Case Study: Lewiston Public Schools achieves faster, higher-quality multilingual communications with Lilt

Shaping Lewiston Public Schools' Localization Program through Scalable Solutions

Lewiston Public Schools, serving a rapidly diversifying community in Lewiston, ME, struggled to provide accurate, scalable translations—particularly for less commonly supported languages like Somali. Their prior Google Translate integration was low‑quality, one‑way, and error‑prone, forcing repeated manual fixes and creating a fragmented workflow. To address this, Lewiston partnered with Lilt and adopted Lilt’s localization technology and human‑in‑the‑loop translation services.

Lilt implemented a streamlined, two‑way localization workflow that gave the translation team control, reduced reliance on IT, and combined machine translation with human review for higher accuracy. As a result, Lewiston Public Schools can translate more content, get vital information to families faster, and maintain better translation quality at scale—saving time and money while improving community access to education information.

Lewiston Public Schools

Hilary Barber

Director of English Language Learner Education