Arbor for Primary Schools
When you’re juggling lots of different jobs, it helps to have everything in one place. Make everyday more seamless and supportive with Arbor’s MIS and school management software.
Why thousands of schools are switching to Arbor
Top-rated by schools
for four years running
99% satisfaction
for customer training
12,000 schools migrated
more than any other provider
117+ 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 bottlenecks and together in one, shared system
Let your MIS do more of the heavy lifting
From completing census, to chasing up attendance – Arbor reduces repetitive steps, automates things you do a lot, and surfaces what you need in fewer clicks.
Features office staff love
- Automated absence follow-up
- Built in communications
- School Census Wizard
- Clubs and Trips Manager
- Cashless Payments
The insight to drive improvement
Capture each student’s whole story in Arbor, from EHCP to meals, medical and parent messages. Reduce the reporting burden with real-time data at your fingertips.
Features leaders love
- Student attendance patterns
- Parental engagement reports
- 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 behaviour as soon as it happens, and follow up in a couple of clicks.
Features teachers love
- Teacher Homepage
- Student Profile
- My Classroom
Stay in the loop, in one place
With real-time insights into a child’s progress, activities and to-dos in one place. It also simplifies updating details, managing payments, and more – for parents and staff alike.
Features teachers love
- Cashless payments
- Parents evening booking
- In-app messaging
“There was almost £20,000 worth of additional subscriptions and costs that we could effectively eliminate by moving to Arbor.”
Kirsten Beaven
School Business Manager, Vaughan Primary School
“[Arbor] was a breath of fresh air. There was relief from staff when it 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 Primary School
“When you hear your staff say, ‘I just couldn’t live without Arbor’s MIS,’ you know that it really is a Management Information System for everyone.”
Pat Beechey
Former Headteacher, Oatlands 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
“Arbor has transformed the way the school works by having everything in one place. It’s easy and intuitive to use allowing us to focus on what matters most in the school.”
Sascha Batters
Business Manager, Kemsley Primary Academy
“I use Arbor Finance every day, and it’s a superb piece of software. I can’t think of anything that needs improving.”
Susie Warriner
School Business Manager, Le Cateau Community Primary School
“From an SLT perspective, it is far easier to use compared to our previous system. In terms of where we were before, it’s such a huge time saver.”
Lizzie Shackleford
Deputy Headteacher, Copnor Primary School
Bring everything together
No more endlessly updating multiple systems, building reports from scratch, or chasing paper slips. Arbor’s fully integrated modules – from communications, to parent portal payments – means everything’s at hand.
Understand the complete picture of every student
Everything from attendance and behaviour, to meals, medical, parent comms and more is saved in Arbor. So you can capture each student’s whole story.
Bring your data to life and know what to do next
See the data that matters clearly, understand what it means with beautiful visuals, produce DfE-compliant reports from templates, or build them custom in an instant.
For a more seamless and supported working life
Arbor is easy to navigate, and intuitive enough for anyone to self-teach. And with a cloud MIS, you can work securely and flexibly from anywhere.
More than an MIS
The Arbor School Management Suite for Primary Schools
Arbor brings together top-rated, specialist systems that work together to streamline tasks and join up data across your whole school
74%
agree Arbor has improved their working life
How we partner with you
Arbor has migrated over 9,800 primary schools from legacy, server-based systems to the cloud
Top rated primary 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 what you tell us
Our packages
Find the right fit for your primary school
Core 2027
Get the essentials right to run your school efficiently and save time every single day
Features include:
- Student Profiles
- Attendance
- Behaviour and Interventions
- Assessments
- Staff Profiles and Cover Management
- Statutory reporting and Custom Reports
- Live National Benchmarking
- Census
- Emails and SMS
- Essential Workflows and AI features including Ask Arbor and Smart Reports
Comms 2027
Everything you need to manage your parent engagement strategy in one place
Everything in Core, plus:
- Parent Portal and Parent App
- Meal Management
- Payments
- Free School Meal Funding Checker
- Student Portal and Student App
- Arbor Workflows to automate your standard admin processes
- Higher Arbor AI monthly free allowance
Perform 2027
Go further with advanced reporting, powerful workflows, and extra tools built right into Arbor
Everything in Comms, plus:
- My Classroom with smart seating plans, random picker, and key student information at a glance
- Assignments
- Admissions
- Medical Tracker
- Create your own Smart Reports, Arbor Analytics, and BI Connector integration for deep, flexible reporting
- Advanced Arbor Workflows with unlimited steps and conditional logic
- Highest Arbor AI monthly free allowance