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The Business Case for PowerSchool
Student Information System BIGGEST ROI BENEFITS Improves teacher productivity
Improves parent communication
Managing student information is often painfully tedious and time consuming for K-12 schools and districts, resulting in vast inefficiencies and high potential for inaccuracies. Through in-depth interviews with PowerSchool SIS customers, research found that the product is not only strategic in terms of improving efficiencies and student performance, but also delivers a quick and compelling ROI (Return on Investment).
Customer research identified six quantifiable benefits that PowerSchool SIS provides:
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Increases administrative productivity PowerSchool SIS provides efficient and intuitive technology to support student management with highly automated and robust scheduling options, family management, and immunization & health management.
Increases administrative productivity
Customers interviewed reported a reduction in administrative time spent on student management of over 25%. PowerSchool SIS has been a godsend and resulted in significant time savings. - Andy Scott, Technology Coordinator,
Improves student performance
Rochester City School District, NY
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Improves IT productivity & security
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Improves IT productivity with system and data security management PowerSchool SIS provides an architecture that allows for flexibility and customization to address data security and data access requirements by role or profile, including making only student specific or district-wide aggregated information available to individual users. In addition, more efficient data capture enables accuracy and completion of data input.
Customers interviewed experienced a reduction in IT time spent on system and data security management of more than 30%. We couldn’t manage data like this before... the value is that it is more secure and end-users can access the data they need without needing to involve anyone else. - Deb Fox, Senior Technology Consultant, Oxford Community Schools, MI
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Improves data quality to save time on compliance reporting and increase funding PowerSchool SIS provides reporting that is compliant with often-changing requirements. In addition, endusers have access to dashboards and information needed on a regular basis, including attendance reporting and safety and trend analysis.
Customers interviewed reported reduced time spent on reporting by 35% and increased funding by 0.1%. We use PowerSchool SIS data to help get grants as well as to share with the Board of Education. - Christi Tilton, Curriculum Information Officer, Consolidated School District of New Britain, CT
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Improves parent communication PowerSchool SIS provides a structured communication mechanism for parents to access their child’s real-time information on any computer or mobile device, allowing for transparency and collaboration in education. Additionally, information can be presented in multiple languages, removing any language barriers.
Customers interviewed shared that teachers spent 20% less time on parent communication. It saves teachers time because they have less incoming inquiries from parents and enables deeper conversations with them instead of what they can see through the portal. - Michael Gibbone, Data Analyst & Attendance Officer, Plainedge Public School District, NY
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Improves teacher productivity PowerSchool SIS enables teachers to log-on once (on a computer or tablet) and manage attendance and other aspects of their classroom with tools such as seating charts, disciplinary tracking/reporting, etc. In addition, PowerSchool SIS includes PowerTeacher Pro, which is an easy-to-use real-time gradebook including traditional & standards based grading.
Customers interviewed reported that teachers reduced time spent on noninstructional student management by well over 10%. Our previous grading system was so cumbersome for teachers, but with PowerSchool SIS, they can grade and make notes right in the system from anywhere and at any time. - Andy Scott, Technology Coordinator, Rochester City School District, NY
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ROI FACT SHEET: POWERSCHOOL SIS
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Improves student performance PowerSchool SIS reduces non-instructional activities and improves visibility into student profiles (including attendance, grades and disciplinary trends). This enables teachers to intervene earlier and ensure appropriate measures are taken to ensure success, including adjusting instruction or intervening on disciplinary matters. Once a plan is in place, the system allows for the tracking and reporting of progress.
Customers interviewed agreed that improved student management has the potential to increase funding by 0.1%. Being able to see which students have increasing absences or decreasing grades, and intervening quicker, definitely helps student performance. - Deb Fox, Senior Technology Consultant, Oxford Community Schools, MI
KEY ROI FINDINGS The value of PowerSchool’s validated student information system is immediate and demonstrable. A sample district with 20,000 students and 1,065 teachers can experience annual benefits in excess of $2.3M with a payback period of 3.3 months and a 3-year ROI of over 793%.
FINANCIAL METRICS Payback
3.3 months
ROI (3-year)
793%
In summary, 6 discrete organization-wide student information management benefits were identified during the customer interviews as depicted in the graph below:
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