Mary Lane

Facing a 15% enrollment decline and a growing population of high-need students, Santa Barbara USD used Timely’s optimization platform to do what once would have required hundreds of counselor hours — achieving 99% core course request fulfillment without sacrificing a single program.

As Lubbock ISD prepared for the upcoming school year, Superintendent Kathy Rollo faced the same budget and staffing challenges confronting districts across the country. By combining Timely’s platform with strategic scheduling practices LISD was able to save money and unlock opportunity for their students.

When two districts were faced with the same impossible-seeming task — serve more students with IEPs with constrained budgets and a shrinking pool of qualified teachers — they found a solution in the master schedule.

Before Timely, every Noble Schools campus was on its own — with no shared process and no safety net for new schedulers. By building a consistent, student-first approach across all 17 Chicago schools, Noble got 96% of students fully scheduled from day one and turned their hardest annual task into one leaders rave about.

As ESSER funds expired, Edgewood ISD faced an over-staffing crisis — but chose strategic scheduling over across-the-board cuts. Partnering with Timely, the district identified $1.05 million in savings through smarter resource allocation, delivered an 18:1 ROI, and — for the first time ever — got every student their schedule before the end of the school year.