Sri Sankalpa Concept School: one system for 490 students, and parents who stop guessing
| School | Sri Sankalpa Concept School |
|---|---|
| Location | Porumamilla, YSR Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh |
| Owner | Naveen Reddy |
| Students | 490 |
| Board | State board |
| Staff | 30 |
| Plan | Foundation |
| Live since | 23 July 2026 |
| Modules in use | Students, Staff, Attendance, Transport, Parent communication via in-app, push and WhatsApp |
Porumamilla is a mandal town in YSR Kadapa district. Sri Sankalpa Concept School has about 490 students on roll, and like most schools of that size it was running on a mix of registers, phone calls and whatever the office could keep track of in a spreadsheet.
Naveen Reddy, who runs the school, was not shopping for an attendance app or a fee tool. He wanted one system. Students, teachers, parents, transport and attendance in the same place, so that nobody in the office had to check three things to answer one question.
The part he kept coming back to was communication with parents.
Sometimes it was done immediately, sometimes it took time, especially when there were many absentees.
Naveen Reddy, Sri Sankalpa Concept School, on calling parents before Campus 24x7
The problem, in his words
Before Campus 24x7, telling a parent their child was absent meant somebody picking up a phone. A teacher or a member of the office staff made the call.
Naveen's description of how well that worked is the honest one: “Sometimes it was done immediately, sometimes it took time, especially when there were many absentees.”
That is the failure mode of manual absence notification in one sentence. It works on a quiet day. On the day it matters, when twenty students are absent and the office is already busy, the calls that get made are the easy ones and the rest wait until evening.
Why they chose Campus 24x7
The requirement and the product lined up without much persuasion needed. In-app notifications, push notifications and WhatsApp for parents, teachers and drivers were already built rather than promised for a future release. That mattered, because the usual answer a school gets from a vendor is that the feature is on the roadmap.
Who else was in the running
He did look at other options. What decided it was breadth rather than any single feature: “it wasn’t just focused on one thing. Attendance, fees, communication, academics, everything was available in one place, and the overall system felt easier for our staff to use.”
The second half of that sentence is the part worth noticing. A school of this size does not have an IT person. Whether the office staff can operate it decides whether it gets used past March.
The rollout
This was not a self-serve signup. The Campus 24x7 team sat with the school across several meetings, worked through what Sri Sankalpa actually needed configured, and set it up to match how the school already works rather than asking the school to change to suit the software.
Then came training. Teachers and administration staff were trained on the system directly, because a school ERP that only the principal knows how to use is a school ERP that gets abandoned by March.
What went wrong in week one
Nothing dramatic, and Naveen does not claim otherwise: “some staff members took a little time to understand the workflow, and we had to make a few adjustments. Once everyone got used to it, things became much smoother.”
That is the realistic version of a first week. The software works; the habit does not exist yet. Schools that budget for a fortnight of people asking where things are tend to come through it. Schools that expect day-one fluency conclude the system is wrong when it is only unfamiliar.
Where things stand now
Admissions, attendance, transport and parent communication run through one system. Drivers, teachers and parents are on the same notification stream rather than a chain of phone calls.
What changed in the office is the morning: “Earlier, mornings could get quite hectic with calls and people asking for different information. Now a lot of that information is already available in the system. We can check attendance, updates and other details without having to chase people for everything.”
Asked what he would say to another principal considering it, he put it as a warning against treating it as a point solution: “don’t look at it as just another software. If you’re still managing things through registers, calls and different systems, a platform like Campus 24x7 can make the day-to-day work much more organized.”
What we still do not do well
Foundation is Android-only. iOS arrives from the Growth plan upward. In a school where some parents carry an iPhone, that is a live gripe rather than a theoretical one, and it is the limitation we hear about most.
There is no biometric or RFID option. Marking is mobile-only by design. A school that wanted a fingerprint device at the gate did not get one, and we told them so rather than promising it for a future release.
What Sri Sankalpa Concept School uses
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