40+ years
of educational experience for unmatched functionality
A single view of your trust – and the insights to improve it
Bring every school into one connected MIS. SIMS gives you real-time oversight, trust-wide reporting, and the flexibility to grow without complexity. Make faster, better-informed decisions – with accurate, actionable insights at your fingertips.
3,000+ MATs
trust our tools to better their experiences
700k+ users
streamline processes and improve outcomes with SIMS MIS
A-rated security
and fully compliant, our MIS safeguards all of your data
Why choose us
You don’t just need data – you need answers. SIMS Group Hub gives you a single, connected view of every school in your trust, arming you with actionable insights to act faster, lead smarter, and drive exceptional outcomes.
Central access
Get a single, secure view of school, staff, and pupil data across every site – all with one login. No more juggling multiple logins or waiting for schools to manually compile reports.
Central control
Stay in control of how each school runs, while reducing workload and improving compliance at every level. Remove duplication and build a more consistent, coordinated trust.
Reporting and insights
Monitor your trust’s performance with a suite of Power BI dashboards, providing actionable insights to drive positive change.
Seamless integration
Connect with your wider tech stack – from HR and finance systems to learning tools like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. Coming next year.
SIMS Next Gen roadmap
The future of SIMS is here
With over 40 years of experience and a £50 million investment, we’re not just enhancing SIMS, we’re rebuilding it from the ground up. Thousands of schools already use SIMS Next Gen daily. Explore our development roadmap to see what’s available now, and what’s coming next for your school or trust.
Explore our roadmap
"SIMS Next Gen offered the opportunity to bring our systems in line with other cloud-based tools, ensuring staff could work efficiently from anywhere."
Geoff Worth
Pate’s Grammar School
"With SIMS Next Gen, we can access critical data quickly and easily, which has improved our ability to make informed decisions. It is so much easier to manage our student data."
Debbie Stewart
Eastfield Primary School
"It’s made payroll easier, as I can quickly verify absences without having to track down missing details. Now, I don’t have to second-guess whether I’ve recorded something correctly. It’s all there at a glance, and I have complete confidence in the data."
Sara Andrew
Pontesbury CE Primary School
Stories that inspire
Discover real results with real impact on student outcomes and operations across multiple settings.
Case Study
Eastfield Primary School: modernising school administration with SIMS Next Gen
The adoption of SIMS Next Gen at Eastfield Primary School has marked a significant step towards modernising its administrative processes.
Case Study
Pate’s Grammar School: empowering staff & streamlining workflows with SIMS Next Gen
Pate’s Grammar School’s journey with SIMS Next Gen demonstrates how the right digital tools can transform administration, reduce workload, and empower teachers to focus on delivering outstanding education.
Case Study
Newton Farm School: driving financial clarity and efficiency with FMS
Newton Farm School’s adoption of FMS marks a strategic shift in how financial data is managed and used to drive decisions. The platform delivers clarity, control and confidence—helping the school operate more efficiently and support its long-term goals.
Unmatched functionality
Classroom management
Class View puts registers, assessments, behaviour, and pupil info in one place, freeing teachers to focus on what matters most – teaching.
Conduct management
Record, review, and respond to behaviour issues faster with SIMS Next Gen. Automated workflows and a simple interface keep the focus on students, not navigating systems.
Reporting and insights
SIMS provides clear, actionable, real-time data at your fingertips. Track performance, support inspections, and lead with confidence.
Attendance management (Coming soon)
Track pupils, manage patterns and exceptions, and prepare returns – all in one place. Faster searches, easier edits, and automation save time and keep you compliant.
Flexible, simplified, and built around you
Build a solution that fits your trust perfectly; with tools to help your team work smarter, save time, and stay on top of finances. And soon, you’ll be able to access all ParentPay Group products with one login. No more juggling logins or switching between systems; just one simple, connected experience.
Included in
Optimise
Tools and insights to help your school thrive
Includes:
- Attendance and unexplained absence messaging
- Assessment, performance, and exams
- Census and statutory returns
- Conduct management
- Class management (Class View and Seating Plans until March 2027)
- Reporting, data, and insights
- Timetabling, options, and cover
- Pupil and staff data
- SEND management
- Interventions
- SIMS Next Generation
- Trust centralised performance management (Group Hub until March 2027)
- Hosting and support (optional)
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Pay
Make everything from clubs to dinner money seamless
Includes:
- Menu selection
- Clubs & trips
- Wraparound care
- Shops & donations pages
- Single basket checkout
- Automatic top up
- Reporting & insights
- MIS and catering integration
- Settle to multiple accounts
- SIMS Dinner Money
- Group management application
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Engage
Communicate and collaborate quickly and easily
Includes:
- SMS/email messaging
- In app notifications
- Parent & student app
- Data collection
- Attendance insights
- Conduct insights
- Assessment insights
- Clubs & activities
- Timetable
- Reports
- School calendar
- Homework *H2 2026
- Parents' evening booking *H2 2026
- Google & Apple single sign-on *H2 2026
- Class management (Class View and Seating Plans)
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Finance
Budgeting, resource allocation, and reporting simplified
Includes:
- Suppliers and supplier payments
- Income and debtors
- Budgets and staffing including personnel links
- Chart of accounts
- Financial tasks
- Data exchange with a local authority
- Statutory reporting
- Users and permissions
- Period and year end
- Equipment / asset management and loans
- Transactional reporting and audits
- Hosting
- Support and FMS extra database (optional)
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Secure
Education-focused data protection and cyber security
Includes:
- Complete data protection compliance platform
- Attack surface management
- Managed awareness training and phishing
- Threat intelligence updates
- DPO support service
- ICO-registered DPO contact
- Office 365 / Google security review
- Cloud endpoint security review
- Cloud data governance review
- Cloud audit log review
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Catering management
Your whole kitchen. One powerful platform.
Digitise every part of your catering operation – from meal planning and production to payments and reporting. Our cloud-based suite helps deliver best-in-class pupil safeguarding, boost meal uptake, and drive revenue.
Data security and compliance
Data security you can trust, compliance you can prove.
Choose GDPRiS to simplify your GDPR compliance journey, strengthen data security, and safeguard your school’s reputation.
Related resources
Check out our latest guides, brochures and blogs to discover how our solutions can help.
Frequently asked questions
How do your tools support collaboration between schools in an MAT?
We enable secure data sharing, consistent workflows, and centralised resource management—empowering leadership teams to collaborate, share best practice, and raise standards across every setting.
How can your solutions support trust-wide efficiency?
Our integrated tools simplify and unify core operations—like finance, HR, communication, and data reporting—across all schools in your organisation, saving time and reducing duplication of effort.
Are your solutions secure and compliant with data protection standards?
Yes. All tools meet stringent data protection and GDPR standards, with enterprise-grade security to protect sensitive organisation-wide information and student records.
Can your systems help with centralised reporting and compliance?
Yes. Our solutions give you organisation-wide visibility over performance, safeguarding, budgets, and compliance, with dashboards and exportable reports that support strategic oversight and regulatory requirements.
How can your products help reduce school admin workload?
Our tools are built from the ground up for education and designed to optimise user experience, automate core admin tasks, save time for staff, and improve day-to-day efficiency across all departments.