Questions and answers
What is ERLY Desk?
A pre-K assessment and screening dashboard built for your district or program, on top of the tools you already use, including Microsoft Power BI if you're already on Microsoft. You own it when it's done.
Which assessments do you work with?
Teaching Strategies GOLD, Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2), i-Ready, COR Advantage, Desired Results (DRDP), state kindergarten readiness checks, and many others.
Our pre-K data is a mess. Can you clean it?
Yes. We clean assessment data, match children across schools, Head Start and community programs, remove duplicates, and connect it into one unified system.
What can the dashboard show?
Screeners, assessment checkpoints (Fall/BOY, Winter/MOY, Spring/EOY, Summer), demographics, IEPs, site profiles, staffing, policy and supplemental data, all in one place. We can build it as interactive Power BI reports or as a custom dashboard.
We're a Microsoft district. Can you build it in Power BI?
Yes. Many districts already run on Microsoft, and you can stay there. We build the data model and data pipeline for interactive Power BI reports on the Microsoft Power Platform, with the right security level and access for each staff role. Leaders see the whole picture, and each school sees only what it should. Your team keeps working in the Microsoft tools they already know.
Is our students' data safe?
Our team is FERPA trained. If you need it, we build your secure cloud and database, and we work alongside your IT team so your data stays protected and encrypted.
Do teachers need to learn a new system?
No. Teachers keep the tools they use now. The dashboard pulls it together for leaders.
Do we have to pay a subscription?
No. You own the finished system, with a certificate of ownership and a full handoff.
How long does it take?
It depends on your data and what you want to see. Every build starts with a data inventory, done together with you and the people who know your data best: your staff. Their knowledge shapes the dashboard, so we take the time to get it right. Once the inventory is done, we give you a clear timeline for the build.
Who is behind ERLY Desk?
NBLK, a data engineering and architecture firm in New York and London. Our founder has 20+ years in education data, is a former preschool teacher, and is certified in Data Wise from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Do you work with other grades besides pre-K?
Yes. We work with elementary, middle, junior high and high schools, and full K–12 districts. We build one unified dashboard for all your screeners and assessments, in Power BI or as a custom dashboard, bring all your data sets into one system and, if needed, build the cloud and data infrastructure that supports it.
Where we work
ERLY Desk builds pre-K assessment and screening dashboards for school districts, cities, charter networks and early learning programs in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. We clean assessment data, connect it into one unified system, and give leaders one clear view of their whole organization's early learning data. Already on Microsoft? We build it right inside Power BI and the Microsoft Power Platform, with the right access for every role.
Built for districts of every size. That includes the country's largest systems, such as Los Angeles Unified, Miami-Dade County, Chicago, Clark County, Broward County, Puerto Rico, Hillsborough County, Orange County, Palm Beach County, Gwinnett County, Fairfax County, Houston, Hawaii, Wake County, Montgomery County, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Dallas, Prince George's County, Duval County, Cypress-Fairbanks, Polk County, Philadelphia, Memphis-Shelby County, Baltimore County, Cobb County, Kansas City, Kansas City Kansas, San Francisco Unified, Denver and Washington, D.C. It also includes small and rural programs.
Where pre-K is growing. States are expanding pre-K fast. As of 2026, 14 states plus the District of Columbia run a state-funded pre-K program available to every 4-year-old regardless of family income. Others, like Illinois, Kentucky, New Mexico and Hawaii, are building toward it. New programs mean new data, and we help it start clean.
Our experience. Our team has worked with Chicago Public Schools, Kansas City Public Schools, Kansas City Kansas Public Schools, the Bermuda Ministry of Education and education programs across the United Kingdom. We have done extensive pre-K research in Texas, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Our founder is a former preschool teacher and is certified in Data Wise from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
States we serve: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York State, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Source for state pre-K figures: Childery, States with universal pre-K in 2026
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