Built to work in two very different worlds: a school day and a self-study cycle.
Mays Consulting Group started with a simple observation: school districts and universities both run on systems that can't afford to fail quietly, but neither field is usually staffed to catch problems before they become emergencies. We built a firm around closing that gap, staffed by a team with more than 40 years of combined experience in EdTech.
Built by someone who's been on the other side of the ticket
MCG grew out of founder Jones Mays' years leading technology for K–12 districts and nonprofit organizations, including building Holly Springs School District's technology department from the ground up, back when the district had no dedicated technology staff at all.
That firsthand experience shapes how MCG works today: a belief that complicated systems should be someone's full-time responsibility, not an extra duty bolted onto someone else's job.
MCG's approach to ed-tech integration has since been recognized nationally: we were invited to present it at the National CAPE Conference in Washington, D.C.
What stays constant on every engagement
- Documentation first. Every system we touch is documented before, during, and after.
- Named contacts. You always know who's responsible, not just a ticket queue.
- Built for review. Whether it's an auditor or a school board, our work is built to be inspected.
- Fixed communication cadence. Scheduled reporting, not radio silence between emergencies.
We were there in the beginning.
Founder Jones Mays was part of the EdTech field before it had a name. In the early 1990s, during education technology's first wave, he helped schedule some of Houston ISD's original NetDay events and built HISD's first school-based website. That work earned him HISD Teacher of the Year in 1997. That classroom experience still shapes how MCG builds today: he knows firsthand what it's like to be on the other end of the technology, and the entire staff stays just as attuned to what educators actually need, not just what a system can technically do.
By 2000, he'd moved to Holly Springs School District in rural Mississippi, and rather than inherit an existing technology department, he built one from nothing, recruiting and retaining a nine-person team with zero attrition over seven years. He founded Technology for the Children of Holly Springs (TECHS), securing $2.5M in funding that helped the district go from a "District of Need" to an A-rated school district in two years. Along the way, he launched Mississippi's first 1:1 student computing initiative and the state's first distance learning program, expanding access to technology-enhanced learning for a community that had none. In 2005, that work earned him a national Cisco Systems "EdTech Leader on the Move" award.
The standards we hold every engagement to
Responsiveness
A defined response time, published and met, not "someone will get to it."
Plain language
Technical work explained in terms a superintendent or board member can act on.
Compliance-minded
FERPA and CIPA compliance aren't an afterthought: they shape the build.
Long-term partnership
We stay through the next budget cycle, not just the rollout.
Want to know if we're a fit?
A 20-minute call tells us both. No pitch deck required.