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As filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on October 1, 2024.

Registration 333-270101

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO:

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-270101

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

POWERSCHOOL HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

85-4166024

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

150 Parkshore Drive

Folsom, California 95630

(877) 873-1550

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Hardeep Gulati

Chief Executive Officer

150 Parkshore Drive

Folsom, California 95630

(877) 873-1550

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Robert M. Hayward, P.C.

Robert E. Goedert, P.C.

Michael P. Keeley, P.C.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

333 West Wolf Point Plaza

Chicago, IL 60654

(312) 862-2000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: N/A. The registrant is filing this post-effective amendment to remove from registration any securities registered hereunder that remain unsold.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ☐

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☒

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed by PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. (the “Registrant”) to deregister all securities remaining unsold under the following Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”):

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Registration Statement on Form S-3 (333-270101) filed with the SEC on February 28, 2023, pertaining to the registration for resale by certain selling stockholders of an indeterminate number of shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Registrant.

Effective October 1, 2024, pursuant to and in accordance with the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 6, 2024, by and among the Registrant, BCPE Polymath Buyer, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and BCPE Polymath Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving corporation in the Merger and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

As a result of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of the Registrant’s securities pursuant to its existing registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the Registration Statement. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all such securities of the Registrant registered pursuant to the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities. After giving effect to this Post-Effective Amendment, there will be no remaining securities registered by the Registrant pursuant to the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Folsom, State of California, on October 1, 2024.


	PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. (Registrant)

By:	/s/ Eric Shander
	Name:	Eric Shander
	Title:	President and Chief Executive Officer

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

SEC Form POS AM filed by PowerSchool Holdings Inc.