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 |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 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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from 31 Verified Reviews
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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
Dorset Council, England
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
warden park academy, England
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
William de Ferrers School, England
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
City of London School, England
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
Blenheim High School, England
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
Invictus Education Trust, England
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
EDUCATION SOUTH WEST, England
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
Essex County Council, England
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
N/A, England
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
GwE, Wales
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.”
Oct 2020
Online system (Connect) is a huge improvement what ALPs offered before
Kate found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“n/aq”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Significantly improves school processes“Very useful for teachers to view expectations and progress of pupils Reports and ALPS Connect are very useful from a school leadership perspective”
Gareth Lanagan
Post-14 Curriculum Coordinator
Ceredigion Council, Wales
Used Alps for 6 years - through 2 organisations
Oct 2020
It is something essential to consider how pupils are reaching their targets
Gareth Lanagan found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“We are able to challenge, in the academic year, where pupils are falling below their target. We can identify these pupils too.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Moderately improves school processes“The identification of trends in subjects and for pupils”
Angela Doherty
Quality and Partnerships lead 11-19
Ealing, England
Used Alps for About 10 years
Oct 2020
It provides clear and user friendly reports with different levels of information for different groups - senior leaders, middle leaders, teachers, governors etc
Angela Doherty found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“Used by departments to identify group of students”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Where a department uses the data to adjust teaching for particular students or prior attainment groups”
- Significantly improves school processes“Focusing at department level on prior attainment groups or teaching groups. Informing the review and monitoring processes.”
Sophie Greenaway
Head of 6th Form
Fitzalan High School, Wales
Used Alps for 6 years
Oct 2020
Alps are incredibly proactive and make additions to their product in line with ever changing performance measures and school targets immediately. Their knowledge of scrutinising data to ensure high quality teaching and learning and pupil outcomes is at the core of everything they do. Alps have always and continue to be the most professional, knowledgeable, supportive and forward thinking company.
Sophie Greenaway found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“The ability to analyse data instantly for different groups eg male/female or different teaching sets”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Differentiation and target setting linked with Alps score and Minimum expected aspirational grades”
- Significantly improves school processes“Data meetings - 'what if' reports are created for key sub groups”
Oct 2020
accurate data reports for results. easy interface
Christina found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Moderately improves school processes
Oct 2020
Simple for all to understand. It puts the learner at the centre of the process ensuring challenge at all levels
Leon Riley found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“Allows for focused discussion at all levels -student, teacher, manger and senior leadership”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Shows you are of best practice to share”
- Significantly improves school processes“Simple to understand and easy to embed”
Oct 2020
In my experience, there is not a better school improvement tool on the market. It is always being refreshed and updated, with the full Alps package never standing still.
Julian Bushell found Alps:
- Moderately improves attainment“Being able to identify areas of strong performance undoubtedly help improve performance in areas which are less strong.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Knowing - rather than thinking you know - which cohorts perform best and those less well undoubtedly helps improve the quality of teaching.”
- Moderately improves school processes“When embedded in a school as a key lever for school improvement, the use of Alps data can undoubtedly help to raise overall school performance.”
Rob Kesterton
Academic Vice Principal
Jumeirah College, United Arab Emirates
Used Alps for 6 years
Oct 2020
ALPS has fundamentally altered the way we as a college look at the data. The fact that staff can run 'what if' scenarios in Connect means that we now upload each data collection into ALPS for analysis. T Scores and group analyses allow us to hold departments/teachers accountable for VA, but also to support them in aiming for 'red hot'.
Rob Kesterton found Alps:
- Moderately improves attainment“The ability of teachers to make targeted interventions, especially due to their increasing confidence with ALPS Connect.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Again, targeted intervention. And raised awareness of what expectations can be placed on individual students who may be underachieving.”
- Significantly improves school processes“A confidence boosting cross-reference point for data tracking and recent CAG production. Empowering teachers with their own data usage.”
Oct 2020
Alps has been an excellent tool for Holyhead for helping us strategise and understand our data. It is simple to use and understand too.
Andrew found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“We use Alps to set targets and monitor assessments and attainment at KS4 and 5. Being able to have immediate feedback on grades is invaluable - it is also easy for staff to access and analyse their data.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Alps allows our teachers to quickly identify where there are gaps or issues arising, and intervene in an efficient and meaningful way.”
- Significantly improves school processes“We use Alps to set both KS4 and KS5 targets - being able to upload prior attainment scores to create student targets is very straight forward, and allows staff to visualise the data. The What-if analysis tool is especially useful for this.”
Oct 2020
the ethos and system has real impact on students
Anton McGrath found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“increase in high grades from 43% to 57%”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“better identification of the need for intervention”
- Significantly improves school processes“improves lines of accountability”
Simon O'Connor
Director
Deira International School, United Arab Emirates
Used Alps for 11 years
Oct 2020
ALPS is an excellent tool which significantly impacts student outcomes. I have introduced it into 4 schools personally and recommended it to many more.
Simon O'Connor found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“Increase in A level results. 50% in top grades”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Clarity of date meaning interventions can be focussed”
- Significantly improves school processes“Simplicity of use, live data enabling accuracy of proceeses”
Mary McCormack
Senior Post 16 Consultant - Strategic Lead
Local authority, England
Used Alps for 10 years
Oct 2020
Absolutely invaluable for working with schools focussing on learning their strong areas and identifying their weak areas
Mary McCormack found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“Raised achievement levels in most of our schools”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Helps teachers decide what has the most impact”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves school processes“Helps manages review A Level achievement and teaching.”
Oct 2020
Alps has such gravitas and authority. Why wouldn't you want to have an understanding of it? You would be failing your students without it.
Una Sookun found Alps:
- Significantly improves attainment“It allows you to see which students are underachieving across the board, in a particular subject and who needs targetting. Beyond that it holds weight with teachers and subject leaders and allows you to see the best performing subjects in the school and share good practice.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Targetting of students for feedback in class/to support in class.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“It does a lot of comparison for you, grading student grades so you can easily see which students to focus on.”
- Moderately improves school processes“Allows you to have solid data to base achievement meetings on”
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