About this class placement tool
Sorting a grade into next year's classes is a week of sticky notes and a spreadsheet nobody trusts, and most of the software for it wants the children uploaded first. This one runs in the browser, so the names never travel, and it shows which requests it could not keep and why.
What the guides draw on
No national specification defines a balanced class list; each school sets its own. The 6 guides therefore cite what does exist, 23 documents in all, among them the 2017 study “The Balancing Act” in the Journal of Educational Administration, a school placement policy published by its district, the NSW Department of Education on composite classes, and US Department of Education guidance on FERPA and third-party services. The comparison guide also names 4 other placement products and the pages its claims were taken from.
The worked examples are this builder's own output. The figures in them come from running a sample grade of invented students through the same solver the builder uses, so no child in them is real.
Who is behind it
No company stands behind ClassSplit. One independent developer builds and runs it, and also makes PewRota for parish ministry rotas, Judgegrid for science fair judge assignments and Scorerdesk for volleyball scoresheets. The shared look is shared code.
On every guide the credit reads ClassSplit, with no individual byline, and the author field of the structured data names the site's organization. No teacher, principal, school psychologist or consultant is credited, and the site claims no qualification, district role or endorsement.
The decisions it will not make
A class list from here is a draft for the staff who know the children. It cannot know a history between two families, a safeguarding arrangement, a care need the office knows about, which teacher suits which child, or anything a colleague would tell you in a corridor, and it never claims a list is fair, correct or final. It does not place children: the school does, and the arithmetic here is only a starting point to argue with. It is not a student information system and does not connect to one, so nothing entered here reaches a school record. It gives no legal or data protection advice; whether your own records policy allows a grade list to be pasted into a browser is a question for your district, even though nothing typed here is uploaded. And there is no copy on a server, which means an unexported draft is gone if the browser data is cleared. Nothing here is connected to a school, a district, an education department, a student information system or a vendor of placement software.
Contact
A wrong figure, a broken citation or a request the solver handles badly: [email protected].