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 101 Verified Reviews
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Steve Oakes
Assistant Headteacher
Used Alps month for 1-2 years
May 2025
From my perspective, ALPS is a truly essential tool for any sixth form committed to helping students reach their absolute best; it's not just about tracking data, but about creating a culture where students and teachers strive for excellence. What I find so powerful about ALPS is that it facilitates setting those aspirational yet achievable targets, which is so important in those crucial sixth form years, and then provides incredibly detailed analysis of each student's performance, allowing for a level of personalised coaching that ensures no one gets left behind. The subject-specific benchmarks are also invaluable, giving us a clear view of how students are doing compared to the national standard, so we can target our support and help them maximise their potential. And with the effective monitoring and tracking features, we can keep a close eye on progress and adjust our coaching strategies as needed, which leads to much more productive conversations between teachers, students, and parents because we all have this clear, shared understanding of where they are and what they need to do. For me, ALPS is about empowering sixth forms to go beyond just recording grades and instead actively coaching students, instilling that drive for excellence, and giving them every possible chance to achieve the success they deserve.
Steve Oakes found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Mar 2025
A great product - easy to use - accurate and ambitious. The support around the product is excellent.
Mark Mclaughlin found Alps:
- Improves attainment“The use of diagnostic performance meetings help leaders identify the correct interventions and supports for those it will help the most.”
- Improves school processes“Streamlined meetings take place across the Trust structured around the data provided.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“The majority of implementations we implement are teaching and curriculum driven. The use of this data allows us to design these.”
Feb 2025
It is easy to use and the colour coding makes it easy to identify areas of improvement from subject to student. Students are aware of their MEGS therefore know if they are underperforming. Finally, it allows teachers to identify and monitor student progression, linked to socio economic factors.
Lewis Thomas found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Identify of underperforming students enabling interventions to be placed to improve attainment”
- Improves school processes“During data captures (3) all students are categorised in relation to social factors and underperformance to enable interventions and support programmes. Information shared with HoDs and student progress monitored.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are aware of MEGs and how increases in grades can improve outcomes.”
Feb 2025
Alps is a superb platform to aid all staff in helping pupils to achieve their full potential. It is easy to navigate, it provides lots of detail and we as a school would be lost without it!!
Matt Rea found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Aided in improving outcomes at KS5.”
- Improves school processes“Alps facilitates the effective monitoring and tracking of pupils progress across all subjects in KS4 and KS5.”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Feb 2025
ALPS removes the guesswork from tracking student progress. Instead of manually analysing multiple data points, teachers and leaders get clear, colour-coded performance indicators that immediately highlight strengths and areas for development. This saves hours of data analysis, allowing staff to focus on teaching and targeted support rather than admin-heavy tracking.
Mr Phil Meredith found Alps:
- Improves attainment“By using ALPS Connect, we have been able to track student performance in real-time and identify those who were underperforming compared to their target grades. As a result, subject teachers and pastoral leaders have worked collaboratively to implement personalised intervention plans. This has allowed us to make better progress with our students, especially our vulnerable learners.”
- Improves school processes“More Effective Data-Driven Decision Making Before ALPS, student progress tracking relied heavily on broad, periodic assessments. Now, ALPS has streamlined data analysis, allowing us to. Monitor student progress in real-time using ALPS Connect, ensuring no student ‘slips through the cracks’. Compare department performance using the ALPS traffic light system, leading to early identification of strengths and areas for development. Inform whole-school improvement strategies, with leadership teams able to quickly assess trends in student attainment. As a result, departmental and whole-school planning is now more evidence-based and proactive, rather than reactive.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Before ALPS, department meetings often focused on generic discussions about student progress. Now, meetings are more structured and data-driven, leading to, Quicker identification of areas for improvement—ALPS reports allow subject leaders to pinpoint which classes or topics need additional focus. More targeted CPD discussions—Teachers share best practices for improving student outcomes based on ALPS insights. Better allocation of support staff and interventions—Teaching assistants and intervention programmes are directed toward students who need them most.”
Jan 2025
It is, without a doubt, the best data analysis tool I've used in education. It's easy to learn, access, and use, and it focuses on the most impactful data
Anna Knight found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Utilising ALPs is highly effective for identifying underachievement. ALPs help in pinpointing groups of learners who are underperforming. Teachers use these tools to assess class performance. ALPs have been crucial in planning and developing strategies to enhance the performance of all learner groups.”
- Improves school processes“ALPs have enhanced the school's self-evaluation process, driving value-added standards for all learner groups. They are user-friendly and serve as an excellent illustrative tool.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“ALPs increase teachers' awareness of their students' potential and achievements. They enable clearer comparisons of performance across different subjects. This motivates staff to enhance their teaching methods, leading to improved value-added outcomes”
Craig Lamshed
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Used Alps month for 1-2 years
Jan 2025
ALPS has been an excellent addition to our data tools set, it helped us evidence the incredible work of our teachers, showcasing world class value add. In addition, it helped highlight areas within our provision where we can stretch and improve. It provides a platform for us to further develop our outstanding teaching across the 3 colleges, by leveraging on the excellence within.
Craig Lamshed found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Alps provides us with the forensic data that supports us in challenging pupils to progress rapidly and increase attainment at ALL levels.”
- Improves school processes“ALPS provides easy data analysis, subject comparison, teacher comparison, school comparison. it shows our colleges where we are excelling in adding value and where we can improve.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“ALPS provides senior leaders, middle leaders and teachers with rich data that them to identify areas for intervention and celebrate areas of excellence, thus targeting resources effectively.”
Jan 2025
Easy to use/understand and clear outcomes.
Lee Cooke found Alps:
- Improves attainment“It is simple to use and provide clear outcomes on which individual students and subjects need intervention or support. it allows an excellent breakdown and is easy to use”
- Improves school processes“It is time saving as it's easy to use and I can train middle leaders to use the system which supports their own analysis”
- Improves teaching efficiency“It helps to identify praise for those doing well and support very quickly for those that need help”
Jan 2025
From the platform, to its ease of use, to the simple way the data is displayed, to how it has improved the interaction with data from staff who previously did not like data, and to the excellent customer service, the whole experience so far - compared to the 20 years with another provider - has been wonderful.
Mark found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“It has reduced the time it takes to: 1. review all external examinations, which used to be a laborious 2-3 week process; 2. it has significantly reduced the time it takes to review all half term and termly gradepoints; 3. it has massively increased the speed that we can visualise which pupils need interventions after each gradepoint, and this has in particular, improved student, department, and school outcomes.”
- Improves school processes“See the previous answer. The ability to quickly create intervention lists has been significantly improved.”
- Improves attainment“I would suggest that we are in the early stages of this and haven't been using it long enough to comment on the full impact on the end of year exams. However, the early signs are tremendous, as teacher/HODs/SLT can mobilise quickly to highlight pupils of concern who need intervention, and in the early stages, this has reaped rewards and progress.”
Dec 2024
Alps is an extremely efficient web-based tool for analysing and monitoring student performance and value added. It allows for seamless tracking of both individual students and groups, making it highly effective for various purposes. The platform is user-friendly and easy to navigate, and the support provided by the Alps team is exceptional. Having utilized ALPS for several years, I can confidently attest to its significant impact in enhancing standards at our school.
Llyr Thomas found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are able to target key pupils for intervention to maximise the overall impact.”
- Improves school processes“Assessment processes have been modified i.e. timing of assessments”
- Improves attainment“Pupils who are underperforming can be identified quickly and supported accordingly.”
Sam Andrew
Progress Leader - Year 11-13
Used Alps monthly for 1-2 years
Nov 2024
The training I have received is by far the best data analysis training that I have had. John Roe is a credit to ALPs and explains everything in such detail and so clearly that I always feel prepared to analyse the data myself, as a new Head of 6th Form.
Sam Andrew found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“Identifying under achieving pupils”
- Improves school processes“Identifying pupils in need of academic mentoring”
- Improves attainment“Allows me to address underachievement with staff and pupils”
Nov 2024
We find it is really good at helping staff understand the ability of learners in their classes and so it helps challenge pupils. We also find it really impactful to see how different classes fare against each other in a cohort based on different class teachers and identify where teaching and learning is excellent or needs to improve. The main difficulties we have is with the upload process and the mapping. Often I have to restart a process if one area is wrong. Being able to update the data whilst uploading it would be extremely helpful.
Huw Morris found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves school processes“We use it to set aspirational targets for our learners across Y10 -13”
- Improves attainment
Oct 2024
it is a brilliant platform that make data capture and analysis much clearer and efficient
Hope Wilson found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“helps to plan student intervention groups”
- Improves school processes“increases efficiency for data analysis meetings”
- Improves attainment“easy overview of student attainment across subjects/ how close to MEG”
Peter Bekker
University and Careers Guidance Counsellor
Used Alps weekly for 0–3 months
Oct 2024
Easy to access needed data with simple steps to highlight areas of inquiry and analysis is very accessible.
Peter Bekker found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“ALPS is more than an academic tracker - it is an intuitive collaborator that allows teachers and administrators to monitor expectations and identify areas to target.”
- Improves school processes“When dealing with subject options and student performance it is helpful to be able to access information instantly and visually spot concerns and triumphs.”
- Improves attainment“Too soon for us to report on attainment impact - but expect it to make a positive impact.”
Sep 2024
Staff are always helpful and knowledgeable
Sabiha found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“allowing staff to see targets and performances at each assessment points”
- Improves school processes“Setting targets”
- Improves attainment“able to give accurate performances”
Sep 2024
We gave a score of 10/10 and highly recommend Alps because its powerful data insights and user-friendly tools significantly enhance teaching efficiency, student progress tracking, and overall academic outcomes.
Kristy Watts found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“The Alps system enhances teaching efficiency at our institution by providing comprehensive data insights, enabling targeted interventions, and streamlining performance tracking, which allows us to focus on personalized learning and improving student outcomes.”
- Improves school processes“Alps improves our processes by streamlining data analysis, facilitating more efficient progress monitoring, and enabling timely interventions through user-friendly tools and real-time insights, ultimately supporting better decision-making.”
- Improves attainment“Alps helps us to improves attainment by providing clear performance data and benchmarks, allowing us to set more targeted goals, identify underperformance early, and implement tailored interventions that support our students in reaching their full academic potential. We have seen a notable improvement in our AS Level subjects since we implemented the Alps methodology.”
Aug 2024
We love using ALPS at Alec Hunter. It is well understood by senior and middle leaders, it demonstrates clearly what each student should be expected to achieve and challenge is built in at an appropriate level. The data that we get from ALPS really helps us to improve as a school.
Trevor Lawn found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves school processes“Middle Leaders have a better understanding of what 'success' looks like in terms of progress rather than attainment. The simplicity of the ALPS grading system, based on the national dataset and taking account of prior attainment as the baseline, helps those leaders who are less conversant with data to feel confident that they understand the standard expected. The 'what if' function is absolutely invaluable in demonstrating how the grading will shift upwards if they are able to move certain students up by a grade or two.”
- Improves attainment“Teachers can target their support due to having a better grasp of what each individual should be expected to achieve as a minimum and this in turn drives up attainment.”
Craig Wade
Adviser for Curriculum
Used Alps monthly for 7–12 months
Jul 2024
Outstanding pupil progress and monitoring approach
Craig Wade found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“Alps allows you to identify specifically teaching groups and individual learners and target support and interventions”
- Improves school processes“coherent and consistent approach to targeting and identifying pupil underperformance”
- Improves attainment“there are a significant number of easy to use features that allow you to identify under attainment and model against this to identify where to to target support”
Jul 2024
Alps has revolutionised the tracking of student performance throughout the year. It also allows judgements to be made compared to other schools Nationally. It is a powerful tool for self evaluation improvement planning.
John Firth found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“Alps allows me to track the progress of learners in real time throughout the academic year. This allows me to spot underperforming students and target extra support.”
- Improves school processes“Alps makes it easy to identify good practice across the department as well as areas for development.”
- Improves attainment“I find the what if tool allows me to know which students to target for additional support to raise outcomes.”
Clare Scanlon
Education Improvement Service Manager
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Jul 2024
Clarity of data, ability to manipulate data to easily consider groups of learners etc. Evolution of system to respond to need/change
Clare Scanlon found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves school processes“I don't work in a school so can't provide an evidence based response”
- Improves attainment
Jul 2024
Fantastic product and service
Ed MacLeod found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“Data-driven monitoring and tracking, high aspirations for all, positive dialogue with students and parents”
- Improves school processes“Simple, clear, user-friendly dashboard and processes”
- Improves attainment“improving value added scores year on year”
Mr Elfed T Morris
Gwynedd and Anglesey Post-16 Education Consortium Coordinator.
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Jul 2024
Excellent support and training services provided by ALPS staff as part of the ALPS package.
Mr Elfed T Morris found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“From an LEA Perspective: Recognising good practice and identifying areas for improvement.”
- Improves school processes“Recognising good practice and identifying areas for improvement. Tracking learner performance and ensuring learners reach or surpass their target grades.”
- Improves attainment“Tracking learner performance and ensuring learners reach or surpass their target grades. To ensure that individual establishments achieve the desired level of learner attainment.”
Jun 2024
ALPS is great for looking at individual and department level data - and whole year group. We can see which students are not achieving targets across different subject areas. I would really like to see an overall summary of where the school is against Welsh performance measures as I have to put data into a separate spreadsheet in order to do this.
Lucy Bunce found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“Identify which students to focus on for intervention when looking to raise overall attainment”
- Improves school processes“Deciding which students should be given additional study sessions”
- Improves attainment
May 2024
ALPs has been very powerful as a tool to support the effective analysis of value added data at all levels within school.
Ceri Garlant found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“We use ALPs after each progress check to identify whole school those subject areas where pupil progress is a concern. This supports senior leaders in challenging and supporting middle leaders as part of a cycle of standards meetings and also helps middle leaders to identify strengths and areas needing development at subject level. The class analysis tool is particularly useful, as is the analysis for groups of learners.”
- Improves school processes“ALPs supports our self evaluation processes both at whole school level and faculty level. It provide robust and honest value added analysis that we can use to identify what practices are working well and areas which need development.”
- Improves attainment“The 'what if' analysis is perfect for use by teaching colleagues and faculty leaders for identifying which individual students will have the greatest impact on outcomes if intervention is put in place. The analysis also allows us as a school and within faculties to identify which groups of learners may not be making the expected progress.”
May 2024
All staff this year have said how much they like it, although I don't think they use the site themselves, just what the data manager produces.
Amy Hornblow found Alps:
- Improves teaching efficiency“Extra sessions for those who are on grade borders. Teachers can see how students in their subject compare to other subjects and address any inconsistencies. Teachers use "what if" functions to look at impact on their results as a whole and then put measures in place”
- Improves school processes“Our data manager now gives us all data drop information in one colour coded spreadsheet. This helps to inform students target setting and interviews with form tutors/HOY/parents”
- Improves attainment“I am only neutral as we have only started using it more consistently this year across all subjects through our data manager.”
