The School module — one memory with the parish

If your parish has a school, the School module puts its families in the same memory as the parish — students, parents, grandparents, and alumni are the same people the parish already knows, never a second database. Vianney is deliberately not a student information system: there are no grades, attendance, discipline, medical, or tuition records anywhere, by design.

What lives here

• Admissions — the funnel from a family's first phone call to a seat in a classroom. See Admissions.
• Students — enrolled students by grade and year, with this parish's sacramental books alongside.
• Families — the school-family lists (school families, not-yet-registered, graduating, grandparents), with a hand-off to People.
• Alumni — graduates by class year. See Alumni.
• Giving — school fundraising runs on the same Stewardship rails as the parish, behind the same permissions.

The sacramental view on the Students tab

Beside each student the parish's books answer one factual question: is a baptism (or, from about age 8, a First Communion) record on file at this parish? "No record on file" proves nothing — most such children were simply baptized elsewhere. When something deserves attention later, staff add a follow-up note to the student's school record; the list can filter to those notes. There is deliberately no report, count, export, or mailing built from these flags — follow-up happens one family at a time.

Turning it on

The whole module is off until Settings → Modules enables School; who sees what inside it follows the role access matrix (the school switches live under School in Settings → Role access).