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School Management Systems

School Management Systems

School managements systems, like SIMS, are database driven applications designed to record and monitor

Data about students, staff and the school.

They are used to record a wide variety of data, including:

Attendance
Timetables
Achievement
Behavior
​Exams

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Student Registration

When a student joins a school a large amount of data about that student is inputted in to the system, both manually and automatically from data passed on from the student’s previous school.

Data input

Personal data (name, age, gender, educational needs, social background, ethnicity)

Family data (address, parents’ details,siblings)

​Prior academic data(Standardized test results)

Processing

Calculating how many students will be joining the school the following year

​Gender breakdown of a year group Academic profile of a year-group

Output

Year group report, detailing how many students in a year group and other information

Displaying a student detail page where teachers can see an overview of students’ information


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Attendance

School Information Systems are primarily used on a daily basis to keep track of student attendance and reasons for absence.

Input

Teachers take a register at the start of class, note if students are present, absent or late.

Administration staff record pre-notified absences so teachers know when a student is due to be absent (e.g. medical reasons, school trips, or holidays)

Processing

Overall attendance percentage is calculated for each student

School-wide attendance percentages are calculated.

Output

An absence report can be produced, displaying which student are absent at the start of the day, so that parents can be contacted.

Attendance reports can be produced, highlighting students with the best and worst attendance.


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Performance Management

School management systems are widely used to record performance of students. This includes both academic and behavior performance information.

Input

Student termly grades are input in to the system by teachers

Student behavior data (such as detentions issued) are input in to the system

Standardised test results are input in to the system (CAT scores)

Processing

Student average grades are calculated

Year group averages can be calculated

Output

Student termly reports can be printed, ready for mailing to parents

Class and year-group reports can be created, detailing the academic performance averages and statistics.

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