Arbor MIS for Scotland
Support your schools at scale with the UK’s most popular LA and school management software
Schools are always adapting – but your technology hasn’t.
We’ve all heard the headlines about the huge challenges in education today – from staff recruitment and the workload crisis, to funding and attainment gaps.
Schools have consistently risen to these challenges with long hours and workarounds, but working harder and longer isn’t sustainable. This isn’t a staff or process issue – it’s caused by your systems.
At Arbor, we believe local council and school leaders deserve a better way to work.
That’s why we’re excited to be bringing Arbor LA and School MIS to Scotland!
We help more LAs and schools than all other MIS systems combined to reclaim hours every week, see the data that matters clearly, and support staff with the tools, time and insight to work at their best.
Plus, we’ve already been exploring Scottish MIS requirements with schools and LAs.
Your Local Authority’s mission control
Arbor’s School and LA MIS work as a seamless pair of systems to join up people, processes and data across your schools
You spend hours downloading and analysing static data from different places. By the time it’s ready to share, your spreadsheet is already outdated.
Sound familiar? It doesn’t have to be this way. With Arbor LA MIS, you can:
View, monitor and analyse real-time attendance and behaviour data across your schools to complete your statutory responsibilities to your schools
Use our interactive dashboards to help you identify trends quickly and implement change effectively
Log in to your schools’ MIS directly from your LA portal to see the data they see and offer quick, personalised help
Why Arbor?
Manage transformation with confidence
We’ll work with you each step of the way to make sure that Arbor is a success across your schools. Read our case study with HfL Education (Hertfordshire), Hampshire County Council and AWS on how they managed the change.
Join a nationwide partner programme
When you work with us, you join an established community of 90 accredited partners, including 40 Local Authorities who collectively support more than 4,000 schools across Britain and The British Isles. We update Arbor fortnightly, listening closely and responding to what you tell us.
Improve student outcomes
When such a huge percentage of your school’s time, energy and budget goes into non-teaching tasks, your schools need the best tools for the job. Our suite simplifies your staff’s most time-consuming processes and brings all your staff and student data together in one place so they can focus on supporting your students.
One place for your data, endless ways to use it
From quick views to deep dives, Arbor’s powerful data tools give you the insights you need to support your schools.
“LA MIS has allowed us to quickly fix any data issues across our schools and better support them with their school and workforce census, as we can easily log in to their MIS from a central location.”
Gary Hipple
Assistant Director of Children Support Services at Wandsworth Local Authority
“Teaching staff and leaders are able to access and evaluate how well pupils are progressing at class, year group, subject and whole school level. This has had a significant impact on reducing the workload of senior leaders.”
Bryan Harrison
Headteacher at Miriam Lord Primary School
“It helps you spot areas of concern instantly, especially with assessments & behaviour. You can dig deeper into your data without too much effort – it’s there at your fingertips!”
Julie Smith
PA to the Headteacher at Parkroyal Community School
“We used to have a system for our parents’ evenings, parents app, payments for things like uniform sales, another app for dinner money, clubs and trips. Now it’s streamlined, our information is in one place and it saves us money as well! Parents like it too – Arbor is very parent-friendly.”
Lucia Page
School Business Manager at Great Chart Primary School
“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
Work better, together with our School Management Suite
School MIS
Arbor’s School MIS is the heart of operations and data for schools of all sizes and phases, voted the UK’s most loved MIS four years running.
LA MIS
Arbor MIS and LA MIS work as a seamless pair of systems to join up people, processes and data – so you can understand, and support, all your schools from one central hub.
Arbor Finance is the top-rated finance system for LA maintained schools, making day-to-day accounting simple, paperless and affordable.
Timetabler is the UK’s leading timetabling software, with an Options module that automates student subject choices and finds cost-effective solutions directly from your MIS.
Mental Health & Wellbeing
Three ways your MIS should reduce teacher workload and improve wellbeing
Schools save time, money and more with Arbor
Hear from over 9,900 school staff in our ROI Report, on how they save time, cut costs and improve wellbeing with Arbor
117+
minutes saved per staff member per week
81%
agree Arbor has improved how they use data
74%
agree Arbor has improved their working life
92%
agree Arbor has transformed the way they work
Let your schools save time safely with Arbor AI
Seamlessly and securely built into your School MIS, Arbor AI turns requests into actions and makes everyday tasks even easier.
Let Arbor AI help you:
- Find answers faster
- Create an instant student summary
- Write a draft in seconds
- Build a formula from scratch
See more on our dedicated Arbor AI demo hub.
