What is Alps?
Alps provides KS4 and KS5 performance analysis and tracking for schools and groups through our platforms Connect and Summit.
Our analysis is simple, easy to use, and effective. Progress is measured against our own national, aspirational benchmarks to ensure all students achieve their potential.
Educational Impact
Additional evidence
Oct 2020
Penistone Grammar School, Barnsley, UK
Oct 2020
The Purbeck School, Dorset, UK
Oct 2020
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School , Derbyshire, UK
Oct 2020
Jumeirah College, Dubai, UAE
Oct 2020
Chelsea Academy, London, UK
Oct 2020
Rickmansworth School, Hertfordshire, UK
Oct 2020
Limavady Grammar School, Northern Ireland, UK
Oct 2020
Cardiff High School, Cardiff, UK
Nov 2024
Llantwit Major School, Wales, UK
Apr 2025
Leighton Park School, Reading, UK
Apr 2025
King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy, Birmingham, UK
Jun 2023
International British School of Bucharest (IBSB)
Apr 2025
Royal Grammar School Newcastle, UK
Awards
The EdTech Impact Awards are based on independent, verified customer feedback, and recognise the top 10 solutions across each of our 13 impact metrics.
Top Student Attainment Tool
2025
Top School Processes-improving Tool
2025
Top Teaching Efficiency Tool
2025
 Company | Business Name: Alps HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2001 |
| Age Range | 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | In-year TrackingStudent-led AnalysisStudent, Subject, Whole School And Group AnalysisQuickly Spot Areas For ImprovementHighlight Strengths And Share Good PracticeImprove Outcomes With Aspirational Target SettingSwift, Visual AnalysisBenchmarking Against National Data SetsCommon Language For ProgressSend, Eal And Other FiltersModel Improvement With What-if? ToolCat4 Support |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Few to no features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - High Bandwidth |
 Set Up | Within a couple of hours |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Complete Support and Onboarding We make using Alps easy. Our highly-rated training and support includes: - Allocated Alps Account Manager - Dedicated phone and email support all-year-round with our experienced team - Access to a regularly updated knowledge base - Onboarding for new schools and colleges - Data set up session - Intro to Connect Interactive session The Alps Champions Programme Your data is only the first step. We have excellent practical resources to help you to embed Alps to make a difference to your student outcomes. The starting point is our Alps Champion handbook – a digital guide with all you need to launch and use Alps. - Free live and recorded webinars - Regular blogs, briefing papers and newsletters - Checklists for teachers, pastoral and senior leaders - Quick videos and training guides |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | School must create the account. |
 Tags | Data AnalysisKS4 and KS5 performance insightsperformance insightsstudent progressKS5KS4 |
AIAI usage The Alps team has not stated whether it uses AI. | |
Alps PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Subscription pricing is available on 1, 2, and 3 Year plans. Pricing is split into simple tiers based on the size of your KS5 cohort, with KS4 analysis available at a fixed cost. Group platform pricing is also available.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Alps Reviews
from 129 Verified Reviews
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Feb 2026
Alps provides a very visual identifier of progress which allows both under and overperformance to be very easily identified. The value added measures are easy to explain to members of staff who are perhaps not the most comfortable with the very complex equations found in some other value added measures. Being able to very easily explain where the thermometer outcomes have come allows the College to spend more time on what really matters; identifying areas of strengths and weakness and reacting with targeted interventions.
David Potts found Alps:
- Improves attainment“The Alps platform has allowed the College to be able to focus on particular cohorts of students whose improvement would have a meaningful impact on outcomes. The visual nature of the platform has allowed the College to present this information to staff in a clear and easy to understand way. A particular focus on learners with mid prior achievement has allowed the College to increase its high grade A*-B percentage from 57.9% to 65.1% in three years.”
- Improves school processes“The College uses Alps with its internal assessment procedures which allows a clear value added performance to be seen across different cohorts in-year which allows for timely interventions.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Through being able to identify the performance of different cohorts in- year, more targeted interventions have been possible which has allowed teachers to place more focus on a smaller cohort of students.”
Feb 2026
I would rate this an 8 out of 10. While MTG and mean score variance across subjects provide a useful baseline for target setting, we need to layer additional expectations onto this to ensure that every subject is working towards at least an ALPS 3, irrespective of target distributions or subject difficulty. Its greatest strength is how it sharpens our conversations about progress, making it easier to identify where support is needed and celebrate where practice is strong.
Oliver Watkins found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Using the What If function enables us to model potential outcomes for individual students, helping us pinpoint who needs targeted intervention and the specific strategies that will make the greatest impact.”
- Improves school processes“ALPS Connect helps standardise target‑setting and makes progress visible in real time, giving staff a shared, evidence‑based picture of how students are performing. This leads to sharper interventions, stronger departmental reviews, and more strategic decision‑making across the school.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“streamlines teacher workload by giving staff instant, clear insight into which students need attention - allowing time to: plan, feedback, and focus resources to the classroom”
Helen Almond
Assistant Headteacher
Used Alps weekly for 7-12 months
Feb 2026
The support I have had from ALPs in setting up this new-to-us system has been very valuable. This has helped me to support the school on a strategic level as well as individual students and subject level.
Helen Almond found Alps:
- Improves attainment“The data has allowed the Head of Sixth Form to identify students having difficulty and support them appropriately”
- Improves school processes“It has been easy to interrogate the information to see where the school gaps are.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are able to direct support in the most efficient way”
Jan 2026
its a useful software for KS4 and 5
Sherine El-damanawi found Alps:
- Improves attainment“measuring how far students are in comparison to their targets and other students nationally”
- Improves school processes“assessment follow up and review”
- Improves teaching efficiency“actions from assessments that change planning”
Jan 2026
Easy to use, clear national benchmarking, excellent range of tools between strategic, subject and individual student analysis. It has saved so much time and been invaluable when designing interventions and support mechanisms for our students, as well as accountability processes for our subjects and staff.
found Alps:
- Improves attainment“ALPS allows us to use precise data to design interventions. By using student individual value added scores, we can pinpoint any student in any subject in terms of their attainment and progress. This visibility has led to targeted one-to-one support that pushes our learners to achieve the best results they an.”
- Improves school processes“We share ALPS target grades with our students in sixth form early on, along with suggested apprenticeship opportunities and universities students should aim for. This helps build a culture of personalised aspiration. The ALPS thermometer also leads to a healthy accountability across subjects in the school, so departments can see where they sit nationally and target-set accordingly.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“ALPS reduces the data-crunching burden on teachers, so using the ALPS tools including ad hoc groups and 'what if' analysis reduces their admin time. This gives teachers more time to focus on practical pedagogy and which interventions can be put in place to provide maximum impact for students.”
Jan 2026
Simplicity of use, staff love the 'what-if' function. It underpins all that we do!!
Paul Pillinger found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Razor sharp focus with all subject leads”
- Improves school processes“Clear and coherent data available the day after data drops”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Ensuring staff know where gaps are”
Jan 2026
Manny Delgado found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Jan 2026
ALPS has strengthened evidence-based decision-making across the school, improved the focus and efficiency of teaching, and contributed positively to outcomes for students.
Cheryl Rosen found Alps:
- Improves attainment“The use of ALPS has had a positive impact on student attainment by enabling earlier identification of underachievement. Analysis of ALPS data highlighted a small number of subjects where progress was below expectations, prompting targeted departmental support and adjustments to teaching strategies. As a result, subsequent cohorts showed improved progress scores and a higher proportion of students meeting or exceeding their target grades.”
- Improves school processes“The use of ALPS has strengthened our self-evaluation and quality assurance processes by providing a consistent, externally benchmarked measure of progress. Departments now use ALPS data as part of their review cycle, ensuring discussions about performance are evidence-based and focused on impact rather than perception.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“The use of ALPS has improved teaching efficiency as by identifying specific cohorts, subjects, or groups that are underperforming, teachers are able to target planning, support, and intervention more precisely.”
Jan 2026
The thermometer system simplifies data for stakeholders, creates healthy competition and focuses on adding value. It is easy to use, generates excellent reports and is solution focused.
Ben Slatter found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Use of the What If? student tool has been fundamental in working with HODs on targeted and impactful intervention strategies.”
- Improves school processes“Significantly improves our Data Analysis post data drops”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Jan 2026
Carly Collett found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Gareth Rhodri Jones
Assistant Principal / Director
Used Alps weekly for 5+ years
Jan 2026
Alps Connect is an indispensable tool for our A-Level provision, earning a 10 for its ability to transform complex data into clear, actionable "people conversations." By focusing on Value-Added tracking, the platform moves the dialogue beyond raw attainment and empowers us to see exactly how we are stretching every learner relative to their potential. Its real-time modelling is vital for our AP3 data cycles, allowing us to identify departmental trends with total transparency and provide students with evidence-based targets. Ultimately, it provides a universal language for excellence that ensures our interventions are proactive, consistent, and centred on student growth.
Gareth Rhodri Jones found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Dec 2025
Excellent way of grouping students to identify strengths and weaknesses and consider interventions.
Elpida Christianaki found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Identify interventions, show clear progress of boys and girls and clear comparisons of students along subjects”
- Improves school processes“Teachers have a clear understanding of what is required for students to achieve their full potential which is them implemented in college reports with a specific intervention section”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Lesson shadowing and observation can be identified to showcase practitioners who support students to improve value added significantly”
Nov 2025
ALPs enables us to set realistic challenging targets where pupils know what is possible for them to achieve and teachers also know what they are capable of and adapt strategies accordingly.
Shaun Pope found Alps:
- Improves attainment“ALPs minimum expected grades are used to set ambitious targets for pupils and tracked. Intervention plans have lead to our pupils often being in the top 10% for progress based upon ALPs”
- Improves school processes“Teachers are familiar with the ALPS system and use the grades to work out the value being added to each pupil. School monitoring and evaluation of impact is therefore robust and meaningful.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“teachers will use ALPS tracking to identify where pupils are and then reflect upon/change pedagogical strategies to close any gaps.”
Helen Almond
Assistant Headteacher
Used Alps weekly for 4-6 months
Nov 2025
Although we are in the early days of using ALPs I have found the support very helpful. The support I have received has been useful and very timely, thank you!
Helen Almond found Alps:
- Improves attainment“We are in the early days of using APLs so difficult to say at the moment.”
- Improves school processes“It has helped subject leaders to have a greater insight into their results and supported their analysis”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Too early to say at the moment”
Gwenno Jarvis
Senior Education Improvement Service Officer
Used Alps occasionally for 0-3 months
Oct 2025
All the data in one place! Very thorough analysis of data that can be easily used to identify dips / increases in subjects. Useful benchmarking for schools so that they can improve the provision for their students. The ease of creating and exporting detailed reports.
Gwenno Jarvis found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Being able to identify subjects where there are dips / increases in attainment and either support departments or share good practice.”
- Improves school processes“Departments can use Alps as part of the data sets when tracking progress, evaluating and planning for improvements in their area.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“When monitoring progress within a subject, we would advise SLT/departments to use Alps to identify effective teaching. Additionally, with Alps data/benchmarking, we as LA can identify where there is good teaching of a particular subject in a school in order to share that good practice further.”
Oct 2025
ALPs is an excellent tool for assessment, tracking and evaluating performance. It has a wealth of features allowing leaders to gain both an overview of learning and interrogate for further details.
Sarah Sutton found Alps:
- Improves attainment“The use of the monitoring function allows schools to effectively track performance and plan interventions as a reuslt”
- Improves school processes“A consistent approach to the use of ALPs facilitates a coherent and coordinated approach to assessment and tracking”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Oct 2025
Alps has provided a solid foundation to predict outcomes and to identify the areas where support is needed most. We have used Alps for many years. It is easy to use and is trusted and valued by all staff at Radyr.
Richard Jenkins found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Our middle leaders are able to carefully scrutinise performance either at departmental or pastoral (year team) level. This helps identify pupil underperformance, so that support is targeted at those that need it.”
- Improves school processes“When identifying certain groups of learners, we use Alps to quickly identify the areas where we can make the greatest impact.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Alps allows us to put additional resources where they are needed and informs our strategic planning.”
Oct 2025
It makes my life easier, especially when extracting data and analysing
Sabiha V found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Ability to monitor student progress and get headline figures”
- Improves school processes“The ability to easily drill down data means that we are able to monitor closely”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are able to see how their teaching goups are doing”
Oct 2025
We've only had ALPS for a short time and, as a result, I don't think we've seen the full impact of it all yet. We are gradually moving all processes across to ALPS. Staff are very keen on it.
Mark Pike found Alps:
- Improves attainment“We've used it with all staff to unpick their exams analysis and use the 'What if tool' to explore possible interventions moving forward. We've only had ALPS for a short time so it's difficult to provide lots of impact data.”
- Improves school processes“We've found it much clearer on reporting progress and identifying students who require intervention. Our subject leaders have found it much easier to find all the data compared to our previous system.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Yes, it helps us target those key students. It also quickly shows progress of key groups of students.”
Oct 2025
It is a system which is easy to understand and universally applicable across different subjects at KS4 and KS5. Recent website changes have resulted in a much improved interface. It helps us to recognise achievement and target areas for further improvement.
Matthew Van Alderwegen found Alps:
- Improves attainment“It has enabled us to highlight pupils and subjects or even sets where pupils are not progressing as far as they are in other subjects. Sometimes this might not be by much but by targeting areas where improvement seems feasible it makes an impact to our overall outcomes. This year we achieved an ALPS score 1 at GCSE.”
- Improves school processes“We review examination results annually. ALPS scores and VA feedback is now factored into how departments feedback to the Senior Leadership team on how students have done.”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Oct 2025
It was recommended to us as a school and has given such better clarity of data and outcomes
Richard Ebbage found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Helps us to track progress and give data driven interventions”
- Improves school processes“It provides very easy methods of looking at 'what if' outcomes to explore targets for progress”
- Improves teaching efficiency“It allows us to know our stronger subjects and therefore share best practice”
Oct 2025
It is such a positive, aspirational and simple system to follow
Peter Richards found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Helps us to identify underachievement and take swift action with targeted groups”
- Improves school processes“Sharing good practice and identifying areas of weakness”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Through generation of clear simple target grades”
Oct 2025
Llyr Thomas found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Sep 2025
Charlotte Wilde found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Sep 2025
There is plenty of support available, they have been responsive to questions that I have had and it's a tool that analyses data is a efficient way.
Robert Hodges found Alps:
- Improves attainment“As a head of department it clearly and easily helps to identify pupils attainment at given points in the year. From which you can then target intervention on specific pupils to improvement their attainment. It very much informs your planning and implementation of department plans which helps to drive improved attainment.”
- Improves school processes“It provides a framework in which analysis of student data can be done in a time efficient way.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“You know which students to target and specifically work with.”
