School Report Card Software: 5 Compared (2026)

Searching for “report card software” in a French school context actually covers two different needs, and mixing them up wastes a school leader’s time. The first need is producing the official document itself — the trimester report card or livret scolaire, compliant with the LSU or LSL format, exportable to Parcoursup. The second is giving families continuous visibility into results and progress, instead of waiting until the end of the term for an average grade that shouldn’t come as a surprise.

This article compares five tools that genuinely produce that document — Pronote, L’École Directe, Beneylu, Skolengo, and Sacoche — on pricing, GDPR hosting, and target audience. We’ll also be clear about what BeeNet does in this space today, and what it doesn’t do yet, so you can compare on facts rather than a sales pitch.

What to look for in report-card software

1. Does the document it produces match your level? The LSU (livret scolaire unique), covering CP through 3e, is a different format from the LSL used in lycée, which counts for 40% of the final baccalauréat grade through continuous assessment. A tool built for primary school (like Beneylu) doesn’t necessarily cover the LSL and Parcoursup exports a lycée needs.

2. Is pricing published anywhere? Of the five tools compared here, only two publish a price list you can check without talking to a salesperson: Beneylu and Sacoche (which is free).

3. Where is the data hosted, and by whom? Report-card software handles grades, teacher comments, and sometimes health or behavior data — personal data belonging to minors under GDPR. Hosting in France or the EU, and the certification behind that claim, is something to verify in writing rather than assume.

4. Grades or competency-based assessment? Most tools on this list grade on a 20-point scale. Sacoche makes a different pedagogical choice: competency tracking with no numerical grading — relevant if your school is moving toward competency-based assessment rather than traditional grading.

5. Does the tool also handle family communication? Producing the report card is one thing; making sure every family — including parents who aren’t logged into the portal, or who don’t read French comfortably — actually receives and understands it is another. It’s rarely the same tool that does both well.

The 5 best report-card software tools in 2026

The tools below are ordered from most widely deployed to most specialized — not from best to worst. Each has a school profile it genuinely fits.

1. Pronote

Pronote, published by Index Éducation (a Docaposte/La Poste Group subsidiary since 2020), equips — per its own claim — 90% of public collèges and lycées in France. It’s the reference vie scolaire software: grades and competencies, report cards, a digital homework notebook, absence tracking, internal messaging — plus, as of 2026, a feature that pauses homework-notebook notifications in the evening.

On security, Index Éducation was the first publisher in the sector to obtain France’s SecNumCloud qualification (its top cloud-security certification), and has held ISO 9001 certification since 2020. Worth knowing before writing or reading anything about “Pronote breaches” in 2026: the widely-reported incidents that year involve ÉduConnect and Parcoursup — the French Ministry of Education’s own national authentication infrastructure — not Index Éducation’s own systems, even though ÉduConnect also serves as a login gateway to Pronote.

Pricing is not published anywhere: each school negotiates its own rate with the publisher, with no public price list. Best for: French public collèges and lycées that want the sector’s reference tool and don’t need to know the price in advance.

2. L’École Directe

Published by Aplim, a company based in Savoie with over twenty years in this market, L’École Directe equips most French private schools under contract (sous contrat), from primary through lycée: grades, report cards, a digital homework notebook, messaging, access to administrative documents, and online payment at some schools.

As with Pronote, pricing isn’t published for families — the school subscribes and folds the cost into its own budget. A structural detail worth knowing: Aplim doesn’t manage user accounts directly, so account or support questions route through the school first, not through a direct vendor support line. Best for: private schools under contract that want the private-sector equivalent of the Pronote standard.

3. Skolengo

Skolengo, published by Kosmos, is a full ENT (digital work environment) sold to French académies and local authorities rather than to individual schools — it’s the technical backbone behind several regional ENT programs, such as “Mon Bureau Numérique” in the Versailles, Créteil, and Montpellier académies. Beyond report cards (with LSU, LSL, and Parcoursup exports), it covers scheduling with specialty-track management, school-life administration, catering, internships, and targeted SMS communication.

Hosting is marketed as “secure and hosted in France,” in an ISO 27001-certified datacenter, with a named hosting partner (NFrance, Toulouse). Pricing isn’t public: the publisher’s own Capterra listing explicitly says “contact vendor for pricing,” with no free trial. Best for: public collèges and lycées whose académie has already adopted Skolengo as its regional ENT backbone.

4. Beneylu (Beneylu School)

Beneylu targets primary schools specifically, bundling roughly twenty apps in one offering — school-family messaging, a homework notebook, a home-school liaison notebook, report cards, and a gamified challenge feature for students. It’s the ENT chosen by the Créteil académie for the 2025 school year (1,900 schools).

Along with Sacoche, it’s one of only two tools in this comparison that publishes its pricing without going through a salesperson: €79 incl. tax per class per year, or €299 per school (the “Infini” tier, which adds a library of curated learning resources, runs €179 per class or €599 per school). Hosting runs on French cloud providers (Scaleway, OVH), aligned with the Ministry’s SDET framework. Best for: primary schools and municipalities that want an all-in-one ENT at a public, predictable price.

5. Sacoche

Sacoche (“Suivi d’Acquisition de Compétences”) is built by Sesamath, a nonprofit teachers’ association — not a commercial publisher. It’s free, open-source software, accessible from any browser, that generates a livret scolaire compatible with French national formats from competency-based assessment rather than traditional numerical grading, with a catalog of over 2,200 customizable competency frameworks.

Its structure differs from the four tools above: Sacoche isn’t a centrally-operated platform run by a publisher — it’s software the school (or a teacher, or the regional education authority) installs and hosts itself, which means GDPR and data-residency responsibility depends on whoever runs that instance, not on Sesamath as a central processor. Best for: schools practicing competency-based assessment that want a free tool with no commercial commitment, in exchange for handling hosting themselves (or through their existing ENT).

User reviews: what’s there, and what isn’t

Verifiable reviews for this category of software are rarer than you’d expect, and that absence is itself useful information for a buyer. On the App Store, Pronote and L’École Directe both show very low ratings (roughly 1.5 to 2 out of 5), but the actual review text is overwhelmingly students satirizing schoolwork itself in a “video game” tone (“no tutorial, straight to eight homework assignments,” the brevet and bac framed as a final boss) rather than functional criticism of the software — a documented pattern specific to App Store pages in this category, not necessarily a sign the product itself is flawed. Skolengo’s App Store listing is much thinner (2.77/5 across 632 ratings), with at least one substantive, usable piece of feedback: a request for notifications on new grades and cancelled classes. Beneylu and Sacoche have, as far as we could find, no Capterra, GetApp, or App Store listing with meaningful review volume — an absence of feedback isn’t proof of quality, just an absence of data.

Feature comparison

Criterion	Pronote	L’École Directe	Skolengo	Beneylu	Sacoche	BeeNet
Generates the official report card (LSU/LSL)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌ (coming soon)
Continuous grade tracking, viewable by parents in real time	⚠️ (via portal)	⚠️ (via portal)	⚠️ (via portal)	⚠️ (via portal)	⚠️ (via portal)	✅
Public pricing available online	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅ (free)	✅
Documented France/EU hosting	✅ (SecNumCloud)	⚠️ (claimed, not independently audited)	✅ (NFrance)	✅ (Scaleway/OVH)	⚠️ (depends on chosen host)	✅ (EU, Azure)
Native Arabic UI + RTL	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Free plan	❌	❌	❌	⚠️ (single class only)	✅ (entire tool)	✅ (25 members)
Target audience	Public collège/lycée	Private under contract	Public collège/lycée (académie contracts)	Primary school	All levels	Schools, sports clubs, community centers, daycares

Where BeeNet fits in this comparison — honestly

BeeNet does not currently generate the report card document itself — automated report-card generation and distribution (the REPORT_CARDS module) is under development, not yet available. If producing that official document is your only need, one of the five tools above remains necessary today, and Sacoche does exactly that for free.

What BeeNet does already is continuous grade entry and review: an instructor enters a grade for their own groups, an org admin can enter one for any group in the organization, and families see it as soon as it’s entered — not only at report-card time. That’s a difference in kind from the five tools above, whose grade portals are generally viewable but built around the report-card cycle rather than around continuous visibility as a core feature.

Today, BeeNet is best used alongside a report-card tool like the ones listed here, not in place of one — with the addition of a native Arabic interface with full RTL support (none of the five compared tools offer this), documented EU hosting on Azure, and a free plan for up to 25 members. It’s a relevant option for organizations — schools, but also sports clubs, community centers, and daycares under the same management structure — looking for better communication around results without switching their report-card tool.

How to choose

• You’re a public collège or lycée and want the sector’s reference tool without negotiating price yourself → Pronote, or Skolengo if your académie has already adopted it as its ENT backbone.
• You’re a private school under contract → L’École Directe is the sector standard.
• You’re a primary school and want an all-in-one ENT with a price you know upfront → Beneylu.
• Your priority is zero cost, and you practice (or want to practice) competency-based assessment → Sacoche, free and built for exactly that.
• Your priority is families seeing grades continuously, not just at report-card time, and your non-French-speaking parents (Arabic speakers especially) having an interface in their own language → BeeNet, alongside your existing report-card tool.

Specifically looking to leave Pronote rather than add a complementary tool? Our dedicated Pronote alternatives comparison covers that question from a different angle — school-family communication rather than report-card generation.

Frequently asked questions

Which report-card software is free?

Sacoche is entirely free and open-source, with no paid tier at all. Beneylu reportedly offers a single free class per some sources, but no free plan for an entire school. Pronote, L’École Directe, and Skolengo have no published free tier.

Were Pronote and Beneylu hacked in 2026?

The widely-reported incidents in 2026 involve ÉduConnect and Parcoursup — the French Ministry of Education’s own national authentication infrastructure — not Pronote’s (Index Éducation’s) or Beneylu’s own systems. We found no documented breach specific to either publisher in our research.

What’s the difference between the LSU and the LSL?

The LSU (livret scolaire unique) covers CP through 3e, with four mastery levels across eight components of the socle commun, assessed at the end of each cycle (CE2, 6e, 3e). The LSL (livret scolaire du lycée) covers seconde through terminale and counts for 40% of the final baccalauréat grade through continuous assessment.

Can BeeNet replace Pronote or Skolengo?

Not today, not for generating the report card itself — that capability (the REPORT_CARDS module) is under development at BeeNet and not yet available. BeeNet is used alongside an existing report-card tool, for continuous grade entry, review, and family communication.

Does report-card software need to be hosted in France?

GDPR requires hosting within the European Union, not necessarily in France specifically — unless your académie or local authority’s policy specifically requires it. Check the hosting country and the certification behind it (ISO 27001, SecNumCloud, HDS) rather than relying on a generic “GDPR-compliant” marketing claim.

Does Sacoche replace Pronote?

Not entirely: Sacoche covers competency-based assessment and livret scolaire generation, but not the scheduling, homework notebook, or internal messaging that Pronote also handles. Many schools use Sacoche alongside their main vie scolaire tool, not instead of it.

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If your priority is that every family — including parents who never log into the report-card portal, or who read Arabic more comfortably than French — knows where their child stands without waiting for the end of the term, BeeNet is an option worth considering alongside your current report-card software, not in place of it. See the grade entry and tracking feature or request a demo.

Sources: official Index Éducation, Aplim, Kosmos/Skolengo, Beneylu, and Sesamath websites; Capterra listings; BeeNet internal research, 2026-09-03.