Case Study: Colorado Springs School District 11 achieves strategic, student-centered budgeting with PowerSchool Allovue

Linking Dollars to Purpose: How Allovue Helped Colorado Springs D11 Turn Budgeting into a Lever for Learning

Colorado Springs School District 11 needed a better way to connect budgeting to student impact amid hiring challenges, a shrinking tax base, and growing student needs. Working with PowerSchool’s Allovue budgeting and analytics solution, the district sought clearer visibility into where dollars were going and how spending could better support instruction.

PowerSchool’s Allovue replaced disconnected spreadsheets with a cloud-based, real-time budgeting platform that unified budgets, positions, and actuals for district leaders and principals. The result was more accurate staffing and spending decisions, the discovery of more than 100 ghosted positions, a $50,000 starting teacher salary, and $10–$15 million in dormant resources redirected into instruction; Colorado Springs School District 11 also reported improved student achievement, more stable enrollment, and stronger community confidence.

Colorado Springs School District 11

Michael Gaal

Superintendent