Hartford Public Schools faced a $60 million structural deficit and no clear way to know how many teachers each school actually needed. By connecting scheduling and finance for the first time, the district identified $2 million in savings, kept every teacher, and used Timely’s scheduling data to successfully advocate to the Connecticut legislature to secure $60 million in incremental funding.
A once-struggling comprehensive high school in Salem, Massachusetts became the top-performing Gateway City school in the state, starting with an overhaul of how it built its master schedule.
As Texarkana ISD faced $3.5 to $4 million in required budget reductions, CFO Anita Clay needed the data to make precise staffing decisions across two complex secondary campuses. By using Timely’s platform to map course demand against actual section counts, the district identified five FTE positions for reinvestment.
For years, Mahwah High School’s master schedule started with adults. The schedule was built around what teachers were available, what had always run, what could be rolled over from last year. Student course requests were a factor, but they weren’t the starting point. This year, that changed.
South Fayette Township School District was building one of the most complex high school schedules imaginable by hand, every year. With Timely, they met 97% of core course requests across more than 1,000 students and eliminated the manual front-end work that had consumed the start of every scheduling season.
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.
Aldine ISD created La Promesa High School to serve newcomer students with a bold bilingual model — but scheduling for students with varied transcripts, mixed English proficiency, and complex graduation needs made full implementation nearly impossible. Partnering with Timely, La Promesa achieved 100% complete student schedules for the first time.
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.
