The national education landscape is constantly changing – now more than ever before. Many schools have still been playing catch-up post-Covid, with attendance rates slow to increase, and suspensions on the rise.
In a time where many of these trends are unprecedented, it’s more important than ever that school and MAT leaders have timely, relevant data about their performance, and can see how they compare to the national picture.
Last year we released Live National Benchmarks to the School MIS, letting schools see real-time year to date National Average and National Percentile data for Attendance data. Today we’re excited to launch the next evolution of Live National Benchmarks! Schools and trusts can now access even more Live National Benchmark data sets via our BI Connector.
Our latest Live National Benchmarks give you a comparison with over 6,000 Arbor schools across the country. Updated daily and covering key metrics from Attendance to Suspension and Permanent Exclusion Rates to Trip Rates – our benchmarks give you the crucial national context you need to lead your school or trust and respond faster to what the data is telling you.
What can you do with Live National benchmarks in the BI Connector?
Take action immediately – With live benchmarking data, identify where to focus your resources to support your students, instead of relying on outdated data. Our benchmarks update every 20 minutes for fast-moving datasets (such as attendance) and at the latest every 24 hours for slower-moving datasets.
Go deeper than statutory metrics – See how your school is performing across a range of key metrics, not just statutory ones. Our benchmarks give you a more holistic view of your school’s performance with metrics not covered by the DfE, such as trips, or daily and lesson attendance.
Understand your position in the national context – With national data like Ofsted and IDACI also in the BI Connector, you can identify wider education trends as they’re happening, and how you compare. By providing national percentiles as well as averages, you get the context behind the numbers, and where you sit in the distribution of schools.
This is just the beginning, we’ll continue to add new benchmark metrics. You can see the full list of Live National Benchmarks that you can access via our BI Connector on our Help Centre.
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Arbor’s benchmarks use data from Arbor MIS schools only. As the largest cloud MIS provider, we’re able to provide nationally representative benchmarks. We have validated the quality of our benchmarks against figures published by the DfE for 2022/23 and found that we differ by at most a couple of %. Arbor’s national benchmarks will update in real-time once there is a large enough sample size; over 100 schools with over 100 pupils.
- You can access the new benchmarks and insight in your own Business Intelligence Tool via our BI Connector.
- Arbor’s BI Connector is available to purchase for schools, and included in our MIS Plus tier for MATs. Speak to your Account Manager to get access.
- For more information on our Live National Benchmarks in the BI Connector, visit our Help Centre.
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