Gibbon
Open-source school management system for educators, students, parents, and administrators
- Also known as
- gibbon
What is Gibbon?
A flexible platform that helps schools manage operations and improve communication and engagement across the entire educational community
Gibbon pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free and open-source core platform. Optional: Foundation Membership and Catalyst License.
Core Platform
FreeFree and open-source school management platform with comprehensive features for teaching, learning, and administration
- Calendar management
- Student alerts (automatic and manual)
- Timetable management
- Student profiles
- Academic/behavioral/medical/SEN alerts
- Customizable user access levels
- Help Desk module
- Trip Planner module
- Photo history
- Multi-language support (29 languages)
- Right-to-left text support
Foundation Membership
Contact salesAnnual membership supporting Gibbon development with access to three annual online meetings with developers and members
Catalyst License
Contact salesAdds access to Query Builder module with 90+ useful data analysis queries
What Gibbon does
The capabilities that matter for student information systems, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment model
- On premise legacy
- Target market
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- Ed fi and oneroster standard compliance
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- Algorithmic master bell schedule builder
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- State and federal level compliance reporting export
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- Parent guardian mobile app portal
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- Financial aid and pell grant processing fafsa
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- Degree audit and graduation pathway tracking
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- Discipline and behavioral incident logging
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- Special education iep individualized program tracking
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- SOC2 type ii
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- Ferpa and coppa privacy compliance
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- Pricing model
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Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Self-hosted
Gibbon FAQ
Common questions about Gibbon, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Gibbon?
A web-based educational management system where schools coordinate teaching and learning across multiple user roles—teachers, students, parents, and administrators—each with role-specific permissions and access levels. It is indexed under Student Information Systems.
Source: https://www.gibbonedu.org
Is Gibbon free to use?
Gibbon is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the GPL-3.0 licence. Paid editions are also offered: Foundation Membership and Catalyst License, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.gibbonedu.org
What platforms does Gibbon support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Gibbon. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.gibbonedu.org
Can Gibbon be self-hosted?
Yes. Gibbon can be deployed on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.gibbonedu.org
Is Gibbon open source?
Yes. Gibbon is published under the GPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Gibbon alternatives
Other student information systems we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- FedenaA comprehensive school management platform that automates administrative operations and provides data-driven insights for institutional decision-makinglow · 47%
- OpenSISAn AI-powered platform for managing student data and school operations, designed to reduce administrative work and improve efficiency.low · 31%
- JenzabarUnified student information platform for higher education institutionslow · 8%
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Gibbon, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development activity | 47 | 0.09 | 4.4 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 57 | 0.05 | 3.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 0.07 | 1.9 | ✓ |
| Stars | 53 | 0.03 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 29 | mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 634 | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 67% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Deployment model: on_premise_legacy · Discipline and behavioral incident logging: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | PHP | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | GPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-10-05 · 95% |
Pricing
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