CASE STUDY
With an open campus, 2,700+ students, and about 100 tardies a day, Midland Lee was losing class time. After moving hall passes and tardies into Minga, tardies dropped 67% and students gained 574 hours of instructional time in three months.
- 574hours of instructional time gained in three months
- 67%drop in tardies
- 52%drop in hallway hours
Midland Lee High School
Solutions used
THE CHALLENGE
An Open Campus With No Way to Track Students
Midland Lee has an open campus and more than 2,700 students. Students wandered during lunch and between classes, about 100 were late every day, and staff tracked it all in Google Sheets. Football games drew up to 700 students and 12,000 fans, with no fast way to check students in. The school was also juggling around 20 software tools that didn’t work together.
Key problem areas:
- No hall pass system, and limited restrooms
- Tardies tracked by hand
- Students leaving or wandering during lunch and between classes
- Slow, hard-to-secure check ins at big events like football games
- Too many software systems that didn’t work together
On the hall pass side of things, we didn’t have a system. Kids would take the pass, walk out, and then skip class. On the tardy side of things, our city is not built for the number of people that live here. There’s a lot of traffic, we had about 100 kids that were tardy every single day. On the behavior side of things, we’d manage lunch detentions by handing out a piece of paper in the morning and hoping that kids would show up. It was not successful.”
THE SOLUTION
One Platform for Passes, Tardies, Events, and Advisory
After a successful trial, Midland Lee rolled out Minga across campus to increase instructional time. Digital hall passes and automatic tardy tracking came first, with lunch detentions assigned for late arrivals.
Students now scan in at football games, which speeds up entry and keeps out people who shouldn’t be there. A points system rewards good behavior, and flexible scheduling runs the school’s advisory period. Minga also syncs with Skyward.
What Minga offered:
- Digital hall passes and automatic tardy tracking
- Check ins at football games and other events
- Points students earn and redeem for prizes
- Scheduling for flex and advisory periods
- A sync with Skyward
We were initially looking for a hall pass and tardy pass system, so we went and saw how Allen High was using Minga. I got a lot of good information from them and one thing I loved about Minga was it was an all-in-one system. We have about 20 different software solutions that we’re using, so this was one of the best parts.”
THE OUTCOMES
Increased Instructional Time and a District-Wide Rollout
574 hours back in three months
Fewer tardies and shorter hall passes added up to 574 hours of instructional time.
67% fewer tardies
Automatic lunch detentions for late arrivals changed habits fast. Students now hurry to class.
Calmer hallways
Hallway hours fell 52% and total hall passes fell 53%.
Safer game nights
15,000+ on and off-campus check ins, with a better-managed student section and unauthorized guests kept out.
Good behavior gets rewarded
Students earn Minga points they can redeem for rewards, and staff have seen a shift in school culture.
The district followed
After Midland Lee’s results, almost every middle school in Midland ISD adopted Minga.
What I love the most is the ease of the tardy system. We had such a bad problem with tardies but now there’s a change in culture, kids are running to their classes instead of just hanging out. It’s amazing.”
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