Case Study: Washington County School District (WCSD) achieves centralized management and high-performance Wi‑Fi for BYOD and online testing with Extreme Networks

K-12 School District Implements High-Performance Extreme Networks Solution to Enable Mobility and Collaboration in the Classroom

Washington County School District (WCSD), a rural K‑12 district serving over 4,000 students, faculty and staff across 9 locations, needed to replace aging Cisco and NETGEAR equipment to support BYOD, increasing classroom collaboration and statewide online testing — all while being managed by a two‑person IT team. WCSD selected Extreme Networks and deployed an integrated wired/wireless solution including D‑, B‑ and C‑Series switches, OneFabric/OneControl and NetSight management, Network Access Control and IdentiFi wireless APs and controllers to provide unified visibility and centralized control.

Extreme Networks’ solution centralized management and device visibility, delivering seamless roaming, role‑based authentication and stronger security so the district can confidently support BYOD and online testing for 4,000+ users across 9 sites. The deployment yielded measurable gains: performance and ease of maintenance improved by a factor of two during testing, time to identify an infected device dropped from days to under 30 minutes, and tasks like campus‑wide wireless password resets went from seven hours to instantaneous—significantly boosting the productivity of the two‑person IT team.

Washington County School District (WCSD)

Sandra Coppedge

IT director