Work better, together with Arbor School MIS
Bring staff, students, parents and school leaders together with the UK’s most popular cloud MIS
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 features for teachers, office staff, leaders and more, you can equip everyone with the tools and information they need, when they need it. Breaking bottlenecks, saving time, and helping you work together in one, shared system.
Features
- Dashboards by role
- Digital register
- Automated absence follow up
Close the knowledge gap
Get the complete picture of every student, from communications and activities, to interventions and safeguarding. With everything at hand, it’s easier to spot patterns, solve issues and plan ahead.
Features
- Student Profile
- Live data feeds
- Parent Portal and App
Take action, instantly
Arbor brings together the data you need, and the tools to act on it in real-time. Go from identifying an issue with a student to quickly putting a solution in place. Add them to an invention group, or send an email home — all in a few clicks.
Features
- Email, SMS and in-app messaging
- Custom groups
- Bulk actions
“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
“When we met Arbor, you could just tell this was a different way of doing things. There was a degree of ambition that matched what we wanted to do for our school.”
Martyn Essery
Deputy Headteacher, The Reach Free School
“There was relief from staff when [Arbor] was implemented and staff 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
“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
“We love it! There is nothing more to say – it’s great!”
Claire Lindsay
Former Administrator, Kettering Park Infant Academy
“What is most amazing is the customer service for school staff. In less than a year, I went from never having used a school MIS to overseeing all things Arbor for our school.”
Mark Ellis
Data and Exams Manager, Goresbrook School
“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
One place for your data, endless ways to use it
We built Arbor to be the home of school data
Bring all your data together
From your MIS, national data sets, and all your school apps
See key insights at a glance
With simple, visual, interactive dashboards
Understand how your school compares
Against DfE and Ofsted benchmarks, plus our live national database of Arbor schools
Bring it to life and see surprising connections
Create live data feeds, or connect Arbor with Excel, PowerBI and Google Data Studio
Connect with the tools you love
Arbor MIS integrates with your favourite apps and platforms, so you can update things once — and have it updated everywhere.
Features
Explore Features
Attendance
Lightning-fast digital registers – no more paper
Ask Arbor
Your new collaborator and assistant in Arbor, powered by OpenAI
Admin Automation
Automatic escalation of tasks and chasing via email and SMS
Arbor Parent App
Communicate with parents on the go
Payments
Online and offline payments for meals, clubs and trips
My Classroom
Create seating plans and manage your class
Meals, clubs and trips
Easily schedule activities and link to consents and payments
Communications
Send and receive SMS and email, with a fully searchable log
Calendar
School, staff and student calendars
Census Wizard
Complete your census quickly and easily without repeated resubmissions
Report Builder
Build reports using any data point in Arbor, run them on a schedule
Google Classroom™ and Microsoft 365 Integration
Sync data securely with your digital learning platform
Assessments and Progress
Track your pupils’ formative and summative progress through school
Interventions
Instant insight into the effectiveness of your interventions over time
Live link to Excel
Link all your data to Excel or PowerBI via live feed for seamless custom reporting
Behaviour
Record, reward and report on behaviour and manage detentions
Cover
Automatic messaging, scheduling and management
Parent and student portals
Log in to see updates and make payments
Safeguarding
Securely permissioned access to child protection data
Exams
Manage school exams end-to-end
SEN
Assign and report on SEN
70
On average, schools save 70 minutes per staff member, per week with Arbor
How we partner with you
Arbor has migrated over 8,000 schools from legacy, server-based systems to the cloud
Top rated support and training
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
Have your say in where we go next
We update Arbor fortnightly, listening closely and responding to what you tell us
Our packages
Schools of all sizes use Arbor School MIS, from primaries to secondaries to Special Schools, APs and PRUs
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
More than an MIS
Introducing the Arbor School Management Suite
Arbor now brings together top-rated, specialist systems that work together to streamline tasks and join up data across your whole school
Top-rated accounting software for LA schools
The UK’s fastest-growing education HR system
The UK’s leading TimeTabling software
