Data API

Name: Data API API
Brand: Data API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecEducationStudent Managementoauth244 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Retrieve normalized K-12 roster data — students, teachers, sections, schools, and district information — from any connected student information system via a single read-only API with 44 endpoints.

Quickstart

Get started with Data API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"get student roster for a school"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Data API API.

Retrieve student records with demographics, grade levels, and school associations

Look up teacher profiles with their assigned sections and grade levels

List sections with enrolled students and assigned teachers for scheduling sync

Access district-level data including all schools, sections, students, and teachers

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Data API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ AI Agent Roster Sync for EdTech Applications

AI agents use the Clever Data API through Jentic to automatically pull student and teacher rosters from connected school districts into edtech applications. The agent queries district endpoints to discover schools, then retrieves sections, students, and teachers for each school. This eliminates manual CSV imports and keeps application rosters in sync with the district SIS. Clever normalizes data from over 100 SIS platforms into a single consistent schema.

Retrieve all students for school ID 5a4b3c2d1e via GET /schools/{id}/students and map their grade levels to application user records

Student Information Lookup and Verification

Query individual student records by ID to verify enrollment status, school assignment, and demographic data. The API returns student objects with grade level, school association, and SIS identifiers. EdTech platforms use this for real-time verification during login flows or administrative lookups. Each student record includes links to their sections, teachers, contacts, and district.

Look up student ID abc123 via GET /students/{id} and retrieve their enrolled sections via GET /students/{id}/sections

District-Wide Reporting and Analytics

Pull complete district data for analytics dashboards and compliance reporting. The API provides endpoints to list all schools, teachers, students, and sections within a district. District status endpoints expose sync health and data freshness. This supports annual enrollment audits, teacher-to-student ratio calculations, and school capacity planning across entire districts.

Fetch all schools in district xyz789 via GET /districts/{id}/schools and then retrieve student counts per school

Section and Teacher Assignment Mapping

Map teacher assignments to class sections for scheduling tools and workload analysis. The API exposes which teachers are assigned to each section and which sections belong to each school. GET /sections/{id}/teachers returns all teachers for a section, while GET /teachers/{id}/sections returns all sections for a teacher, enabling bidirectional schedule mapping.

Retrieve all sections for teacher ID teach456 via GET /teachers/{id}/sections and list the enrolled student count per section

Key Endpoints

44 endpoints — provides read-only access to k-12 district roster data including students, teachers, sections, schools, and district administrators through 44 endpoints.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/students

List all students accessible to the application

GET

/students/{id}

Retrieve a specific student by ID

GET

/schools/{id}/students

List all students in a school

GET

/sections/{id}/students

List students enrolled in a section

GET

/teachers/{id}/sections

List sections assigned to a teacher

GET

/districts/{id}/schools

List all schools in a district

GET

/districts/{id}/status

Get district sync status

GET

/students

List all students accessible to the application

GET

/students/{id}

Retrieve a specific student by ID

GET

/schools/{id}/students

List all students in a school

GET

/sections/{id}/students

List students enrolled in a section

GET

/teachers/{id}/sections

List sections assigned to a teacher

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Clever OAuth 2.0 tokens are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Agents receive scoped access tokens — raw client secrets and authorization codes never enter the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'get student roster for a school') and Jentic returns matching Clever operations with their input schemas, so the agent can retrieve the right data without navigating Clever's documentation.

Time to first call

Direct Clever integration: 2-4 days for OAuth flow, pagination handling, and data mapping. Through Jentic: under 1 hour — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Schoology REST API

Schoology manages LMS operations (grades, enrollments, courses); Clever provides read-only roster data from the SIS

Use Schoology when you need to manage courses, grades, and enrollments within the LMS. Use Clever when you need to read canonical roster data from the district's student information system.

Alternative

Moodle Web Services API

Moodle provides both read and write LMS operations; Clever is read-only roster data from the SIS layer

Use Moodle when the institution uses Moodle and you need read-write access to users, courses, and grades. Use Clever for normalized read-only roster data from any connected SIS.

Alternative

PowerSchool SIS API

PowerSchool is a direct SIS API; Clever aggregates data from PowerSchool and other SIS platforms into a normalized layer

Use PowerSchool when you need direct read-write access to a specific PowerSchool instance. Use Clever when you need a normalized read-only view that works across any SIS vendor.

FAQs

Specific to using Data API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Clever Data API use?

The Clever Data API uses OAuth 2.0 with the authorization code flow. Applications redirect users to https://clever.com/oauth/authorize and exchange authorization codes for tokens at https://clever.com/oauth/tokens. Through Jentic, OAuth tokens are stored in the encrypted MAXsystem vault, so agents access roster data without handling raw credentials.

Can I write or modify student records through the Clever Data API?

No. The Clever Data API is read-only — all 44 endpoints use GET requests. It provides a unified view of roster data from the district's student information system but does not support creating, updating, or deleting records. Write operations must go through the source SIS.

How do I retrieve all students for a specific school through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get students in a school from clever' to find the GET /schools/{id}/students operation. Install the SDK with pip install jentic, search for the operation, load its schema, and execute with the school ID. The response returns paginated student objects with grade levels and demographics.

What data does Clever normalize from student information systems?

Clever normalizes roster data into six resource types: students (with grade level, demographics), teachers (with assignments), sections (with enrolled students and teachers), schools, districts, and contacts. Data is sourced from over 100 SIS platforms and exposed through a consistent schema regardless of the underlying system.

What are the rate limits for the Clever Data API?

Clever enforces rate limits per OAuth token. The API returns HTTP 429 when limits are exceeded with a Retry-After header. Standard integrations typically have a limit of several hundred requests per minute. Jentic's execution layer handles retry logic and backoff automatically.

How do I check if a district's data sync is current?

Use GET /districts/{id}/status to retrieve the sync status for a district. The response includes the last sync timestamp and current sync state, allowing you to verify data freshness before pulling rosters. This is critical for ensuring grade-level and enrollment data is up to date.