Completely Free Performance Analysis Tool for every school and MAT

Arbor Insight is a completely free performance analysis tool that benchmarks your school’s performance against the national average, as well as against schools “Like You” and “Top Quintile” schools. It allows you to drill down to uncover which student groups are driving over and under performance.

Included for free are the interactive ASP dashboards and a School Performance Summary.

Further functionality

If you like the look of these there is a premium option which gives you even more data analysis, including a set of 5 reports showing the gaps between different student groups across attendance attainment. You will get individual reports on Prior Attainment, Ethnicity, Disadvantage, Gender, and SEN. These will allow you to identify which areas in your school to focus on and why.

The paid option will also give you an Attainment and Progress Report across different demographic groups at your school over the last 3 years, and also a Financial Benchmarking Report which will benchmark your school or academy’s income and expenditure patterns over the last 3 years to help identify where to save money and plan your next budget.

Version for Multi-Academy Trusts

Free version

Paid version

The MAT version of the free reports allow you to look at the same information as above but against the schools in your MAT. Drill down to see how individual schools, demographic groups or custom-built clusters are affecting results, or remove schools from your analysis to see how that changes your overall performance.

Contact us

SBS are proud to announce that we can offer a 25% discount on the premium reports for all of our customers.

Please contact us on the usual number of 0345 222 1551 – Opt 3 or email hello@schoolbusinessservices.co.uk

You can discuss Arbor Insight with the team at our upcoming event in London

This Autumn Term…

…SBS Online moves up a set!

The expertise and high level of service our users know and love, across a growing suite of applications and resources. After 10-years maximising school and MAT budget planning, and with a 94% customer retention rate, SBS Online is ready to deliver additional functionality for school business management.

Users’ planners, monitoring functions and reports will be accessed via SBS Budgets on the SBS Online Welcome Screen, alongside SBS Sync, SBS ICFP and the latest news for School Business Services customers.

See our latest blog for the full story and contact sbsonline@schoolbusinessservices.co.uk for more information

Not a budget management software user yet? Book a demo for SBS Budgets

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Many schools have reported an issue with running the Today’s Register Report via Reports | Attendance | Whole Group Pupil Reports.

Capita SIMS are aware of this issue and are working on a patch to fix the issue.

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If your school is fully or partially closed due to the proposed teacher strike on Tuesday 5th July 2016, the Y code should be used. Code Y: Unable to Attend due to Exceptional Circumstances If a school has to close for some or all pupils on a strike day, the Y code should be used for […]

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We recently moved to larger premises and are excited to announce our new MIS & ICT training facility in Newport Pagnell. To celebrate the opening we are offering a 10% reduction this Autumn on our standard delegate price, meaning that a full day of training would be just £180 per delegate. We are also offering […]

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