What is Alps?
Alps provides KS3, KS4 and KS5 performance analysis and tracking for schools, colleges and groups through our platforms Ascent, 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. By turning complex data into clear, actionable insights we enable teachers and leaders to celebrate success, identify areas for improvement and drive better outcomes for every student.
Together, our suite of products provide a seamless journey from KS3 all the way through to KS5, creating a more connected approach to tracking progress across the secondary phase.
Educational Impact
Additional evidence
2020
Penistone Grammar School, Barnsley, UK
2020
The Purbeck School, Dorset, UK
2020
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School , Derbyshire, UK
2020
Jumeirah College, Dubai, UAE
2020
Chelsea Academy, London, UK
2020
Rickmansworth School, Hertfordshire, UK
2020
Limavady Grammar School, Northern Ireland, UK
2020
Cardiff High School, Cardiff, UK
2024
Llantwit Major School, Wales, UK
2025
Leighton Park School, Reading, UK
2025
King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy, Birmingham, UK
2023
International British School of Bucharest (IBSB)
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
2026
Top School Processes-improving Tool
2026
Top Teaching Efficiency Tool
2026
 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 150 Verified Reviews
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Oct 2026
It is a very well thought out tool that can be used monthly to track and evaluate progress and yearly to evaluate the impact of strategies.
Timothy Bird found Alps:
- Improves attainment“ALPS allows us to identify cohorts who's rates of progress are below others.”
- Improves school processes“Using ALPS we are able to see how specific learning and assessment strategies impact most significantly on progress”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Teachers and teams of teachers are able to identifly strategies that support progress efficiently.”
Oct 2026
It's an excellent resource and very useful
Daniel Powell found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Alps allows me to plan strategically and to push our results up significantly”
- Improves school processes“Dialogue between leaders and departments is based on ALPs.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Target setting and responding to that”
Oct 2026
The support we receive from ALPS is fantastic.
Richard Howes found Alps:
- Improves attainment“We have seen some real examples of schools within Dorset moving forward by using ALPS over the last two years both in subject areas and whole school.”
- Improves school processes“Heads of 6th are able to scrunise the data and work with colleagues and students.”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Oct 2026
It is an easy tool that helps us to see what students and groups will make the biggest difference to value added and average grade
Lisa Goodship found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Distance to average grade”
- Improves school processes“Review meetings with heads of dept”
- Improves teaching efficiency“By leading ALPs training with teachers they can see their gaps”
Oct 2026
Alps is a tool used by some schools in Cardiff as part of their self-evaluation the quality of their KS4 and Post-16 provision based on the progress made by their learners. The model, based on value-added progress, ensures that each learner’s achievement and outcomes are equally important and equally valued. Alps not only provides datasets used incisive and highly nuanced results’ analysis but also, through schools’ ability to upload in-year tracking and monitoring data into the Connect software, can be used to identify interventions, target pupil groups or subjects and signpost collaboration opportunities between schools.
Geraint Lewis found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Paul Claydon
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Used Alps month for 1-2 years
Oct 2026
Superb support from our link, and Gemma
Paul Claydon found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Informs planning and collaboration”
- Improves school processes“Transition”
- Improves teaching efficiency“John Philip helps us shape our approaches to teaching”
Oct 2026
The data and information provided by Alps is clear and easy to interpret. In addition, the personal support provided is exemplary and provides laser focused and detailed analysis to support and improve outcomes for all.
found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Alps reports banding students by prior attainment helps identify individuals within a cohort who are performing less well than others. From this information, strategies can then be identified tailored to this group of students and as a result, attainment will improve.”
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency“Data provided by Alps ensures that teaching is focused and relevant. It also ensures that each student is appropriately stretched.”
Oct 2026
ALPS works well within our Trust, alongside other data approaches, to identify key areas for improvement.
Dave Locke found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Used across KS4 and KS5 to easily identify subjects, classes and student groups who are working below target across all subject areas. This allows for a targeted response, ensuring available resources are deployed efficiently and in a timely manner.”
- Improves school processes“The key to using ALPS is in its simplicity of output - making it easy for all stakeholders to identify areas of strong practice, and areas which require improvement. This streamlines the analysis process, providing a cost-effective solution.”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Oct 2026
Alps is as much about people as it is about numbers and data. They have the best people at every level, driven by the right standards.
Mike Foley found Alps:
- Improves attainment“The technology allows us to view attainment and achievement right across the trust, initially providing a picture of the landscape but ten allowing us real flexibility to drill down into the detail as we want to do it.”
- Improves school processes“The best examples occur where the data enables us to prioritise. For example, the opportunity for a subject leader to prioritise the students who are most in need of support or the students who might benefit most from intervention.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Teachers should be able to concentrate on pedagogy and implementation rather than on generating spreadsheets or entering data. That is what Alps enables them to do.”
Oct 2026
Straightforward analysis with great visuals. SLT and middle leaders have clear oversight of performance and can intervene for pupil and staff support in timely manner. Great support. Great How to tutorials and webinars to ensure schools getting the most from their investment. Knowledge of school improvement amongst the consultant team at ALPS. National picture against local data in an instant. Ability to drill down to groups of pupils for analysis and reporting.
Paula Clay found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Able to identify best practice subject areas and use leads in these schools to support those in other schools; Able to identify pupils who are off track and provide timely intervention to support.”
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency“Through data analysis, it is possible to make early identification of staff training and support needs in a faculty.”
Andrew Diamond
Deputy Headteacher
Used Alps month for 1-2 years
Oct 2026
I really like the support ALPS gives. They reply to emails immediately and are quick to help solve any issues we have. Excellent customer care. We enjoy using the temperatures and data correlates with our internal observation data of teacher/student performance. I didn't give it a perfect score as there are still some areas they could improve such as having a larger data set to determine value added for IBDP but overall ALPS has benefited us by quickly being able to highlight subjects/teachers/students we need to focus on to ensure we are getting the best value added for students.
Andrew Diamond found Alps:
- Improves attainment“We monitor attainment and ALPS temperatures in all our internal Y11 and Y13 mock exams and final exams. We can find underperforming subjects and put in place strategies to ensure positive value added can be achieved.”
- Improves school processes“It is easy to add data onto the ALPS system. It takes about 30 minutes to take all the data from our MIS system after Mock 1 or Mock 2, prepare the ALPS upload and then upload mock or real exam results. This gives an immediate temperature check and we can evaluate value added quickly”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Efficient use of assessment data and also to highlight which groups are getting the most/least value added”
Christian Brady
Deputy Headteacher
Used Alps daily for 0-3 months
Oct 2026
I gave Alps a score of 10 because it is intuitive, informative and easy to use, while offering considerable depth of analysis. It makes complex performance data accessible and helps identify the key questions to explore around quality assurance, attainment, student progress and reporting. As Director of Studies, I particularly value how effectively it supports focused, evidence-informed conversations with middle leaders, helping us translate analysis into clear priorities for teaching and school improvement. The excellent support and training have also strengthened my confidence in using the platform and leading its implementation across the school.
Christian Brady found Alps:
- Improves attainment“As Director of Studies, I am leading the implementation of Alps across our middle leadership team, embedding its use to inform teaching practice, pedagogy and quality assurance. Although it is too early to attribute measurable improvements in attainment directly to its use, Alps is already helping us analyse examination outcomes in greater depth, identify differences between subjects and student groups, and frame more focused discussions about improvement. We are using these insights to inform departmental action plans, review curriculum provision and identify priorities for targeted support and challenge. This is helping us establish a clearer link between analysis of attainment and the practical steps leaders and teachers can take to improve future outcomes.”
- Improves school processes“As Director of Studies, I am embedding Alps into our examination review, data tracking and reporting processes, with middle leaders taking an increasingly active role in interpreting and using the findings. For examination reviews, Alps provides a consistent framework for exploring subject outcomes and differences between student groups. This supports more focused discussions with Heads of Department and helps translate findings into departmental priorities, curriculum adjustments and changes to teaching practice. We are also developing its use in ongoing data tracking to identify students requiring additional support or challenge and review their progress over time. For reporting, the clear visual summaries and detailed analysis help us communicate strengths and areas for development to school leaders, strengthening the evidence underpinning our quality assurance and improvement planning.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Alps is helping us make more purposeful use of the time devoted to analysing performance and planning next steps. The ability to explore subjects and student groups within one platform makes it easier to identify patterns and prioritise areas requiring closer attention. As we embed its use with middle leaders, this is supporting more focused conversations about teaching, curriculum planning and intervention. Teachers can use these insights alongside assessment evidence and their knowledge of students to target support and challenge more precisely. Although we have not yet measured time savings, the immediate benefit is a clearer connection between data analysis and practical teaching decisions.”
Sep 2026
Dale Spick found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Aug 2026
On the outcome it is 10 as it answers every query you may have for data analysis and reports. I gave 9 as it needs some work to operate.
Khalid Ghafoor found Alps:
- Improves attainment“ALPS helps to set targets, track and provide in-depth analysis on how the students are performing.”
- Improves school processes“With ALPS analysis you can look at the graphs and trends and can decide on interventions if and when needed for the students not achieving.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Teachers and SLT can monitor student performance on class and subject levels. Which surely helps to improve or celebrate teaching performance.”
Jul 2026
Easy use. Excellent training and support. Can be used for both KS4 and KS5 therefore schools do not need two separate platforms.
Meinir Davies found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Using the whatif facility to identify 'easy wins' can raise grades for individuals. Identifying cohorts of pupils who are underachieving leads to specific priorities in the departmental improvement plan e.g. raise standards of MAT students in Year 12 in a certain subject.”
- Improves school processes“We are beginning on this journey now. However, John Roe's recent training has shown how we will be able to see more clearly what the performance of FSM pupils is in KS4. This has been included in our whole school improvement plan this year.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Provision is adapted in order to target specific cohorts e.g. MAT students.”
Jun 2026
Anna found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Apr 2026
Alps is a user friendly, useful tool that compliments our other data analysis systems. We use it for all our target setting and drives school improvement.
Alison Ball found Alps:
- Improves attainment“What if function allows to identify key students to intervene with. It allows us to work out how many grade changes are needed to achieve departmental and whole school targets. Student level analyses allows us to identify underachieving students and act appropriately.”
- Improves school processes“Used by Line Managers during Line Management meetings to inform interventions and discuss progress of individual students highlighted by ALPS as blue or black.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Informs in class interventions. Students identified by ALPS are highlighted on seating plans. Seating plans are changed to ensure these students are seated close to the teacher. Adaptive teaching strategies are used to ensure these students progress.”
Mar 2026
Elpida Christianaki found Alps:
- Improves attainment
- Improves school processes
- Improves teaching efficiency
Mar 2026
As mentioned previously excellent re monitoring progress, look at VA, enabling staff to see what a small shift can make to overall grade, looking at progress over time within year as well as trends
Jez Rowarth found Alps:
- Improves attainment“What if function”
- Improves school processes“We base all our data meetings around ALPS reports drilling down into individual students”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Mar 2026
I have used ALPS in 2 different schools for the past 18 years, and have found it a very useful tool. My only reason for not awarding 10 is that the subject weightings can be a little confusing, so we have developed our own in-school system to slightly modify target grades.
Philip White found Alps:
- Improves attainment“Setting challenging target grades helps inspire and motivate students and staff.”
- Improves school processes“We use ALPS to track progress at each set of interim data, and especially when analysing summer exam results. Governors find it a useful tool for gauging value added, and comparing different student groupings.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“ALPS helps teacher focus on what matters in order for students to make strong progress.”
Mar 2026
found Alps:
- Improves attainment“ALPS allows for a timely, almost immediate, understanding of value-added performance following key assessment and mock cycles. This enables identification of best practice and areas for improvement to easily be identified. Data analysis ranges from whole cohort and subject, to individual classes, ability ranges, and students. This significantly reduces time taken to analyse results, enabling more time to be spent on intervention strategy and application.”
- Improves school processes“Significantly reduces the time needed to analyse results and performance. Provides reports near-immediately, allowing for more time to be spent on intervention strategy and implementation.”
- Improves teaching efficiency
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”
