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 | 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 |
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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from 66 Verified Reviews
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Carys Pritchard
Principal Improvement Partner
Used Alps occasionally for 3-4 years
Nov 2023
Alps is a valuable tool to track and support the progress of learners in schools. It provides schools with comprehensive information to support their self-evaluation and monitoring activities.
Carys Pritchard found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Provides valuable information about the progress of specific groups of learners. This information can then be used to plan appropriate interventions and differentiation.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Provides valuable and comprehensive information about the progress of learners that supports self-evaluation and monitoring processes well.”
- Significantly improves attainment“The tools available support careful tracking of individual and groups of pupils. When used effectively, schools use this data to influence their planning and teaching in order to raise standards of specific groups of learners.”
SF
Post 16 lead
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Nov 2023
Its a standardised approach which enables like for like comparisons.
SF found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“It supports schools to realise the strengths and areas for development across the curriculum”
- Slightly improves school processes“Enables Alps to be used as a feature of self evaluation and school development planning”
- Slightly improves attainment“Enables schools to share practice with regional, collated Alps reports providing an overview of all schools attainment across a region enabling brokering of support and partnership working”
Rowan Pearson
Vice Principal (Academic)
Used Alps weekly for 1-2 years
Nov 2023
Rowan Pearson found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Alps allows us to quickly and meaningfully identify students or classes who may need additional support. This means we can make the most of our limited capacity to boost student progress.”
- Significantly improves school processes“We have seen huge improvements in our exams analysis processes since using Alps. In particular, the focus on continual improvement through timely and meaningful professional conversations means that teachers and HODs feel well-supported to drive improvement in their own classes and subjects.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Since using Alps, we have been able to greatly improve teachers' understanding and use of academic data. The intuitive, user-friendly platform means that teachers, rather than getting bogged down in data and made-up stories about numbers, are always focused on the quality of teaching and individual student needs.”
Charlotte Robins
Headteacher
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Nov 2023
I have used Alps in two different schools now and in my opinion it is the best school improvement tool out there. The Alps consultant we work with is also exceedingly helpful as are the entire team.
Charlotte Robins found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“By identifying the teachers who are facilitating the least and the most progress.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Alps is an excellent school improvement tool and we use MEGS as school targets.”
- Significantly improves attainment“By identifying pupils and subjects making the least and most progress so appropriate interventions can be put in place to facilitate improvements.”
Oct 2023
I find Alps easy to use. It gives us a clear idea of students expected grades and tracks progress through the course (based on staff professional predictions).
Victoria Moore found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Alps enables us to closely monitor student progress which enables staff to focus on students requiring further interventions.”
- Moderately improves school processes“We link our professional predictions to Alps and use the reports to inform my discussions with heads of department.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Timely interventions as a results of Alps tracking enables students to attain higher grades”
Rob Wagland
AHT
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Oct 2023
Really good interactive features now
Rob Wagland found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“We use Alps for SEFs and target setting”
- Significantly improves school processes“Self evaluation is better informed”
- Moderately improves attainment“In tracking we identify pupils underperforming and choose how to respond”
Simon Lett
Principal
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Oct 2023
Alps is very student-focused and easy to understand/use. It is widely known in the sector and it therefore carries great weight
Simon Lett found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Targeting specific intervention for underperforming groups of students”
- Significantly improves school processes“Whole organisational approach to, for example, high grades”
- Significantly improves attainment“Allows teacher monitoring to focus on specific standards of performance based on prior attainment”
John Fabes
Post-16 lead, Caerphilly Council
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Oct 2023
I believe Alps is an exceptional tool which, when fully utilised by schools and students, can have a hugely positive impact on student and school outcomes. There is real clarity in Alps reports with the opportunity to drill down to a really detailed level of analysis for self-evaluation and improvement.
John Fabes found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Where schools are working in partnership Alps provides an excellent common tool in developing consistent QA practices across all the schools especially in the setting of student expectations and monitoring progress.”
- Moderately improves school processes“In local partnerships Alps data is considered when constructing the joint curriculum offer and where sustained under-performance in a subject is noted, it is likely to be withdrawn from future offers.”
- Moderately improves attainment“The use of Alps in monitoring student progress and providing value-added feedback to subject teachers has a direct effect on improving student and subject performance year on year.”
Jane Coley
CEO
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Oct 2023
Amazing immediate support, highly effective data analysis, in depth understanding of organisational need
Jane Coley found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Laser sharp understanding of learners needs”
- Significantly improves school processes“Data analysis effectiveness significantly improved”
- Significantly improves attainment“Teachers use of individual and class chance graphs”
Helen McGuinness
Reepham College Director
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Oct 2023
The only element of feedback which staff have reported back would be the choice of colour in the thermometer. Staff across schools often associate red with negative (RAG rating), but then a thermometer is red or blue.
Helen McGuinness found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“By looking at trends in data we have been able to make curriculum changes to benefit our students.”
- Moderately improves school processes“The aspirational targets set by Alps are used as the benchmark for tracking student progress using our reporting system.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Training all senior and middle leaders in their use of Alps Connect has enabled us to maintain progress in the top 25% consistently for a number of years.”
Louise Lee
CEO
Used Alps weekly for 5 years+
Oct 2023
ALPs has been an invaluable to me as a school and MAT leader over the years. It has enabled me to review departmental, school and MAT performance, as well as drilling down to student group level to ensure we review our teaching methodology to get the best out of individuals.
Louise Lee found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Discussions regarding groups and ensuring equality of opportunity for all”
- Moderately improves school processes“Coherence when discussing performance at a MAT level”
- Moderately improves attainment“No”
James
Assistant Head
Used Alps weekly for 4-6 months
Oct 2023
I think the system is superb and has increasing functionality that only benefits us as a School and most importantly the students.
James found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Ability to analyse groups and identify students that require intervention and extra support. To concentrate quality assurance resources in areas that require the most support.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Honed our quality assurance processes and exams analysis alongside grade card interventions.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Alps helps with identifying appropriate students for targeted intervention and support.”
Sarah Humphreys
Local Authority Officer
Used Alps occasionally for 3-4 years
Oct 2023
We recently have had training from John Roe. I am hoping that this will encourage schools to utilise Alps more in the future.
Sarah Humphreys found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Data tracking, raising progress”
- Moderately improves school processes“Heads of department have a better understanding”
- Significantly improves attainment“Not yet”
Sarah
Senior assistant headteacher
Used Alps monthly for 1-2 years
Jul 2023
The rating scale is very useful to compare departments
Sarah found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Focus on underachievement”
- Significantly improves school processes“Whole school data analysis and review”
- Significantly improves attainment“Pupils and staff know what they should strive to achieve”
Elisha Jones
Deputy Director of Sixth Form
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Jun 2023
Ease of use and clear signposting of pupil progress
Elisha Jones found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Targeting students underperforming”
- Significantly improves school processes
- Significantly improves attainment
Mathew Downs
Deputy Headteacher
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Jun 2023
Ease of access for staff
Mathew Downs found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Allows focussing on key students”
- Significantly improves school processes“After each data drop we use ALPS across KS4 and KS5 to onitor subject and student progress. Having common language across KS4 and KS5 is vital”
- Moderately improves attainment“Allows focus on key students and easy for staff to access”
May 2023
It is a useful tool - but I'm not sure if the analysis of results/performance data alone is as big an insight as it is presented in an era where we could be looking more broadly at behavioural data.
Matt Jones found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“It has the ability to identify underpermance and patterns thereof”
- Slightly improves school processes“Sometimes I am concerned that the process is Alps and that can obscure the actual processes.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Allowing insight based against prior attainment and patterns within a subject is helpful”
May 2023
I first introduced ALPS when Vice-Principal at a previous independent school 16 years ago. It was invaluable in gaining an objective view of the college's performance both to encourage teaching staff and to inform inspectors. It fits well with a school strategy centred on the pastoral support of students in a robust personal tutor system.
Tim Naylor found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Identifying those departments which exhibit good practice that can be shared.”
- Moderately improves school processes“We use minimum expected grades as part of learning conversations with students in their weekly one-to-one mettings with their personal tutor.”
- Moderately improves attainment“We use ALPS to help identify individuals who require additional mentoring or tutoring.”
John Davies
Assistant Head Academic
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
May 2023
ALPS have been very reliable and quick to answer phone calls. Software really helps us and is very user friendly. We use ALPS for A Level but are now also moving away from CEM at GCSE to ALPS.
John Davies found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“After the monitoring report we have departmental meeting to focus on necessary strategies”
- Slightly improves school processes“Extra assessments have been used if the monitoring grades reveal concerns”
- Significantly improves attainment“Helps drag up the tail when identified in the monitoring grades.”
Matt Tansley
Head of Secondary School
Used Alps weekly for 1-2 years
Apr 2023
ALPS really has changed the way in which we track the progress of pupils. It has allowed for more sophisticated conversations amongst our middle leaders and our teaching staff, with aspirational, challenging targets being set for students, in line with our HPL philosophy. It is also very intuitive, and easy to use!
Matt Tansley found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“ALPS allows senior leaders and teachers to identify pupil underachievement, but also where pupils are overachieving at the touch of a button. It enables teachers to visualise the impact of what they are teaching, but also what could happen if they tried a different approach, upon a class, or an individual student, on a much more efficient basis.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Our progress leads and subject leads are able to identify quickly students who may not be working at their full potential. The use of ALPS and the minimum expected grades also fits with our HPL philosophy, which is that all pupils are capable of high performance. ALPS allows us to show those pupils what that high performance can be, through aspirational targets.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Student progress within IBSB has resulted in our highest AS and A Level results being achieved over the past few years. This has been possible through the use of ALPS to track and measure that progress and attainment.”
Apr 2023
It's an easy to use system, interactive and simple but has a massive impact on outcomes
Louise Umbers found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Head of Departments can easily see trends over time on pupil grades”
- Significantly improves school processes“Enables us to focus on the students or subjects who are having the biggest impact overall”
- Significantly improves attainment“Easy to spot trends and identify students and subjects who are underperforming”
Apr 2023
ALPSConnect is a key tool in our assessment portfolio. Best of breed in what it does, it is simple to use and reports and results are quickly produced. It takes the pain out of exam results days.
Graham Jons found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Pupil data and estimated grades from internal assessments are loaded into ALPSConnect and allow subject leaders to see how their courses are performing and drill down into key subgroups such as disadvantaged. They can easily see where targeted interventions will have the greatest impact.”
- Significantly improves school processes“ALPSConnect is a crucial part of the school's assessment toolkit for KS4 and KS5”
- Significantly improves attainment“Use of ALPS is embedded in our 6th form provision as one of the school's Widely Important Goals (WIGs) is for our 6th form provision to achieve a ALPS Grade 3 or better. After each assessment point, Department Heads report on how well their subjects are performing by using the subject ALPS Grades.”
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.”
