Case Study: Louisiana Department of Education proves after-school program impact with Cityspan

Data Proves Efficacy of Federally Funded 21st Century Community Learning Centers

The Louisiana Department of Education partnered with Cityspan to better manage data for its federally funded 21st Century Community Learning Centers after school programs. As the initiative expanded across multiple districts, nonprofit partners, and funding cohorts, manual reporting became difficult, time-consuming, and error-prone, especially when the state needed to align data with federal performance requirements.

Cityspan provided a cloud-based data management platform that simplified site-level data entry, supported flexible outcomes tracking, and automated annual federal performance reporting. The solution helped Louisiana aggregate data across 229 sites and multiple cohorts, and it enabled the first scientifically rigorous evaluation of the programs’ impact on academic performance, with evaluators finding statistically meaningful improvements for youth who participated for 30 days or more.

Louisiana Department of Education