Case Study: Cherry Creek School District achieves real-time, secure K-12 data access with PowerSchool Connected Intelligence

How Cherry Creek Built a Real-Time, Secure K-12 Data Strategy Without Adding Staff

Cherry Creek School District, serving more than 51,000 K-12 students in Greenwood Village, Colorado, was challenged by too many disconnected technology systems, limited IT staff, and time-consuming manual reporting. With legacy systems spread across the district, data was hard to centralize, slowing decision-making and making it difficult to support students and staff efficiently. PowerSchool’s Connected Intelligence data platform helped address this need.

PowerSchool implemented Connected Intelligence to centralize district data in a secure, cloud-based environment with near real-time access, role-based security, and out-of-the-box integrations with existing PowerSchool tools like SIS and Naviance CCLR. The result was faster reporting, reduced risk by avoiding direct queries to production systems, improved historical data management, and a stronger foundation for AI initiatives—while helping Cherry Creek do more with less staff and move toward a cloud-first strategy.

Cherry Creek School District

Dale Limburg

Director of Information Technology