Case Study: Orange County Public Schools achieves rapid district-wide 1:1 digital curriculum rollout and centralized remote management with Cisco Meraki

Installing a network to serve 200+ schools in under two years

Orange County Public Schools (OCPS), the 9th largest school district in the U.S. with 208,000 students across more than 200 schools, needed a robust, remotely manageable network to support its district-wide 1:1 laptop program. Legacy infrastructure forced engineers to drive to individual schools for switch and router fixes, consuming time and slowing the digital-curriculum rollout, so OCPS selected Cisco Meraki — deploying Meraki MR access points and MS switches — for centralized remote management.

Cisco Meraki’s solution provided cloud-based dashboard management, location heat maps, weekly reports, standardized SSIDs, and traffic controls to prioritize testing and classroom use. The Meraki deployment lets teams flip a school in about four hours, has OCPS on pace to reach 100% Meraki networks in under two years, and eliminated countless hours of onsite troubleshooting so engineers can focus on proactive work and network redesign — measurable wins in speed, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Orange County Public Schools

David Overton

Senior Director of Information Security