The school day ends. The growing doesn’t.

None. There is no roster to upload, and no student names, ID numbers, or records move from your school to us. Parents sign up themselves and consent for their own child — your school introduces it, and the account, the consent, and every choice in it belong to the parent. Your school's role is paying — that's the whole relationship. If your district has privacy paperwork for us, send it over.

Here's what a student-data privacy review looks at, in plain English.

None, and there's nothing for them to run either — no teacher account, no classroom setup, nothing during the school day. KudoKids lives at home, between a kid and a parent. Teachers do ask whether they could assign it during center time, and the answer is no — not as a limitation we're working around, but because it's the choice everything else here rests on. The moment a teacher assigns it to a named child, we have to know which child, and then there's a roster, a record, and a data agreement. Keeping it a family's own choice is what lets us say nothing about your students ever leaves your building. If your teachers want something they can assign, tell us and we'll tell you honestly where it sits on the roadmap rather than say yes to it in a meeting.

It's a family-engagement program that never asks a parent to come to the building, which is usually the hard part. Whether it's allowable in your plan is your coordinator's and your business office's call, not ours — we'll answer whatever they ask and send whatever they need. The two terms that decide it are the ones an audit asks about: whether this is an allowable use, and whether it's supplement, not supplant. Both are determinations about your plan, so both are theirs to make — send us the questions and we'll answer them in writing. Schools sometimes write it Title 1; same fund, same answer.

Here's how those two tests work, in plain English.

Three numbers: $30 per student for the year and never more than that, a flat $4,900 for the eight-week pilot, and $5,000 one-time if you add the mascot package. Multiply your enrollment by the first one and you have your year price without asking us. Every term that goes with them — how the pilot credit works, what renews, and which way in is cheaper for a smaller school — is in the cost section above rather than down here, because a term nobody scrolls to isn't disclosed.

You decide by the end of the eight weeks, and either answer is a real one. Continue and the year-long package starts the day after the pilot ends, so your families never lose access for a day, and the $4,900 comes off the first-year price — up to the full fee, and never more than that first year costs. It comes off the price rather than back to you. Stop there and the school pays nothing further and has nothing to cancel: the school-funded access ends with the pilot, families keep the premium version for 14 more days, and then they keep their accounts on the free plan — every routine and task, the whole games library, the Space world, the daily check-in, and Cosmo the starter companion. A family who wants the rest can pick it up themselves at the standard $99/year annual price in the app, which is their choice and never a bill to you. One term to know going in: the credit is tied to that date. Continue by the end of the eight weeks and the credit applies; decide after it, and the package is at its normal price. The year itself can run twelve months from that day or line up with the end of your school year — your choice, made when you buy.

They're covered, and you won't get a second invoice. Your enrollment is what sets the price, and every family in your school community is covered for the term you funded no matter how many of them actually redeem it — we never bill mid-year for going over. That includes families who arrive after it starts: a kindergarten family who enrolls in October is covered by the term you already funded, with nothing for you to add and nothing to tell us. It works the same way in the other direction, which is worth knowing before you buy: if fewer families redeem it than your enrollment covers, there's no refund. You're funding coverage for your whole community rather than buying a number of seats. The year renews on your updated enrollment, and we send you that number 60 days before it renews — so you see the new figure, and can stop it, before anything is charged.

Two reasons, and both only apply to a school. First, everyone starts at once — a school-wide start is a different thing from a link some families find and most don't. Second, funding the year takes the paywall out of the app for your families, so no parent in your school is asked to upgrade for something their school recommended.

Here's what a family pays on their own.

KudoKids isn't a school-communications platform and doesn't replace one. ClassDojo is how your school talks to families during the day; KudoKids is what happens at home after that — a kid earning screen time by doing real things, with a parent approving each one from their phone. The payer model is the other difference: your school pays once and no family in your school is asked to pay for anything inside the app while it runs.

There's a side-by-side of how this compares to ClassDojo Beyond School.

A message from your school, in your school's name, with a link. A parent opens it, confirms their email, and answers a few short questions about how routines go at home right now — that last step is what switches their access on. Then it's the normal setup: they create the family account, add their kids, and set what counts at home and what it pays. During the year you've funded, no family in your school is asked to pay for anything inside the app.

Some won't, and we'd rather say that than promise otherwise. Two things help. The materials we write for you are plain — an eighth-grade reading level by default, and lower if you tell us that's what your families need. And there's nothing to install or learn on a computer: it's a parent making an account on their phone. In practice the kids carry it — they pick it up faster than the adults do, and they're usually the ones showing a parent how it works. Your hub tells you how many families actually started, so you'll know rather than guess.

Nothing. Their account keeps working and they keep everything in it. KudoKids is built for ages 3–12, so that's who the content is designed for, but there's no cutoff that locks a child out on a birthday, and nothing about your school's package changes.

If your school renews, families stay unlocked without doing anything at all — that's the point of the year renewing, so nobody loses access in the middle of a school year. If it doesn't, families keep the premium version for 14 more days and then move to the free plan — every routine and task, the whole games library, the Space world, the daily check-in, and Cosmo the starter companion. Nothing is deleted, and nothing rolls over into a charge: under the school package, families never pay and never enter payment details.

The year renews each year, and we'd rather tell you that here than have you find it later. It works this way so your families don't lose access halfway through a school year, and there are three terms attached that make it a decision rather than a default. First, you get next year's number 60 days before the renewal date, re-priced on your updated enrollment — 60 days because that clears a board meeting, which 30 often doesn't. Second, you can stop the renewal any time before that date, in writing — an email to support@kudokids.org counts — and nothing is charged. Third, if the funds aren't appropriated for the coming year, you can end it — that's in the agreement, not a favour you have to ask for. The eight-week pilot is different and doesn't renew at all: it ends on the date you agreed before it started, and because it's a flat fee for those eight weeks, stopping partway through doesn't refund it. One term to know going in: inside a year you've already funded there's no refund if you leave early, the same way there's no refund if fewer families take it up than you counted — you're funding coverage for your whole community for that term, not a number of seats.

Yes — that's the mascot package: a $5,000 one-time setup, available with the year-long package. It brings your school spirit into the app. We redraw the character your kids already cheer for in the KudoKids style and build it as a companion they can earn, with its own voice, an animation that belongs to it alone, an aura, and a look made for your school. Your school needs to own the rights to the mascot, and we'll ask you to confirm that before we start. If those rights can't be cleared, you get the fee back in full; once drawing starts — we'll confirm that date with you in writing — it's non-refundable. Who owns the redrawn character is settled in the agreement, case by case — it depends on your school's own rights in the mascot.