Case Study: Marion County School District achieves reduced tardiness and saves instructional time with Skyward

Marion County School District - Customer Case Study

Marion County School District, serving 43,000 students across 54 locations, faced significant lost instructional time from hundreds of daily tardies and a paper-based check-in process. The district partnered with Skyward and implemented a Skyward-integrated tardy kiosk solution (deployed by School Technology Associates) to streamline late-student check-ins and attendance tracking.

Students now self-check in at kiosks that print passes and record tardies directly into Skyward in real time, eliminating manual data entry and freeing staff for student-focused work. The district reports the kiosks save about three hours of manual documentation per typical school day, improve student accountability and on-time arrival, and give parents and teachers immediate visibility through Skyward’s Family Access—positioning Marion County to expand kiosk use for additional workflows.

Marion County School District

Kristi Miller

MCPS’s Applications Specialist