At Lake Washington Girls Middle School, education is built around empowering girls to be strong in mind, body, and voice. Through collaboration, critical thinking, and leadership, L-Dub students are nurtured to reach their academic, social, and emotional potential in a supportive, inclusive, and girl-forward environment.

As a small, intentional community, LWGMS approaches everything with care for their families. That means enrollment operations need to feel like an extension of the school's values: clear, welcoming, and respectful of families' time.

The Cost of Disconnected Systems

"For the last few years we’ve hodgepodged different systems to try and find the right fit," explained Eric Stultz, Chief Finance & Operations Officer at Lake Washington Girls Middle School. "I was taking tools that weren't built for schools and forcing them to do what I needed."

The result was a fragmented workflow spanning four disconnected systems, each requiring its own setup, follow-up, and manual data transfer.

"Contracts alone took 40 hours. Then you had to manually set families up in a separate billing system and send them somewhere else to pay the deposit," he shared. "Following up on all of that took a lot of my time."

Streamlining Contracts to Save 30 Hours Per Cycle

"Now with Clarity, contracts take us less than 10 hours," Stultz shared.

"I don't need multiple contract versions anymore. Clarity's conditional logic automatically creates a custom contract based on whatever criteria I set, so I don't even have to think about it," he explained.

The speed of contract completion has shifted as well. "Before, we’d have 10% trickle in, we’d send another email and get another 10%, and then a huge chunk would come right before the deadline," shared Stultz.

"Within the first few days of releasing contracts with Clarity, we easily had 50% of them completed.” 

"I'm also doing half as much follow-up to get contract signatures or deposit payments as I used to.”

A Seamless Platform That Actually Delivers

"Everyone promises their platforms are integrated. I’ve found that to be true to varying degrees," Stultz shared. “Clarity is smooth from start to finish. It does what it says it will do."

With everything in one system, reporting became immediate rather than manual. "Right within Clarity I can quickly see that we're staying on budget and pull net tuition revenue per student without having to make custom-built spreadsheets. It’s all right in front of me."

A Partnership That Matches the Mission

The relationship with Clarity has been just as important as the platform itself for LWGMS.

"As a small school, we have to be very intentional in our partnerships with vendors," said Stultz. "In the way Clarity prices products, and the way the team is available and responsive, you don't make it feel like any school is too small."

"We approach everything with care and concern for our families. We want the best experience for them, and Clarity has definitely been a trusted partner in helping us provide that."