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.
No credit card • 30 students • 2 free contests every month
Instead of
- each school judging its own entries
- the biggest school winning every year
- fourteen inboxes and fourteen deadlines
You can have
- one neutral standard across every school
- divisions that size the field fairly
- a single window every school submits into
How it works with MeritBoard
- 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
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
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
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.
One region, one rubric, one podium
Start the group contest and invite your schools today.
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