Case Study: Mill Creek Community School Corporation achieves clearer communication and deeper community engagement with PowerSchool SchoolMessenger

Building Community One Message at a Time

Mill Creek Community School Corporation, a close-knit district serving 1,500 students and families across five schools in Hendricks County, Indiana, struggled with paper-based communication that often failed to reach parents and created wasted time, paper, and postage. The district turned to PowerSchool, using PowerSchool SIS and SchoolMessenger Communicate, to improve engagement and centralize communications.

PowerSchool implemented SchoolMessenger integrated with the district’s SIS, enabling secure, targeted, two-way messaging for everything from report cards and emergency alerts to community updates. The district now sends over 100,000 secure messages a year, has reduced paper usage and postage costs, and increased family and community involvement, with faster communication and more event attendance.

Mill Creek Community School Corporation

Kale Blickenstaff

Assistant Superintendent