Fayette County Public Schools launches public transparency dashboard consolidating enrollment, testing and finance data
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Fayette County Public Schools demonstrated a new public transparency dashboard that centralizes district data — enrollment, attendance, testing, teacher trends, a salary estimator and financials — and will go live on the district website after the meeting.
Fayette County Public Schools unveiled a new public transparency dashboard on Feb. 24, presenting district-wide data including enrollment and attendance trends, KSA testing results, teacher demographics, a salary estimator and a financial transparency dashboard that is already live with a roughly one-month lag of budget information.
The presentation, led by Terry Wilson of communications and Chief Analytics Officer Carl Hayden with a demonstration by Mr. Hedden of the Office of Information and Analytics, described the dashboard as a single place for the public to view verified data, with source citations and update timestamps drawn from Kentucky Department of Education releases and internal systems. Hayden said the district will publish a traffic report in May showing how often the tracker is accessed.
The superintendent framed the dashboard as the product of a September “challenge” to the analytics and communications teams to improve public transparency about safety and other district indicators. Hayden walked board members through a “district at a glance” view, school profiles, KSA testing dashboards and teacher trend data, and highlighted an in-house salary estimator and a financial transparency dashboard that shows budget details.
Board members praised the work. Board Member Amy Green said the dashboard is “consumable” and predicted students and outside researchers would use it for school comparison and research. Board Member Monica Mundy asked whether the site will include a way for users to ask questions about specific items; Hayden said such a feature is being added and that incoming questions will be routed for response. Board Member Christian said the district should show actual usage data one year from launch to measure public engagement.
The superintendent and analytics staff said the dashboard will be activated on the district website after the presentation and that updates and additional features will be rolled out over time.
The board did not take formal action on the dashboard at the meeting; presenters said the tool would be turned on for public access later that evening.