CASE STUDY
At this alternative school, students who are late or absent make up the time, but paper slips and binders meant nobody knew who actually did. With Minga, tardies and make-up classes are assigned automatically, and make-up completion rose from under 15% to over 40% in eight weeks.
- Over 40%of make-up time completed, up from under 15%
- 2,400+make-up classes assigned
- 23%drop in monthly hall pass use
Edge High School
Solutions used
THE CHALLENGE
Paperwork Was Taking Over the Dean’s Day
Edge High is an alternative charter school that helps at-risk students recover credits and stay in school. Students follow a flexible five-hour day, and anyone who’s late or absent makes up the time. But every schedule, tardy, and make-up class was tracked on paper slips and in binders. Many students missed their make-up time, and without make-up class attendance tracking, nobody could tell. The Dean of Students spent most of her day on paperwork instead of talking with students.
Key problem areas:
- Paper slips and binders for flexible, self-paced schedules
- Too much paperwork left little time for students
- No way to make sure students attended make-up classes
- Paper hall passes
- Printed IDs that students never used
Our Dean of Students is in charge of attendance but her role in our model and mission is not to just be paper-pushing. Her role is to have real conversations about the root cause of, ‘Why aren’t you at school? What can we do? What’s the barrier?’ Instead, she was staying late dealing with the paperwork [of managing student schedules]. It was easily six to seven hours of an eight-hour day that she was just paper-pushing.”
THE SOLUTION
Make-Up Classes That Schedule Themselves
Edge High started with Minga for check ins, then found flexible scheduling fit its model even better. Students scan their digital IDs when they arrive. If they’re late, Minga records the tardy and adds a make-up class to their schedule, and the student is notified right away.
Admins can add sessions, adjust rosters, and see who actually attended. Digital hall passes replaced paper, and parents get real-time updates on behavior and consequences.
What Minga offered:
- Flexible scheduling built for self-paced schedules
- Scan-in check ins that record late arrivals
- Automatic tardies and make-up classes
- Digital hall passes with data on student movement
- Behavior tracking with automatic consequences and parent updates
Now, everything is very automated. Students are just scanning in and it automatically assigns them a tardy and records whether that tardy has the need for a make-up class or another consequence. All of that has just made the process much smoother and more efficient. The student gets notified immediately, and there’s no paper to lose.”
THE OUTCOMES
Make-Up Class Attendance Tracking That Gets Time Made Up
Over 40% of make-up time completed
Before Minga, the school estimated less than 15% of make-up time was completed. Eight weeks after switching, it was over 40%.
Students take charge
Students now manage their own schedules, and one even asked for an extra period each day to cover their tardies.
Time back for students
With less paperwork, the Dean can focus on conversations about why students are missing school.
23% fewer hall passes
Staff can see who’s overusing passes, and No Party Groups keep students who shouldn’t be together from meeting up.
Clear attendance and tardy records
Paper binders are gone, and late students get back to class faster.
Parents stay in the loop
Families get real-time updates on behavior and any consequences.
We came at it from an angle of wanting to support make-up and using FlexTime to do that. One of the pieces I was looking for was, ‘What percentage of those make-up classes have been completed?’ Prior to Minga, we had no way of knowing, we didn’t have an accurate record at all, but I would guess we were below 15%. After Minga, when I checked after we had implemented FlexTime for only about eight weeks, we were over 40% of that make-up time having actually been made up!”
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