Case Study: North East Florida Educational Consortium (NEFEC) achieves streamlined operations and real-time visibility 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, struggled with an inflexible, mainframe-based administrative system that limited reporting, instructional tools (like a gradebook), and required heavy maintenance. To meet the needs of its diverse users, NEFEC chose Skyward’s Student Management Suite and School Business Suite as a single integrated replacement.

Skyward delivered an automated, integrated system with real-time data, a data-mining/reporting tool, a web portal for teachers, parents and students, and an integrated gradebook. The solution eliminated many manual processes, empowered thousands of users to produce custom reports and monitor student progress during grading periods, reduced reliance on third‑party systems (cutting associated licensing and maintenance costs), and lowered administrative call volume—streamlining operations and improving visibility across NEFEC’s districts.

North East Florida Educational Consortium

Candy Garcia

Director of Information Technology