Effectively managing a school district requires using geographic tools and perspectives to integrate and share student, facility, and transportation information for better planning and decision making. A geographic information system (GIS) can provide solutions to map student addresses and attributes, design attendance boundaries, optimize bus routes, and manage facilities, helping administrators accomplish their goals. AOS partners with ESRI, the leading GIS software provider, to offer GIS services and solutions to schools.
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1. Effectively managing a school district requires a geographic
perspective and geographic tools.
Geographic information ranges in scale from the community and its characteristics to the micro geography of a school
and its components. Students, for instance, have geographic locations, including home addresses, homeroom numbers,
and the buses they ride and unique data such as student information system (SIS) standards of grade level, subjects,
grades, attendance, test scores, lunch programs and special needs.
Operating schools and districts also requires management of buildings and grounds, ensuring safety and transporting
students and materials. Doing so efficiently requires integrating and sharing information for better planning and decision
making. GIS provides solutions to help administrators accomplish
thesegoals.
AOS is a partner with the leading provider of GIS software, ESRI. ESRI
provides software solutions to schools K-12 and colleges and universities.
ADMINISTRATIVE SOLUTIONS
Demographics and Planning
Create maps of school facilities
with various characteristics
Geocode students by residential
location and mapping SIS
attributes
Design attendance boundaries and
perform redistricting functions
Analyze facility capacities and
related community development
Integrate demographics and
facilities with district departments
and functions
Transportation and Logistics
Develop geographically-accurate
walk zones
Select bus stop and shelter
locations
Create optimized bus routes that
consider road attributes
Track vehicles and monitor fleet
and driver performance
Manage field trips and special
needs routing
Produce maps, driving directions
and reports
Deliver instructional and
operational good
Facilities Management
Interior and exterior asset
management
Infrastructure mapping and
analysis
Facility siting and suitability
analysis
Building Interior Modeling (BIM)
and CAD integration
Real Estate Portfolio Management
Space utilization and optimization
Work Order management
Safety/security planning and
response
Green facilities planning and
management
Safety and Preparedness
Create school safety buffers,
determine safe distances from
buildings to assemble students
Map and analyze floor plans,
entrances, room assets,safety
equipment, shelter and threat
locations
Link student SIS data to
transportation services to
determine student locations for
different days and times
Identify community hazards and
relation to schools and bus stops
Design community protection
zones that display walking and
driving distances to safe locations
Establish geographically-enhanced
weather and disaster notification
systems that link to transportation
services
Web-based Mapping
Enhance school and district
information by adding spatial
dimensions
Create bus stop locators or
robust web mapping that
display information with easy
to understand visual data
components
THE AOS-GIS ADVANTAGE
GIS professionals to assist with every
aspect of your GIS needs:
Software installation
Software configurations
Developers/programmers
Staff augmentation
Template creation
Consulting
Training
Project management
Strategic planning
GIS for Education
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
GIS technology is an important tool that assists administrators, classroom teachers and students
meet their school districtsobjectives. Contact AOS today! aos5.com / 800.473.1110
2. Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)
Geographic information systems or GIS, integrates
hardware, software and data for capturing, managing,
analyzing and displaying all forms of geographically
referenced information.
GIS provides methods to view, understand, question, interpret and visualize data in many ways that
reveal relationships, patterns and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports and charts. GIS helps
answer questions and assists in solving problems by looking at data in a way that is quickly understood
and easily shared.
AOS is a partner with the leading provider of GIS software, ESRI. ESRI provides their software solutions
to not only the government and education sector but to large corporations and small businesses
aswell.
MAJOR BENEFITS OF USING GIS:
Cost savings and increased efficiencies
Better decision making
Improved communications
Better recordkeeping
Managing geographically
USING GIS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Local governments use GIS to assist in areas
including; public works, 911, law-enforcement,
appraisers and health agencies just to name a few
that benefit from GIS solutions. GIS consistently
delivers a return on investment including:
Cost avoidance
Time savings
Increased accuracy
Higher productivity
Better decision making
Increased citizen engagement
Green government initiatives
THE AOS-GIS ADVANTAGE
GIS professionals to assist with every aspect of your
GIS needs:
Software installation
Software configurations
Developers/programmers
Staff augmentation
Template creation
Consulting
Training
Project management
Strategic planning
AOS is a ESRI Silver Partner!
For more information visit www.aos5.com.