Arbor for Special Schools, APs and PRUs
Arbor is designed to support you during busy, unpredictable days, so you can spend your time with students, not on admin.
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 your whole support network
Supporting children in SEN schools is a team effort. Bring your community together to work from a shared source, collaborate and stay in the loop.
Measure what truly matters
Arbor adapts to your school’s needs with highly configurable features. Create individualised timetables, set personalised outcomes, and track progress effortlessly.
Features school staff love
- Flexible interventions module
- Customizable assessment frameworks
- Automated reporting
The complete story of every student
From medical care plans to educational progress, behavioural incidents to attendance patterns – everything you need is in one place in Arbor.
Features care workers love
- Comprehensive student profiles
- Integrated care plans
- Trend analysis tools
Stay connected with your child’s journey
Keep informed about your child’s day-to-day experiences, progress, and needs. Communicate easily with the school and stay involved at every step.
Features parents love
- Real-time behaviour and progress updates
- Secure two-way messaging
- Access to educational health care plans
Coordinated care, simplified
Keep everyone in the loop without the headache. Arbor streamlines reporting and communication with local authorities, parent schools, and support services, so working together is easy.
Features parents love
- Automated reporting
- Secure permissioned data
“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
“There was relief from staff when [Arbor] 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 CoFE Primary School
“I love Arbor because the MIS and team helped us gain the GOOD rating that we so desperately deserved after a tough few years!”
Kate Kinney
Data Systems Analyst, Baxter College
“If you’re looking for an MIS which does everything, there’s no other option really. When we met Arbor, you could just tell this was a different way of doing things.”
Martyn Essery
Headteacher, The Reach Free 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
“[Now] I even love working with data and assessments – which I hated in the past. I can honestly say Arbor is the best thing that has happened to me at work in a very long time.”
Penny Harrison
School Administrator, The Westbrook Trust
“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 and MIS Lead, Danes Educational Trust
“We love it! There is nothing more to say – it’s great!”
Claire Lindsay
Former Administrator, Kettering Park Infant Academy
“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
“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
No more paper
Ditch out-of-date records and manual entry to create a complete, up-to-date picture of each student. Whether you need to file an EHCP, log a behavioural incident or update medical records, you can do it in Arbor.
Tools to suit every kind of SEN context
Every special school is different. Choose the modules you need, from assessment frameworks to custom reports. Or integrate easily with apps like CPOMS, BehaviourWatch, and Provision Tracker.
See the data that matters, clearly
Vibrant dashboards show key data for each staff role. Easily drill down from headlines to individual students. Quickly spot attendance patterns and track intervention success.
For a more seamless and supported working life
Arbor is easy to navigate, and intuitive enough for anyone to self-teach. And with the convenience of the cloud, you can work flexibly and securely from anywhere.
74%
agree Arbor has improved their working life
How we partner with you
Arbor has migrated over 1,150 special schools schools from legacy, server-based systems to the cloud
Expert SEN support
With a 99% satisfaction rating, and options for tailored training and support
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 MIS, from primaries to secondaries to Special Schools, APs and PRUs.
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 Reportsion Companion
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