Your Parent/Guardian username for HCPSS Connect (Synergy, Canvas, etc.) is the email address entered in Family File when you registered your child. 

Parents/guardians who experience challenges completing Family File should contact your child’s school for help completing the Family File. For login issues, complete the Help form with detailed information and support personnel will respond.

For the 2025-26 school year, bus registration is not required.  All bus-eligible students (per Board of Education Policy 5200 - Student Transportation) will be routed.

All Home and Hospital instruction sessions are delivered virtually. Only in extenuating circumstances will in-person sessions be arranged.

Please direct all questions about students with disabilities to your child's IEP Team.  The IEP Team, along with your input, will determine what support services may need to be provided given your child's medical condition that is precluding them from attending school for a short period of time. 

Students enrolled in the Howard County Public School system are eligible for interim Home and Hospital instructional sessions when it is determined by an appropriate medical provider per COMAR (13A.03.05.04) that a student’s medical diagnosis is serious enough to preclude school attendance (20 schools days - 60 calendar days) or a chronic health impairment that causes the student to be absent at least 20% of the time.

For the 2025-26 school year, bus registration is not required.  All bus-eligible students (per Board of Education Policy 5200 - Student Transportation) will be routed. 

Synergy is the Student Management System (SIS) used by HCPSS. Synergy is the primary system for recording quarterly and/or final grades. Grades will appear in Synergy as they appear on quarterly report cards at the end of each marking period.

Yes, if the student has not enrolled/transferred to the approved school within 30 calendar days from the date of approval, the reassignment approval will be considered declined and will be rescinded by HCPSS.