Case Study: Elizabethton City School District achieves major time savings and streamlined course scheduling with Skyward Online Course Requests

Elizabethton City School District - Customer Case Study

Elizabethton City School District faced a time-consuming, error-prone course request process at Elizabethton High School that relied on paper registration packets and manual data entry to process 845 student course requests with limited staff and part‑time counselors. As an existing district customer since 2014, they turned to Skyward and its Online Course Requests feature within the Student Management Suite to address these challenges.

Skyward’s Online Course Requests digitized registration, letting staff enroll nearly 70 freshmen at a time, register a full grade of roughly 180 students in no more than three days, and put all 845 student requests into the system in about two weeks—an outcome Elizabethton staff estimated saved roughly two months of work. The Skyward solution freed staff time, improved reporting and state data transfer, increased student ownership and parent engagement, and made the school’s scheduling year “the easiest” in nearly two decades.

Elizabethton City School District

Teresa Simcox

Student information and data analyst