Case Study: Worthington City Schools achieves Gigabit Wi‑Fi and unified, scalable WLAN for modern learning with HPE Aruba Networking

Gigabit Wi-Fi is the New Essential Resource

Worthington City Schools, a 9,500-student district in Ohio, confronted a saturated wireless infrastructure as student, teacher and BYOD device usage surged and modern instructional models and online assessments became essential. The district needed a scalable, high-performance WLAN to support daily classroom technology use and evolving curriculum requirements.

Worthington partnered with Aruba Networks to deploy an enterprise 802.11ac WLAN—including Aruba AP-225 access points, Mobility Access Switches and AirWave management—using a phased rollout (360 APs in six schools) and leveraging ClientMatch and unified access. The upgrade delivered gigabit-class speeds, greater device density and centralized visibility, improving classroom streaming, adaptive learning and administrative cloud access while positioning the district for future growth.

Worthington City Schools

Keith Schlarb

Director of IT, Worthington City Schools