Case Study: Alpine School District achieves standards-based grading success with Skyward

Alpine School District simplifies standards-based grading for 80,000 students with Skyward

Alpine School District, an 80,000-student district in Utah, struggled with a traditional letter grading system that lacked meaning and failed to provide personalized instruction or guide teaching. To address this, the district partnered with Skyward and implemented its Student Management Suite to facilitate a transition to a standards-based grading model.

Using Skyward's platform, Alpine created a centralized hub for standards-based grading, utilizing features like Event Maintenance and Expected Levels of Performance to map student mastery. The solution provided clearer performance data for teachers, parents, and students, leading to more targeted instruction. Skyward enabled the creation of highly detailed standards-based report cards that clearly communicated student progress, which received praise from parents. The system also ensured student data seamlessly followed them between schools within the district, saving significant instructional time.

Alpine School District