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School Management Platforms

Admissions, scheduling, grading, and communication in one multi-tenant system — built so onboarding a new school is a setup flow, not a new deployment.

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School Management Platforms
Multi-tenant
from the first commit
Days
to onboard a new institution
WCAG
2.2 AA accessible
One
system, every role's own view

What makes school management software worth switching to?

Most schools we meet run admissions in one tool, scheduling in another, and grading and parent communication over email chains nobody can search later. Each piece works well enough on its own that switching never feels urgent — until a parent asks a question no one system can answer and three staff members have to piece it together.

School management platforms built the right way put admissions, scheduling, grading, and communication in one system — administrators, teachers, and parents each see their own slice of the same record, and a fix or feature we ship reaches every institution on the platform at once, not one deployment at a time.

What’s included

What the platform covers

01

Admissions & enrollment

Application, review, and enrollment in one flow, replacing the spreadsheet-and-email process most schools inherit and never replace.

02

Scheduling & attendance

Timetabling, room and staff allocation, and attendance tracking in one place, feeding the same record everyone else works from.

03

Grading & reporting

Grades, report cards, and progress data captured once and available to the roles that need it, not re-entered per tool.

04

Role-based communication

Parents, teachers, and administrators each see the slice of a student's record their role requires — by design, not by convention.

05

Multi-tenant architecture

Each institution's data and configuration is isolated, but a platform fix or feature ships to every school at once.

06

Migration & onboarding tooling

Self-serve data import and account provisioning get a new institution live in days rather than a manual process repeated per school.

How the build runs

01

Map how the institution actually operates

We look at the real admissions, scheduling, and communication flows — including the workarounds — not just the org chart.

02

Design the multi-tenant model

Tenant isolation, role-based views, and data ownership are architectural decisions made up front, because retrofitting them later is a rewrite.

03

Build & migrate

The platform is built and existing student, staff, and academic data is migrated with validation, not a one-shot import you hope worked.

04

Onboard & train on the floor

Administrators, teachers, and front-office staff are trained on their actual workflows, not a generic feature tour.

School Management Platforms FAQ

Yes, and we build multi-tenant from the first commit — each institution's data and configuration is isolated, but a fix or feature ships to all of them at once.

Role-based access, defined retention periods, and data handling designed around FERPA and UK/EU GDPR expectations — parents, teachers, and administrators see different slices of the same record by design.

Yes — keyboard navigation, focus order, and screen-reader labelling are built to WCAG 2.2 AA as we go, not remediated after a complaint, which costs several times more.

Commonly — SIS imports, SSO through Google or Microsoft accounts, and LTI for courseware are typical. We confirm your specific versions during discovery.

Days rather than months once the platform is live, because migration tooling and setup are self-serve flows built as part of the platform, not a manual process per school.

Fixed-bid builds start around $3k, retainers from $6k/month, and staff augmentation from $70/hour — the number of institutions and integrations move the figure, confirmed in writing before work begins.

Tech stack

The tools we build with

Multi-tenant from the first commit, because retrofitting tenant isolation later is a rewrite.

Platform

Next.jsReactTypeScript

Backend & data

Node.jsPostgreSQLPrisma

Content & search

AWSGraphQLAlgolia

Ops

DockerGitHub ActionsSentry
Our work

Related work

All work

Running admissions, scheduling, and grading in three different tools?

Tell us how many institutions, roles, and existing systems are involved. We'll scope a platform that onboards in days, not months.

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