Is this a certified competitor benchmark?

No. The comparison is based on publicly marketed feature coverage from vendor websites, public partner pages, and public product documentation.

Why does Student Radar compare against stacks as well as vendors?

Many schools do not choose between one product and another. They often compare a joined-up platform with a stack of safeguarding, SEND, classroom, MIS, medical, and family communication tools.

Can Student Radar replace every tool in a school?

Not always. The right answer depends on the school stack, statutory workflows, and integrations already in place. The comparison page is intended to support a practical review, not force a blanket replacement claim.

Competitor comparison

Compare Student Radar with the tools your school already knows

CPOMS, MyConcern, Provision Map, Class Charts, Arbor, Bromcom, SIMS, Insight, Medical Tracker and others each solve a useful piece of school life. The trouble starts when one pupil needs several pieces at once — usually when the timetable has chosen drama as a management technique. Build your stack below and see exactly where it joins up, and where it doesn’t.

Build your comparison

The whole-child areas, in one place

Most stacks cover these in separate systems. Student Radar joins them up.

Safeguarding
Attendance
Behaviour
Classroom
Provision mapping
Support plans & reviews
Assessment
Operational communications
Health
Integrations
Group view
Specialist workflows

One action layer. See attendance, behaviour, SEND, safeguarding, health and family context together before a meeting turns into an export hunt with sandwiches.

Build your comparison

Compare Student Radar against the stack you actually have

Add the tools your school runs today and the table builds below. Coverage reflects what each tool publicly markets, so specialists are credited where they lead; Student Radar’s claim isn’t “best at every row”, it’s that these areas live in one connected place. Your selection saves to the link, so it’s easy to share.

Your stack

Student Radar

Your role

Comparing

Showing 12 of 12 areas

Tailor the brief

Start with the school name and we’ll try to fill the public details. You can still edit everything before downloading the PDF. These details are never added to the shareable link; they are sent to the server only when you generate the PDF and are not persisted there.

Not saved in the link

School name

Pupils on roll

Setting

Decision noteDo not include pupil names, personal data or confidential case details.

What each tool covers— tap or hover a cell for detail

Covered & connected
Strong
Partial
Not marketed

Publicly marketed feature coverage for your selected tools, alongside the areas Student Radar covers in one connected platform.
Area	Student RadarConnected layer	CPOMS / StudentSafeSafeguarding and pastoral	Tes Provision MapSEND and provision mapping	Tes Class ChartsClassroom management	Arbor MISMIS and school operations
SafeguardingConcern logging, chronology, triage, actions, and case oversight.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Strong public coverage	Partial or adjacent coverage	Not clearly marketed	Partial or adjacent coverage
AttendanceAttendance signals, pattern spotting, prioritisation, and intervention workflows.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Partial or adjacent coverage	Not clearly marketed	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage
BehaviourBehaviour events, patterns, rewards, sanctions, and reporting.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Partial or adjacent coverage	Not clearly marketed	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage
ClassroomSeating layouts, class views, digital markbooks, whiteboards, or teacher-facing tools.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Not clearly marketed	Not clearly marketed	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage
Provision mappingSEND register, provision mapping, support coverage, cost, or delivery evidence.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Not clearly marketed	Strong public coverage	Partial or adjacent coverage	Partial or adjacent coverage
Support plans & reviewsLearning plans, annual reviews, interventions, outcomes, and impact review.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Not clearly marketed	Strong public coverage	Not clearly marketed	Partial or adjacent coverage
AssessmentAssessment entry, attainment tracking, reporting, and progress views.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Not clearly marketed	Partial or adjacent coverage	Not clearly marketed	Strong public coverage
Operational communicationsParent/carer messaging, portals, apps, consent workflows, and staff and family communication loops.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Not clearly marketed	Partial or adjacent coverage	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage
HealthFirst aid, medication, medical needs, care plans, IHCPs, PEEPs, or allergy workflows.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Partial or adjacent coverage	Not clearly marketed	Not clearly marketed	Partial or adjacent coverage
IntegrationsVisible sync, partner, MIS, SIS, or ecosystem integration story.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage
Group viewMulti-school reporting, group dashboards, trust oversight, or local-authority analytics.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage	Not clearly marketed	Strong public coverage
Specialist workflowsCategory-specific workflows beyond generic records, reports, or lists.	Covered in Student Radar, connected to every other area	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage	Strong public coverage	Partial or adjacent coverage

How your stack of 4 tools covers 12 whole-child areas

covered strongly by your stack

only partial or adjacent

areas not marketed by your selected stack

Overlap worth reviewing

Attendance — Tes Class Charts and Arbor MIS
Behaviour — Tes Class Charts and Arbor MIS
Classroom — Tes Class Charts and Arbor MIS
Operational communications — Tes Class Charts and Arbor MIS
Group view — CPOMS / StudentSafe and Tes Provision Map and Arbor MIS
Specialist workflows — CPOMS / StudentSafe and Tes Provision Map and Tes Class Charts

What joining it up gets you

Coverage is table stakes. Joining it up isn’t.

Every tool in your stack can be excellent on its own. A joined-up view is what turns a signal into action — so problems surface earlier, fewer pupils slip between teams, and staff stop re-keying the same child. That’s the part a stack of any size can’t deliver, whatever the individual tools are.

The benefit

Your stack of 4 tools

Student Radar

Decisions that see the whole child

Spread across 4 systems

One profile, every area in view

Meetings start with the full picture

Open each tool, reconcile exports first

One screen, no export hunt

Every flag becomes an owned action

Sits in whichever tool raised it

Assigned, tracked, owned across teams

Fewer pupils slip between teams

Each team in its own login

Shared context in one place

Hours of staff time back

Up to 4 logins, re-keyed per system

One login, entered once

Where each tool fits, and where Student Radar is different

Open any tool to see the sensible buying decision: keep it where it already does the job well, use Student Radar alongside it where context is missing, or replace the stack where handoffs have become the work.

Build the comparison brief

Compare the decision, not just the feature list

A stack can look fine on paper while staff still do the joining-up by hand. This turns the comparison into the questions finance and SLT will actually ask: what it costs, what changes, what stays in the MIS, and how the funded year proves value before a paid commitment. Add your school details above and the PDF will use them.

A tailored PDF: your 4-tool stack, school context, overlaps and cost estimate.

The cost question a stack hides

A stack of 4 tools isn’t 4 licences — it’s 4 contracts to run, any overlap worth questioning,and the staff time no budget line shows. That’s the number finance actually weighs.

Several contracts to run

Each tool is its own invoice, renewal date and supplier relationship to track.

Overlap worth questioning

Where two tools genuinely do the same job, you fund both. A deliberate specialist tool isn’t waste — but unintended overlap is worth a second look.

Unbudgeted staff time

The same pupil keyed into several systems is hours every week that no line item captures.

Friction when one tool changes

Re-procuring one tool in the stack means re-checking how it talks to all the others.

212 separate pupil-support tools joined into one connected layer that sits beside your MIS — the MIS you keep. Student Radar isn’t an MIS replacement.

Pricing you can plan around

A comparison is only useful if the next-year cost is visible. Student Radar publishes its package pricing; the tools you selected are shown as published, indicative, or quote-led so finance can see what is known now and what needs confirming.

Student Radar

From £4.25 / pupil / year

Core£4.25Safeguard£1.75Connect£0.75Assess£0.60Health£0.50

Annual prices exclude VAT. Package-based and public, with no setup fee and 5–15% volume discounts. You can price a paid year yourself today, before deciding what should happen after a funded Pathfinder year.

Your written quote confirms pupil counts, selected packages, published volume discounts and VAT against this calculator.

Source: Student Radar approved commercial terms · Owner: Commercial · reviewed 10 Jul 2026

Work out your price

Selected tools

1 of your 4 tools uses quote-led pricing or does not publish a standard price.

CPOMS / StudentSafeFrom £200 / licence / yearPublished
Tes Provision MapFrom £795 / school / yearIndicative
Tes Class ChartsPrice on applicationQuote needed
Arbor MIS£2.35–£11.55 / pupil / year + base feePublished

This is not a like-for-like MIS replacement calculation. A full MIS such as Arbor, Bromcom, SIMS or iSAMS runs core school administration. Student Radar usually sits beside the MIS, so the useful comparison is the support, safeguarding, SEND, health, assessment and operational communications workflow tools it may consolidate alongside or replace, depending on your existing workflow.

One argument, three audiences

Finance, SLT and day-to-day users each need a different answer.

For the bursar or business manager

“What does it cost, and what happens after the funded year?”

Student Radar annual pricing is published from £4.25 per pupil/year excluding VAT, so the cost of an optional paid year can be modelled before the funded year ends.
Your selected tools are separated into published, indicative and quote-led pricing so finance can see what is known now and what needs confirming.
One platform to contract, invoice and renew, rather than several suppliers on different renewal dates.
The Pathfinder platform year is funded, with SMS and pass-through usage excluded. There is no automatic or required paid continuation.

For SLT and the head

“Does this make the school safer and sharper?”

One joined-up pupil view across safeguarding, SEND, attendance, behaviour and wellbeing — the picture leaders are expected to evidence at inspection.
Signals from different areas surface together, so the right person acts sooner instead of after the meeting.
Fewer things falling between systems, and a clearer record of who did what and when.

For day-to-day users

“Will this make my week harder or easier?”

One system to learn and embed, rather than a stack to stitch together by hand.
Less chasing exports before a meeting — the context is already in one place.
Pathfinder onboarding, training and regular check-ins mean rollout is supported from the start.

An honest word on the trade-offs

Consolidating onto one layer has real costs as well as benefits. Here are the ones a careful head or bursar should raise — and why the funded year is built to test them, not to ask you to take our word.

One vendor becomes a single point of failure.

Fair — that is a real trade-off against a stack. Your data stays yours and exportable, Student Radar sits beside the MIS you keep rather than replacing it, and the funded year is when you test reliability before you depend on it.

Safeguarding and SEND records are the most sensitive a school holds — moving them is not trivial.

Nothing is force-migrated. You can run Student Radar alongside your current tools during Pathfinder, move historical records on your terms, and we support the data-protection paperwork (DPA and DPIA) rather than leaving it to you.

A dedicated tool can go deeper in its niche than a connected layer.

True, and we don’t claim to out-specialise a safeguarding-only or clinical health system. The argument is that joined-up beats best-of-breed for the whole-child picture — which is exactly what a funded year is built to test, not assert.

A difficult sell? De-risk it entirely.

Prove the value before a paid platform commitment

The Pathfinder Programme gives 25 eligible schools a full academic year of platform access at no platform cost for the 2026–27 academic year. The comparison can then be tested against live school practice before any paid year is agreed. There is no automatic or required paid continuation after the funded year. If a school wants to continue, Student Radar supplies an optional written renewal price before the funded year ends.

See the Pathfinder Programme

What the school commits to

Nominate an implementation lead
Join regular check-ins and review meetings
Share practical feedback on rollout and impact

How this comparison is built

So you can defend it to anyone who asks — including the people who sign off.

“Not marketed” isn’t “can’t do it”

Competitor coverage reflects what each tool publicly markets — not a paid benchmark, and vendors weren’t consulted. “Not marketed” means a vendor doesn’t headline that area, not that its tool can’t do it. Pricing is sourced separately, from vendor pages and official G-Cloud listings.

Checked against live pages (July 2026)

Every tool was reviewed against its current pages. Each tool below shows when it was last checked and links the sources behind its ratings and its price.

Our own column is self-assessed

Student Radar’s ratings are our own assessment against the areas you can ask to see on a demo — not independently audited. Treat the column as a claim to test, and hold us to it.

Tell us if it’s out of date

Public marketing changes and can differ from what a demo reveals. If a rating looks wrong, tell us and we’ll correct it.

Want us to map your actual school stack?

Tell us what you already use. We’ll show what Student Radar can replace, what should stay, and where it should sit beside the MIS. The aim is fewer orphaned actions, not a ceremonial bonfire of perfectly decent software.

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Compare Student Radar with the tools your school already knows

Compare Student Radar against the stack you actually have

What each tool covers— tap or hover a cell for detail

Coverage is table stakes. Joining it up isn’t.

Where each tool fits, and where Student Radar is different

Student Radar vs CPOMS / StudentSafeSafeguarding and pastoral

Student Radar vs Tes Provision MapSEND and provision mapping

Student Radar vs Tes Class ChartsClassroom management

Student Radar vs Arbor MISMIS and school operations

Compare the decision, not just the feature list

One argument, three audiences

Prove the value before a paid platform commitment

How this comparison is built

“Not marketed” isn’t “can’t do it”

Checked against live pages (July 2026)

Our own column is self-assessed

Tell us if it’s out of date

Want us to map your actual school stack?

Compare Student Radar against the stack you actually have

What each tool covers— tap or hover a cell for detail

Coverage is table stakes. Joining it up isn’t.

Where each tool fits, and where Student Radar is different

Student Radar vs CPOMS / StudentSafeSafeguarding and pastoral

Student Radar vs Tes Provision MapSEND and provision mapping

Student Radar vs Tes Class ChartsClassroom management

Student Radar vs Arbor MISMIS and school operations

Compare the decision, not just the feature list

One argument, three audiences

Prove the value before a paid platform commitment