Schenectady board previews districtwide rollout of EduCLIMBER data dashboard

Schenectady City School District leaders introduced a new districtwide data visualization platform, EduCLIMBER, at the board of education work session on Aug. 27, 2025, saying the tool will replace the district’s current platform, Schoolzilla, and support more timely, centralized access to student, attendance and assessment data.

The presentation, led by Assistant Superintendent Tyrone O'Meary and Chief Academic Officer Tia Cornell, said EduCLIMBER will ingest data from the district’s student information system, Infinite Campus, and other sources to create dashboards for district leaders, school staff and, in selected views, families and community members. Natalie Cable, manager of data and reporting, said the district’s goals are “that every student's progress is visible, measurable, and meaningfully supported.”

The system is intended to support ongoing efforts such as MTSS (multi-tiered systems of support), to reduce delayed or siloed information, and to provide customizable views for principals, teachers, counselors and parents. Nathan Barrow, account executive for assessment and analytics at Renaissance (the vendor behind EduCLIMBER), said the platform offers a highly granular student profile that he described as the “back of an all star card view.” He and district staff demonstrated sample achievement dashboards, subgroup filters and drill-downs to individual students.

District staff described a yearlong selection process that began with a rubric and a broad stakeholder committee. Tracy Angelini, director of planning and accountability, said the committee evaluated 19 vendor…