Jeffco Public Schools has been honored as a 2025 AWS Champions Award winner for its visionary implementation of a cloud-native data lake architecture built on AWS. This district-wide solution unified siloed educational data into a single, intuitive platform, empowering over 9,000 educators with real-time, actionable insights and driving measurable improvements in student achievement.

Project Overview
Faced with fragmented data systems and inconsistent reporting tools, Jeffco Public Schools launched a bold initiative to modernize how educators access, interpret, and act on student data. By leveraging Snowflake, Amazon S3, and other AWS services, the district built a scalable data lake that integrates multiple educational systems into one cohesive infrastructure.

This data backbone powers the district’s “single pane of glass” dashboard, an interactive, user-friendly business intelligence interface that allows teachers, principals, and superintendents to explore student performance trends, attendance, engagement, and other key indicators in real time. The solution has achieved widespread adoption across all schools and is now central to Jeffco’s data-driven culture.

Challenges Addressed: From Data Silos to Real-Time Visibility
Jeffco’s initiative tackled several longstanding challenges:

• Fragmented data systems that limited holistic visibility into student performance 
• Lack of timely, intuitive tools for school leaders and educators to access and use data 
• Scalability concerns as data volumes and user demands increased 
• Inconsistent decisions made from incomplete or outdated data 

The district has created a robust platform that scales seamlessly and provides a unified source of truth for instructional planning and strategic decision-making.

Results: Widespread Adoption and Improved Student Outcomes
The impact of Jeffco’s cloud transformation is both broad and deep:

• 9,000+ employees across the district now have access to real-time dashboards 
• Multiple data sources unified into a single system, eliminating manual reports and data silos 
• District-wide adoption of a common business intelligence platform for instructional and operational decision-making 
• Year-over-year gains in student metrics including test scores, engagement, and attendance 
• Time savings for school staff, who now spend less time gathering data and more time focused on instruction 
• Scalable, secure architecture to support future data growth and innovation 

The success of this project has positioned Jeffco as a leader in building sustainable, scalable data ecosystems in K–12 education.

A Model for Scalable, Impactful K–12 Data Strategy
Jeffco Public Schools has demonstrated how cloud-native infrastructure can transform educational decision-making at scale. By unifying data, building with the end user in mind, and focusing on outcomes, they’ve created a modern analytics platform that supports student achievement and operational excellence alike.