Case Study: North East Florida Educational Consortium achieves streamlined operations and real-time insights with Skyward

North East Florida Educational Consortium - Customer Case Study

The North East Florida Educational Consortium (NEFEC), a regional nonprofit serving 15 member districts and over 44,000 students, was hindered by an inflexible, mainframe-based administrative system that consumed significant maintenance resources and could not deliver features districts wanted—like an integrated gradebook, web portals, or modern reporting. After a multi-year evaluation, NEFEC selected Skyward and its Student Management Suite and School Business Suite to address these limitations.

Skyward implemented an integrated solution—including its gradebook, data-mining/reporting tools and web-based portals—that automated manual processes, gave teachers, parents, students and staff real-time access to information, and enabled easy custom reporting and data export. The Skyward deployment streamlined operations across NEFEC’s 15 districts (44,000 students), reduced reliance on third-party gradebook systems and associated costs, improved communication and decision-making, and empowered users to monitor student progress throughout grading periods.

North East Florida Educational Consortium

Candy Garcia

Director of Information Technology