Fontana Unified School District Doubles College-Going Rate with Support from Naviance by PowerSchool
18 November 2022 - 5:45PM
Business Wire
PowerSchool’s college, career, and life
readiness product supports district’s multi-year plan to increase
access to higher education and postsecondary success
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC) today announced Fontana Unified School
District (FUSD) in San Bernardino County, California successfully
increased its graduation rate to nearly 100 percent while doubling
the rate of graduates that attend college with help in part from
Unified Classroom® Naviance CCLR. FUSD has used Naviance for
several years with students at the elementary through the high
school level to gauge career interests, explore college choices,
and match their personal preferences with university offerings. In
addition to Naviance, FUSD has also used PowerSchool Unified
Classroom® Performance Matters to empower educators, measure
student performance more effectively, and make better-informed
decisions on instruction.
“Fontana’s always had a proud legacy of ensuring students
graduate from high school, but saw an opportunity to prepare our
students for their postsecondary careers better while they were
still with us,” said Vernell Deslonde, Ed.D., Director of College
and Career Readiness, Fontana Unified School District. “With
support from Naviance to help our broader college, career, and life
readiness program, our college-going rate went from under 25
percent to over 50 percent districtwide. Even better, our
graduation rate went from 80 percent up to nearly 100 percent. The
platform continues to serve as a one-stop shop for us; it even
allows teachers to write their letters of recommendations in the
platform.”
As a key pillar of FUSD’s ‘Every Student Successful’ initiative,
Naviance is a focal point for increasing students’ access to the
opportunities accompanying higher education. FUSD counselors and
students have made use of Naviance’s Career Cluster Finder,
StrengthsExplorer®, and SuperMatch College Search features, among
its many capabilities for discovering students’ interests and
purpose. Users can also receive reminders to complete their
financial aid applications and benefit from progress bars to track
productivity.
Notably, since implementing Naviance multiple FUSD schools saw
increased financial aid application rates. At over 90 percent,
FUSD’s Jurupa Hills High School was recognized by the California
Department of Education’s Student Aid Commission Race to Submit
campaign as one of the top 24 schools in the state with the highest
financial aid application completion rates.
FUSD is located in San Bernardino County, California 46 miles
east of Los Angeles as part of the state’s “Inland Empire.” The
district educates over 37,000 students at its 46 schools. In 2022,
26 FUSD schools earned platinum, gold, silver, and bronze awards
from the California Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
(PBIS) Coalition, recognizing their successful execution of PBIS
practices to create a positive campus culture and increase student
engagement.
About PowerSchool
PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC) is the leading provider of cloud-based
software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to
power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps
educators and students realize their full potential, in their way.
PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and
parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From
the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and
districts efficiently manage state reporting and related
compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent,
registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading,
assessments and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool
supports over 45 million students globally and more than 15,000
customers, including more than 90 of the top 100 districts by
student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in
more than 90 countries. Visit www.powerschool.com to learn
more.
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