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 these goals.

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 ADVANTAGEGIS 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 EducationGeographic Information Systems (GIS)

GIS technology is an important tool that assists administrators, classroom teachers and students meet their school district’s objectives. Contact AOS today! aos5.com / 800.473.1110

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 as well.

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.