Case Study: Spring Branch Independent School District achieves streamlined school choice operations and increased parent satisfaction with SchoolMint

Streamlined School Choice Operations Boosts Parent Happiness

Spring Branch Independent School District (SBISD), a Houston district serving about 35,000 PreK–12 students across 46 campuses with 13 specialized programs (including the SKY Partnership), faced a fragmented school choice application process that began on paper and never fully improved after several different automated systems. The district needed a streamlined, intuitive solution that could handle complex lottery rules, support mobile and dual-language access, and align with district processes—so SBISD selected SchoolMint’s automated, mobile-friendly application and lottery management system for the 2016–17 school year.

SchoolMint worked with SBISD to map processes, train stakeholders, and run outreach that eased parent adoption; its common application, school-ranking, mobile accessibility and dual-language features simplified family access. The implementation automated data uploads, reduced parent phone inquiries, freed staff from three months of manual data processing, and provided real-time data visualization to inform marketing, staffing and program projections—delivering measurable time savings and improved parent and staff satisfaction for Spring Branch Independent School District.

Spring Branch Independent School District

Mandele Davis

School Choice Project Manager