and behavior notes tied to the same student record. Report cards in one click.
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Admissions & Enrollment

Inquiries through enrollment in one continuous funnel. Re-enrollment included; no separate module.
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Tuition & Financial Aid

Aid application through award through tuition ledger, in one flow. Refund protection via Vertical Insure.
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Payments

Cards at 3.9%, ACH at 1.8% capped at $5 on the banking portion. The school chooses who pays.
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Sycamore Parent App

Native iOS and Android with one household login across every Sycamore school in the diocese.
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Communications

School-wide, class-level, and by-student messaging with read receipts. Sacramental prep messages included.
What Catholic schools tell us

The five conversations diocesan superintendents keep having.

The pattern is remarkably consistent across dioceses. Here are the five conversations we hear from superintendents and Catholic school principals, and how Sycamore addresses each one.

Conversation 01 "Every school is on a different platform."

What happens today: The diocese runs FACTS at some schools, Blackbaud at others, RenWeb at legacy schools. Reporting is manual. Cross-school analytics require a spreadsheet.

How Sycamore fixes it: One platform standardized across every Sycamore school in the diocese. Superintendent-office reports pull from the same schema every time. Historical data from prior platforms is migrated on cutover.

Conversation 02 "Enrollment is our number one problem."

What happens today: Inquiries live in one tool, applications in another, tuition in a third. Families drop out of the funnel between steps. Nobody sees the whole picture until it is too late.

How Sycamore fixes it: Inquiries, applications, financial aid, and re-enrollment are one continuous flow. Diocesan reports show inquiry-to-enrolled conversion by school and by cohort. Families never lose progress moving between steps.

Conversation 03 "Our tuition platform is expensive and hard on families."

What happens today: FACTS or Blackbaud tuition management adds a per-family convenience fee for parents, a per-school license for the diocese, and a separate refund policy that families do not understand.

How Sycamore fixes it: Tuition is included in the $4 per student per month price. The diocese chooses whether to absorb card fees, pass them through, or split them, on every transaction type. Tuition Refund Protection via Vertical Insure is included.

Conversation 04 "Families with kids at multiple schools need one login."

What happens today: A family with three children at three different Catholic schools has three separate parent app accounts, three separate balances, and three sets of school-year forms.

How Sycamore fixes it: One household login sees every child at every Sycamore school in the diocese. One balance, one dashboard, one place to update payment methods.

Conversation 05 "We need better financial aid workflow."

What happens today: Aid is a paper stack in one office or a separate SaaS tool that does not talk to the SIS. Families apply once for admissions and again for aid. Awards are re-entered into the tuition ledger by hand.

How Sycamore fixes it: Aid application, review, award, and tuition-ledger reflection all in the same record. Diocesan reporting shows aid distribution across the diocese. The aid office keeps its own workflow; the family sees one experience.

Bonus "Donations are a separate stack."

What happens today: The diocese has Raiser's Edge or DonorPerfect for the annual fund, the schools have their own tools, and nothing connects to the parent record.

How Sycamore fixes it: Native donations (rolling out 2026 from TuitionEP) with campaigns, giving pages, donor records, and AI donor intelligence, inside the same platform as the parent record. No separate license fee.
46+
Countries
6
Continents
4.8
Parent app rating
100%
US-based support team
Diocesan pricing

$4 per student per month. Every module. Volume tiers for the diocese.

For a 15-school diocese averaging 200 students per school, the list price is roughly $12,000 per month across every school. Contracts start at an 18-month minimum, with longer terms available that lock in the per-student rate for the length of the term. Diocesan volume tier discounts lower the effective per-student rate, with a single point of contact for procurement and aligned onboarding across parishes.

$4
per student / per month
All modules included
Frequently asked questions

The questions diocesan superintendents ask before a demo.

For Catholic schools and dioceses that want one platform across every school, Sycamore covers SIS, gradebook, admissions, tuition, financial aid, parent app, communications, and donations under one license at $4 per student per month. District pricing and multi-school onboarding are supported for diocesan school offices standardizing across parishes.

Sycamore's list price is $4 per student per month with every module included. Diocesan pricing typically includes a volume tier discount that lowers the effective per-student cost, plus a single point of contact for procurement, aligned onboarding schedules across schools, and shared training through Sycamore Academy. Contact Sycamore for diocesan-specific pricing.

Yes. Sycamore handles financial aid application, review, awarding, and reporting inside the same platform as SIS and tuition. Families apply once, the aid office reviews inside the same record, and the tuition ledger reflects the award automatically. Sacramental record fields and confirmation dates are standard in the SIS.

Both. Sycamore is used by individual Catholic schools, by clusters within a diocese, and by whole diocesan school offices standardizing across every parish. There is no minimum school count and no requirement to move every school at once. A diocesan-wide rollout usually starts with 2 to 3 pilot schools before expanding.

Yes. Sycamore supports one household login across multiple Sycamore schools in the diocese. A family with children at three different Catholic schools sees all three balances, all three parent app feeds, and pays through a single flow. This is a significant contrast with platforms that require a separate account per school.

Sycamore's native donations module (rolling out 2026 from the TuitionEP acquisition) includes campaigns, giving pages, donor records, and AI donor intelligence, all inside the same platform. There is no separate license fee for donations, and no separate CRM to integrate. For very large capital campaigns with dedicated advancement offices, Sycamore integrates with donor-management systems where required.

In the United States. Phones are answered by humans with an average tenure of ten years. Average first-assign time is 18 minutes; average call wait is 32 seconds. 94.7 percent positive customer sentiment over the last twelve months. During diocesan rollouts, a named client success lead coordinates across all participating schools.

Yes, and it is a common pattern. Sycamore's onboarding team runs a 4 to 8 week migration per school, typically overlapping with 2 or 3 schools going live per quarter. Standard reporting is aligned across every school in the diocese from day one so the superintendent's office sees the same view whether a school just cut over or has been live for two years.

Sycamore contracts start at an 18-month minimum. Longer terms are available and lock in the per-student rate for the length of the term, which protects the diocese from any future price changes and gives budget predictability across the parishes. No multi-year auto-renewal. For diocesan agreements, contract terms are typically aligned across participating schools with a single point of contact for procurement.

Talk to Sycamore about your diocese or your parish school.

Tell us about your school or diocese. We'll return a Sycamore quote (individual or diocesan), an implementation plan, and a side-by-side against what you pay today. Diocesan rollouts typically kick off with a 2 to 3 school pilot.
  • US-based team, diocesan onboarding experience
  • Sacramental record fields standard in the SIS
  • One household login across every Sycamore school
  • 4 to 8 weeks per-school migration

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