A continuous multi-year programme of customer driven innovation, designed to add-value to your investment in SIMS. Discover the next generation of school MIS.

SIMS Group Hub MIS

A central hub to access, manage, and share data across schools

Group Hub MIS provides MAT leaders with a framework for sharing knowledge, experience, and good practices across all schools - ensuring consistency and compliance across the group. 

It helps MAT leaders to make informed, data-driven decisions, enhances communication, and optimises resource use. With Group Hub MIS, your central team has the right tools to boost collaboration between schools, making the trust run smoothly and efficiently. 

Available from autumn 2024 onwards.

Reporting and analytics

Centralised access

Enhanced functionality

Access all schools with a single login

 

MAT leaders will soon be able to access all schools within their trust from a single login, providing a clear view of key information such as school phase, pupil numbers, attendance data, and Ofsted ratings. Dive deeper into each school’s analytics and seamlessly access individual school MIS to explore data on pupils, staff, and overall school performance.

Group schools into clusters for comparative analysis

 

This next release will empower MATs to efficiently group schools into clusters for enhanced comparative analysis. This feature will allow for more precise data filtering, streamlined target setting, and easier management of lookups across the trust, making it simpler to manage and analyse school sets within the system. 

Efficiently manage school sets and leverage them for various tasks, including at-a-glance cluster views, data filtering by clusters, setting up targets, managing lookups, and more.

Staff information

 

Easily search and view all staff records from a central location. Access basic information such as personal details, work information, timetable information, and absence records. For more detailed insights, drill down to individual school MIS. This functionality will be enhanced over time, providing a richer experience, including the ability to create MAT staff profiles.

Coming in spring 2025.

Set attendance targets

 

Easily establish attendance goals for each school in your trust and set thresholds that trigger visual alerts if they are not met. Compare your schools' performance against national averages and historical data. 

We’ll be rolling out new functionality into 2025 and onwards as we build capability for MATs to set KPIs and targets, deploy group policies across all schools, integrate parent messaging, and more!

Coming in spring 2025.

That’s just the start

We’re investing £40m in SIMS Next Gen - our management information system for the cloud. Our multi-year programme of innovation will be complete by the end of 2026. View our roadmap to see what’s available now and what’s coming.

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