Your MAT’s mission control
More than just a dashboard. Arbor MAT MIS gives you the tools and the insight you need to improve the way you run your trust, grow sustainably, and work as one organisation rather than many schools.
Work together as one
Arbor’s School and MAT MIS work as a seamless pair of systems, where data and actions flow both ways. So you can understand, and support, all your schools from one central hub.
Benefits
See the whole picture, instantly
With real-time data across your schools – from attainment and behaviour, to staffing and finance – without chasing anyone. Reduce the reporting burden and get a clear picture of each school’s successes, challenges and progress.
Features
- Trust-wide reporting
- BI Connector
- Central team SCR
Flexible centralisation
Give each school the tools they need to work autonomously, but with accountability. With options for centralisation, you can standardise reporting, frameworks, communications and policies where it makes sense for your trust.
Features
- Assessment framework pushdown
- Payscale pushdown
- Trust-wide user defined fields (UDFs)
Empower your central team
Monitor trust-wide performance, define central processes, and celebrate wins, insights and advice. Dive in to help your schools with tasks remotely, like census, end of year processes and reporting.
Features
- Log in to a school remotely
- Central communications
- Census Audit dashboards
“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 & MIS Lead, Danes Educational Trust
“Their excellent customer support, swift response time, and high-quality training have all played pivotal roles in enhancing our efficiency and productivity.”
Russell Bramhill
Director of MIS, Data & TimeTabling, Castleford Academy Trust
“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
“If every implementation process was as seamless as Arbor’s, no one would have sleepless nights over such a big organisational move.”
Claire Clayson
Senior Office Manager, Preston Hedges MAT
“Arbor has revolutionised the way we operate in schools across the MAT… for everyone from Teaching Assistants up to leadership.”
Alex Merrifield
MIS Leader, Gosport & Fareham MAT
“Perhaps their greatest strength is the integrity with which they conduct their business. They do not, as so many do, ‘over promise and under deliver’… very refreshing indeed.”
Adam Daly
Executive Lead for IT, Red Kite Learning Trust
“It is an exceptional tool, but the people make the real difference with their friendly but professional manner, clear knowledge of the system, and most of all, a strong passion.”
Stephanie Bass
Business Manager, Bridge Schools Trust
“The Arbor team are a great bunch to work with… I enjoy working on a first name basis. The price point was a big draw too – a far more effective use of money.”
Alan Pike
Data Lead, Glenmoor & Winton Academies
“We knew we wanted to work with a company that would be responsive and reactive to our needs as a rapidly growing Trust. Arbor have delivered this.”
Mark Greatrex
CEO, Bellevue Place Education Trust
“We absolutely love Arbor and it saves our admin staff 3 to 5 hours a week on time. We can’t thank you all at Arbor enough for that!”
John McMillan
IT Manager, Asset Education
Understand what’s working and what’s not
Get the tools you need to make evidence based decisions, wherever you are on your data journey.
Sophisticated central reporting
With trust wide dashboards and templates, as well as drill downs into individual schools, staff and students.
Know how your schools compare
Against each other, DfE and Ofsted benchmarks, plus our live national database of thousands of Arbor schools.
Bring it to life and see surprising connections
Integrate with your BI tool, or create your own Data Warehouse, managed by Arbor.
Features
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Trust-level Dashboards
See all your schools’ data in one place, combining MIS, in-year progress and national data
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Census Audit
See which schools have completed Census, and which need help
User-Defined Fields (UDFs)
Create unique UDFs and apply across schools for consistent reporting
Policy Pushdown
Set policies at trust level and push down for consistency across your schools
Remote Logins
Click into your schools’ sites straight from MAT MIS to follow up or take action
Email Multiple Groups
Contact groups of staff, students and parents
Central team HR records
Add contract details, qualifications and checks, and record absences
User Permissioning
Customise levels of user access to keep information secure
Attendance Thresholds
Get notified when a school falls below a threshold you’ve set
Attainment over Time
Compare grades over time, and drill down to Student Profiles to take action
BI Tool Integrations
Connect your Arbor data to your BI tool and view your dashboards within your MIS
How we partner with you
Arbor has migrated over 925 trusts and their schools manage transformation with confidence.
A consultative approach
With tailored MAT Implementation Programmes that help you hit key strategic milestones.
Specialist MAT MIS training
With a 99% satisfaction rating, our training and support team will get your whole trust using Arbor with confidence.
Shape where we go next
We update Arbor fortnightly, listening closely and responding to what you tell us.
92%
of users agree Arbor has transformed the way they work
Our packages
Find the right fit for your trust
Essentials
Features include:
- Login to MIS
- Context, attendance and behaviour data
- Custom Report Writer
- Live feeds
- Create school clusters
- MAT staff records
- Single Central Record
- User management and permissions
- Staff search list
- User list audit
- HR integrations
Arbor Workflows features
- Workflow builder
- Workflow run manager
- Template library
Plus
All Essentials features, plus:
- Centralised emailing
- Bulk actions
- Attendance thresholds
- Assessment analysis
- Pushdowns (inc. Assessment, UDFs, Pay Scales and Permissions)
- Census audit
- New school year setup audit
- BI Connector
- BI Viewer
Arbor Workflows features
- Workflow pushdown
- Asset library
- Custom roles
- Analytics dashboard
- Filtered views
Advanced
All Essentials and Plus features, plus:
Arbor Workflows features
- Restore and archive workflows
- Third party integrations including Google and Microsoft
Enterprise
All Essentials, Plus and Advanced features, plus:
Arbor Workflows features
- Custom Data Warehouse