Case Study: Gibraltar Area School District, Wisconsin achieves 25% five-year cost savings and faster deployments with Amazon Web Services

Gibraltar Area School District, Wisconsin - Customer Case Study

Gibraltar Area Schools is a small public district in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, serving 681 students across elementary and secondary campuses. Faced with aging on‑campus servers that would cost an estimated $44,000 to replace and maintain—and constrained by declining enrollment and funding—the district sought a more elastic, cost‑effective way to run student databases, library systems and other IT services without committing to physical hardware.

Gibraltar chose Amazon Web Services, establishing a secure VPC/EC2 connection and migrating key apps (including the Destiny Library Manager and a DeskPRO help‑desk AMI) within months—DeskPRO was live in about six hours. The move cut projected 5‑year costs by roughly 25%, yielded immediate energy savings, sped deployment and reduced support expenses, and set the district up to migrate additional workloads (including Skyward) to the cloud.

Gibraltar Area School District, Wisconsin

Steve Minten

IT Director