Case Study: Osseo Area Schools achieves unified data insights and streamlined workflows with PowerSchool

Osseo’s Journey to a Modern, Unified Tech Ecosystem with Integrated, Data-Driven Solutions

Osseo Area Schools, serving 21,000 students across 31 sites and a K–12 online school just outside the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area, launched a strategic plan to modernize instruction by improving data integration. The district faced siloed data in multiple software products and databases, with teachers relying on inefficient spreadsheets and disparate data sets that hindered timely, informed decision‑making.

Osseo implemented a unified PowerSchool ecosystem — including Unified Insights Student Essentials, Unified Classroom (Schoology), the Unified Talent suite, and Unified Operations — to centralize data, streamline workflows, and connect professional learning. The new system replaced thousands of separate databases, created a single source of truth with visual dashboards, enabled proactive student monitoring, reduced training overhead, and produced more efficient, data‑driven decisions and purchases aligned to staff and student needs.

Osseo Area Schools

Anthony Padrnos

Executive Director of Technology