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The school is growing. The paperwork is growing faster.
Could you pass an accreditation audit next week — without a scramble?
Custom school-operations software for multi-campus networks, microschools, and independent education — student records, compliance, audits, and the administrative layer generic SIS platforms don’t model.
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Quick answer
Logic Square builds custom education-operations software: student information systems shaped to non-traditional models, multi-campus operational rails, accreditation and audit workflows, and compliance-aware records. We built the operations platform for the Indiana Microschool Collaborative and the audit system that runs across a 10-campus school network. When a school’s model is the differentiator, the software has to fit the model — not the other way around.
FIG. 01 — Growth is gentle; paperwork is steep. A structured audit trail is what bends the second curve back down.
01 / The domain
The record your software forgot.
Non-traditional schools — microschools, multi-campus networks, hybrid and mixed-age models — run on grade-structure software built for conventional schools. So the operational record that actually matters lives everywhere the software isn’t: attendance across sites in a spreadsheet, compliance evidence in a shared drive, learning artifacts in a folder, parent communication in an inbox. The system of record for how the school really operates is a patchwork — and it’s the patchwork an accreditation audit exposes.
When the model is the differentiator, that gap isn’t cosmetic. The very things that make the school distinctive — the cohort structure, the multi-site rules, the state-program paperwork — are the things the generic SIS refuses to hold.
02 / Operational realities
Where the load piles up
- Attendance and records fragmented across sites, models, and spreadsheets.
- Accreditation evidence assembled by hand, under deadline, every cycle.
- State-program and ESA/voucher paperwork the SIS never modeled.
- Student data spread across tools with no shared privacy discipline.
03 / Signs this is you
If you’re seeing this
- An audit next week would mean a scramble, not a query.
- Each campus quietly runs its own version of the process.
- Your SIS handles grades but not how your school actually runs.
- Growth means more admin headcount, not more capacity.
04 / What we build
Software that carries the school’s shape.
Student records for non-traditional structures
Mixed-age cohorts, hybrid models, multi-site enrollment — records shaped to how the school is actually organized.
Audit & accreditation workflows
Evidence captured as work happens, so preparation is a query — not a multi-day reconstruction.
Multi-campus rails
One set of rules applied across N sites — consolidated, consistent, and visible to the network office.
Compliance-aware records
FERPA- and COPPA-aware engineering: access controls and minimum-necessary design from the first schema. Awareness and discipline — not a certification claim.
SIS integration
Alma sync is in production — we integrate with the SIS you have rather than force a rip-and-replace.
Parent/guardian communication
Communication that lives in the system of record instead of scattered inboxes.
05 / Proven in production
The operations platform a microschool network runs on — live, with an AI layer in development.
READ THE STORY → CASE STUDY · CES ACADEMY10 campuses, 1,200+ audits — prep cut from 3–4 days to under four hours.
READ THE STORY →“Logic Square built the operational platform our network of microschools actually runs on — shaped to how we work, not how a generic system assumes we should.”
06 / The build-vs-buy reality
PowerSchool, Alma, Brightwheel — and when the model is non-standard.
Those platforms are excellent for the school shape they model — conventional grade structures, single campuses, standard reporting. If that’s your shape, buy one; building your own would be spending money to reinvent what you can license tomorrow.
The business case for custom arrives when the model itself is non-standard: mixed-age cohorts, multi-site operations, accreditation-specific evidence trails, state-program paperwork like ESA and voucher workflows. Buying forces the school to translate itself into the software’s shape every day; building makes the software carry the school’s shape. When the model is the differentiator, that translation tax is the whole cost.
Buy when your school fits the software. Build when the software should fit your school.
07 / Is this you
Who this is for — honestly.
- You run a multi-campus network or a non-traditional model.
- Accreditation or state-program evidence is a recurring scramble.
- Your model is the differentiator, and the SIS won’t hold it.
- —You’re a single conventional campus a standard SIS already fits.
- —Your reporting is standard and off-the-shelf covers it — we’ll say so.
Common questions
Education software, answered.
Why doesn’t a standard SIS fit a non-traditional school?
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Platforms like PowerSchool, Alma, and Brightwheel are built around conventional grade structures, single campuses, and standard reporting. Non-traditional schools — microschools, multi-campus networks, hybrid and mixed-age models — have to translate themselves into that shape daily. Custom software carries the school’s shape instead of forcing the school into the software’s.
Do you replace our existing SIS?
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Not necessarily. We integrate with an existing SIS where it fits — Alma sync is in production for a network we work with — and build the operational layer around it rather than rip-and-replace.
How do you handle student-data privacy?
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With FERPA- and COPPA-aware engineering: access controls, minimum-necessary data design, and audit logging, built in from the first schema. That is awareness and design discipline — not a certification claim.
Can you support accreditation and audits?
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Yes. For a 10-campus, Cognia-accredited network we built the audit system behind 1,200+ audits over 2.5 years, cutting audit preparation from 3–4 days to under four hours.
What did you build for the Indiana Microschool Collaborative?
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The operations platform for a microschool network — the operational rails a non-traditional model runs on. The platform is live; an AI layer is in development.
Do you handle multi-campus networks?
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Yes — multi-campus rails are a core capability: one set of rules applied across N sites, with attendance, compliance evidence, and records consolidated rather than scattered per campus.
Can you support ESA / voucher and state-program paperwork?
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Yes — state-program and accreditation-specific evidence trails are exactly the non-standard workflows that justify custom software over a generic SIS.
How long does an education build take?
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It depends on the scope of the model being carried, integrations like SIS sync, and the compliance evidence required. Delivery is phased, with working software in use before full rollout.
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