School Gateway, the easiest way to interact with your child’s life at school.
Designed to support schools in achieving outstanding parental engagement, School Gateway helps you manage school communications, payments, clubs, dinner money and more all in one simple, easy to use app.
Key features:
- Receive push notifications and in-app messages from your school - Easily pay for items using your preferred payment method - Top-up your child’s dinner money and select meal choices - Book before and after school clubs - View your child’s timetable and end of year reports - Monitor attendance - Update the contact details your school hold for you - All your children across multiple schools in one account
Things you need to know:
- Your school must be subscribed to School Gateway before you can use this app - Your school controls the information shared with you - To register/login, your school must have your email address and phone number on their system. If you can’t log in, please check these details are up to date at your school - Your account will automatically display information for multiple children /schools as long as the schools use School Gateway. Please check your email address and mobile number at all your schools match - You must turn on push notifications for the app to receive messages and updates from your school
Latest updates
What's new in version 2.38.4.470
We’ve been working on some improvements for Messages which will help with future updates of the app. Thanks for using School Gateway!
How to install School Gateway APK on Android phone or tablet?
Download School Gateway APK file from ApkClean, then follow these steps:
Update Phone Settings
Go to your phone Settings page
Tap Security or Applications (varies with device)
Check the Unknown Sources box
Confirm with OK
Go to Downloads
Open Downloads on your device by going to My Files or Files
Tap the APK file you downloaded (com.schoolcomms.sga-v2.38.4.470-ApkClean.apk)
Tap Install when prompted, the APK file you downloaded will be installed on your device.
A: Just like Windows (PC) systems use an .exe file for installing software, Android does the same. An APK file is the file format used for installing software on the Android operating system.
Q: If I install an APK from this website, will I be able to update the app from the Play Store?
A: Yes, absolutely. The Play Store installs APKs it downloads from Google's servers, and sideloading from a site like ApkClean.net goes through a very similar process, except you're the one performing the downloading and initiating the installation (sideloading). As soon as the Play Store finds a version of the app newer than the one you've sideloaded, it will commence an update.
Q: Why ApkClean.net can guarantee APK 100% safe?
A: Whenever someone wants to download an APK file from ApkClean.net, we'll check the corresponding APK file on Google Play and allow user download it directly (of course, we'll cache it on our server). If the APK file does not exist on Google Play, we'll search it in our cache.
Q: What are Android App permissions?
A: Apps require access to certain systems within your device. When you install an application, you are notified of all of the permissions required to run that application.
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User's Reivew
1 ★This software is almost unusable. I am forced to use it because my children s school has bought into the system. Trying to book multiple events for.multople children over multiple days just doesn't work. It gets events mixed up, and is generally very confusing. I am a software developer with 20 years commercial experience.. I would disown this software if I wrote it.
1 ★Doesn't work properly on my S10. Push notifications don't work since I upgraded my phone, which means I have no idea when school are sending me a message. I've missed several important messages as a result. I've tried to contact the support email but no one replies. Unfortunately, it's not as if I can uninstall and use a different service as this is the one school subscribe to, so I'm stuck with it and having to try to remember to regularly check to make sure there are no new messages.
4 ★This is a great app for keeping up with my child's school related info, however, it often crashes. When I get an alert that there's a new achievement or a new message, I tap it and it launches the programme, however, it does nothing for a few seconds and then closes itself. If I open the app without tapping the alert, it works fine.
2 ★I have tried to sign in as a new user (I used to have no problems interacting with my child's school until now, as they have just added "school gateway" as their primary method of contact). Waiting for my PIN to be texted for over a half hour now. Will call my child's school tomorrow and speak to them. Previous method was much better.
5 ★This is a fantastic way for me to keep track of my son's achievements in school, pay for his trips, even to check his timetables to make sure he has everything he needs for the day. Really pleased with the app. I can honestly say I wish more schools would open up to using services like this, parent pay and the show my homework app.
1 ★the payment part of this app is fine, though being able to pay smaller amounts would be good. but i don't get notifications at all, i have all notification permusions on, i have told school who's only response was "it must be another app you have interfering" so i turned all other notification permissions off and still don't get notifications. i can not ve checking for messages every ten minutes just in case
1 ★I can't see or make payments for my son's lunch, trips and other school essentials. Nothing is showing on his Gateway account. I have contacted the school and they said i should contact the school Gateway team as they have done everything on their side. Please could you sort this out. Thank you.
1 ★It's absolutely appalling. It doesn't send you notifications at all and you have to check it several times a day for new messages from the school. Yes I have notifications set up for the app on my phone and I've also tried uninstalling/reinstalling it and it still doesn't work. I've missed several important notifications from the school in the last month which has caused great stress and upset.
1 ★Totally frustrating ... I get messages from the school I can see money I've paid and dinners had. I can't add payments only have a message that says only available where the school has online reporting. Checked with the school they said everything is ok at their end. So I've uninstalled and added again, checked my email is correct, changed my pin and still not able to use the app. Pointless
4 ★Great app. Really useful features and really easy to use. Only issue I've had obviously got introduced at some point in the past during an app update. I've always run the app inside Samsung Secure Folder and it's always worked. I recently change my phone and now the app won't work inside the Secure Folder container. But it works fine if run outside the container. Please fix this and you'll get 5*'s.
3 ★It's ok, but the lack of low balance alerts (which everyone seems to ask for) is very frustrating as it results in children missing meals. We have to use the app, but given a choice I would find something else which doesn't lack such basic functionality.
2 ★This is not a great app to be honest. We have had to move to this app as the School had changed their notification service to SG. The app is painfully slow and crashes at times. It Doesn't feel like a professional service, more like a glorified school IT project. Currently using on a Huawei P20 Pro on a 300mb connection. All the parents ive discussed this with absolutely abhor this app. It needs a major upgrade to be up to the standard required.