Case Study: Great Oaks Legacy Charter School achieves real-time budget visibility and proactive spending with Procurify

How This Charter School Moved From Manual Budgets to Proactive Spend Conversations

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School is a high‑performing charter network in Newark serving about 1,600 students across multiple campuses. Facing rapid growth and plans to double in size, CFO Benjamin Carson was dealing with thousands of manual requisitions, reactive quarterly budgeting, limited spend visibility at the campus level, and strict public‑school compliance requirements that made procurement slow and risky.

Great Oaks selected Procurify for its compliance and ease of use, implemented it quickly, and integrated it with their accounting systems. The platform gave real‑time visibility into spend, democratized controls for purchasers and approvers, and turned budgeting from a manual, retrospective exercise into proactive conversations—improving budget visibility, vendor management, and the network’s ability to scale.

Great Oaks Legacy Charter School

Benjamin Carson

Chief Financial Officer