Case Study: Jefferson County Schools achieves streamlined talent management and improved educator effectiveness with PowerSchool Unified Talent

The Jefferson experience’ Creating a culture that fosters educator effectiveness and student performance

Jefferson County Schools (JCS), a rural district in West Virginia grappling with high Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) scores amid a regional opioid crisis, needed to overhaul talent and HR processes to support student achievement. Leaders faced mountains of paper records, slow manual onboarding, and inconsistent hiring and evaluation practices while pursuing a “Jefferson experience” that improves applicant, new-hire, and employee interactions.

JCS deployed PowerSchool Unified Talent—Applicant Tracking, Candidate Assessment, Employee Records, and Perform—to streamline hiring, professional development, recordkeeping, and evaluations. The district now identifies top candidates faster using predictive assessments and PDPs, digitized over 1.7 million pages to eliminate filing cabinets, simplified onboarding, enabled real-time performance management, and realized time-savings, stronger staff relationships, better-aligned professional learning, and early signs of improved retention and student outcomes.

Jefferson County Schools

Bondy Shay Gibson

Superintendent