Case Study
Canyons School District cuts IT costs by 75% with cloud communications
masergy.com Copyright ©2019 Masergy. All rights reserved. Canyons School District in Sandy, Utah, opened its doors in 2009, and is the first new district in Utah in nearly a century. The district, located in the southeast part of the Salt Lake Valley, serves about 33,000 students in 29 elementary schools, 8 middle schools, 4 high schools, and 4 special programs. As is typical of most K-12 public school systems, Canyons has to work with a lean IT budget. That’s why it opted to use cloud technology—from applications to communications systems—wherever it can to cost-effectively and creatively support administrators, teachers, and students. Early on, the district adopted Google Apps to replace some of the software it had inherited when Canyons was formed via a state law that let Utah r