Industry
Education
Challenge
Marshall County Schools needed a more personalized and data-informed learning structure. Their goal was to equip teachers with real-time insights into student progress without adding extra burden.
Results
Otus helps Marshall County Schools streamline assessment and grading while giving teachers real-time visibility into student progress across multiple measures, including Renaissance Star and KSA.
Key Product
Assessments, Data & Analytics, Standards-Based Grading
Marshall County Schools (KY)
Marshall County Schools is a public school district serving all Marshall County, Kentucky. It operates 12 schools across the district - including multiple elementary school, two middle schools, Marshall County High School, MC Academy, and the Marshall County Technology Center - offering education from Pre-K through grade 12. The district serves approximately 3,600 students with around 280 full-time teachers, yielding a student-teacher ratio of 16:1.
The Challenge
Marshall County Schools, a K-12 district in Kentucky, set out to make learning more personalized and data-informed. Their goal was to equip teachers with real-time insights into student progress without adding extra burden. The district needed a platform that could support standards-based grading (SBG), simplify common assessment administration, and help them monitor student growth at scale across all content areas.
The Solution
Marshall County adopted Otus in 2019 to streamline assessment and grading while gaining deeper visibility into student learning. With Otus, the district could administer common assessments to more than 3,000 students twice a year, track student growth in between those benchmarks, and use flexible assessment tools like rubrics to align with their SBG goals.
The platform became a true hub for digital learning materials, allowing educators to assign and manage more than 65,000 lessons in the 2024-25 school year alone. With Infinite Campus integration and Clever rostering, Otus fits seamlessly into the district’s tech ecosystem.
The Results
Now in their sixth year with Otus, Marshall County continues to expand how they use the platform:
- 471k assessments administered in 2024-25 (up from 464k in 2023-24)
- 65k+ lessons assigned, showing strong adoption of Otus as a digital content hub
- Bridges in Mathematics assessments integrated into Otus workflows
- Comprehensive use across all content areas for formative and summative assessments
Otus also helps the district consolidate third-party data, such as Renaissance Star, KSA (Kentucky Summative Assessment), ACT, WIDA ACCESS, and AP scores, in one place. This provides a clearer picture of student performance and growth across multiple measures, making it easier for educators to act on what matters most.
Whether supporting standards-based grading, administering assessments, or tracking trends across school and district levels, Otus remains central to the district’s strategy for data-informed teaching and learning.
