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SchooLinks Resources for Families
What is SchooLinks?
Starting with the 2025-2026 school year, all school districts in Washington state will be plugging students and families into SchooLinks as their resource for their High School and Beyond Plan (HSBP). The HSBP is a state graduation requirement designed to help students explore careers or college pathways starting in 7th grade. At least one parent/guardian for each student is also required to be connected on SchooLinks.
Students Will Use SchooLinks To:
- Identify their strengths and interests through surveys that personalize their learning and career path.
- Research post-secondary options, including 2- and 4-year colleges, and take virtual reality college tours
- Explore 2-year and 4-year colleges and take virtual reality college campus tours
- Search for scholarships and learn about financial aid
- Explore traditional, emerging, and military career fields for diverse insights
- Create a digital portfolio or resume to showcase skills and accomplishments
- Communicate with counselors for support and guidance on the High School & Beyond Plan
- Access career interest, strength and mindset surveys
Parents/Guardians Will Use SchooLinks To:
- Approve their student’s HSBP – a graduation requirement
- Check progress toward graduation (and specifically what credits/courses are still needed)
- See what courses their child is registering for
- Access their child’s transcript
- See results of career interest inventories, learning style quizzes and other assessments
- See the careers their child saved to their Favorites List
Have SchooLinks Questions?
CMS (grades 6-8) families contact Autumn Ledgerwood
W.F. West (grades 9-12) families contact Kelsie Stiltner
SchooLinks FAQ
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The HSBP is a graduation requirement in Washington and a tool to support each student’s future planning. State law outlines both what must be included in the plan and how it should be supported across districts.
- RCW 28A.230.212 establishes the core requirements for every student’s HSBP. Plans must include career and college goals, a personalized four-year course plan, activities that support exploration and planning, and, when applicable, alignment with a student’s IEP transition plan.
- RCW 28A.230.215 requires OSPI to provide a universal online platform that supports the development and management of HSBPs. The platform ensures equitable access, consistency across districts, and portability of plans as students move. OSPI has selected SchooLinks as the statewide platform, with phased implementation beginning in 2025.
You can read more about Washington State graduation rates and requirements at THIS LINK
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SchooLinks is one of 3 platforms we use in the Chehalis School District:
- SchooLinks is the platform that all students in grades 7-12 in Washington State must now use to complete their High School and Beyond Plan (HSBP). At least one parent/guardian for every student is required to connect to their student in SchooLinks in order to approve their student’s HSBP (also a graduation requirement)
- Skyward Family Access is used to store family and student data. Parents/Guardians may view information such as: grades and missing assignments; schedule; meal account balance; absences; and progress toward graduation. Skyward is also where we keep contact information for your family and where that information needs to be corrected if there is a change.
- ParentSquare is the Chehalis School District’s primary form of communication with staff, students and families. If you are a parent/guardian of an active student listed in Skyward Family Access, you will automatically receive ParentSquare messages. Important information, schedules and announcements as will emergency messaging will come through ParentSquare.
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- SchooLinks and OSPI have a data-privacy agreement that requires SchooLinks to protect student data consistent with state and federal privacy laws. SchooLinks processes the student data to personalize the student experience within the universal online HSBP platform for students in Washington. SchooLinks cannot use the student data for other purposes.
Read the data-privacy agreement at THIS LINK
Read more about student data privacy through SchooLinks at THIS LINK
- If you opted out of High School Student Directory Info sharing with OSPI, it also applies to information shared through SchooLinks. Read more about High School Student Directory information sharing at THIS LINK.
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- Not everyone will have access to this information. SchooLinks uses assigned roles with corresponding permissions to control access. District leaders decide which staff can see what by assigning them to specific Roles (there are 9) and Capabilities (there are about 40). SchooLinks provides technical guidance, and districts can create custom roles with unique permissions to fit their local needs.
- In addition, SchooLinks will help us know what kinds of career and college readiness supports to provide for our students. For example:
- Being able to monitor our students’ progress on the HSBP allows us to provide early interventions for students who may need additional assistance
- A high number of students indicating an interest in a certain field in their HSBP may trigger us to invite a guest speaker from that field to our campus
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- Your student’s academic counselor can provide it to you.
- Your student can provide you with their student claim code. Directions for students on where to find their student claim code can be found at THIS LINK.
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SchooLinks is dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible platform for all users, including those with disabilities. To achieve this, SchooLinks has integrated an advanced accessibility widget powered by accessiBe. This widget offers a wide range of features designed to enhance the usability of our site for individuals with various accessibility needs.
