Classfold for special-needs schools
The administration, handled. The clinical record, not yet.
Special-needs school is now an institute type Classfold can record, and the console speaks accordingly — Sessions rather than Periods, Assessments and Progress reports rather than Exams and Results. What follows is deliberately specific about where that help stops.
What Classfold runs for you today
The whole administrative half of the school. Admissions with the details and consents you collect, attendance with exports and holidays, a fee engine with instalments and concessions across counter cash, UPI and online payment, transport routes, the visitor register, staff records and payroll, certificates, and messaging to families under your school's own name.
- Admissions, attendance, fees, transport, visitors, staff and payroll
- One fee ledger across cash, UPI and online, with numbered receipts
- Messaging over WhatsApp, SMS and email, with a delivery log
Who can see what, enforced by the server
Records in a special-needs school are more sensitive than in most institutes, so the access rules matter more. Each staff member gets a permission map per module — view, create, edit, delete, export — and the server authorises every single request against it. A hidden menu item is never the control; the backend check is.
- Per-module permissions for every staff account
- Every request authorised server-side, not by the interface
- Two-step sign-in available on any staff account
Your words on every screen
The type sets the vocabulary and any term can be overridden for your school. Sessions, Assessments, Progress reports and Home activities replace the school defaults, and the console, the exported sheets and both mobile apps use the same words.
- Session, Assessment, Progress report, Home activity
- Override any term for your own school
- Consistent across the console, the exports and the apps
What Classfold does not hold — read this first
There is no individual education plan builder: no goals, objectives, accommodations or review cycles. There is no therapy scheduling for occupational, speech or physiotherapy, no therapist role, no session notes and no service-minute tracking. There is no medical or medication log, no incident log, and no UDID field on the student record. Progress against a goal over time is not something Classfold can chart. If the plan and the therapy record are what you need software for, Classfold is not that software today — use it for the office and keep your clinical records where they are.
- No IEP builder: no goals, objectives, accommodations or reviews
- No therapy scheduling, therapist role, session notes or service minutes
- No medical, medication or incident log, and no UDID field
Everything in one place
What the platform covers
Admissions
Student details, guardians and the consents you collect.
One fee ledger
Cash, UPI and online in one place, with numbered receipts.
Attendance
Marked per class in seconds, exportable, holidays handled.
Strict access control
Per-module permissions, authorised by the server on every request.
Family messaging
Notices and reminders under your school's name, with a delivery log.
One demo on your data
Bring your fee heads, your timetable, your hardest question. Twenty minutes on your actual structure — not a slide deck.
Questions, answered
Frequently asked questions
Can Classfold hold our students' individual education plans?
No. There is no IEP builder — no goals, objectives, accommodations or review cycles — and no way to chart progress against a goal over time. This is the honest answer and it is unlikely to change in the next few months.
Can we schedule occupational, speech or physiotherapy sessions?
No. There is no therapy schedule, no therapist role and no session notes. The timetable is a weekly recurring grid for classes, which cannot express a dated one-to-one therapy slot.
Do you store medical or medication records?
No. There is no medical, medication or incident log, and no UDID field on the student record. Please do not use free-text fields as a substitute: health data deserves a system built to protect it.
Then what is Classfold for in our school?
The office: admissions, fees, attendance, transport, staff and payroll, certificates and family messaging, with access controlled per staff member and enforced by the server. That is a real half of the work, and it is the half most special-needs schools are currently doing on paper.
How do we keep the records tightly held?
Give each staff member only the modules their role needs, review that list when people change jobs, and turn on two-step sign-in for every account that can export. The server checks permissions on every request, so an interface someone finds a link to still cannot read what they are not allowed to.