Case Study: Torrance Unified School District achieves flexible, CALPADS-compliant reporting and time savings with PowerSchool SIS

Preparing for the Future Torrance Unified Chooses PowerSchool SIS

Torrance Unified School District, a Southern California district serving 24,000+ students across 32 schools with 3,400+ staff, was operating an aging, complex student information system that couldn’t keep up with changing state reporting (CALPADS), was hard to customize, and threatened the district’s ability to prepare for future needs.

The district selected PowerSchool SIS and an integrated suite (Schoology, Ecollect Forms, Unified Insights, Naviance) to gain customizable fields, dedicated CALPADS support, and real-time data sharing. The move enabled electronic, auditable attendance (saving hundreds of reams of paper annually), improved data accuracy and staff onboarding, streamlined workflows, and provided centralized dashboards so educators can quickly act on student information.

Torrance Unified School District

Gil Mara

Chief Educational Technology and Information