Schoolzilla

Centralize, visualize, explore and act on school data from multiple sources

Overview

Schoolzilla provides K-12 school systems with a set of dashboards ("Mosaic") designed to enable district and school leaders to track daily district and school progress on goals around things like chronic absence, grades, assessment growth, and college readiness. In addition, educators use Mosaic to see how groups of students, as well as individual students, are doing on these same metrics.

For additional cost, schools can have the ability to create custom dashboards via the commercially available Tableau Software (a visualization tool) and Schoolzilla's underlying data warehouse.

Schoolzilla draws on data from multiple systems including: student information systems, assessments (including state, reading, formative, and nationally normed assessments), behavior management systems, and more. These data connections are automatically updated on a nightly basis. Each dashboard is then loaded into Schoolzilla’s data portal and can be sorted by grade level, test subject, gender, free-and-reduced lunch status, intervention group, etc. Beyond reflecting the academic data from the current testing cycle, the platform also shows longitudinal data that allows users to compare growth within grade levels and across years.

The data shown in a dashboard is personalized by the role of the user and filtered by school, class, and student, then shared with relevant teachers or administrators within a district. Administrator-level dashboards focus more on performance across the district, allowing leaders to compare among schools in order to determine where to target funds and resources. Teacher-level dashboards allow teachers to see how performance varies by student and immediately drill down for root cause analysis.

Pricing is primarily based on the number of students in the district.

As of February 2018, the platform is being used by more than 110 districts in more than 30 states including Santa Fe Public Schools, St. Louis Public Schools, and KIPP NYC.