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ISDN Wide Area Network Design:
Dry Creek Joint Elem. School District
Larry Angus, Network Consultant
Hewlett-Packard Company
Organization Overview
The Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District is recognized as the fastest
growing school district in the state of California. To maintain continuity of
service with student increases averaging 47% for the last two years, the
district has embarked on an aggressive use of technology. This has included
the design and implementation of local area networks for each of its three
school sites, all connected to the district office through a wide area network.
Business Need
Historically, the Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District has been a small
single-school district. It was established in 1876 and maintained a stable
population of between 100 and 200 students for most of its first 100 years of
existence. Around 1988, significant residential development occurred within
the district, and the student population began to increase by 400 to 600 per
year. The current enrollment is almost 2,300 students.
With this rapid increase in student enrollment, the district constructed two
new state-of-the-art elementary schools, which include the necessary infor-
mation infrastructure to provide for computers in the classroom, integrated
computer labs, integration of computers in libraries, cable television in each
instructional area, telephones in each of the classrooms, and office spaces
for teachers. Dry Creek has implemented year-round educational programs
in all three schools.
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