August 27, 2018

Dear LCS Parent Portal User,

With the goal of enhancing communication between home and school, Leon County Schools is excited to announce that we have transitioned to a new Student Information System this year.

Focus School Software offers an updated user experience for parents and students, including a significant improvement in tracking student attendance and grades.  Parents will have the ability to update phone numbers, emails, and student permissions online. In addition, a parent or guardian may link multiple students to one account.

LCS Focus Parent Portal opened August 27, 2018, for parents and students.

All previous parent portal usernames and passwords issued by the school prior to the 18-19 school year have been deleted and will no longer work in the new system and should be discarded.

Information on creating your new LCS Focus Parent Portal account will be sent home with your child beginning Monday, August 27th, 2018. (Some schools may send their letters home on a different date) -  Sample of Letter sent home

We ask for your patience as we implement this new initiative district-wide. We have established a help desk as a resource for you. The help desk number is 487-7524 7a-5p. The email address is PortalHelp@leonschools.net  In order to protect student privacy and confidential information; you will be required to provide additional, verifiable, student information in order to receive assistance through the help desk. 

• Employees -  IMPORTANT!!! If you are an Employee who is also a parent as well.  DO NOT use your work e-mail as your parent portal login. Use a personal email.  If you use your @leonschools.net address, it will redirect you to your Employee portal, not your child's information!!!  Also, if you try to register for a parent acct from your school work site, the reCAPTCHA images may not load preventing you from completing your registration correctly.
  
  
• Parents - Please create your account after receiving the Parent Portal letter from your students' school.  You will use a personal email address as your login and be able to set your own password.  Parent login credentials should NEVER be shared.  Students will have their own Portal access directly through ClassLink. Information will be updated on a regular basis right here on the parent portal - https://www.leonschools.net/parentportal. 
  
  
• Students - Access the Focus Portal directly through ClassLink. Usernames and passwords are the same as their school network credentials. Students accessing ClassLink from home must use their full username StudentID#@edu.leonschools.net. For more information on students using ClassLink, please see https://www.leonschools.net/classlink

Once you have created your credentials on the portal, please download the free Leon County District Schools FOCUS app for parents and students through the Apple and Android stores. The app is a great supplement to the Focus Portal designed to enable quick and easy access while mobile.  This includes your student's grades, attendance, schedule, upcoming assignments, social media links, and district information.  In addition, important school notifications can be pushed to the app. Our goal is to keep you in the know - even while you are on the go! The Focus Portal and app use the same login credentials.