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For diocese, district & regional organisers

Run one fair contest across every school in your region

Per-grade divisions, a fixed submission window every school shares, and one rubric applied identically to every entry — whether it comes from the 900-student school or the one with 40.

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No credit card • 30 students • 2 free contests every month

Teacher-verified · MeritBoard-certified FERPA & COPPA-conscious We never train AI on student work

What makes this hard today

Each school judged its own entries and nobody trusts the result

When fourteen principals each pick a finalist, you are not running one contest — you are running fourteen, then comparing apples. Here every entry in the region is scored against the same rubric before anyone sees a name.

The biggest school wins every year

Per-grade divisions mean a fourth grader is ranked against fourth graders, not against the school with the strongest art department.

Collecting entries across fourteen schools means fourteen inboxes

Invite each school’s teacher into one group contest. Entries land in one place, under one deadline, with one set of rules.

Deadline drift makes the result meaningless

A fixed open and close window applies to every school at once. Late is late, everywhere, without you having to be the one who says so.

How it works with MeritBoard

  1. 1

    Create a group contest and invite the schools

    Each participating teacher joins with a code and manages their own roster. You keep the rules, the window, and the rubric.

  2. 2

    Set your divisions

    Divide by grade, by grade band, or by your own custom divisions. Each division gets its own podium, so small schools stay competitive.

  3. 3

    Every entry meets the same rubric

    Computer-assisted first-pass scoring, identical criteria across the region, with a written rationale you can show a pastor, a principal, or a parent.

  4. 4

    You verify and publish one regional result

    One public results page, certificates for every placing student, and share cards each school can post.

Before you start

How do we explain the scoring to our schools?

Send them our How Scoring Works page and the District Trust Packet. Computer-assisted first pass, teacher-verified and MeritBoard-certified result, nothing published automatically.

Is student work used to train AI models?

Never — across every school in the group. Entries are used to score that contest and nothing else.

Do our schools each need their own subscription?

No. Group contests let participating teachers join under the organiser’s plan. Multi-school and district pricing is on the plans page.

What about student privacy across schools?

Public pages show a first name and last initial or a screen name, and any student can be excluded from public display. Our security page has the details.

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  • District Trust Packet
  • Security & student privacy
  • How scoring works
  • Plans & pricing
  • District AI Policy Kit

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