Services · Mobile app development · School apps
Codeeo delivers school app development USA schools and education companies can roll out across one campus or many states: family messaging, attendance, schedules, transportation, payments and forms in apps for iOS and Android with a web dashboard for staff. Each build is designed around FERPA, COPPA and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment at the federal level, and around the student privacy law of every state where the app will be used.
Our 80+ person team in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. We work with American clients remotely, running discovery, design reviews and release planning by video call. Your product owner gets a written plan after every review.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Core capabilities
American K-12 education is run locally. Thousands of districts, plus charter operators and private schools, each choose their own systems, calendars and vendors, while answering to federal law and to state rules that differ widely. A school app that works in one state may need new consent wording, data agreements or retention settings in the next. A product that serves a hurricane coast, a tornado belt and a snowy northern district must also handle very different emergencies. These are the capabilities we build for products and organizations that operate at that scale, with every state specific setting kept configurable rather than hard coded. We also plan for low bandwidth in rural areas, where the app must load quickly on older phones and patchy signal.
One platform serving many districts or schools, each with its own branding, roles, calendars and data kept strictly separate. Organization level settings decide which features, languages and integrations are switched on, so a new district can be added without a new release. Support staff can see which tenant a ticket belongs to without reading student records.
Growth to new schools and states without rebuilding the product.
Sign in through Google Workspace for Education, Microsoft, Clever or ClassLink, and nightly rostering through OneRoster or student information system APIs such as PowerSchool, Infinite Campus or Skyward. Rosters update automatically when students enroll, transfer or withdraw.
Accounts stay accurate without manual imports by school staff.
District, school, class and individual messages with translation, delivery by push, text, email or voice call, quiet hours, read tracking and approval workflows for district wide announcements. Families with children in several schools see everything in one feed.
Every family hears from the school through the channel that works for them.
Parent absence reports, period or daily attendance from staff devices, and dashboards for chronic absence so student support teams can act early. Data flows back to the student information system, which stays the official record. Parents see their own child's record only.
Earlier support for students who start missing school.
Bus routes, stop times, delay notices and, where the transportation system supports it, live vehicle location shared only with families assigned to that route. Rural districts with long routes and city schools using public transit get the information that fits how students actually travel. Stop changes for students with disabilities follow the transportation plan the school has agreed.
Fewer calls to the transportation office on cold or rainy mornings.
Priority alerts for closures, lockdowns and severe weather, sent across every channel at once with templates prepared in each supported language. Reporting shows who has not received the message, so staff can follow up directly. Hurricane, tornado, wildfire and snow templates can be preloaded per region.
Urgent news reaches families wherever the school is located.
Meal accounts, activity fees, trips, tuition and fundraising paid by card, ACH, Apple Pay or Google Pay through a PCI DSS compliant processor. Free and reduced price meal eligibility is never shown to other users or staff without a need to know, in line with federal meal program confidentiality rules.
Payments collected without exposing which families receive meal benefits.
Enrollment updates, permissions and consents signed in the app, plus surveys with the notice and opt out options the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment requires when surveys touch protected topics such as family income or mental health.
Paperwork done digitally, with the right consent recorded.
Screens built to WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard referenced in the Department of Justice rule on web and app accessibility for state and local governments under ADA Title II, which covers public schools. That means screen reader labels, scalable text, contrast and full keyboard support on the web dashboard.
Parents and students with disabilities can use every feature.
Role based permissions, access logs, data export for parent record requests, configurable retention and deletion by organization, and tools for district privacy officers to answer audits and vendor questionnaires. Special education and Section 504 records get tighter access, since IEP details are among the most sensitive data a school holds.
Privacy obligations can be shown, not only promised.
Who this is for
The buyers for school software in the US are varied, and each has a different relationship with the law. A public district is the custodian of education records under FERPA. A vendor works as a school official under the district's direct control. A private school may sit outside FERPA if it takes no federal funds, but still owes duties under state law and COPPA. Here is how we approach the most common cases. In every case, the organization that collects the data decides how it is used, and the app is built to enforce those decisions.
Districts often pay for separate messaging, forms, payments and transportation tools that do not share data. A single app reduces logins for parents and gives the district one place to control privacy. We start with the tools families use most, connect them to your student information system and identity provider, and retire the older products in stages so nothing breaks mid year. Board reporting on reach and adoption helps show the change is working.
Phased replacement keeps the school year running.
A network running schools in, for example, Texas, Arizona and Florida needs one product with state specific settings: consent wording, record retention, language defaults and data agreements. We design those as configuration, give regional leaders the reporting they need, and keep each school's data separate. Regional leaders can message their own schools, while the central office sees the whole network.
Groups of independent or faith based schools want a common platform that still lets each school keep its identity. Admissions, tuition payments, events and parent communication sit in one app, with family accounts that cover siblings at different campuses and roles that keep each school's staff to their own students. Each school can also keep its own calendar of feast days, holidays and events without affecting the others.
Shared platform, separate school identities.
Edtech companies face data privacy agreements from many states and districts, often based on the Student Data Privacy Consortium templates. We help you build a product whose behavior matches those agreements: no advertising to students, no sale of data, defined retention, deletion on request and breach response procedures, with documentation your sales team can share. When a new state passes a student privacy law, we review the product against it and adjust settings or code as needed.
Engagement options
Single schools and districts usually begin with a fixed scope first release, priced after discovery. A retainer then funds updates, new features and support through the school year. Charter networks, school groups and edtech companies with a long roadmap often choose a dedicated team that stays with the product. Cost depends on the number of tenants, integrations, languages and states, the depth of the admin tools and the privacy documentation required. All engagements are remote, coordinated through one lead and regular video reviews. For multi state rollouts we price each wave separately, so you can pause after the pilot if the results do not justify the next step.
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 build in React Native or Flutter for mobile, React or Next.js for dashboards, and run on US based cloud regions with encryption at rest and in transit. Integrations include Clever, ClassLink, Google, Microsoft, OneRoster, major student information systems and PCI DSS compliant payment processors. Infrastructure choices are documented for district security questionnaires.
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02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Federal laws such as FERPA, COPPA and PPRA, plus the student privacy laws of each state where the app is used.
FERPA governs education records in schools that receive federal funds. COPPA applies to online services that collect personal information from children under 13, with the FTC enforcing it. PPRA covers surveys on protected topics. Many states add their own student privacy statutes, several modeled on California's SOPIPA, and some have contract rules like New York's Education Law 2-d. We map these during discovery for every state you serve. Where schools receive E-rate funding, the Children's Internet Protection Act also shapes how student facing content is filtered.
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