Services · Mobile app development · School apps
Codeeo handles school app development New York schools need when families, students and staff are spread across five boroughs: attendance, dismissal and commute updates, multilingual announcements, payments, forms and progress links in a single iOS and Android app. We design for New York Education Law 2-d and its Part 121 regulations, the Parents' Bill of Rights for Data Privacy and Security, and the federal FERPA and COPPA rules, so privacy is part of the product rather than an afterthought.
Codeeo has 80+ people in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and 200+ projects delivered across the UAE and the US. New York clients work with us remotely, with discovery, reviews and handover done over video calls.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Inside a New York school app
A New York City school day starts early and ends late. Middle and high school students often ride the subway or a city bus across boroughs to reach a school they chose, younger children may ride a yellow bus routed by the city, and parents juggle shifts that do not match the bell schedule. Families speak Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Russian, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Urdu, Korean, French and many other languages. Families who already receive NYC Public Schools notices in their home language under Chancellor's Regulation A-663 expect the same from any school their child attends. These are the features we most often plan, ordered by how often New York schools ask for them.
When subway service changes or a bus route is late, parents need to know whether dismissal, after school programs or arrival times shift. Staff can post targeted notices by grade, route or program, and students old enough to travel alone can confirm they arrived, if the school chooses to offer that. Location data is never shared without the school's decision and parent awareness.
Parents worry less about how their child is getting home.
Each family chooses a preferred language and receives announcements, forms and alerts in it. Recurring messages use professionally translated templates, and staff can see at a glance which families still need a phone call through an interpreter when a written message is not enough.
Families get school news in the language they actually read.
Parents report absences and expected late arrivals in the app, staff record attendance by period from a phone or tablet, and chronic absence patterns appear on a dashboard so the attendance team can intervene early.
Attendance is accurate by first period and problems surface sooner.
When weather or a building issue moves the school to remote instruction, one action can send the change to every family, update the day's schedule, and show students where to log in, with links that open the right class rather than a generic page. Families without home internet are flagged so staff can arrange alternatives.
A disrupted day still starts on time.
Teacher to parent messaging with office hours settings so staff are not reached late at night, conference booking for parent teacher evenings, and read receipts so teachers know who has seen an important note.
Conversations with families stay organized and respectful of staff time.
A clear section showing the Parents' Bill of Rights, what data the app holds, who can see it and how to raise a concern, plus a route for parents to request their child's records or ask for a correction.
Families can see how their child's data is handled without filing a request.
Children under 13 are protected by COPPA, so student facing features for younger grades collect only what the school needs, carry no advertising or third party tracking, and rely on school consent for educational use alone. High school students get their own logins for schedules, assignments and counselor appointments, and their access is reviewed when they turn 18 and FERPA rights pass to them.
Each age group sees what suits it, and nothing is collected for anyone else's benefit.
Trip fees, after school programs, uniforms, tuition for independent schools and cafeteria balances paid with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through a PCI DSS compliant processor. The business office receives reconciled reports and families get receipts in their language.
Less cash in classrooms and fewer missing payments.
Emergency contact updates, trip permissions, photo consent and health forms completed and signed on a phone, with automatic reminders and a version history so the office knows which form each parent signed.
Complete files without chasing paper.
Teachers, deans, counselors and office staff each get the tools their role needs. Administrators manage permissions, approve school wide messages, review delivery reports and access logs, and can switch off access for staff who leave on the same day.
Access matches each person's job, and leavers lose access promptly.
Who this is for
New York City has a district system, a large charter sector, Catholic schools across several dioceses, yeshivas and other religious schools, and many independent schools, alongside after school providers and edtech companies. Each faces the same families but different rules and buyers. These are the starting points we see most.
Charter schools in New York act as educational agencies under Education Law 2-d, so any vendor holding student data must sign a contract that includes the Parents' Bill of Rights and supplemental privacy information. We build the app so those commitments are real: encryption, restricted access, breach notification procedures and deletion at contract end. We then help you describe the data flows clearly for your board and your authorizer. Networks with campuses in the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn can give each principal control of local notices while the central office handles policy messages.
The contract and the code say the same thing.
Independent schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Riverdale and religious schools across the boroughs usually want an app that reflects their community: calendars that include religious holidays, admissions and events, athletics, giving and alumni news. Many families have several children across lower, middle and upper divisions, so one parent account covers them all with separate permissions for each child's teachers.
One login for the whole family, with permissions per child.
Programs that run in school buildings after the bell need sign in and sign out, authorized pickup checks, incident notes and attendance that funders such as city youth agencies review. We build check in tools for site staff and clear notices for parents, while keeping program data separate from any school's records unless an agreement allows sharing. Site directors see only their own rosters, and parents see one program history even if their child attends sites in two boroughs.
Pickup checks protect children and staff alike.
Selling to New York schools means signing data privacy agreements under Education Law 2-d and answering detailed security questionnaires. We help you build data minimization, role based access, logging and deletion into the product, aligned with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework the state adopted for educational agencies, so your answers hold up under review.
Security answers backed by features, not promises.
Ways to engage
Single schools usually begin with a fixed scope project, priced after discovery once roles, languages and integrations are clear. A retainer then covers updates and improvements through the school year. Networks and edtech companies with ongoing roadmaps often prefer a dedicated team. The main drivers of cost are the number of integrations, the number of languages at launch, the depth of the staff tools and how much privacy documentation you need us to prepare. All work happens remotely, with one lead who knows your project. We send a written summary after each review so decisions are never lost between calls.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We use React Native or Flutter for the apps, a web based control panel for staff and US hosted cloud infrastructure with encryption at rest and in transit. Typical integrations are your student information system, Google or Microsoft sign in, and a payment processor. Data location, retention and deletion are written into the scope for your 2-d review.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Timelines depend on scope, integrations, languages and the time needed for your privacy review.
An app covering messages, absences and forms is quicker than one with payments, period attendance and a full student information system sync. In New York, the Education Law 2-d contract and your data protection officer's review also take time, so we start that work in discovery rather than at the end. We agree a launch window that avoids Regents weeks and the start of the year, and write the plan down before design begins. A pilot with one grade adds a short step but tends to prevent larger fixes later.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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