Case Study: Scotland County Schools achieves one-to-one computing for less than half the cost with NComputing

North Carolina School District now Moves Rapidly toward 1-to-1 Computing at Less than Half the Cost of PCs

Scotland County Schools, a small, mostly rural North Carolina district serving 6,100 students and among the poorest in the nation, faced the state mandate to provide one-to-one computing and move assessments online with very limited funds and many students lacking home Internet. Laptops were ruled out because of high upfront and ongoing replacement and maintenance costs.

The district piloted and then rolled out NComputing thin‑client desktop virtualization (X550 and M300) to deliver individual Windows workstations from a single server, expanding to 1,400 seats district‑wide with CDW•G support. The solution costs less than half a traditional PC deployment (about $266 per seat with a $33 refresh), reduced IT workload, and—according to teachers and administrators—boosted attendance, behavior, and academic performance while saving the district roughly $500,000 every four years.

Scotland County Schools