| Limudei Kodesh / Judaic studies | General studies |
|---|---|
Own grading scale Many schools grade Judaic subjects on a different scale, or use narrative and effort-based assessment where general studies uses percentages. Configure the scale per track. |
Own grading scale Standard percentage, letter, or standards-based grading, independent of how the Judaic track is assessed. Changing one does not affect the other. |
Own faculty and schedule Rebbeim and morot assigned to their own course sections, with their own gradebook views and their own term structure if the Judaic year is divided differently. |
Own faculty and schedule General studies faculty see only their sections. A teacher who covers both tracks sees both, without the school maintaining two logins. |
Own comment bank Comment libraries specific to Judaic subjects, in the language your school writes them in, so report card comments do not have to be retyped every term. |
Own comment bank Separate general studies comment library, maintained by the general studies division head rather than shared across both tracks. |
Combined or separate report cards Issue one report card presenting both tracks side by side, or two separate report cards, depending on what families already expect from your school. |
One transcript The permanent record carries both tracks. Graduating students receive a transcript that reflects the full program, not just the general studies half. |
For a 300-student Jewish day school, list price is $1,200 per month across every module, including dual-curriculum gradebooks, tuition assistance workflow, cafeteria, parent app, and donations. Volume tier discounts are available for larger schools. Contracts start at an 18-month minimum, with longer terms available that lock in the per-student rate for the length of the term. No multi-year auto-renewal.
For Jewish day schools that run a dual curriculum, the platform has to treat Judaic studies and general studies as equal peers rather than bolting one onto the other. Sycamore supports separate gradebooks, separate grading scales, separate faculty assignments, and a combined report card across both tracks, alongside SIS, admissions, tuition assistance, parent app, communications, and donations under one license at $4 per student per month.
Yes. Judaic studies and general studies can run as distinct course structures with their own grading scales, their own faculty, their own term calendars, and their own comment banks. A single report card can present both tracks side by side, or the school can issue separate report cards per track. Schools that grade Judaic subjects on a different scale than general subjects do not have to force both into one rubric.
Yes. The academic calendar is fully configurable, so Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Pesach, Shavuot, and every other closure sits in the calendar without workarounds. Early dismissal before Shabbat and before yom tov can be set as a recurring pattern rather than entered week by week. Attendance, tuition billing cycles, and communications all respect the calendar the school actually runs.
Tuition assistance application, review, awarding, and reporting live inside the same platform as the SIS and the tuition ledger. Families apply once. The committee reviews inside the same record. The award flows to the tuition ledger automatically instead of being re-keyed. For schools where a large share of families receive assistance, this removes the most error-prone manual step in the business office.
Yes. Cafeteria management supports menu configuration, per-student accounts, allergy and dietary flags, and ordering. Schools running dairy and meat menus on different days, or tracking pareve options, can configure menus to match. Cafeteria balances share the same family account as tuition, so parents top up once instead of managing a separate lunch balance.
Yes. Early childhood, elementary, middle school, and high school can run as distinct divisions with their own calendars, grading approaches, and faculty, while rolling up to one administrative view and one family account. Schools with separate boys and girls divisions can configure those as distinct divisions as well. A family with children across three divisions sees one balance and one login.
Sycamore's native donations module, rolling out in 2026 from the TuitionEP acquisition, includes campaigns, giving pages, donor records, and AI donor intelligence inside the same platform as the family record. For Jewish day schools where development is central to the operating budget, this means the development office and the business office are looking at the same family, not reconciling two systems.
List price is $4 per student per month with every module included: SIS, dual-curriculum gradebooks, admissions, tuition and assistance, cafeteria, parent app, communications, and donations. Volume tier discounts are available for larger schools. Contracts start at an 18-month minimum, with longer terms available that lock in the per-student rate for the length of the term. No multi-year auto-renewal.
Most schools complete a full migration in 4 to 8 weeks. For dual-curriculum schools the added scoping work is mapping two course structures and two grading scales rather than one, which Sycamore's onboarding team handles during the first two weeks. Schools most often cut over in summer, ahead of the new academic year and before the Tishrei holidays compress the fall calendar.
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