School IT that works when school is out.

Built for how your school actually runs

Most IT firms treat a school like an office that happens to have children in it. A school is nothing like an office. The building empties at 3:30, fills on parent nights, and for a great many Chicago schools the busiest classrooms are the weekend ones: Sunday religious education at a parish, Hebrew school, Sunday school, a weekend academy. Your calendar has days that are not negotiable, and holidays a generic vendor will schedule straight through.

We work with private, parochial, and faith-based schools of every tradition, and with independent schools of no tradition at all. What we bring is the habit of asking about your calendar first rather than discovering it halfway through a Friday migration. If it helps to know: we are a Muslim-owned firm, so an Islamic school never has to explain Jumu'ah dismissal or a Ramadan timetable to us. We extend exactly the same respect to a Catholic school's holy days of obligation, a Jewish school's Shabbat and festival calendar, and a Christian academy's Sunday programming.

Our core promise to every school: the disruptive work, the rewiring, the cart reimaging, the office moves, happens when students are not in the building. Evenings, weekends, and breaks. For weekend and Sunday programs, we are available during the hours your school actually operates, which is precisely when most IT companies are closed.

What we handle

• Classroom WiFi that reaches every room, including the gym and the basement
• Chromebook and laptop carts: imaging, updates, repairs, and summer refresh
• Teacher and office devices, kept updated, encrypted, and backed up
• Google Workspace for Education or Microsoft 365 Education set up properly, including the free tiers many schools do not know they already qualify for
• Content filtering that actually works, on school devices and school WiFi
• Admissions, attendance, and front-office systems that stop living in one person's head
• Camera and door-security projects scoped and managed alongside licensed installers, including the paperwork below

The funding most small schools never claim

Two federal programs exist that many small private schools have simply never filed for. E-rate gives eligible K-12 schools, including private and religious schools, significant discounts on internet service and network equipment. The federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program has funded security improvements, including cameras and door control, for houses of worship and the schools attached to them.

Timing matters, and we would rather be straight with you than oversell it. The E-rate application window for the current funding year closed on 1 April 2026. The next one opens in roughly mid-January 2027, and the competitive bidding step that precedes it can begin months earlier. A school that starts preparing this autumn is early. A school that waits until January is already behind, which is exactly why most small schools never file at all.

The federal security grant runs on its own cycle through the Illinois state agency, with deadlines in spring and summer, so autumn is the right time to prepare that application too.

If nobody has ever filed either of these for your school, we will check what you could qualify for at no charge as part of the free tech check, and help you navigate the paperwork if you decide to pursue it.

The free school tech check

One visit, before the first day of school. We walk the building and test the things teachers quietly work around all year: where the WiFi dies, whether the filtering actually filters, whether the office machines and student records are backed up and restorable, and what state the cart devices are really in. The school keeps a one-page findings sheet in plain English, written for a board, not for a server room. There is no charge and no obligation.

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