Customer story
Buena Vista High School helped build TardySweep. Three years later, it still runs their hallways.
TardySweep started at Buena Vista in 2024, built with the staff who use it every day. Three school years later, it's still how a school of about 1,500 students handles every tardy.
Where it started
In 2024, Buena Vista High School in Omaha Public Schools, a school of about 1,500 students, was tracking tardies the way most schools do: by hand, in spreadsheets, with follow-ups that depended on who caught the student. TardySweep was built with Buena Vista's staff to fix that, and Buena Vista has used it every school day since August 2024.
How Buena Vista uses TardySweep
- Tardy stations, logged in seconds. Buena Vista runs dedicated tardy stations. A late student stops at the station, staff log the tardy in seconds, and it counts toward the student's totals for the day, week, quarter and year.
- A next step for every tardy. Buena Vista set up Event Rules so each tardy in a quarter comes with a clear, consistent next step. Students see where they stand the moment it's logged, on screen and on their pass, and staff know right away which intervention to assign.
- Live data the team trusts. Administrators see tardies by period, location and student, so conversations start from accurate numbers.
Why it has lasted
- It fits the school day. TardySweep runs on its own, separate from the student information system, so logging a tardy doesn't mean opening clunky attendance software in the middle of a passing period.
- It changes when the policy does. When Buena Vista wanted every tardy in a quarter to carry its own next step, the change was a matter of updating Event Rules, with no new system to roll out or retrain staff on.
TardySweep has been a game-changer for us. We needed live data on tardies that was accurate and that we could track. With TardySweep we can custom tailor the platform to meet our needs, for example, we setup alerts when students hit certain tardy increments so we know what interventions to assign. It's easy to use and has impacted our hallways more than any other initiative we have tried!
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