Case Study: St. Joseph Catholic School achieves integrated cloud-based school management and stronger parent engagement with Blackbaud

St. Joseph Catholic School - Customer Case Study

St. Joseph Catholic School, a nearly 70-year-old parish school in Lake Orion, Michigan, faced a fragmented, paper-heavy technology environment that undermined its goal of creating a deeply connected parent and student community. After a failed switch to an unfinished vendor system, leadership sought an integrated, cloud-based solution to eliminate multiple logins, manual data entry, and missed family communications.

They implemented Blackbaud’s total school solution—enrollment, student, tuition and learning management with single sign-on—and credited strong onboarding and integrations for a smooth transition. The new platform streamlined enrollment and billing, reduced paperwork, supported distance learning during COVID-19, and helped the school outperform the Archdiocese of Detroit average in 14 of 18 parent satisfaction categories while improving family engagement and operational efficiency.

St. Joseph Catholic School

Joe Zmikly

Principal