Year after year, thick packets encompassing forms from a variety of departments were sent to Grosse Pointe Public School families to fill out and return. That information then had to be hand-typed into the district’s student information system, which sometimes took until March for the secretary to complete. An individual school could receive in upwards of 700 checks at the beginning of the year for gym uniforms, PTO donations, textbooks, etc., all of which had to be processed separately.
They knew there had to be a better way and six weeks after implementing K-12 Online’s registration solution, they had found it! Grosse Pointe initially rolled out the K-12 Online system to its high schools and middle schools. Because of its success, the following school year, they implemented online registration across its nine elementary schools and plan on using the system’s web store to allow students to apply and register for summer school.
The versatility of the system allowed admin to upload fines for the past 3 years for lost or damaged books. The school collected over $1,000 in old fines! “This was an unprecedented amount of money for us to recoup!??? Explained Sheryl Hogan, Parcells Middle School Secretary.
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