For Iowa school districts
One plan your board can see, test and stand behind.
HighGround connects your district’s priorities, decisions, money and progress, with Iowa’s capital fund rules built in and a public page your community can open.
The real thing, not a mock-up: open the demo district’s public page and move the levers yourself.
Can we pay for it?
Every project and hire against what the district really has coming in, not a wish list.
In which year?
Ten years laid out, so the roof, the buses and the bond vote stop competing for the same dollars.
From which fund?
SAVE, PPEL, V-PPEL and grants each have their own rules. The plan follows them for you.
From what the community asked for to what the district delivered
Set the priorities
The strategic plan, its measures and targets, and what the community survey said.
Weigh the choices
Projects, programs and hires side by side, ranked, in scenarios the board can compare.
Pay for it, year by year
Every phase split across SAVE, PPEL, V-PPEL and grants, with the gap to close in plain sight.
Show the results
Monthly actuals from the business office against the plan, and reports the board can trust.
Built for Iowa’s capital funds
SAVE, PPEL and V-PPEL each have their own rules and timing. HighGround tracks each fund separately, year by year, so a project never quietly spends money the fund doesn’t have.
It already models the SF 2472 reduction in SAVE, phasing in from FY2027, and shows how much SAVE bond room and general-obligation room the district has.
Illustration from the demo district.
Your community sees the plan, not a PDF
Publish the board’s adopted version to a public link. Anyone can open it, no account needed, and move the what-if levers to see why the plan is what it is. Drafts stay private until you publish.
On the public page these move; nothing a visitor does changes the district’s plan.
Safe for public money
Download everything, any time.
Plans, budgets and goals only.
Admin, business manager, superintendent, board, viewer.
A code from an authenticator app, on top of the password.
Who changed what, when, and what it was before.
What the board adopted can’t drift afterwards.
Built at a board table
HighGround began on a rural Iowa school board that needed a ten-year capital plan and one honest answer: what can we afford, when, and from which fund? The spreadsheet couldn’t say. The plan that came out of that work showed where the money really ran short, and where it didn’t.
“Our districts have great people in every seat: administrators, board members, community members. What was missing was a clear path from where we want to be in the long run to the plan that gets us there, with accountability and transparency built in. HighGround was created to bridge that divide, and to make this kind of planning approachable, so more districts can reach their vision.”
Made for Iowa. Coming to more states.
HighGround is built for Iowa school districts today, with Iowa’s funds and laws inside it. We’re expanding to other states, one state’s rules at a time.
If you’d like HighGround for districts in your state, tell us. Interest from a state shapes where we go next.
Beyond school districts
The same need runs through every public body that plans with public money. We’re looking next at cities, municipalities and their leaders.