Ohio School District Achieves 90-Percent Parent Participation in Online Registration
As
the Fairview Park City
Schools in Fairview Park, OH, begin their second full
school year with a new online registration system, 90 percent of parents
are
participating, easing the paperwork load for administrators and giving
all
personnel more time to focus on student achievement and less on
administration.
According
to
Danielle Tyler, a spokesperson for InfoSnap,
the cloud-based registration
management provider built its first solution for Fairview early in 2013
so it
could be rolled out when school for the district with 1,800 students in
four schools
began in September 2013.
By
the
time the registration period began this summer for the 2014-15 school
year,
online processes were able to replace the average of 20 paper forms that
had to
be collected for each student. Those forms that had to be taken home by
children, picked up by parents at in-person registration or distributed
by mail
ranged from medical forms to field trip and military consent forms to
home
language surveys.
With
the
widespread acceptance on the part of parents of the online registration,
they now are signing multiple documents electronically all at once and,
as Fairview
begins its second year with the InfoSnap student data collection
process,
teachers and administrators are better prepared to help students.
"We
know
our numbers beforehand," said Fairview Student Information Coordinator
Patty Yager. "Now, we're truly able to accommodate students who register
with a
medical condition or who state that English is not their primary
language. On
the first day of school, we're equipped with the proper staff."
And,
Yager
said, the new process has reduced the district's administrative chores.
"We
wanted
to cut down on paper," she said, "We're no longer making packets and
running off thousands of sheets of paper."
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.