Case Study: Hernando County School District achieves compliant, equitable, and streamlined enrollment with SchoolMint

How One District is Managing Choice Policy Changes with Ease

Hernando County School District in Florida faced a major challenge when state law required a controlled open enrollment plan while the district was still relying on a decades-old, partly paper-based enrollment system. Managing applications for three magnet programs, tracking capacity and preferential categories, and producing timely, transparent enrollment data was labor-intensive and error-prone, so the district adopted SchoolMint’s Application & Lottery Management to modernize the process.

SchoolMint’s solution moved applications and document uploads online, provided real-time enrollment dashboards and predictive reporting, and nearly eliminated manual data entry — saving about 400 hours just in communicating lottery results. The transparency and mobile, multilingual family experience increased access and trust, enabled compliance with state capacity reporting, and prompted the school board to expand SchoolMint district-wide across all 22 schools serving over 22,000 students.

Hernando County School District

Angela M. Kennedy

Hernando County School District