Capistrano Unified School District

Information Services and Assessment

The Information Services and Assessment Accountability Department supports Capistrano Unified School District by managing and coordinating the daily activities and functions related to providing technical support for a wide variety of District data systems including, Student Information Management, Human Resources, Finance, Budget, Parent/Student Messaging software, Substitute Management and systems related to educational learning programs.

Additionally, the department is responsible for facilitating State and Federal reporting to California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) & U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection, and other State and Federal mandated reports.

The Information Services staff develops and provides user training and documentation to assist school district staff with managing and understanding their student data and provide tools and applications to assist in managing daily tasks. The department also provides support to students and parents using the District’s Parent Portal and Registration systems.

We work with District administrators to provide complex student data analysis reports and dashboards to assist in monitoring student progress towards meeting the state standards and progression towards high school graduation.

WHAT WE DO...

Maintain the Aeries Student Information System, including the Parent/Student Portals and Online registration system for all schools
Manage SQL Microsoft Access database needs
Provide Aeries training classes and phone support to all district Aeries users
Install updates and maintain web Interfaces used by teachers and staff to manage daily attendance, grades, etc.
Import/Export data

Parents and Guardians:

- To correct or change any of your student(s) main demographic information, please contact the school they attend and someone will assist you. We are unable to make any demographic changes for you.
- To make changes to your personal contact information or to add/delete/edit emergency contacts, please log into your Parent Portal account. >> Click on Student Info >>Data Confirmation. | portal.capousd.org

District Staff:

- Please log in to CapoNet for Aeries Support.

Karen Scott

Director II

Information Systems & Assessment

Michelle Benham - Principal on Special Assignment, Testing & Assessment	Joel Newkirk - Manager, Systems Integration and Analysis
Ann Singleton Tademy- Research/ Evaluation Analyst	Miguel Castillo - Information Systems Specialist III
Brian Persall - Lead Programmer/Analyst	Chris Nguyen - Information Systems Specialist III
Dan Kim - Programmer/Analyst	Tyler Russ - Information Systems Specialist III
Billy Letcher- Programmer/Analyst	Jessica Neth - Information Systems Specialist II
	Fernando Sotelo - Information Systems Specialist I