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Transforming districts across the country

  • Cajon Valley Union School District, CA
  • Marana Unified School District, AZ
  • Montgomery County Educational Service Center, OH
  • Eagle County School District, CO

01The problem

You're not short on software. You're drowning in it.

Every tool is another subscription, another login, another renewal, and the single biggest waste of money.

Your data is trapped in silos.

Enrollment lives in one system, staffing in another, budgets in a third. None of them talk to each other, so no one sees the whole picture of the budget, or of a single student.

So your people become the integration.

Teachers and staff spend hours copying the same information from one system into the next. That's machine work, and every hour of it is time and money taken from students.

02The cost

The average district wastes $2.1M every year.

That's the salary of about 28 teachers. And most of it comes straight from the problem above: software nobody uses, and systems that leave your people doing the connecting.

86% · sprawl + silos
  • EdTech shelfware $1.17M
  • Duplicate data entry $599K
  • Sub coverage gaps $105K
  • Teacher turnover $193K
Estimated for an average-size U.S. district (about 3,500 students) at national averages.

Waste calculator

Now run your district.

Two quick details: your state and your student count. The math runs on published benchmarks from SETDA, EdWeek Research Center, NEA, and the Learning Policy Institute, and updates the second you change anything.

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Numbers compute from your inputs against published benchmarks from SETDA, EdWeek Research Center, Learning Policy Institute, CoSN / Project Unicorn, and Frontline. Not a quote, just a starting map.

Estimated annual waste

$2,068,776

across software you're not using, systems that don't talk to each other, sub coverage gaps, and teacher turnover, every year, for a district your size.

EdTech shelfware

$1,171,826

The salary of about 25 instructional aides, sitting inside dashboards nobody opens.

How we got there

EdTech waste leaks from three places at the same time:

  • 40% of your license spend goes to platforms with under 30% utilization, per SETDA's benchmark for the average district.
  • $847 per teacher spent on EdTech PD each year (EdWeek), with ~40% wasted on tools your teachers never end up adopting.
  • ~$180K of IT labor supporting low-utilization platforms in an average ~3,500-student district, scaled to your size.

Your EdTech budget is estimated from SETDA's $2.3M-per-average-district figure, scaled sub-linearly to your student count (bigger districts get bulk license discounts). Add the three components, and that's the number above.

Duplicate data entry

$598,680

About 10 staff members hired just to retype the same numbers into a second screen.

How we got there

Most districts run 4 core systems (SIS, LMS, gradebook, HR/finance, SPED) that don't share data automatically, so the same numbers get typed twice:

  • Teachers lose ~30 minutes a week re-entering grades, attendance, and intervention notes
  • Office staff lose ~2.5 hours a week per disconnected system syncing rosters, hires, and student records

Multiplied across your teacher and clerical headcount, your school year, and your state's loaded hourly costs. That's the number above. (CoSN / Project Unicorn interoperability research.)

Sub coverage gaps

$105,350

About 460 classrooms a year where instruction gets replaced by a worksheet.

How we got there

Only 82% of sub requests actually get filled. The other 18% falls back on you, covered internally and figured out on the fly:

  • $60–80 stipend to a teacher giving up their prep period
  • $40–60 of admin time scrambling to make coverage happen

That works out to roughly $120 per failed coverage. Multiply by the unfilled-absence count, add the year-round sub-finding admin time at every site, and that's the number above. (Frontline / AESOP benchmarks.)

Teacher turnover

$192,920

What it costs to replace the ~30 teachers walking out every year.

How we got there

National teacher turnover sits at ~14%, so about 1 in 7 of your teachers walks every year. Each replacement runs ~$6,500 in hard cash:

  • Finding them: posting, screening, interview cycles, background checks, credential verification
  • Getting them up to speed: onboarding paperwork, induction mentoring, sub coverage during training

Times the number walking. State-flexed by salary multiplier. That's the number above. (Learning Policy Institute conservative band; LPI's higher $20–$25K all-in figure includes learning-loss and productivity drag. We kept this conservative.)

03The solution

First, we spend the time to get to know your problems.

We work in person with every department, from HR and finance to curriculum and student services, to identify your biggest bottlenecks, pain points, and inefficiencies.

Then we build for your problems.

Custom systems designed around how your district actually works, not how every district works, so teachers get back to teaching and staff get back to the work they're great at.

And you never pay a subscription.

We eliminate wasted and redundant subscriptions, and what we build comes with no per-seat licenses or annual renewals, so that money can go back to your classrooms.

04The difference

More time for every staff member.
More for every student.

When the busywork is automated and the wasted spend is gone, everyone from the classroom to the central office gets back to what they're great at, and students get the education they deserve.

Money

Save your district money.

Stop paying for software nobody uses and for hours spent re-keying data, and put that money back into classrooms.

Avg. district loses ~$2.1M a year

Time

Save your people time.

Busywork gets automated, so teachers can focus on students and staff can focus on the work they were hired for.

Automated busywork, human judgment

Subscriptions

Eliminate wasted and redundant subscriptions.

Cut the tools nobody uses and the ones doing the same job twice. Fewer logins for teachers, fewer renewals for you.

No per-seat licenses on our builds

Start here

Start with an audit.

We'll find where your district is losing money and time, and which subscriptions it can drop. Then you decide what we build. Your students get the difference.

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