Case Study: Grove Public Schools achieves more than 90% reduction in network management demands with Fortinet

Fortinet Reduces Network Management Demands on School District Staff by More Than 90%

Grove Public Schools, a six-school district in Grove, Oklahoma serving about 2,700 students and 400 staff, struggled with a fragmented, multi-vendor network that left IT with little visibility and required time-consuming CLI troubleshooting. With a lean team responsible for firewalls, switches, access points and endpoints, the district needed a single-vendor, scalable solution to reduce manual effort and improve security and performance.

Grove consolidated on Fortinet—deploying a FortiGate NGFW, 72 FortiSwitches, 240 FortiAPs, FortiClient/FortiEDR and FortiGuard UTP—rolling out the new network across six buildings in under a week and adding stadium coverage in hours. The result: Fortinet-secured protection for 2,100 endpoints, network management time cut from 30 hours a week to a couple of hours, faster issue and threat detection (minutes vs. hours/days), consistent high performance during peak usage, and strong results from internal penetration testing.

Grove Public Schools

Dustin Crowder

Technology Director