Back to School 2026

One app to bring your whole school together

Reach every family, support your teachers, and start the year connected. Free for every school.

New for back to school 2026

Everything you need to bring your whole school together. It's all on ClassDojo.

Reach every family, every channel

Send schoolwide announcements by app and email, with SMS and voice for district partners. Auto-translated across 190+ languages.

Newsletters families actually open

Design beautiful newsletters with Canva built right inside. No more downloads. No more design skills needed.

Write once, share everywhere

Post schoolwide updates directly to your school's social channels. No more copy and paste.

See where you can support your team

Get a clear view of family connections, teacher activity, and engagement gaps across your school.

Going schoolwide moves every metric that matters.

Family engagement is just the start. Attendance, teacher retention, and positive behavior all lift too.

More active families

More likes and comments from families

More teachers communicating with families on a weekly basis

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Messages read the same day

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Teachers say better attendance with ClassDojo

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Principals say it's easier to build positive behavior

Teachers say ClassDojo builds better family relationships

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Teachers say ClassDojo improves their day-to-day

Now for middle and high school too

The same easy-to-use platform teachers and kids love, now with an older-kid interface and school-approved teacher to student messaging.

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Coach Taylor

School must feel like home for families. We focused on building relationships first, and academic success followed. Reading rates are up 48% as a result.

Brittany Daley

Principal of Hamilton Elementary

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When families trust the school, everything changes — for students, for teachers, and for the community.

Farnaz Heydari

Principal of Grant Elementary

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The positivity is contagious. When students want to come to school, everything else gets better.

Brian Heidenreich

Principal of H.D. Berkey Elementary

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ClassDojo has evolved from a behavior tracker into a full-service platform. It lets me spend less time on paperwork, and more time with my students — and that's the real win.

Melissa Chapple

Teacher at K-12 Virtual Academy

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Top of the class for privacy

We put privacy and trust first. We never share students' information with advertisers, and we use the latest and best security practices to keep you safe at all times.

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FAQ

Yes, ClassDojo is always free for schools, teachers, and now districts. Our business model relies on an optional paid subscription model that offers extra ways to engage, which some families opt into. We also offer DojoTutor, our paid online tutoring program for kids pre-k to 9th grade.

When your school adopts ClassDojo schoolwide, teachers will still have access to everything they already love about ClassDojo via their existing account. Your school will benefit from exclusive support, training, and resources from the ClassDojo team.

Schools and teachers have the ability to tailor ClassDojo to their communication preferences - from one-way announcements to personal messages with families or a photo and video feed that brings together the whole school. Teachers benefit from features like setting their own quiet-hours, accessing read receipts and scheduling posts. All communications can be automatically translated into 190+ languages, ensuring accessibility for all families.

Student privacy and safety are our top priority. ClassDojo is fully compliant with COPPA and enables you to be fully compliant with FERPA.

We’ve been certified by iKeepSafe, the most reputable independent third party accreditor. ClassDojo is an active member of the Student Data Privacy Consortium. Learn more here.

No advertisers or marketers. Anything shared on ClassDojo will never be shared with third parties.
We use the latest security practices to protect schools at all times. We work with independent security researchers to put our systems under extreme, unbiased scrutiny.
Our privacy center explains all our practices clearly and simply. We will notify anyone with a ClassDojo account if we make any changes to our practices.

Get a demo with our team or email us at schools@classdojo.com

Resources to help you succeed

See what's new this back to school

Everything new on ClassDojo, in 60 seconds.

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Bring your whole school together on ClassDojo

See what changes when the whole school is on ClassDojo.

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