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Focus Instructional Spending in the Right Areas

Core instruction is the most crucial driver of academic success, and the largest single investment most districts make. It’s also the most complex to evaluate. Our Return on Instruction (ROI) platform helps district leaders measure the value of Tier 1 instruction by answering critical questions such as:

Where are instructional strategies succeeding or falling short? And for whom?

Does classroom mastery match student performance data?

Should we reallocate funds towards instructional gaps or resource-related issues, or both?

Are there trends or gaps in access, engagement, and outcomes by cohort, grade, or program?

Zoom Out or Drill Down: Reporting for Every Level

As school budgets tighten, improving core instruction—rather than relying on costly Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions—is a crucial strategy for maintaining student support. That’s why our reports offer insights to determine whether your most critical investment is delivering the best results possible.

Pinpoint Grade Inflation and Deflation Trends

If your students’ GPAs are increasing while their standardized test scores are declining, there’s a gap that needs to be addressed. Our ACE report helps leaders pinpoint what those gaps are by identifying classrooms with patterns of grade inflation or deflation.

Assess the Assessments

ROI surfaces whether benchmark assessments are effectively evaluating if students are progressing toward mastery of state standards, or if funds could be better invested in different assessments that are more tightly aligned with state summative assessments.

ROI Literacy Report
Meet the Demands of New State Legislation

To meet state literacy and numeracy requirements, Tier 1 instruction must be effective, engaging, and tailored to individual student needs. This ensures students are prepared for advanced learning as they progress to each grade. ROI helps you check your data in real time, so you can see if students are on track to meet state goals.

See What District Leaders Are Saying

[The ROI Proficiency Reports] are telling us that we are making progress with students. We may not have 85% of our students proficient yet, but we have a lot of students moving towards proficiency and that’s really exciting to see. It’s really difficult when you’re in the weeds of making a big change to know whether or not what you’re doing is worth it. These reports and the partnership with Level Data has been very helpful to see we’re focused on the right things.

Jennifer Bowles
Director of Early Education
Farmington Municipal Schools
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ROI helps us see at both a macro and micro level which academic investments are having the biggest impact on learning, so we can do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

Corey Uselton
Superintendent
DeSoto County

eROI Resources

  • Blogs

Data-Driven Decision-Making for Superintendents: How Holistic, Accurate Data Maximizes Every Investment

Superintendents in K–12 education today have an exceptionally challenging role. Though charged with steering an entire community to cultivate student growth, they themselves are often distant from the day-to-day learning happening. Instead, often through distributive leadership models, superintendents “lean through” their cabinet leaders who in turn work through school leaders, teachers, and so on—all in the face of rapidly changing federal education dynamics, budget cuts, staffing shortages, and more. How do superintendents gain systemwide visibility into the many moving pieces in their district and make informed decisions about its future? This article explains how superintendents leverage data-driven decision-making to maximize the learning impact of every district investment. We also explore common challenges with accessing accurate data that gives a complete picture, and key data solutions that can support superintendents’ decisions.

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  • eBooks & Guides

The District Data Visibility Playbook

A practical guide for K–12 leaders to turn fragmented information into trusted, decision-ready visibility—helping teams identify data gaps, strengthen ownership, improve workflows, and make better decisions.

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  • Customer Success Stories

From 38 Programs to 4: How Bamberg County School District Reclaimed More Than $100,000 with Level Data’s ROI

Background Bamberg County School District in the eastern portion of South Carolina serves approximately 1,700 students across six schools. Following the consolidation of Bamberg 1 and Bamberg 2 into a single district in 2022, leaders faced a common challenge: understanding whether the instructional programs they were paying for were actually being used and making a difference for students.

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Are You Getting a Return on Your Biggest Instructional Investment?

Strengthening core instruction isn’t just a pedagogical imperative. It’s a smart financial strategy. We can help make sure you have the right data to set that strategy.

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