For schools whose 137 yearbooks are institutional memory, not storeroom inventory.
Independent schools, boarding schools, and K-12 academies use Archively.AI to bring yearbooks, alumni records, head-of-school correspondence, athletics history, and the FERPA-bound student record into one searchable catalog — every cohort traceable, every alumna findable, every record under the right access rule.
- Earliest record
- Founding charter
- Yearbook span
- Over a century, every year
- Tenants
- 1 school · many cohorts
What you'll actually do with it.
Concrete use cases — not generic pitch bullets.
Catalog every yearbook back to founding.
Bound yearbook runs as a continuous series. Photographic OCR + AI face-detection (opt-in) surfaces classmates by name, even when only the index entry survives. Alumni search the catalog the way they used to flip pages.
Hold student records under FERPA.
Per-record access tiered by the FERPA rules and the school's records-retention policy. Pre-100-year records open by default; in-policy records gated to the named student or their authorised agent.
Run an alumni programme on the catalog.
Alumni magazine runs, class-reunion files, and the giving programme as one connected series. A 25-year-out alumna's record links to her class, her sports teams, the head's correspondence about her admission, and the centennial issue she edited.
Trace head-of-school correspondence across decades.
Twelve heads in 137 years, each with their own correspondence file. The 1962 co-education arc walks from one head's first day through ~280 parent letters to the next year's yearbook.
Maintain athletics and extracurricular history.
Match programmes, team photographs, trophies, and club minute books. The 125-year Larkspur–Hillcrest rivalry catalogued match-by-match alongside Coach Pemberton's 37-year tenure.
Plan the next anniversary cycle from the catalog.
100th-, 125th-, 150th-anniversary commemorations re-use historic creative. Tag the originals once; surface them as a curated 'Heritage' collection on demand.
Larkspur Academy Archives
137 years of an independent boarding-and-day school: 137 yearbooks, head-of-school correspondence across twelve heads, an alumni magazine since 1912, and a 125-year-old athletic rivalry — alongside FERPA-bound student records under the school's records-retention rule. Strongest demonstration in the deployment of FERPA-aware student-record management.
- Items
- 15 + padded
- Yearbooks
- 137 (1888 – 2024)
- Restriction rule
- FERPA + 100-year DOB
Recommended modules
Where most of the work happens for your type of institution.
Access & security
FERPA-aware per-record access with the 100-year-since-DOB and aged-out rules built in.
Learn moreItems
Yearbooks as a continuous series; alumni records linked to class, athletics, and head correspondence.
Learn moreStories
Editorial narratives across the catalog — anniversary microsites in days, not months.
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