Case Study: Saint Thomas Academy achieves simpler, cost-effective directory management with JumpCloud

Saint Thomas Academy Upgrading Directory Services on an Education Budget

Saint Thomas Academy, a Catholic private school serving grades 6–12 in the St. Paul and Minneapolis area, was relying on aging on-prem Active Directory infrastructure in a mixed Mac, Windows, and Linux environment. Faced with outdated servers, rising licensing costs, and a tight education budget, the school needed a more flexible way to manage directory services across systems, apps, and network access. JumpCloud provided its Directory-as-a-Service platform to replace the legacy setup.

With JumpCloud, Saint Thomas Academy centralized management for Windows, Mac, and Linux devices, integrated key apps like Office 365, G Suite, and PowerSchool, and secured WiFi with RADIUS-as-a-Service. The result was lower cost than a $12,000+ infrastructure upgrade, faster user provisioning, and a major time savings for IT—new faculty accounts that once took an hour or more now take about 20 minutes or less. JumpCloud also helped deliver a smooth rollout with little to no disruption for users.

Saint Thomas Academy

Paul McKeehan

System & Network Administrator