Simple Dismissal Alternative
Flat $399/Year Teacher-Built App

simpldismissal is a solid, well-built dismissal board - but it's built for districts, sold through a demo, and it's one of two products from a company whose main focus is actually discipline software. To find out what it costs, you book a call.

If you’re a single school that just wants calm, fast dismissal – at a price you can see up front, with no district IT setup to stand up – this is it.
StudentDismiss does the same in-classroom, no-parent-app dismissal, built for one school, for a flat $399 a year.

Looking for the simpldismissal login? That’s on their own site at simpledu.com – this isn’t a login page. If you’re comparing simpldismissal to other dismissal options, read on.

What simpldismissal does well

simpldismissal comes from simpledu, a K-12 company that’s been building school software since 2020 – and the dismissal tool is genuinely capable. A few things they do well:

It’s built for districts, with real infrastructure behind it. Automated rostering and single sign-on mean students and staff accounts sync automatically, and it’s built to be interoperable with the systems a district already runs. If you have a district IT department that wants dismissal wired into your existing data, that’s real value.
It’s part of a bigger platform. simpldismissal is one of two products from simpledu – their main product, simpldiscipline, is widely used (they report over half of South Carolina’s districts). If you want dismissal and discipline tracking from a single vendor, that’s a genuine advantage.
Strong reporting and a real track record. Dismissal history is stored automatically with analytics and auditing for administrators, and they’ve been serving schools across 14 states for years.

If your district wants a dismissal board wired into its student-data systems – and ideally a discipline product from the same company – simpldismissal is a serious option, and StudentDismiss is not trying to be that. We do one thing, for one school at a time.

How they compare

	StudentDismiss	simpldismissal
What it is	A dismissal / carline app	A district-focused dismissal board; one of two products from simpledu (dismissal + discipline)
Pricing	Flat $399/school year (published)	Not published – demo required for a quote
Pricing model	Per school, unlimited students	Not disclosed publicly
Free trial	30 days, full access	Not advertised – demo by request
Platform	Web-based, works on any device, no app to install	Web-based, works on any device, no app to install
Setup	Minimal – no SSO, rostering integration, or IT project needed	Automated rostering + single sign-on + interoperability (built for district IT to configure)
Product focus	Dismissal only – it’s the whole product	Dismissal is the secondary product; the company’s flagship is discipline software
Parent app	No parent app (optional staff-run PIN kiosk for office pickups)	No parent app – staff-run dismissal board
Best fit	Single elementary, K-8, small-to-mid private schools	Districts wanting dismissal integrated with their data systems (and often discipline too)
Built by	A working teacher, for his own school	Former educators and district administrators

Where StudentDismiss wins

You know the price before you talk to anyone.

StudentDismiss is a flat $399 per school year, published right on the site – no per-student fees and no “request a demo to get a quote.” A school with 150 students pays the same as one with 500. With simpldismissal, you won’t know your price until you book a demo, and pricing isn’t posted anywhere public.

Built for one school, not a district rollout.

simpldismissal’s automated rostering, single sign-on, and system interoperability are built for districts with IT staff to configure them. For a single school, that’s setup you don’t need. StudentDismiss skips all of it – there’s no SSO to wire up, no rostering integration, no IT project. You’re running in days, with the same routine you already have, minus the walkie-talkies.

Dismissal is the whole product, not a side feature.

simpldismissal is one of two products from simpledu, and the company’s main focus is its discipline software. With StudentDismiss, dismissal isn’t a module next to something else – it’s the entire product. Every update, every bit of support, every improvement goes into making the last 30 minutes of the school day calmer. That’s all we do.

Why a teacher built this

My first year teaching, I inherited walkie-talkies.

Every afternoon, the last 20-30 minutes of school came to a stop. Not a productive stop – a held-breath kind of stop. The whole class had to go quiet so we could listen for names over the radio. If a student missed their call – and they did, because radios are terrible in a crowded school – someone had to come get them. A runner, either a student helper or a staff member, would leave the carline and walk all the way back into the building to retrieve the kid who didn’t hear their name. The runner would come back, the dismissed student would leave, and we’d wait for the next name. Meanwhile, my class was sitting there in forced silence, doing nothing useful, while I stood with one ear glued to a radio that crackled and talked over itself.

I kept thinking: this is the end of the school day. This is the last thing students experience before they go home. And we’re spending it shushing kids and waiting for a radio call.

I wanted a way to see, at a glance, whether a student had been picked up or not. I wanted my students to be able to talk to each other, work together, or just decompress while we wrapped up the day. I wanted teachers to be able to actually do something useful during dismissal – help a student who needed extra time, straighten up the classroom, or just have a normal conversation – instead of standing at attention waiting for a walkie-talkie. And I wanted fewer missed calls, because every miss meant a runner, and every runner meant more confusion and longer dismissal times for everyone.

So I built something.
I talked to our administration, they were on board, and we tested it that first year with my school. It worked. Dismissal got quieter. Teachers got their afternoons back. Missed pickups dropped. We stopped sending runners. Our staff picked it up quickly at the start of each school year without a lot of hand-holding.

That was the whole idea – something simple enough that it doesn’t add to a teacher’s workload, but changes what the last half hour of school actually feels like. It’s been universally loved at my school, and now a handful of other schools are using it too. I built it for teachers like me who are tired of the walkie-talkie scramble and just want a better way to end the day.

Common questions

Is StudentDismiss cheaper than simpldismissal?

We can’t give you a line-by-line comparison, because simpldismissal doesn’t publish its pricing – you have to request a demo to get a quote. What we can tell you is ours: a flat $399 per school year, no per-student fees, no quote required. That’s the whole price, posted right on our site.

What’s the real difference between simpldismissal and StudentDismiss?

simpldismissal is built for districts – it leans on automated rostering, single sign-on, and integration with your existing student-data systems, and it’s one of two products from a company whose main focus is discipline software. StudentDismiss is built for a single school that just wants dismissal handled, with none of that setup. Same web-based, no-parent-app idea; much simpler to stand up.

Does StudentDismiss have a dismissal board?

Yes. Staff see a live dismissal board that updates as students are called and picked up – on any device, no app to install. The difference isn’t the board itself; it’s that StudentDismiss gives you that without a district rostering or single sign-on setup, at a flat published price.

Do we need our district’s IT team to set it up?

No. There’s no single sign-on to configure, no automated rostering to integrate, and no IT project to launch. That’s the point – StudentDismiss is meant for a single school to get running quickly on its own, swapping the walkie-talkie routine for the app.

What does the 30-day trial include?

Full access – not a limited demo account. You can run it with real students during actual dismissal. No credit card to start.

Ready to see it in action?

Watch a 3-minute demo or book a 15-minute call. No commitment, no pressure - just an honest look at whether it fits your school.

Simple Dismissal Alternative Flat $399/Year Teacher-Built App