Case Study: Oregon Community Unit School District 220 achieves improved student performance and higher graduation rates with PowerSchool

Improving Performance at Illinois’ Oregon Community Unit School District 220

Oregon Community Unit School District 220, a 1,470‑student district in northern Illinois recognized by U.S. News & World Report, faced fragmented student data, cumbersome state reporting, and difficulty identifying students trending toward academic risk. Administrators needed a unified, data‑driven system to maintain data integrity, surface early warning signs, and support timely interventions.

By adopting PowerSchool SIS (in use since 2010) and building custom dashboards, reports, and visualizations—including an early warning view, missing‑work displays, and paperless discipline/attendance workflows—the district centralized data and enabled rapid, actionable insights. The result: streamlined state reporting, more engaged students and teachers, improved school efficiencies, a 98% graduation rate, and a drop in freshmen with at least one F from 29.4% (2008) to 19% (2015).

Oregon Community Unit School District 220

Adam Larsen

Assistant Superintendent