Work better, together with Arbor School MIS
Bring staff, students, parents and school leaders together with the UK’s most popular cloud MIS
Why thousands of schools are switching to Arbor
Top-rated by schools
for four years running
99% satisfaction
for customer training
11,500 schools migrated
more than any other provider
117+ minutes saved
per staff member per week
Benefits
Designed for everyone
With dedicated features for teachers, office staff, leaders and more, you can equip everyone with the tools and information they need, when they need it. Breaking bottlenecks, saving time, and helping you work together in one, shared system.
Features
- Dashboards by role
- Digital register
- Automated absence follow up
Close the knowledge gap
Get the complete picture of every student, from communications and activities, to interventions and safeguarding. With everything at hand, it’s easier to spot patterns, solve issues and plan ahead.
Features
- Student Profile
- Live data feeds
- Parent Portal and App
Take action, instantly
Arbor brings together the data you need, and the tools to act on it in real-time. Go from identifying an issue with a student to quickly putting a solution in place. Add them to an invention group, or send an email home — all in a few clicks.
Features
- Email, SMS and in-app messaging
- Custom groups
- Bulk actions
“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
“When we met Arbor, you could just tell this was a different way of doing things. There was a degree of ambition that matched what we wanted to do for our school.”
Martyn Essery
Deputy Headteacher, The Reach Free School
“There was relief from staff when [Arbor] was implemented and staff 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
“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
“We love it! There is nothing more to say – it’s great!”
Claire Lindsay
Former Administrator, Kettering Park Infant Academy
“What is most amazing is the customer service for school staff. In less than a year, I went from never having used a school MIS to overseeing all things Arbor for our school.”
Mark Ellis
Data and Exams Manager, Goresbrook 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
One place for your data, endless ways to use it
We built Arbor to be the home of school data
Bring all your data together
From your MIS, national data sets, and all your school apps
See key insights at a glance
With simple, visual, interactive dashboards
Understand how your school compares
Against DfE and Ofsted benchmarks, plus our live national database of Arbor schools
Bring it to life and see surprising connections
Create live data feeds, or connect Arbor with Excel, PowerBI and Google Data Studio
Connect with the tools you love
Arbor MIS integrates with your favourite apps and platforms, so you can update things once — and have it updated everywhere.
Features
Explore Features
Attendance
Lightning-fast digital registers — no more paper
Student App
Give students access to their day-to-day info and assignments
FSM Funding Checker
Easily collect information from parents and check Free School Meal eligibility en masse
Parent App
Communicate with parents on the go, and take payments
Payments
Online and offline payments for meals, clubs and trips, plus manage your school shop
My Classroom
Create seating plans, manage your classroom and make notes during the lesson
Meals, Clubs and Trips
Easily schedule activities and link to consents and payments
Communications
Send and receive SMS and email, with a fully searchable inbox and outbox
Admissions
Manage your admissions process from application to enrolment
Census
Complete your census quickly and easily without repeated resubmissions
Report Builder
Build reports using any data point in Arbor, and run them on a schedule
Google Classroom integration
Sync data securely with your digital learning platform
Assessments
Easy-to-use marksheets and meaningful analysis, flexible to your school’s needs
Interventions
Instant insight into the effectiveness of your interventions over time
Staff Management
Keep track of staff details, absences, cover and appraisals
Behaviour
Record, reward and report on behaviour, and manage detentions
Medical Tracker
Log and track medical conditions, incidents, and medications
Live National Benchmarking
Real-time comparisons of your school data against other comparable schools
Exams
Manage exam schedules and awards
BI tool integrations
Live feed your Arbor data to Excel or your BI tool and view dashboards within your MIS
Document Manager
One central place to view, search, filter, and bulk manage documents
SEN
Easily track SEN pupils, provision and funding
Record complex medical and educational needs in one place
Compile evidence for reviews in seconds
Get alerted to changes in attendance, behaviour or progress
Arbor Workflows
Automate your school’s processes
Drag-and-drop workflow builder
See and assign tasks, like checklists or approvals
Send reminders and see where processes are getting held up
Collect data in custom forms
Ready-to-go workflow templates
Arbor AI
Ask Arbor, your collaborator and assistant
Smart Reports, including Ofsted Inspection Companion
Create an instant student summary
Draft an email, letter, or SMS
Suggest a formula
Auto Absence
117
On average, schools save 117 minutes per staff member, per week with Arbor
How we partner with you
Arbor has migrated over 11,500 schools from legacy, server-based systems to the cloud
Top rated support and training
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
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 School 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 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
More than an MIS
Introducing the Arbor School Management Suite
Arbor now brings together top-rated, specialist systems that work together to streamline tasks and join up data across your whole school
Top-rated accounting software for LA schools
The UK’s fastest-growing education HR system
The UK’s leading TimeTabling software
