SchooliP

Name

SchooliP

Legal name

Derventio Education Ltd.

Website

https://schoolip.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

School Improvement Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Student Information Systems (SIS) & School Administration Platforms (EDAJAMAB)

Keywords

• School improvement software
• Education management platform
• Self-evaluation software
• Performance management system
• Inspection readiness software

Headquarters

HQ city

Derby

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription Software Licensing: SchooliP operates as a subscription-based SaaS model, providing schools and multi-academy trusts access to their improvement platform on an annual subscription basis. The software is offered in variants for schools, trusts, colleges, and international schools.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

SchooliP provides a unified subscription-based SaaS platform that brings together school self-evaluation, improvement planning, school-wide audits, policy management, performance management, and professional development / CPD tracking into one centralized system. The platform is offered to schools, multi-academy trusts, further education colleges, universities, nurseries, and international schools, with seamless integration to MIS providers and alignment to the Ofsted inspection framework.

Product overview

SchooliP is a unified school improvement platform offered by Derventio Education, consisting of a core product for schools plus multiple modules including Self-Evaluation, Improvement Planning, School-Wide Audits, Policy Management, Performance Management, and Professional Development. The platform operates across multiple sub-brands: SchooliP for mainstream/academy schools, CollegeiP for further education, UniversityiP for higher education, and NurseryiP for early years. Additional specialized offerings include School Sustainability Audit and School AI Audit tools. The architecture combines all modules within one centralized system, enabling schools to link planning, monitoring, evaluation, and development processes together.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CollegeiP: Improvement Software for Further Education colleges, powering quality, compliance and curriculum excellence.
• UniversityiP
• NurseryiP
• TrustsiP
• School Sustainability Audit
• School AI Audit

Products and services

• SchooliP (for Schools and Academies) Complete school improvement software for schools and academies to plan, monitor, and evaluate with confidence; unifies planning, monitoring, evaluation, and development in one platform with six interconnected modules.
• SchooliP for Multi-Academy Trusts Trust-wide school improvement software enabling MAT leadership to plan, monitor, and evaluate performance across all academies from a centralized platform.
• CollegeiP Improvement software for further education colleges, powering quality, compliance, and curriculum excellence.
• UniversityiP Improvement software for universities.
• NurseryiP Improvement software for nurseries and early years education settings.
• TrustsiP Complete trust-wide school improvement software for multi-academy trusts to plan, monitor and evaluate performance across all member schools.
• School Sustainability Audit Sustainability tool for schools to assess and improve environmental sustainability practices.
• School AI Audit Digital and AI tools audit for schools to evaluate technology and AI implementation across the school.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces teacher workload by streamlining performance management, lesson observations, and CPD tracking
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers35 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature6 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• ClassDojo: Widely adopted classroom/school engagement and communication platform used across primary schools globally. Comparable as a broader incumbent in the school-operations category, but operating at a teacher-classroom layer rather than school-leadership improvement layer where SchooliP sits.
• RM Education: Long-established UK EdTech vendor offering a broad portfolio across school administration, assessment, MIS, and IT services. Comparable as a broader incumbent competing for the same UK school IT budgets, though RM's portfolio is wider and less focused on the improvement/QA niche SchooliP owns.
• SIMS (ESS): The dominant UK school MIS, part of ESS (Education Software Solutions), with deep penetration across maintained schools and MATs. Larger established incumbent competing for the same procurement budgets; overlap is on school administration, reporting, and increasingly on improvement/performance modules.

Direct peers

• iSAMS: UK MIS provider specialising in independent schools with modules spanning admissions, academic, and pastoral workflows. Comparable because it serves the same UK independent/international school customer cohort targeted by SchooliP's TrustsiP and premium-school case studies (Babington House, Tudor Hall, etc.).
• Arbor Education: UK-based K-12 school information and management platform serving MATs and individual schools with similar MIS-adjacent workflows. Closely comparable because it competes for the same buyer (UK school leadership) on overlapping functionality around student data, reporting, and school administration.
• ScholarPack: UK cloud-based school MIS for primary and secondary schools. Direct competitor for UK school administration budgets, with overlapping modules around pupil data, reporting, and compliance — directly contested by SchooliP in UK MAT and mainstream school procurements.
• ManageBac: International schools planning, curriculum, and reporting platform serving IB and international school communities. Directly comparable because it competes for the same international-school improvement-budget wallet (PYP/MYP/DP coordination, accreditation evidence) that SchooliP's UAE/Russia/Luxembourg/Sierra Leone case studies target.
• Bromcom: UK MIS and student information system used by schools and MATs for cloud-based administration, reporting, and data management. Directly competes for the same UK school administration wallet with comparable SaaS delivery and MAT-tier positioning.

Emerging players

• Toddle: International schools planning, assessment, and portfolio platform built for IB and progressive schools. Comparable as a newer-generation competitor for the same international-school improvement workflows — partial overlap, with a more modern UX and venture backing versus SchooliP's longer-tenured installed base.
• Schrole: Cloud platform for international schools covering recruitment, professional development, and teacher appraisal workflows. Comparable because it targets the same international-school staff-development use case (CPD tracking, appraisals) that overlaps with SchooliP's Performance Management and Professional Development modules.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/schoolip
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/schoolip-limited

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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