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Arbor Education

Who we are

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better, with brilliant, intuitive tools designed to make a difference.

Arbor is used by over 4,000 schools and 400 trusts to work more collaboratively, free staff from unnecessary admin and make a measurable improvement to the way they work each day.

What makes us different?

Most chosen by schools: Our MIS has been chosen by over 4,000 schools and trusts. We’re proud that 2 in 3 schools who switch MIS, switch to Arbor.

Designed to make a difference: At the heart of our MIS is a commitment to make a measurable difference to the way schools work. 92% of our users say Arbor has transformed the way they work for the better

Consistently top-rated: We have a track record of building and launching features that schools and MATs love. From Attendance to Exams, Payments to Comms, Seating Plans to Assessments - we’re the top-rated multi-phase MIS across functionality, service and quality of support

Everything you need, all brought together: We believe that schools work best when all staff have access to a single MIS. Arbor includes the tools all your staff need - whatever their role, and whatever your school phase

Market-leading data platform: Arbor combines data from the DfE and Ofsted with student, staff, finance and HR data in our market-leading data warehouse

Proven migration process: We’ve migrated more schools from legacy, server-based systems to the cloud than any other MIS provider

The only true MIS for Multi-Academy Trusts: Our School MIS and MAT MIS work seamlessly together, giving our users a single ecosystem for their trust, and making it easy to work together as one organisation

What we do

Arbor is the UK’s leading provider of cloud MIS software to schools and trusts.

Our School MIS and MAT MIS work seamlessly together, giving our users a single ecosystem for their trust, and making it easy to work together as one organisation:

• Move your schools to the UK’s most popular MIS: With tools designed to support all your staff - whichever phase of school they work in, and whatever their role
• Get a dedicated MAT MIS for your central team: Where information and actions flow both ways: school-up and trust-down
• Data and action taking, together at last: More than just a dashboard, our MAT MIS makes it easy for your central team to act on data within the system for fast, contextualised decision-making — with no need to log in to individual schools.
• Support your schools in the right way for them: If you want to standardise everything across your schools, you can. If you just want to take care of back-office admin to free up schools to focus on teaching and learning, you can do that too.
• Make your central team an enabler to your schools: Move work from your schools to your central team - such as checking records are up-to-date, managing school comms centrally, and reporting on and benchmarking data.
• Manage Assessments and HR tasks centrally: Our MAT MIS uniquely brings MIS, Assessment and HR features together. Our HR tools let your central teams access your Single Central Record and manage staff records, contracts and checks, all in one place.
• Out-of-the-box dashboards: View your schools’ data clearly as soon as you login — no fiddly setup required. Benchmark phases, demographics and individual schools against each other.
• Flexible, painless reporting: Build custom reports in minutes and share them automatically with stakeholders on a schedule. Save time by using our ready-made report templates and customise to suit your needs.
• Powerful integrations: Built-in Live Feeds allow you to explore your data in new ways with tools like Microsoft Power BI, Excel, Google Data Studio and Google Sheets.

How we help

We know any technology is an investment, in both time and cost, so everything we do is designed with schools and trusts to make a real difference. Each year, we measure our impact on the metrics that matter most - like saving staff time and getting greater insight into your data to hold ourselves accountable.

We’re proud to say that by using Arbor:

• 77% of schools spot trends more quickly
• 92% say it saves staff time
• Customers save on average 30% in costs

We also run ArborFest, an annual event for school and trust leaders, and develop free thought leadership content to help MAT and school leaders with common industry challenges.

Our latest series of e-books are designed to help answer the question: how do you create a Trust which works really well together, regardless of how centralised your approach is?

We reflect on surveys we ran with MAT leaders and invite a variety to provide their thoughts on how they have built a cohesive Trust. You can download the series below:

• Creating a Cohesive Trust Part 1 - Download here
• Creating a Cohesive Trust Part 2 - Download here
• Creating a Cohesive Trust Part 3 - Download here

For more information on how we can help your Trust, book a call here or email hello@arbor-education.com