Case Study: Cary Academy achieves greater freedom and flexibility with Blackbaud Total School Solution

How Cary Academy found technology that supports discovery, innovation, collaboration, and excellence (DICE)

Cary Academy, an independent school in North Carolina’s Research Triangle that emphasizes discovery, innovation, collaboration, and excellence (DICE), struggled with fragmented and restrictive education technology. Faculty had adopted many disparate tools and a prior “total‑school” vendor limited customization, collaboration, year‑to‑year resource transfers, and timely support — constraints that undermined the school’s pedagogical goals and created operational bottlenecks.

Cary Academy switched to Blackbaud’s Total School Solution (LMS, SIS, and Enrollment Management), gaining an integrated, flexible platform and a responsive support team. The change delivered personalized dashboards, easier collaboration, improved scheduling, an assignment center students loved, smoother family engagement, and marketplace integrations — boosting teacher and parent satisfaction and supporting stronger student learning outcomes.

Cary Academy

Karen McKenzie

Director of Technology and Innovation