Case Studies

Real Schools, Real Results

A look at how private schools, public districts, and boarding schools have used Dzidzo to solve the problems that mattered most to them.

Private Schools

Greenfield Academy

Bangalore, India

A growing private school moved fee collection and parent communication onto Dzidzo and cut manual follow up almost in half within one term.

The Challenge

Greenfield Academy had grown from a single campus to three in under five years, but its administrative processes had not kept pace. Fee collection was tracked across spreadsheets, and parent communication depended on individual teachers sending updates through whatever channel was convenient at the time.

The Approach

The school rolled out Dzidzo campus by campus, starting with fee management and attendance before adding the parent portal. Staff training was spread across two weeks so each campus had time to adjust before the next module went live.

We went from three different spreadsheets per campus to one system everyone actually uses. Parents notice the difference just as much as our staff does.

Kavita Rao

Head of Administration

46%

Reduction in overdue fee follow ups

87%

Parent portal adoption within the first term

5 hrs/week

Time saved on monthly reporting

Public Schools

Summit Public Schools

Ohio, United States

A public school district standardized attendance and compliance reporting across twelve schools, cutting the time spent preparing state reports from days to hours.

The Challenge

Each school in the Summit district kept its own attendance records in a different format, which made district wide compliance reporting a manual, error prone process every quarter.

The Approach

The district deployed Dzidzo across all twelve schools with a shared attendance and reporting configuration, so every school entered data the same way while state and district reports were generated automatically from that shared data.

Compliance reporting used to be something we dreaded every quarter. Now it is mostly a matter of reviewing numbers that are already correct.

Daniel Whitfield

District Operations Director

2 days to 3 hrs

Time to prepare quarterly compliance reports

12 of 12

Schools reporting on a shared standard

61%

Reduction in data entry errors flagged during audits

Boarding Schools

Heritage Boarding

Nairobi, Kenya

A residential school digitized hostel management and leave requests, giving house parents real time visibility into student movement for the first time.

The Challenge

With over 600 boarding students across four houses, Heritage relied on paper logs for leave requests and room assignments. Tracking who was on campus at any given time required calling around to house parents individually.

The Approach

Heritage introduced Dzidzo's boarding tools starting with room assignments, followed by digital leave requests that route automatically to the right house parent and require parent approval before being finalized.

Knowing exactly who is on campus at any moment used to take a dozen phone calls. Now it takes one glance at a dashboard.

Grace Wanjiru

Director of Boarding

94%

Leave requests processed same day

70%

Reduction in time spent locating a student

100%

House parents using the mobile app daily