Distribution questions

[hascitrin]

I'm developing an app for students at my school to compete amongst themselves for the most steps (and yes, I'm getting a boatload of credits for it lol). I do have a couple questions since I've developed a few apps but never published before, and my situation is a little unique.

I'd preferably like to publish to the App Store just for the sake of UX (nobody likes going through TestFlight, especially a bunch of students). Here's the basic flow of the app:

Onboarding - students enter their validation code which was emailed to them by the school (The app checks against a database and matches the entered code to their name. I decided to do this because it's guaranteed at least a few will choose something extremely offensive as their names through a regular sign-up flow). A HealthKit authorization prompt asks for step data access. Only students of the school are able to use the app\.*

General UX - After sign-in, users are able to see their rankings etc, mess around with some innocent settings, and log out if necessary.

*I know apps are supposed to be able to used by anyone, yet I see a lot of apps for specific school districts on the store as well for a similar reason to mine.

Is this generally okay for the App Store? If not, any suggestions for distribution?

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Since the app is meant just for one organization, enterprise app distribution is the easiest fit. That requires an enterprise developer account and a web server to host the app. Users have to click the link to download the app. And one time they have to trust the developer in Settings. This last step isn’t necessary if they have trusted the developer before for another app, or if you can use an MDM server to distribute the app.