The Enid Public School District, established in 1893, is a rural public school district located in north central Oklahoma ( Garfield County) with a total K-12 enrollment of 6,619 students. It operates ten elementary schools, three junior high schools, one high school and one alternative school within the city of Enid. The city of Enid is the metropolitan hub of the twenty-two county, northwest region of Oklahoma with a population of 48,000 residents. Enid Public School District #57 frequently serves as the initiator of new services and programs in northwest Oklahoma.

EPS has recognized a demanding need for accurate and timely information including the extraction of data across multiple platforms within the Zone Integration Framework. The task of obtaining accurate data has become extremely difficult and expensive. Additionally, new legislation is requiring all districts to move forward with plans to make data-driven decisions, stored centrally in a student-achievement data warehouse.

To address these issues, Enid’s Information Technology Department has initiated a goal to implement third-party software solutions (Edustructures, a SIF Agent) in order to address the district’s core software needs. The purpose of this goal is to significantly reduce operational costs over the short term and to alleviate site-specific ‘silos’ of information by centralizing data throughout the district.