ONPASS® Pro is a geographic information system (GIS) software designed for school district administrators and planners to present their district and school boundaries on a map and to gather, store, analyze, and present student demographic data, school capacity data, and other geospatial data. This software is a powerful GIS tool for users with no technical GIS expertise.
With very little training, district personnel are able to view school district data on maps and in tabular form. ONPASS Pro users can create and save an unlimited number of scenarios with associated maps and statistics to model changes in their districts. Common planning scenarios include opening a new school, closing a school, changing attendance boundaries, balancing ethnicities and other demographics across schools, and reconfiguring grade levels of schools.
One of the most powerful aspects of ONPASS Pro is the inclusion of geocoded student data. This enables the software to present visual markers (including points or icons) on the map of the location of all students in the district. These points retain all associated data from the student records, allowing for geospatial analysis of this data by demographic variables. ONPASS Pro is available from Planware™, the GIS/Planning division of Educational Data Systems.