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.
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 Company | 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 |
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 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 |
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. | |
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Emma Lloyd
Area Lead for Post-16 Education
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Sep 2022
Alps provides outstanding training and bespoke support to raise standards in schools and colleges. Alps Connect is an invaluable tool to support learner progression and attainment in schools. It supports and empowers Sixth Form Leaders to make an impact on standards in their schools.
Emma Lloyd found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Targeting specific groups of learners to raise standards and plan interventions and differentiated learning to raise standards.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Positively impacts and informs self evaluation and improvement planning to raise standards. Facilitates impactful conversations in departmental reviews and allows planning for success to be integral to schools processes. Supports and empowers half termly progress reviews.”
- Significantly improves attainment“The range of tools available (e.g. what if?) allow subject leaders and SLT to plan effectively to raise standards in specific groups of learners. Standards are therefore raised across regional consortia and supports efficiency of support and professional learning requirements across the region.”
Marie-Jose Harris
Assistant Head
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Sep 2022
A very reliable and knowledgeable company with valuable experience
Marie-Jose Harris found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Identifying areas that need improvement which can be implemented in all areas of the curriculum”
- Moderately improves school processes
- Moderately improves attainment“Identifying areas that can be addressed and implemented quickly to impact future results”
Matthew Bayley
Director of Sixth Form
Used Alps monthly for 3-4 years
Sep 2022
ALPs is very user friendly and accessible. It is devised by people with real experience at all levels. From the 'what if' function that is used by class teachers to the strategic overview. ALPs is an efficient and highly effective tool to aid teaching and outcomes.
Matthew Bayley found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“ALPs allow me a strategic oversight into the relative performance of the students in my care across the board. ALPs also allows me to delve deeper into departmental data and analyse the strengths and limitations amongst KPIs.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Following each DCP I utilise ALPs to track student progress. This provides SLT, HODs and HOFs with insightful data for intervention and fair accountability.”
- Moderately improves attainment“ALPs allows for effective tracking and monitoring. As a result we are able to implement intervention for key groups and track the effectiveness of it over time.”
Matthew Bayley
Director of Sixth Form
Used Alps monthly for 3-4 years
Sep 2022
As a Director of Sixth Form and also first and foremostly as a teacher, ALPs' user friendly functionality and systems allows me to track progress and performance on a strategic and class- based level.
Matthew Bayley found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Alps is incredibly useful in allowing me as a director of sixth form to analyse in an accessible and effective way areas of strength and weakness amongst key groups both within and across departments, particularly on relative performance.”
- Significantly improves school processes“The downloads from ALPs following each DCP allow senior and middle leaders to evaluate progress over time and is the foundation of SLT/ML and staff meetings. Furthermore, the what if function is particularly insightful when targeting students for intervention.”
- Moderately improves attainment“ALPs enhances teaching and therefore attainment in so far as it ensures fair accountability which is a good motivator for staff as progress is based on a students prior attainment and potential relative to other students. Furthermore, it has a function that ensures measured intervention can occur and allows such students to be tracked over time.”
Lesley Jones
Head of 6th Form
Used Alps occasionally for 3-4 years
Sep 2022
It has proved useful but MEGs are often unrealistic and therefore unattainable
Lesley Jones found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“At the start of the year to identify areas of focus”
- Does not significantly improve school processes“Data analysis more consistent”
- Slightly improves attainment“Identifying target areas and pupils and then intervening with those groups”
Darryn Havard
Progress Leader (KS 5)
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Sep 2022
The information is so useful and allows multiple uses for teachers, progress leaders and senior management
Darryn Havard found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Setting classes”
- Significantly improves school processes“Used alongside tracking data and target setting.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Motivating students”
robbie atwell
assistant headteacher
Used Alps monthly for 3-4 years
Sep 2022
Easy to use, very accessible to all staff
robbie atwell found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“allowing teachers / leaders to quickly identify key groups who need support”
- Moderately improves school processes“highlighting departments / key groups to focus on”
- Moderately improves attainment“as above”
Ashley Tomlin
Headteacher
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Sep 2022
It is a very pracitcal and useful piece of software, if a little expensive.
Ashley Tomlin found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“It can highlight strengths/weakness, but interpretation of data does the rest”
- Moderately improves school processes“It is accessible enough to encourage leaders at all levels to properly engage with the data”
- Moderately improves attainment“It highlights trends over time for specific groups, enabling targetting of groups of students. It also highlights where a students course choices are obviously not working.”
Alan Bevan
Assistant Headteacher
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Sep 2022
We have cascaded ALPS into the school starting with A level and are now using at KS4 as well. It provides something that is consistent and easy to use for monitoring/tracking throughout the year. Uploading data is straight-forward and the reports are easy to use. The 'what-if' facility is excellent.
Alan Bevan found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Identifying underachieving students”
- Significantly improves school processes“Tracking of students is consistent across key stages and departments. Easy to understand for students, teachers and governors”
- Significantly improves attainment“At Key Stage 5 we have moved to a position where we are predominantly 'red' for all measures.”
Owen Wood
Assistant Headteacher
Used Alps daily for 5 years+
Sep 2022
Alps is a simple tool to understand and use, but extremely powerful in improving outcomes across the school. Using Alps connect 'What if' tools have been a game changer for us.
Owen Wood found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Alps is simple to identify interventions across the school and at subject level, in order to improve outcomes.”
- Significantly improves school processes“We use Alps to identify the specific groups that need most improvement and this informs us our improvement planning.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Our Progress Leaders use Alps to identify students who are underperforming in one (or more) subjects and mentor these students to improve attainment.”
Rachel Ward
Deputy Head of 6th Form Academy and Alps Coordinator
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Sep 2022
I find it extremely useful for monitoring the students and also the success of the courses we deliver. The website is very user friendly and allows you to analyse data quickly.
Rachel Ward found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It indicates the level at which a student should be working at, and so staff know at what level to stretch and challenge each student. It helps to monitor student progress.”
- Moderately improves school processes“When evaluating our courses we use Alps to look at success of students and the course. We also are able to analyse each student's progress using different areas of the Alps Connect website. Action plans and targets are set for both students and staff delivering each course.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Using Alps we can monitor student progress and set them specific targets on how to improve and achieve.”
Andy Johnson
Head of Post 16
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Sep 2022
Have been using ALPS with secondary schools in Enfield and for particular schools it as proven extremely valuable in dissecting student performance/need from a varied intake. ALPS iterations in recent years has allowed schools to use the data and info to aid teachers as opposed to measure schools performance across the school offer.
Andy Johnson found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Feedback from schools suggests that info derived from CONNECT has allowed faculties to drill down to outlier students in teaching groups.”
- Slightly improves school processes“Schools are able to allocate resources (often scarce!) to specific student groups based on previous data on students entering sixth form with particular GCSE grades.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Yes, see response above.”
Barry
CIS Officer
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Aug 2022
Very good system but has some flaws
Barry found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves school processes
- Slightly improves attainment
Melanie Calder
Head of Data and Impact
Used Alps daily for 7–12 months
Apr 2022
The support from John, Sue and the team at Alps makes the program accessible to all even if you do not have a 'data head'.
Melanie Calder found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“You are able to identify specific students to target and see the impact using the What If function.”
- Significantly improves school processes“It allows middle and senior leaders to easily identify trends and areas for focus.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Where staff have used ALPS as a tool to identify students at a data point we have seen improvement to the next point.”
Philippa Woodward
Education Challenge Lead
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Feb 2022
Easy to use data system that supports all teachers track students progress, predictions and interventions. the 'what if' function really useful when planning. The Alps support available is excellent - very customer focussed, every requested accommodated and excellent knowledge of schools and systems
Philippa Woodward found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“supports the scaffolding of work and assessing students work. supports the tracking of progress and performance.”
- Significantly improves school processes“tracking of student progress and attainment and supports the line management process.”
- Significantly improves attainment“through tracking informs intervention and support work.”
robbie atwell
assistant headteacher
Used Alps monthly for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
Easy to use and understand, quick and well presented, ALPS empowers teachers, middle leaders and leadership teams to identify and respond to trends and areas of concern in student groups.
robbie atwell found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Giving middle leaders / teachers direction in who to target and offer support to in an easy to understand way”
- Moderately improves school processes“Data analysis is simplified, giving us more time to spend on the important bit, which is our response to it”
- Moderately improves attainment“Identifying key groups, e.g. boys who need additional support”
James McCormack
Assistant Headteacher
Used Alps weekly for 3-4 years
Nov 2021
James McCormack found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Identify underachieving students”
- Moderately improves school processes“underachioevement”
- Moderately improves attainment
Noeleen Murphy
Director of Studies & Senior Mistress
Used Alps weekly for 3-4 years
Nov 2021
ALPs has ensured the HoDs can use the data effectively and in a manner that improves the outcomes for pupils.
Noeleen Murphy found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves school processes“The centralised nature of all the data is helpful for colleagues”
- Moderately improves attainment“By focusing on MEGs and aligning this with our internal data, we can ensure we are focusing interventions on the right pupils”
Mr A A Bodell
Headteacher
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Oct 2021
ALPS has played an integral part in raising student achievement at Blenheim High School since my appointment as Headteacher in 2017. The school was the most improved in Surrey for GCSE Results in 2018 and achieved its highest attainment for GCSEs in 2019. In 2020 a record number of Sixth Form students took up places at Oxbridge. ALPS is both simple and forensic. At a basic level it provides ‘real time’ position statements of students, groups and year groups against highly credible data. At an advanced level it facilitates deep analysis of trends over time and allows indisputable conclusions to be drawn. ALPS is also backed up by a team of educationalists who are easily contactable either electronically or by telephone. This high level of specialist support makes ALPS a highly valuable tool through which student achievement can be raised.
Mr A A Bodell found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Targeted delivery to students depending upon tracking data.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Significantly improved public examination outcomes”
- Significantly improves attainment“Improved public examination outcomes”
Ian Nock
Director of maths and data
Used Alps weekly for 0–3 months
Sep 2021
It is a really powerful tool to help identify your better performing subject, classes and students
Ian Nock found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Knowing which subjects and or subjects are doing well”
- Moderately improves school processes“Consistency across the 6 schools”
- Moderately improves attainment“Help identify individual students for support and intervention”
Rob Skeggs
Trust Data Manager
Used Alps for 4 years
Nov 2020
Although easier to import data than it used to be, it is still not an easy process to initially map the QN to the ALPS subjects
Rob Skeggs found Alps:
- Moderately improves attainment
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Moderately improves school processes
Robin Harbord
School Effectiveness Partner
Used Alps for 8 years
Nov 2020
It is clear, easy to understand and if used well the monitoring tools and practices can have a huge impact - the data drives the improvement questions to ask NOT the judgements to make
Robin Harbord found Alps:
- Moderately improves attainment“Post 16 outcomes in Essex have risen significantly in Essex schools since the introduction of Alps - we were below national and am now consistently in the top quartile for attainment measures for LAs”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“targeted support from effective monitoring to individuals can result in greater challenge and support for all in the class.”
- Moderately improves school processes“effective challenge to students and subject leaders as a result of effective monitoring processes”
Neil Wilkinson
Post 16 Projects & Contracts Manager
Used Alps for 18 months
Nov 2020
From my point of view, the data and information from Alps enables me to have an holistic understanding of A-Level performance within the Barnsley Borough. This information helps to shape intervention and support with providers
Neil Wilkinson found Alps:
- Slightly improves attainment“Impact for me would have been seen in results 19/20, which are skewed due to the replacement of exams grades with predicted grades and coursework. The skew is evident in the results of our in Borough providers”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“I can't judge this from my opinion and the skewed results of 19/20”
- Slightly improves school processes“I would say yes, but I can't judge as I do not work in a school setting”
Martyn Froggett
Post-16 lead
Used Alps for 14 years
Nov 2020
Very good service; excellent support
Martyn Froggett found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“helps schools and teachers identify both the potential and progress of their students”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“when used well can support teachers in understanding where they need to use additional support”
- Significantly improves school processes“Supports a more nuanced and forensic analysis of performance”
Oct 2020
It is like using all new systems, the more you use the more you can navigate quickly around the programme. The set up process I found cumbersome. Using admissions numbers caused me huge problems and I wasted a whole day trying to upload new students and after many emails your customer support finally uploaded the required students for me.
Christine found Alps:
- Slightly improves attainment“I am only saying neutral as we only purchased Connect Interactive this year, so we should see the impact this year.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Just seeing the thermometers with the results shows very quickly where the support is requird.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Target setting is so very quick. Analysis of data is immendiate.”
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