A Shared Calendar for Your Charter School
Lottery deadlines, board meetings, showcase nights, closings — synced to every family's phone. No app to download. No website to check.
Create Your Charter School Calendar — FreeSound familiar?
It's March 1st. The enrollment lottery application window closes today at midnight. A parent who toured your school in January and loved it finds out on March 2nd that the deadline has passed. She thought it was March 15th. The date was on the admissions page of your website, but she wrote the wrong one in her planner. Her child won't be in the lottery this year.
The monthly board meeting is open to all families. It's the second Thursday at 6 PM. You post the agenda on your website each month. Average attendance from parents: two. Sometimes zero. The board just voted on a uniform policy change and now parents are upset because they didn't know it was being discussed. It was on the agenda they didn't check.
Student showcase night is Friday at 5:30 PM. Students in grades 3 through 8 have been working on presentations for two weeks. You sent a robocall, emailed, and gave students flyers. Friday at 5:15 PM, a third grader is standing by her project board looking at the door. Her dad gets there at 6:20 — he thought it started at 6. Half the projects are already packed up.
How it works for charter schools
Add your school events
Add lottery deadlines, board meetings, showcase nights, closings, enrollment windows — anything families and prospective families need to know.
Share with families
Put the link on your website, include it in enrollment materials, or text it to current families. They tap once to subscribe.
Events appear on their phone
School events show up in their regular calendar app — right alongside work, sports, and personal appointments.
No more missed lottery deadlines or empty board meetings. Start your charter school calendar for free.
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Here's what charter schools typically share with families:
What this looks like in practice
Andrea, the charter school office manager, enters the full school year calendar in August. Every board meeting, every closing, every testing window, the lottery application period, and all showcase nights. She also creates a public "Prospective Families" calendar with open house dates and the lottery deadline. The whole thing takes 35 minutes.
Darnell, a father of a fifth grader, subscribes during back-to-school night. Three months later, he is scrolling through his phone on a Sunday and sees "Board Meeting — Thursday 6 PM — Agenda: Schedule Change Proposal." He marks it and shows up Thursday with questions. He is one of eleven parents in the room instead of the usual two.
In February, Andrea pushes back the lottery deadline by one week because of a snow week that closed the office. She updates the event once, and every subscriber — current families and prospective ones — sees the new date on their phone. No robocall, no updated flyer, no confusion about which deadline is real.
How iCalFeed compares
vs. School website calendar
Parents visit the website once to enroll and never come back. Dates sit there unseen.
Events push to their phone automatically. No website visit required.
vs. Robocalls and automated messages
Parents see an unknown number and don't answer. Voicemails pile up unheard.
Calendar events appear silently and clearly. No phone call to miss.
vs. Paper flyers sent home
Flyers compete with homework sheets and permission slips. Most get lost.
Events live on their phone. Nothing to carry, nothing to lose.
vs. Social media announcements
Not every parent follows your page. Posts get buried in the algorithm.
Calendar events stay on the phone until the date passes. No algorithm to fight.
Charter school calendar questions
Keep every charter school family informed
Start with the free plan — 1 calendar, 10 events. No credit card required.