RESEARCH REPORT
State of Independent School IT Systems
Our 2020 study of how independent schools run their technology — how many platforms they maintain, where data breaks between them, and what senior leaders said they would change first.
- How many separate platforms the average school maintains
- Where data most often breaks between systems
- What leaders said they'd consolidate first
- Benchmarks you can compare your own school against
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Where should we send the report?
Trusted by 250 leading UK schools
What happens next
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The report lands in your inbox
One email, one PDF — no drip sequence and no sales calls unless you ask for one.
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Benchmark your own setup
Use the system-count and integration findings to see where your school sits against the sample.
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Ask us anything
Happy to talk through how the findings apply to your school — just reply to the email.
What consolidation looks like in practice
The report describes the cost of running a dozen disconnected platforms. These screens show the alternative — the same pupil record behind attendance, pastoral, medical and analytics.
We asked senior leaders, bursars and IT staff across independent schools a simple question: what are you actually running, and what does it cost you in time? The answers were consistent enough to be uncomfortable.
The platform count
Most schools maintain far more separate systems than anyone in the building can name — and the number grows quietly, one departmental purchase at a time.
Where the data breaks
Integrations that exist on paper but not in practice, overnight syncs that silently fail, and the spreadsheets staff build to work around them.
What leaders would change first
Consolidation, mobile access for staff on duty, and reporting that doesn't depend on one person who knows how to run the export.
Analytics on your own data — no warehouse, no exports, no stale spreadsheets.
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