Arbor for Secondary Schools
Make it easier to manage all your moving parts. Arbor helps you join up people, systems and policies across your whole school.
Why thousands of schools are switching to Arbor
Top-rated by schools
for four years running
98% satisfaction
for customer training
8,500 schools migrated
more than any other provider
70+ minutes saved
per staff member per week
Benefits
Designed for everyone
With dedicated tools for the office, leaders and more, Arbor MIS helps you break down silos and work together in one, shared system
Understand your whole school, at a glance
Reduce the reporting burden on everyone with real-time performance stats on your homepage. Drill down to the detail, or filter by student groups, and follow up instantly.
Features leaders love
- KPI dashboards
- Automated reporting
- Live data feeds
- Pastoral progress reports
Stay on top of things and act, fast
Arbor organises everything in one place: calendar, live student stats, to-do lists, pastoral notes, and alerts. Record everything as soon as it happens, and follow up in a couple of clicks.
Features teachers love
- Teacher Homepage
- Student Profile
- My Classroom
Less time collating, more time analysing
With real-time data stored securely in the cloud, you can access and analyse clean, live data MIS from anywhere. Crunch it in any number of ways with powerful reporting tools.
Features data managers love
- Live data feeds
- Custom user defined fields
- Data Collection Policies
- Data Quality Dashboard
Stay in the loop, in one place
With real-time data stored securely in the cloud, you can access and analyse clean, live data MIS from anywhere. Crunch it in any number of ways with powerful reporting tools.
Features parents love
- Student calendar
- Cashless payments
- In-app messaging
“I liken Arbor to when I got my last car — you could tell the person who designed it probably wanted to drive it.”
Thierry Brunier
Data Manager, Ralph Thoresby School
“The staff at Baxter College were able to show the amazing work they do day in and day out, to Ofsted thanks to Arbor.”
Kate Kinney
Baxter College
“If you’re looking for an MIS which does everything, there’s no other option really. When we met Arbor, you could just tell this was a different way of doing things.”
Martyn Essery
Headteacher, The Reach Free School
“We’re saving time, we’re joining up our processes. Jobs that I allocated an hour to in our old cloud MIS are taking me minutes in Arbor – we’re no longer held back by our MIS.”
David Pendlebury
Assistant Principal, Hinchingbrooke School
“I’d been working with our old MIS here for over 20 years…. But I really wouldn’t want to go back to the old system.”.”
Joanne Hedges
Data Manager, Manshead Academy
“Moving to Arbor is one of the best things we’ve done in the last few years… It’s night and day different to what we were dealing with before.”
Jonathan Brook
Deputy Headteacher, Droitwich Spa High School
A single source of truth
Arbor brings all your data together – from student performance and interventions, to a history of parent comms, staff records and benchmarks from the DfE and Ofsted. With everything in one place, you can work together to spot patterns, solve issues and plan ahead.
Create consistency and manage complexity
Standardise and roll out policies like behaviour management and intervention planning. Personalise and tweak them to suit your school.
See the data that matters clearly
With all your key student and school performance data in simple, at-a-glance dashboards.
Understand how your school compares
Against DfE and Ofsted benchmarks, plus our live national database of thousands of Arbor schools.
Bring data to life and see surprising connections
Create live data feeds, or integrate with tools like Excel, PowerBI and Google Data Studio
Powered by a world-class data platform
More than an MIS
The Arbor School Management Suite for Secondary Schools
Arbor brings together top-rated, specialist systems that work together to streamline tasks and join up data across your whole secondary school
The UK’s most popular School MIS
The UK’s fastest-growing education HR system
The UK’s leading TimeTabling software
74%
agree Arbor has improved their working life
How we partner with you
Arbor has migrated over 1,000 secondary schools from legacy, server-based systems to the cloud
Top rated secondary school support
Fast and friendly support online, by phone, or in person, any way you need it
A network of support partners
We have more accredited support partners than any other cloud MIS – so you can stick with the local support team you know
Shape where we go next
We update Arbor fortnightly, listening closely and responding to your feedback
Our packages
Find the right fit for your secondary school
Core
Everything you need to replace your legacy MIS
Our best-of-breed basics:
- Attendance
- Behaviour
- Progress Tracking
- Census and Statutory Reporting
- Student and Staff Profiles
- Emails
- Clubs and Trips Management
- Staff Cover Management
- Custom Report Writer
- Student Report Cards
- Send SMS
Comms
Engage with parents and your wider community
Everything in Core, plus:
- Parent Portal
- Arbor Parent App
- Payments for clubs, meals and trips
- Meal Management
- Parents Evening Booking
- Student Portal
- Custom Report Cards
- Custom Behaviour Workflows
Perform
Join up people, processes and policies across your school
Everything in Core and Comms, plus:
- Payments Plus
- Staff Performance
- My Classroom
- Intervention Tracking
- Formative Assessments