Case Study: St. Lucie County Public Schools improves graduation rates and student outcomes with Microsoft Corporation

Education analytics provides demonstrable success, improves learning outcomes

St. Lucie County Public Schools needed a faster, more usable way to turn scattered student data into action. Before working with Microsoft Corporation, the district had information in multiple platforms but struggled to quickly identify root causes behind issues like low graduation rates, inequitable discipline, attendance problems, and students not being placed in the right courses.

Microsoft Corporation helped St. Lucie County Public Schools use Azure, Power BI, Cortana Intelligence Suite, and SQL Server to build a visual, data-driven “relentless progress monitoring” approach. The district gained real-time insights for daily and weekly interventions, cut school suspensions by 40%, improved graduation-rate rankings from 45th to 22nd, and increased eighth-grade algebra enrollment from 600 to more than 1,000 students while raising pass rates from 81% to 84%.

St. Lucie County Public Schools

John Prince

Deputy Superintendent