Case Study: Allentown School District achieves streamlined operations and over $280K in annual savings with Skyward School Business Suite

Allentown School District - Customer Case Study

Allentown School District, a large Pennsylvania district serving 17,500 students across multiple schools, faced an aging, text-based legacy system that required many manual processes and caused hardware, backup and upgrade headaches. The district needed an easy-to-use, web-accessible solution to reduce costs, cut staff time spent on routine tasks, and improve visibility and communication.

Allentown implemented the Skyward School Business Suite as a SaaS, web-based solution—including Employee Access, Employee Management, substitute tracking (with AESOP data import), and online requisitions—which automated workflows and enabled remote access. Skyward helped eliminate printing 2,400 pay stubs biweekly and switch to paperless pay, saving an estimated $132,000 a year, and reduced purchasing overhead with online requisitions, saving about $150,700 annually, while increasing efficiency, reducing errors, and removing the district’s software/hardware maintenance burden.

Allentown School District

Mark McKenzie

Project manager of HR/finance software