Latin on Mondays, chapel on Fridays, a waiting list at the door.
Classical Christian schools
NavEd fits the way Classical Christian schools already run: grades, attendance, records and a transcript, without asking anyone to be a district first.
NavEd is built for the classical Christian school you are still planting: a handful of founding families, a young board, and a Latin class that meets before your first real system does. Keep grades, admissions, and records in one place while you focus on the trivium and the covenant your school is built on.
This is you if
- A handful of founding families and a young board are running the school, not a hired registrar or a large administrative staff.
- Admissions means a signed statement of faith, a church reference, and a family interview, not an open online application.
- Your grammar-stage teachers want to mark work Mastered or Progressing, while your rhetoric-stage students still need a real GPA for college applications.
- You are getting ready for an ACCS or SCL accreditation review and do not want to rebuild your records from a folder of spreadsheets.
- You are still setting up your first real systems and would rather have something simple that works than something built for a school five times your size.
What NavEd does for you
A gradebook built to keep a real grade and a real transcript
Numeric grades and a comment on each assignment live on the Gradebook tab, and grade point averages can be set up weighted or unweighted, by course type, however your upper school actually calculates them. When a rhetoric-stage student needs a transcript for a college application, it is ready without a hand-built spreadsheet.
Admissions on your own terms
Enrollment applications are free on every plan, so a family never hits a paywall on the way in. You build the form and decide what it asks: a statement of faith, a church reference, whatever your covenant requires, and you control how applicants move through your own process.
Records that stay current, not reconstructed
Reports pull a structured, current view of your school's records on demand, so enrollment, grades, and attendance are one query rather than a folder of spreadsheets. There is no accreditation self-study export, so an ACCS or SCL packet is still assembled by hand. The difference is that you are assembling it from records that are already right.
The documents a covenant school keeps handing out
Your statement of faith, your handbook, and your family covenant live somewhere every family can pull them up mid-year, not only in the folder they signed in August. A directory and announcements keep founding families reachable to each other, which is how a school this young actually recruits its next few families.
What is still manual
- NavEd does not tag a class by trivium stage. Grammar, logic, and rhetoric are yours to organize by subject name, not a built-in category.
- Mastery marking is real but crippled. Entering that mark forces the stored numeric grade to 0.00, the mark is excluded from GPA and averages, and the generated report prints a literal 0.00% in its place. This is a known limitation we have not fixed yet, not something to work around today.
- The senior thesis and its oral defense have no dedicated tracking. Most schools keep running that process the way they already do.
- Admissions can collect a statement of faith and a church reference through your own form, but annual re-signing and following up on it is still your school's own work, not something NavEd reminds you of yet.
- There is no built-in Great Books reading list or memory-work tracker.
- There is no accreditation self-study export. General reporting exists, but an ACCS or SCL review packet is still assembled by hand.
- Tuition runs as a yearly plan with a set number of installments and a manual per-household override on the total. NavEd does not assess financial aid and has no sibling or multi-child discount logic, so a founding-family rate is a number you work out and enter yourself.
Getting started
- Set up your school and add your founding families and staff.
- Build your admissions form the way your covenant actually works: statement of faith, church reference, interview questions, whatever you require.
- Add your subjects, including Latin and any seminar or Great Books class, and assign teachers so real grades and comments start building a transcript from day one.
- Pull a report whenever you need a clean, current view of your records, including ahead of an accreditation review.
- Start free. The first five students are free on every plan, and keeping records, issuing a transcript, taking attendance, enrolling a student, and exporting your own data are never behind a paywall. See the pricing calculator for what it looks like as your school grows.
Questions Classical Christian schools ask
Does NavEd understand the trivium, or Latin, or the Great Books?
Not yet. You can name and organize your subjects however you teach them, including Latin and a Great Books seminar, but NavEd does not tag a class by grammar, logic, or rhetoric stage today. That is an honest gap, not a hidden one.
Can we collect a statement of faith and a church reference during admissions?
Yes, through your own enrollment form. What we do not automate yet is the annual re-signing and follow-up a covenant relationship needs. That part is still tracked by your school.
We use narrative or mastery marks in the early grades. Does that work alongside a real GPA?
Partly, and the limit matters. A teacher can mark an assignment Mastered, Progressing, or Needs Improvement right from the gradebook. Entering that mark forces the stored numeric grade to 0.00, the mark is excluded from GPA and averages, and the generated report prints a literal 0.00% in its place. So a rhetoric-stage GPA and a grammar-stage mastery mark cannot yet live on the same record cleanly. We are telling you that plainly rather than selling it as finished.
Do you track the senior thesis and its defense?
No. That capstone process does not have a home in NavEd yet, so most schools keep tracking it the way they do today, in a shared document or spreadsheet.
Is NavEd built for a large, accredited classical school with a hired registrar?
Honestly, probably not yet. NavEd fits the young, small end of this world best, schools still assembling their first real systems. A larger accredited school with trivium-specific needs may be better served by software built specifically for that scale.
What it costs
The first five students are free on every plan, no trial and no expiration. Keeping records, issuing a transcript, taking attendance, enrolling a student, and getting your own data back out are never behind a paywall. See the full pricing calculator.