The short version
Grades decay passively — attending school is not enough. A grade drops if your kid arrives tired, hungry, sick, sad or late, or if a homework assignment expires. Homework is digital only: check the school window in the career tab and do it on a computer. Send kids to school with full needs and a good mood, do every assignment, and spend upgrade points on grades. Two F's trigger a social-services warning; a third F removes the child, so keep every subject at D or better.
How to Stop Grades Dropping and Improve School in Paralives
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Understand why grades drop
Grade decay is aggressive by design. Each school day the game scores several things, and any one going wrong can pull a grade down a full letter: passive decay, low needs (energy, hunger, hygiene), a negative mood or status effect, sickness, a missed homework assignment, or arriving late. A B can become a C in a single bad afternoon.
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Find and do the homework
Homework in Paralives is entirely digital — there is no notebook on the floor or in the inventory. Open the child's school window from the career tab; if an assignment is listed, send them to a computer (with a chair) to complete it. Completing homework raises that subject by a full letter, and assignments expire after about three in-game days, so check every day.
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Fix needs and mood before the bus
Send your kid to school well-rested, fed and clean, and in a positive mood. Low Energy, Hunger or Hygiene, or a sad/embarrassed/stressed status, all damage performance during the school day even if they attend. Leave early enough that they arrive on time — Paras physically walk to school and a slow start counts as a late arrival.
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Spend upgrade points on grades
The school window shows a performance meter, current grades and any upgrade points. When a Para earns an upgrade point, spend it to raise a subject grade or take a perk such as faster learning. Raising grades is much harder than letting them fall, so take every boost the game offers.
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Avoid the social-services warning
Falling to an F in two subjects triggers a 'School Warning' letter from social services. One more F after the warning and the child is removed from the household. Keeping every subject at D or better avoids the letter entirely — prioritise the worst subject with homework and upgrade points the moment a warning arrives.
Common school mistakes
Thinking attendance is enough
Going to school does not maintain grades — they decay anyway. Manage needs, mood and homework every single day.
Looking for homework on the floor
Homework is digital. Open the school window in the career tab and complete it on a computer with a chair, before it expires.
Ignoring the first warning letter
After two F's you get one warning; a third F removes the child. Rush the failing subject up to D or better immediately.
Grades & report cards
Grades run from A to F and are judged on school days, not just by homework. The exact formula the game uses is not published, but the mechanics covered above are what players and the wiki have confirmed. Here is what we know about how grades are calculated, how to raise them, what a parent can actually see, and whether cheating matters.
How grades are calculated
Each school day the game scores several inputs — passive decay, your child's needs (energy, hunger, hygiene), mood and status effects, sickness, a missed homework assignment and arriving late — and any one going wrong can pull a grade down a full letter. The precise weighting is not yet verified: official sources have not published the exact formula, so we treat the confirmed inputs above as the mechanic rather than guessing a number.
How to improve grades
Treat grades as a daily recovery problem, not a homework grind. Send the child to school with energy, hunger and hygiene topped up — a need in the red, a late arrival or a missed assignment pulls a grade down. The confirmed levers are: do the homework on a computer with a chair before it expires (roughly three in-game days), arrive on time with full needs, and keep every subject at D or better — two F's trigger the School Warning, and another F after that removes the child from the household.
What a parent can see
Open the child's school window from the career tab to see the performance meter, current per-subject grades and any upgrade points. Homework is listed there too — it is digital only, so that window is the one place to check assignments before they expire after roughly three in-game days.
Do cheats affect grades?
Not yet verified. No official patch note or developer source currently documents a cheating penalty, so we can't confirm whether cheating (for example through the in-game cheat menu) touches a child's grades. Treat that as unpublished rather than safe to assume.
Homework: how it works
Homework never exists as an item in the world — it lives only in the school window. Here is how assignments appear, how to complete them, and what happens when one expires.
How you get homework
There is no physical homework item — no notebook on the floor, nothing in the inventory. Assignments are listed in the child's school window, opened from the career tab. Check that window every day: assignments expire after about three in-game days, and the window is the only place to see them.
How to complete it
If an assignment is listed, send the child to a computer with a chair to complete it. Doing homework raises that subject by a full letter. Do not leave it until later — after about three in-game days the assignment expires and is gone.
What happens if you skip it
Each school day the game scores several inputs, and a missed homework assignment is one of them — right alongside low needs, a negative mood, sickness and a late arrival. Any one going wrong can pull that subject down a full letter, so an expired assignment is not neutral.
Paralives school & grades FAQ
- Why do my Paralives kid's grades keep dropping?
- Grades decay passively, so attending school is not enough. A grade falls if the kid arrives tired, hungry, sick, sad or late, or if a homework assignment expired. Send them to school with full needs and a good mood, and complete every homework assignment on a computer.
- Where is homework in Paralives?
- There is no physical homework item. Open the child's school window from the career tab — if an assignment is listed, send them to a computer (with a chair) to complete it. It raises that subject by a full letter and expires after about three in-game days.
- What happens if my child gets bad grades in Paralives?
- Two F's trigger a School Warning letter from social services. If the child earns another F after the warning, they are removed from the household. Keep every subject at D or better to avoid the letter.
- Why do grades drop even when homework is done?
- Grades decay passively on every school day, and each red need (energy, hunger, hygiene), low mood, sickness or a late arrival pulls them down further — homework alone can't hold a grade up while the rest is going wrong.
- Do grades reset when a child ages up?
- Not yet verified — no official patch note or developer source documents whether grades carry over the child-to-teen transition, so we list it as unknown rather than guessing.
- How do I do homework in Paralives?
- There is no physical homework item. Open the child's school window from the career tab and look for a listed assignment; if one is there, send the child to a computer with a chair and complete it before it expires — roughly three in-game days. Finishing homework raises that subject by a full letter, and an expired assignment counts against the daily grade check, so check the window every day.
More family guides
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Quick answers to the most common Paralives gameplay questions.