What Wholeschool does

Wholeschool is a Northern Irish EdTech company headquartered in Belfast (Dunmurry) that sells a school-improvement platform-as-a-service to primary and post-primary schools, education authorities, and government bodies across the UK and Ireland. The Wholeschool Education Platform bundles Pupil Benchmark (evidence-based pupil-progress tracking with predictive analytics), School Improvement Planning (self-evaluation and action planning), Room & Asset Booking, Alumni Management, and Wholeschool Connect (AI-driven stakeholder surveys with sentiment analysis), alongside bespoke compliance tools such as the TSN Planner, Engage Programme tooling, PISA/OECD survey delivery, and iMatter. The School Development Planning module is fully licensed for every school in Northern Ireland through the c2k enNI program, and the company has direct delivery relationships with the Department of Education NI, the NI Education Authority, the Road Safety Authority (Ireland), ICT Skillnet, Open Training College, Sentireal, and the Northern Health and Social Care Trust.

Name

Wholeschool

Legal name

Wholeschool

Website

https://whole.school

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Wholeschool is a Northern Irish EdTech company selling a SaaS platform-as-a-service for school improvement, pupil-progress tracking, stakeholder engagement, and compliance tooling to schools, education authorities, and government bodies across the UK and Ireland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Belfast

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to the Wholeschool Education Platform and suite of apps (Pupil Benchmark, School Improvement Planning, Asset Booking, Alumni Management, Wholeschool Connect). Schools and colleges subscribe for ongoing access to the platform and its tools.
2. Managed Website Service: Pay-monthly managed website service for schools. The school creates content while Wholeschool's design team manages upload, design, and publishing. No upfront costs; recurring monthly subscription.
3. Bespoke Software Development & Implementation: Custom software delivery and managed service consultancy for enterprise clients including the NI Education Authority, Road Safety Authority, Open Training College, and Sentireal. Project-based engagements for content transformation, CMS development, LMS implementation, and systems integration.
4. Platform-as-a-Service: Wholeschool acts as a platform provider enabling schools to build and deploy integrated services including school improvement, compliance, and curriculum planning.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Wholeschool provides an integrated cloud-based Education Platform-as-a-Service for schools, education authorities, and government bodies across the UK and Ireland, combining pupil progress tracking, school improvement planning, asset booking, alumni management, and AI-driven stakeholder engagement surveys. The company also delivers pay-monthly managed website services for schools and bespoke compliance software (TSN Planner, Engage Programme, iMatter, PISA/OECD tooling) commissioned by government education authorities. The Wholeschool Education Platform is built on the proprietary Biild.io low-code platform and integrates open-source ecosystems including WordPress, Moodle, and Google LMS.

Product overview

Wholeschool is a Northern Irish EdTech company offering a platform-as-a-service model for schools across the UK and Ireland. The Wholeschool Education Platform serves as the core infrastructure powering a suite of integrated applications: Pupil Benchmark (pupil-progress tracking with AI-powered predictive analytics), School Improvement Planning (self-evaluation and action planning), Room & Asset Booking (facilities management), Alumni Management (past pupil network engagement with Printful e-commerce), and Wholeschool Connect (AI-driven stakeholder surveys with sentiment analysis). The company also offers compliance-focused tools including TSN Planner (funding tracking), Engage Programme, PISA/OECD surveys, and iMatter (health and wellbeing). For English, Scottish, and Irish markets, Wholeschool Connect provides framework-specific self-evaluation modules aligned with OFSTED, 'How Good is Our School', and 'Looking at Our School' inspection frameworks. Wholeschool Websites provides a separate managed website service for schools. The platform is built on Biild, a low-code application platform, and the company has extensive experience with open-source technologies including Moodle, WordPress, and React Native.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Biild: Low-Code Application Platform powering the Wholeschool Platform and suite of Educational Apps
• Wholeschool Connect
• Pupil Benchmark
• School Improvement Planning
• Room & Asset Booking
• Alumni Management
• TSN Planner
• Wholeschool Websites

Products and services

• Wholeschool Education Platform Data-driven, real-time platform providing integrated education services for schools including school improvement, compliance tooling, and curriculum planning. Powers the suite of Wholeschool apps and integrates with Moodle, WordPress, and Google LMS.
• Pupil Benchmark Evidence-based pupil-progress tracking tool with drag-and-drop functionality. Realtime dashboards, charts, graphs, and analytics help teachers capture, tag, and upload photo, video, and written evidence tied to curriculum benchmarks. AI/ML predict baseline positions and targeted trajectories over time.
• School Improvement Planning Self-evaluation tool for evidence-based target setting to support school improvement. Assists in the design, development, deployment, and monitoring of modern School Improvement Plans with target setting, success criteria, action planning, and reporting functions. Licensed for all schools in Northern Ireland.
• Room & Asset Booking Booking application for automating management of school assets including transport, devices, facilities, and computer rooms. Calendar grid interface with two-week timetable support, block booking, user restrictions, and MIS integration.
• Alumni Management Software system enabling schools to harness past pupil and faculty networks via bespoke alumni websites. Supports campaign creation, event promotion, work placements, fundraising, and integrated Printful drop-shipping for branded school merchandise.
• Wholeschool Connect (WS Connect) AI-driven platform for school stakeholder engagement through surveys, forms, and quizzes. Includes over 200 tailored school surveys, automatic AI sentiment analysis, infographic report builder, quiz creator, and digital permission slip management. Supports UK/Ireland inspection frameworks including OFSTED, HGIOS, LAOS, and NI Empowering Improvement.
• TSN Planner Online dynamic funding tracker for the annual £75m 'Targeting Social Need' funding, enabling the Department of Education Northern Ireland to track funding allocation and associated outcomes.
• Engage Programme Compliance Tool Funding compliance tool for the Engage Programme that helps schools allocate additional teachers to manage learning gaps created by the Covid-19 pandemic, tracking the £11m programme spend.
• PISA/OECD Survey Tool International benchmarking tool used to survey 15-year-old students as part of the global PISA initiative, covering well-being and academic performance in Mathematics, Reading, and Science. 8,500 students were surveyed with a report delivered to the Minister of Education.
• iMatter Health and wellbeing survey tool supporting educational settings in promoting emotional health at a universal level, taking a holistic multi-disciplinary approach and providing early and enhanced support identification for children at risk.
• Wholeschool Websites (Managed Website Service) Pay-monthly managed website service for schools with no upfront costs. The school creates content while the Wholeschool design team handles upload, design, and publishing. Over 800 school websites built across the past 15 years.
• OFSTED Framework Self-Evaluation Tool Self-evaluation tool for English schools to assess performance against the OFSTED inspection framework. Includes surveys aligned with 'Quality of Education' and 'Leadership and Management' quality indicators, with access to 200+ additional surveys.
• How Good is Our School Framework Tool Self-evaluation tool for Scottish schools based on the 'How Good is Our School' framework. Includes 15 surveys across Leadership and Management, Learning Provision, and Successes and Achievements categories.
• Looking at Our School Framework Tool Self-evaluation tool for Republic of Ireland schools based on the 'Looking at Our School' framework, with 17 surveys covering Teaching and Learning and Leadership and Management quality domains.
• NI Improvement Framework Tool Self-evaluation tool for Northern Irish schools supporting statutory frameworks including Empowering Improvement, ESAGS and ISEF. Surveys cover curriculum planning, teaching and assessment, learner wellbeing, and leadership.

Quantifiable outcome

• 8,500 15-year-old students surveyed as part of the global PISA initiative, with report delivered to the Minister of Education
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability4 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NI Education AuthoritycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing strategic partnership formalised in 2011 through inclusion of Wholeschool's School Development Planning software in c2k's enNI program. Wholeschool has become an established and trusted supplier of software and managed-service consultancy to the NI education sector. Currently involved in delivery of DENI's Engage 1 and Engage 2 programmes and is positioned for the new Education Technology Services (ETS) system procurement.
• Department of Education Northern Ireland (DENI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWholeschool works directly with DENI on compliance tools including the TSN Planner (c£75m funding tracking) and Engage Programme (£11m Covid learning gap funding). Also commissioned for PISA/OECD international benchmarking survey of 8,500 students, with report delivered to the Minister of Education.
• Road Safety Authority (Ireland)coreTechnology or Integration8-year strategic relationship delivering enterprise-level Moodle LMS and Virtual Learning offering. Wholeschool coordinates technical support, server environment management, upgrades, and digital content curation including 'Wrecked' and 'Mobility Matters' courses.
• SentirealminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWholeschool developed a 'Headless CMS' for Sentireal supporting the 'CLEAR Dementia Care©' mobile application for the Northern Health and Social Care Trust Dementia Home Support Team. Solution used WordPress for content curation surfaced over REST APIs to a native mobile application built on React Native.
• ICT SkillnetminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProduction of remote webinar series to ensure continuity of learning for 50,000 trainees. Produced over 60 videos in the series with ongoing YouTube optimisation strategy support.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• SIMS (Capita): The dominant UK school MIS used by a majority of state schools for pupil records, attendance, and assessment. SIMS is the incumbent Wholeschool's SDP tool is integrated alongside via the c2k program in NI, and competes for school MIS / reporting budget.
• ManageBac: Curriculum planning, assessment, and IB platform used by international schools. Comparable to Wholeschool's curriculum planning + school improvement planning + evidence-based assessment capabilities, particularly for cross-jurisdiction schools.
• Bromcom: UK MIS provider offering a cloud-based student information system, assessment, and parent communication tools to primary and secondary schools. Competes head-on with Wholeschool in pupil progress tracking, reporting, and school-improvement workflows.
• Arbor Education: UK-based MIS / school management platform serving primary and secondary schools with pupil data, attendance, and reporting functionality. Direct competitor to Wholeschool's Pupil Benchmark and broader school-improvement suite, particularly in England where both target MATs and local-authority schools.
• iSAMS: School management information system focused on UK and international independent schools, covering admissions, academic reporting, and pastoral care. Overlaps with Wholeschool's integrated school-improvement and compliance modules for the independent and prep school segment.
• ScholarPack: UK cloud-based school management system for primary schools covering assessment, reporting, and parent communication. Closely comparable to Wholeschool's Pupil Benchmark + Wholeschool Connect functionality for primary school customers.

Emerging players

• ClassDojo: Widely adopted school communication and pupil engagement platform across UK and ROI primary schools. Partial overlap with Wholeschool Connect's stakeholder-survey and parent-engagement functionality for younger year groups.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Education (M365 Education): Broad incumbent whose Teams, SharePoint, and Forms are used by schools for communication, surveys, and basic analytics. Competes at the margin with Wholeschool Connect surveys and Wholeschool's managed website services via free, embedded tooling.
• RM plc (RM Integris): Long-standing UK education technology and services provider with MIS, IT infrastructure, and managed services for schools. A much larger incumbent that competes with Wholeschool on managed services and integrates with similar procurement frameworks.

Others

• Wonde: UK EdTech data-integration platform that syncs school MIS data with third-party apps. Adjacent rather than directly competitive; many Wholeschool customers (and competitors like Arbor/Bromcom) integrate via Wonde to pipe data into school-improvement tools.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/wholeschool
• Facebookfacebook.com/wholeschool
• Instagraminstagram.com/my_wholeschool

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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