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Built in New Orleans, for Louisiana schools

The students about to lose TOPS money — and the one move that fixes it.

GratNis reads the transcript data your school already sends the state and tells an overloaded counselor exactly who is slipping off a scholarship, how much it is worth, and what to do this week. No spreadsheets. No re-entering anything.

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Naviance, Xello and SCOIR don't model TOPS, LEAP or Jump Start. That's the gap.

Needs attention this week Counselor caseload
Marcus T. FAFSA not filed
Grade 12 · projected TOPS Opportunity
$21,600
at stake
Aaliyah H. ▼ 0.32 GPA
Fell below the 2.5 TOPS minimum
$24,800
at risk
Kendrick B. 1 ACT point
One point from TOPS Excellence
+$11,200
upside
Zoe B. WorkKeys Gold
Qualifies for TOPS Tech without an ACT
$12,800
secured

Illustrative view. Award values are estimates for planning, not award notices.

The problem

Counselors are asked to do this in a spreadsheet.

Louisiana ties real money to a set of rules no national platform models. The people responsible for it are carrying caseloads nearly double what the profession recommends.

376–471students per Louisiana counselor, against ASCA's recommended 250
19core units, matched slot by slot, before a TOPS award is secure
$0paid out on a perfect GPA if the FAFSA was never filed
29independent charter operators in New Orleans alone

Districts that track early-warning indicators report 14% chronic absenteeism, against 21% in districts that don't — and buyers are being told to look beyond tools that simply count absences. GratNis computes the early-warning triad, attendance, behaviour and course performance, on every student. Figure reported by EdTech Magazine, “AI Attendance Tracking”, 2026. It describes districts generally, not schools using GratNis.

Two products, one student record

Buy the half you need. Get the whole picture if you take both.

Each stands alone. Together, a grade posted in the morning updates a scholarship projection before lunch — with nothing typed twice.

GratNis Compass

Counselors, students and parents
  • TOPS award predictor — Opportunity, Performance, Honors, Excellence and Tech, effective-dated by cohort
  • “One move” alerts — the single change that lifts a student to the next award
  • FAFSA & TOPS application tracker — with the money each unfiled form is costing
  • GPA tracker — alerts on a rise or a fall, and a red line at 2.5
  • Slot-matched core curriculum, dual enrolment and Jump Start credentials
  • College Hunt, applications, scholarship totals and recommendation requests
  • Testing rosters, LEAP EOC tracking and printable transcripts
  • A 9–12 milestone timeline that completes itself from your own data

GratNis Campus

Front office, teachers and school leaders
  • Period-level attendance, behaviour and discipline
  • Gradebook that writes straight to the transcript ledger
  • Master schedule with teacher and room conflict detection
  • Honor roll, class rank and report cards
  • Fees, inventory and staff records
  • Immunisation compliance (R.S. 17:170)
  • A teacher hub, and phone nudges students actually read
  • Reports and exports built for board packets
What makes it different

Four things the national platforms don't do.

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Louisiana rules, as data

TOPS, LEAP 2025 and Jump Start are modelled as effective-dated rules, not hardcoded. When the legislature changes a threshold, the platform changes with it — for the right cohort only.

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Money, not status

Every list is ordered by what a student personally stands to lose. A counselor with one free hour spends it where it is worth the most, instead of working alphabetically.

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No double entry

We read the state's STS transcript file your district already submits. That one file carries the grades, credits, quality points and scale we need — for every school system in the state.

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It tells you when it doesn't know

Estimates are labelled as estimates. Automatic ticks are marked as automatic. Where a figure needs confirming against LOSFA, the platform says so rather than guessing quietly.

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Whole-child, one record

Attendance, behaviour and course performance roll into a single early-warning signal — the research-backed ABCs — instead of living in three systems nobody cross-references. And when a student is absent, the platform aggregates the reason, so you can see that transport is behind a Monday pattern rather than only that attendance fell.

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Your data leaves with you

Export the state transcript file, or any report, whenever you want. Easy in, easy out. No hostage-taking at renewal time.

Pricing

Pick the product first. The tier is the easy part.

Take the counselor layer on its own, the school-management layer on its own, or both on one student record.

GratNis Compass — Counselors, students and parents

Foundation

Know where every student stands
$6
per student / year
  • Student records and enrolment
  • Year rollover, transfer intake and data export
  • Disability services — Accommodations roster, IEP meetings, interventions, providers
  • Accessibility — Read-aloud, larger text, contrast, dyslexia font
  • Spanish for families — The family portal reads in Spanish; messages are translated as they are sent when the AI suite is enabled
  • French for families — The same, in French
  • TOPS predictor — Every tier, every student — and the one move to the next award
  • GPA hub — TOPS-core GPA against overall, on both the 4.0 and 5.0 scales
  • Graduation and Carnegie-unit progress — Carnegie units earned, and what is left to graduate
  • Student and parent portal — Students and parents see the same record you do
  • Print transcript — The official document, with LDOE course codes on it
  • STS and CSV import — Bring the state file in; you do not have to leave JCampus
  • School announcements — One message to every family, in their language, without a text bill
  • Parent feedback and appointment requests — Families raise something and can see it was answered
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Advancement

Work the caseload, not the spreadsheet
$13
per student / year
  • Everything in Foundation
  • Morning briefing — Five students to call today, and why each one
  • Net price — What a family would actually owe, after TOPS and aid
  • FAFSA and TOPS application tracker — Who has filed, who has not, and the call list
  • College Hunt — Applications, transcript sends and admissions status
  • Scholarships and offer letters — Offers, letters and the four-year total
  • Recommendation requests — Requests, dates, and who has not written yet
  • Learning library and Assign Help — Assign help and track whether it was done
  • Lifecycle milestones — The 9th-to-12th checklist, by grade
  • Counselor visits, parent meetings and meeting notes — Counselor's Corner, parent visits and meeting notes
  • Nudges and phone alerts — Text and phone reminders that reach the family
  • Badges and points
  • Beginner French and Spanish lessons (LMS)
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Distinction

The whole record, and every plugin in the plan
$20
per student / year
  • Everything in Advancement
  • Equity view — Which groups are being missed, on your own numbers
  • Strengths engine — What a student is good at, not only what they are failing
  • Cohort graduation rate and Strength of Diploma index — The two numbers a school performance score is built from, per cohort
  • LEAP / EOC pairs tracker — The EOC pairs, and who still needs which one
  • LEAP district points calculator — District points, so the school score is not a surprise in October
  • Test rosters and registrations
  • Dual enrolment ledger — College courses, credits earned and final grades
  • Jump Start credentials and WorkKeys — WorkKeys and industry credentials, including TOPS Tech
  • Associate-degree tracker
  • Programme enrolments — Upward Bound, NOCCA, Operation Spark
  • Major tracker
  • College course tracker — How a dual-enrolment student is actually doing, week by week
  • Two-year pathway partners — Welding, LPN, culinary and the rest — who runs them and how to apply
  • Military recruiter visits and ASVAB
  • First-year college plan — The first two semesters at their chosen college
  • Transcript verifier — What is missing from a transferred record
  • Admissions reporting — Acceptances and scholarship dollars, monthly
  • Month-end reports
  • Outcomes — where they actually went
  • Reachability
  • Fast Forward
  • What-If for students
  • School activities interest
  • Academic portfolio
  • Student publishing opportunities — Newspaper, magazine and radio calls, and who put their hand up
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GratNis Campus — Front office, teachers and school leaders

Foundation

Know where every student stands
$4
per student / year
  • Student records and enrolment
  • Year rollover, transfer intake and data export
  • Disability services — Accommodations roster, IEP meetings, interventions, providers
  • Accessibility — Read-aloud, larger text, contrast, dyslexia font
  • Spanish for families — The family portal reads in Spanish; messages are translated as they are sent when the AI suite is enabled
  • French for families — The same, in French
  • STS and CSV import — Bring the state file in; you do not have to leave JCampus
  • School announcements — One message to every family, in their language, without a text bill
  • Parent feedback and appointment requests — Families raise something and can see it was answered
  • Attendance, period by period — Period by period, with the teacher who has not taken it
  • Class sections and master schedule — Sections, periods, rooms and the master schedule
  • Gradebook — Where the grades that build the transcript come from
  • Honor roll and class rank — Honor roll and class rank, computed
  • Teacher hub — A teacher sees their day and their rosters, nothing else
Book a demo

Advancement

Work the caseload, not the spreadsheet
$10
per student / year
  • Everything in Foundation
  • Fees, payments and receipts — Fees, payments, card or check, printable receipts
  • Behaviour and discipline — Incidents, actions and who was involved
  • Immunisation and health compliance — Immunisation compliance before the state asks
  • Staff records and co-teaching — Staff, departments and co-teaching
  • Early warnings from attendance and grades — Attendance and grades raise the flag together
Book a demo

Distinction

The whole record, and every plugin in the plan
$16
per student / year
  • Everything in Advancement
  • Month-end reports
  • Classroom observations and evaluations — Observations against the rubric you already use
  • Inventory and asset tracking — What the school owns and where it went
  • Tutoring and live sessions (LMS) — Tutoring, live sessions and lesson progress
  • Scheduled import and export
Book a demo

GratNis Ecosystem — Both, on one student record

Foundation

Know where every student stands
$9
per student / year
  • Student records and enrolment
  • Year rollover, transfer intake and data export
  • Disability services — Accommodations roster, IEP meetings, interventions, providers
  • Accessibility — Read-aloud, larger text, contrast, dyslexia font
  • Spanish for families — The family portal reads in Spanish; messages are translated as they are sent when the AI suite is enabled
  • French for families — The same, in French
  • TOPS predictor — Every tier, every student — and the one move to the next award
  • GPA hub — TOPS-core GPA against overall, on both the 4.0 and 5.0 scales
  • Graduation and Carnegie-unit progress — Carnegie units earned, and what is left to graduate
  • Student and parent portal — Students and parents see the same record you do
  • Print transcript — The official document, with LDOE course codes on it
  • STS and CSV import — Bring the state file in; you do not have to leave JCampus
  • School announcements — One message to every family, in their language, without a text bill
  • Parent feedback and appointment requests — Families raise something and can see it was answered
  • Attendance, period by period — Period by period, with the teacher who has not taken it
  • Class sections and master schedule — Sections, periods, rooms and the master schedule
  • Gradebook — Where the grades that build the transcript come from
  • Honor roll and class rank — Honor roll and class rank, computed
  • Teacher hub — A teacher sees their day and their rosters, nothing else
Book a demo

Advancement

Work the caseload, not the spreadsheet
$22
per student / year
  • Everything in Foundation
  • Morning briefing — Five students to call today, and why each one
  • Net price — What a family would actually owe, after TOPS and aid
  • FAFSA and TOPS application tracker — Who has filed, who has not, and the call list
  • College Hunt — Applications, transcript sends and admissions status
  • Scholarships and offer letters — Offers, letters and the four-year total
  • Recommendation requests — Requests, dates, and who has not written yet
  • Learning library and Assign Help — Assign help and track whether it was done
  • Lifecycle milestones — The 9th-to-12th checklist, by grade
  • Counselor visits, parent meetings and meeting notes — Counselor's Corner, parent visits and meeting notes
  • Nudges and phone alerts — Text and phone reminders that reach the family
  • Badges and points
  • Beginner French and Spanish lessons (LMS)
  • Fees, payments and receipts — Fees, payments, card or check, printable receipts
  • Behaviour and discipline — Incidents, actions and who was involved
  • Immunisation and health compliance — Immunisation compliance before the state asks
  • Staff records and co-teaching — Staff, departments and co-teaching
  • Early warnings from attendance and grades — Attendance and grades raise the flag together
Book a demo

Distinction

The whole record, and every plugin in the plan
$32
per student / year
  • Everything in Advancement
  • Equity view — Which groups are being missed, on your own numbers
  • Strengths engine — What a student is good at, not only what they are failing
  • Cohort graduation rate and Strength of Diploma index — The two numbers a school performance score is built from, per cohort
  • LEAP / EOC pairs tracker — The EOC pairs, and who still needs which one
  • LEAP district points calculator — District points, so the school score is not a surprise in October
  • Test rosters and registrations
  • Dual enrolment ledger — College courses, credits earned and final grades
  • Jump Start credentials and WorkKeys — WorkKeys and industry credentials, including TOPS Tech
  • Associate-degree tracker
  • Programme enrolments — Upward Bound, NOCCA, Operation Spark
  • Major tracker
  • College course tracker — How a dual-enrolment student is actually doing, week by week
  • Two-year pathway partners — Welding, LPN, culinary and the rest — who runs them and how to apply
  • Military recruiter visits and ASVAB
  • First-year college plan — The first two semesters at their chosen college
  • Transcript verifier — What is missing from a transferred record
  • Admissions reporting — Acceptances and scholarship dollars, monthly
  • Month-end reports
  • Outcomes — where they actually went
  • Reachability
  • Fast Forward
  • What-If for students
  • School activities interest
  • Academic portfolio
  • Student publishing opportunities — Newspaper, magazine and radio calls, and who put their hand up
  • Classroom observations and evaluations — Observations against the rubric you already use
  • Inventory and asset tracking — What the school owns and where it went
  • Tutoring and live sessions (LMS) — Tutoring, live sessions and lesson progress
  • Scheduled import and export
Book a demo

Plugins you can add to any plan

See every module and which plan it comes with →

Chosen with you on Distinction, or bought on their own. The niche ones are priced per school rather than per student — a school hosting three exchange students should not be quoted per head.

  • International and exchange students intake, visa clock, grade/course converters, export transcript $1,200 per school / year
  • German for families Neither the screens nor the message translator speak German yet In development
  • Italian for families Neither the screens nor the message translator speak Italian yet In development
  • Chinese (Simplified) for families Messages translated as they are sent. The screens themselves are not yet in Chinese $400 per school / year
  • Interactive speech coursework pronunciation practice In development
  • Athletics rosters, games, recruiters $900 per school / year
  • Tardy context from GPS Tells a school whether a late student was already travelling. Off unless a named guardian turns it on, distances only, never a location, pruned after 14 days $600 per school / year
  • Transportation Eight taps from the driver, a check-in from the student, and a confirmation at the school door — no GPS hardware needed $900 per school / year
  • Cafeteria Breakfast and lunch on a phone, with the nine major allergens declared per dish $600 per school / year
  • Library circulation Loans, due dates and overdue notices — and it imports your Destiny catalogue $600 per school / year
  • Attendance recovery and seat time $1.50 per student / year
  • AI suite Messages in the family's language, scenarios in plain words, and transcripts read in $2 per student / year
  • Network reporting for a CMO every campus side by side $2,400 per school / year
Every plan: a one-time setup fee starting at $6,000 — data import from your current SIS, mapping your courses to the LDOE catalogue and the STS transcript file, and training your staff. It scales with your size and how many years of history you bring across, and it is charged once, not annually. Pilot schools pay half, and the first three months of the subscription are free.

Network — for a CMO or district, not a single school

Any product, any tier, across every campus. From 3 campuses or 2,500 students.

  • Network-wide reporting — every campus side by side
  • Opt-in benchmarking between your own schools
  • Single sign-on: Google, Clever, ClassLink
  • One contract and one invoice for the whole network
  • A named implementation lead through rollout
  • Data Privacy Agreement and security review
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Integration

You don't have to leave JCampus.

GratNis is not a replacement student information system, and we will not pretend otherwise. EDgear's JCampus holds roughly 90% of Louisiana districts and owns state reporting. We sit on top of it.

The state's STS transcript file already contains every operand a scholarship engine needs — course codes, letter grades, credits attempted and earned, quality points, and the 4.0-versus-5.0 scale. One parser serves all 69 school systems, whatever SIS they run.

  • LDOE STS file — import and export
  • OneRoster 1.2 and CSV roster import
  • Google, Clever and ClassLink sign-in
  • Nothing typed twice, and nothing locked in
Privacy is a design constraint

Built to Louisiana's rules, not just FERPA

Louisiana R.S. 17:3914 (Act 837) is stricter than federal law. GratNis was designed against it from the first migration rather than retrofitted:

  • No Social Security numbers — students are keyed on the state LASID
  • Audit logging on every record holding personal information
  • Parent and student consent enforced before any email or SMS
  • Strict tenant isolation — one school can never see another's students
  • The state transcript export stays de-identified, exactly as the layout specifies
Questions

The things schools actually ask.

Do we have to replace our current SIS?

No. Compass runs alongside whatever you use today, including JCampus, and reads the transcript file your district already submits to the state. Campus is there for schools that want the operational side too — it is a choice, not a condition.

How long does setup take?

A school that can hand us an STS file or a roster export is usually seeing real projections for real students within days, not months. There is no data-entry project.

Are the award figures exact?

No, and we label them clearly. Award values are planning estimates against average public tuition; the tier a student qualifies for is computed from the published rules. GratNis tells you who is at risk and what to change — LOSFA makes the award.

What happens to our data if we leave?

You export it — the state transcript file or any report, in a standard format, at any time. We would rather earn the renewal than trap you into it.

Can parents and students see it?

Yes. Students see their own progress, the topics dragging their grades down and material matched to those topics. Parents see their child's whole picture and approve anything that costs money. Both are consent-gated.

Is there a pilot?

Yes — we are taking a small number of design-partner schools in New Orleans. A pilot is a full-year agreement at the normal price, with half the setup fee and the first three months free, and direct access to the people building it. A full year because the things worth proving run on a school calendar: TOPS projections show up as soon as your transcripts load, but FAFSA completion moves between October and February, and award outcomes land the following autumn. Tell us about your school below.

See it against your own students.

The fastest demo is the one that uses your data. Send us a roster or an STS file and we will show you your seniors, their projected awards, and the money currently walking out of the door.

Typically a 30-minute call. No obligation, and we will tell you honestly if GratNis is not the right fit for your school.

Where do you sign in?

Each role has its own sign-in page. Pick yours.

Not sure? Ask your school — they set up your account.