Infinite Campus Arrives in North Carolina

North Carolina’s Board of Education voted to award Infinite Campus the contract for the state’s Student Information System (SIS) on November 2, 2023, with all districts in NC completing the transition in time for the 2025-2026 school year. Now that Infinite Campus has superseded PowerSchool, students should be able to expect a more streamlined, and hopefully secure, SIS portal to use at Jordan.

Infinite Campus was founded in 1993 by Charlie Kratsch, and now claims to serve over 10 million students in 3,000 districts across 46 U.S. states, with NC being the latest to adopt its systems in public schools. NC’s Department of Public Instruction decided to make the switch in a push for efficiency and modernization, moving away from the aging PowerSchool system, first implemented in 2012. PowerSchool’s massive data breach, which reportedly affected 62 million student accounts in December of 2024, furthered the need to move to a better system, even after the decision had been made by the Board of Education. A giant in the education technology field, PowerSchool claims to serve 60 million students in 18,000 districts across 90 countries, though Infinite Campus’ surge in adoption nationwide is definitely a threat to companies like PowerSchool and their reach.

Infinite Campus Logo

Also to note is that unlike PowerSchool, Infinite Campus is not one singular platform, but a base that districts and states are fine-tuning. North Carolina’s version, the NC Student Information System (“powered by Infinite Campus”) is more likely to be equipped for exactly what NC students need than PowerSchool, one platform used by everybody.

It is yet to be seen how other Jordan students feel about Infinite Campus, but from my first impressions, it seems to do most everything PowerSchool did (albeit with a sharp green accent, in contrast to PowerSchool’s dull blue), accessed through NCEdCloud exactly as its predecessor was. Infinite Campus will also be more integrated with the Canvas platform for assignments and tests, perhaps making for a more efficient experience. Change can be hard (especially if you’ve been using PowerSchool for years), but adjusting to Infinite Campus probably won’t be a Herculean labor.