eScholar
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eScholar is a pre-built data warehouse system for K-12 school districts. Its purpose is to help districts pull together, clean-up, standardize, organize and analyze all the data they've been collecting for years. eScholar comes with all the components needed to get a district up and running including the data model, ETL software (extract, transform and load), security structure and report generating capabilities. The company offers a variety of reporting tools including Vista, which is a web-based product. Administrators can use the eScholar system along with Vista to analyze and report data across domains. For instance, relationships can be examined between variables such as test scores, grades, attendance records, staff/student demographics, budgets, and so on. All district data, from disparate sources, is housed in one system, making detailed analysis possible. This analysis can be done on multiple levels, from district-wide, on down to the individual student. Components of the system can be run locally, or they can be hosted. There is a one time licensing fee of $4.00 per student, and a yearly maintenance fee of $2.00 per student. Initial consultation fees and staff training may run an average-sized district of 25,000 students between $50,000 to $60,000, depending on the district's in-house technical support resources (expertise of local tech coordinators, etc.). Currently, eScholar is used in 600 districts across the US, including a statewide contract with New York.
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Teaches: utility for managing and analyzing school district data