Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) has selected MicroStrategy to support its educational assessment strategy and accountability plan for students. One of the first institutions of its kind in the United States and the first early college high school in Ohio, DECA’s mission is to maximize each student’s unique potential through a personalized, accelerated academic program.

DECA, which serves more than 200 high school students in Dayton, Ohio, uses MicroStrategy to capture, manage, and report real-time performance data in support of students’ personalized learning plans and academic progress. The type of data gathered includes student assessment activity, attendance, and demographic information. State content standards including benchmarks and indicators along with school learning goals and standardized test data are also analyzed.

DECA staff members use a web page template to enter assessments for each student, along with creating a “Personal Learning Plan” that details the student’s progress toward learning goal completion. Using MicroStrategy, the teachers, students, and parents have easy access to personalized reports with up-to-date performance information.

“Last year, we were faced with custom programming, tedious work, long delays, and total dependency on outside contract support to generate the information we wanted for each student,” said Dr. Judy Hennessey of DECA. “This level of manual work was not sustainable.”

Prithvi Solutions, a systems integration and consulting partner with MicroStrategy, helped DECA implement a Student Performance Monitoring and Reporting application using the MicroStrategy business intelligence platform. Hennessey continued, “MicroStrategy’s scalability, affordability, ease-of-use, and quality support and training have exceeded our expectations.”

“We are delighted to support the mission of DECA in seeking to maximize a student’s potential through a customized academic program,” said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy’s COO. “MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength platform, known for its ease-of-use, Web-based interface, and outstanding analytical capabilities, provides actionable data that can be used to help improve the academic performance of students at DECA.”