Case Study: Lake Highland Preparatory School achieves significant cost savings and improved reliability with PowerSchool Hosting

Lake Highland Experiences Lasting Benefits with PowerSchool Hosting

Lake Highland Preparatory School, a rigorous pre-K–12 private school in Orlando serving about 1,950 students, faced frequent on‑premise server crashes, time‑consuming manual updates, rising maintenance costs, and heavy demands on IT staff. These disruptions hurt teachers and students and made server upgrades and security increasingly unaffordable.

In June 2017 Lake Highland migrated to PowerSchool Hosting — a quick, smoothly managed move that eased initial security concerns — and enabled automatic updates, faster data access, and stronger protections. The switch eliminated server upkeep (and even an extra AC unit), freed dozens of staff hours, improved reliability, and is expected to save the school more than $20,000 over five years while boosting overall technology ROI.

Lake Highland Preparatory School

Carolyn Stewart

Technology Manager