Arbor for Local Authorities
Move your schools to the cloud, support them with better insight, and help them do their best work.
Supporting over 40 Local Authorities across England
8,000 schools migrated
from legacy server
98% satisfaction
for customer training
2 in 3 schools who switch
choose Arbor MIS
The Arbor School Management Suite
Powerful alone, but even better together. Arbor’s products work together to join up people, processes and data across your schools.
School MIS
Arbor School MIS is the UK’s most popular MIS, at the heart of data and operations for schools across the country. Give your schools an MIS that makes every day easier and more joined up.
Arbor Finance
The Arbor School Management Suite now includes Arbor Finance. User-friendly and affordable, it’s perfect for LA maintained schools. Shrink month-end reconciliation down from hours to minutes with Arbor MIS and Arbor Finance together.
LA MIS
Arbor’s School and LA MIS work together, giving you one place to understand your schools. See real time data from across your Local Authority, so you can manage your statutory responsibilities like monitoring attendance, managing exclusions, and supporting vulnerable students.
LA MIS
Arbor’s School and LA MIS work together, giving you one place to understand your schools. See real time data from across your Local Authority, so you can manage your statutory responsibilities like monitoring attendance, managing exclusions, and supporting vulnerable students.
“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
“There was relief from staff when [Arbor] was implemented and they could see what they could do. There’s this feeling like the sky’s the limit for us now.”
Lynette Clapham
Headteacher, Rawdon St. Peter’s CoFE Primary School
“I love Arbor because the MIS and team helped us gain the GOOD rating that we so desperately deserved after a tough few years!”
Kate Kinney
Data Systems Analyst, 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
“[Now] I even love working with data and assessments – which I hated in the past. I can honestly say Arbor is the best thing that has happened to me at work in a very long time.”
Penny Harrison
School Administrator, The Westbrook Trust
“In terms of what we can do at a trust level having MAT MIS has been game-changing. I couldn’t do my job without it.”
Rob Wall
Data and MIS Lead, Danes Educational Trust
“We love it! There is nothing more to say – it’s great!”
Claire Lindsay
Former Administrator, Kettering Park Infant Academy
“It’s been one big huge win! Since we moved from our old MIS, we have never looked back.”
Damon Murphy
IT Lead, Plantation Primary School
“I’m conscious that I have scored Arbor 10s across the board, but the reality is I couldn’t recommend it enough.”
Nick Doy
Head of Data Quality, Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust
One place for your data, endless ways to use it
From quick views to deep dives, Arbor’s powerful data tools can support you to support your schools
Out-of-the box analytics
See all your schools’ data in Arbor LA MIS with simple, visual, interactive dashboards
Live national benchmarking
Compare against LA averages, and insights from thousands of other Arbor schools
BI integrations
Create any dashboard you like and see it directly in Arbor MIS
Custom Data Warehouse
Load your data into our managed infrastructure so you can report on data from all your sources in one place
Future proof your team
Outdated legacy software can hold schools back, so Local Authority MIS teams need to be ready for change. As the UK’s most popular cloud MIS, we’ll work with you on your journey to help schools migrate to cloud-based technology.
A market-leading partner programme
With our partner accreditation programme, supporting schools through migration will be easier than you think. When you work with us, you join an established community of over accredited partners who collectively support more than 2,400 schools.
Simple and compliant procurement
Arbor is on a number of frameworks, including GCloud, Procurement Services (formerly KCS), HFL and NYES, so you have multiple compliant procurement options. Plus, our team can support you in showcasing Arbor MIS and Arbor Finance to your schools.
74%
agree Arbor has improved their working life
Manage transformation with confidence
A consultative approach
We’ll work with you each step of the way to make sure that Arbor is a success across your schools
The UK’s most popular cloud MIS
More LA maintained schools use Arbor than any other cloud provider, with nearly 3,000 schools in over 130 different Local Authorities
Tried and tested approach
Read our case study with HfL Education (Hertfordshire), Hampshire County Council and AWS on on how they managed the change