Clever Data API

Name: Data API
Brand: Data API
Availability: InStock

✓ 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.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Data API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Data API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Data 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

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Data 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 Jentic?

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

Credential isolation

Your Clever OAuth credential is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'list students in a school' or 'get a district's schools in Clever', and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

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FAQs

Specific to using Data 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 your encrypted Jentic One instance, 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.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Clever Data API?

Yes. Because Jentic One is self-hosted, your own rules decide which Clever operations and credentials the agent may use. Since Clever puts the school, section, and district id in the URL path, such as GET /schools/{id}/students, you can pin the agent to a single school or district so it reads only that roster and nothing else. The Clever Data API exposes read operations only, and you choose which of those the agent is allowed to call, for example listing a school's students while withholding district-wide GET /districts/{id}/schools.