Horizon Education Centers: Building the Data Foundation to Match 48 Years of Excellence in Early Childhood Education
Horizon Education Centers (HEC) has been shaping the lives of children aged 6 weeks to 14 years old for over 48 years. As a non-profit early childhood education provider operating across multiple centers and funding streams, HEC made a deliberate decision to build a data foundation that matched the scale and ambition of their mission. Partnering with Paragon Shift, HEC connected its systems, automated its data flows, and gave leadership a unified view across all centers for the first time. Attendance reconciliation time dropped by 70% for center administrative staff, total weekly manual reporting hours fell from 100 to 29, and the team that had been spending evenings on reconciliation got their time back.
