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

Build around the stack you actually have. See where each specialist is strongest, where hand-offs still rely on people, and what a connected action layer changes around each child and across the school.

Coverage comes from public vendor pages and product documentation. Student Radar’s own column is self-assessed and written to be tested on a demo.

Build your comparison

Start with the stack you have
Choose the systems your school already pays for, then filter the view by role or buying question.
Separate coverage from connection
Credit each specialist where it is strong, then see where signals, ownership and review still cross system boundaries.
Take a decision brief away
Add school context and export the comparison for finance, SLT and the people who will use it every day.

The whole-child baseline

areas that should be visible before a school decides what stays, what connects, and what can be consolidated.

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

Evidence before assertion

How this comparison is built

The evidence standard, caveats and dates are part of the buying tool—not small print after it.

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“Not marketed” isn’t “can’t do it”
Competitor coverage reflects what each tool publicly markets. It is 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: published figures come from vendor pages or official G-Cloud listings; third-party figures are labelled indicative; and where no standard public price is available, we show “price on application” rather than infer one.
02
Sources checked 25 June 2026 to 20 August 2026
We checked every entry against its cited public pages. Each tool below shows its own last-checked date and links the sources behind its ratings and price.
03
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.
04
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.

Build your comparison

Start with the stack you actually have

Add the tools your school runs today. Specialists are credited where they lead; Student Radar’s claim is not “best at every row”, but that these areas can be understood and acted on in one connected place. Your selection saves to the link, so it is 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.

Read the difference

Coverage first. Connection second.

The matrix shows publicly marketed coverage. The analysis beneath it asks the more operational question: where does evidence become a human decision, owned work, communication and review?

What each tool coversTap 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	Partial or adjacent coverage	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	Partial or adjacent coverage	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	Partial or adjacent coverage	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

Keep, connect or consolidate

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.

Student Radar vs CPOMS / StudentSafeSafeguarding and pastoral

A recognised safeguarding platform with concern recording, chronology, wellbeing/pastoral positioning, and partner integrations.

Pricing

Published

From £200 / licence / year

A per-licence floor on the official G-Cloud listing; the vendor’s own pricing page is quote-only and tiered by school size.

CPOMS G-Cloud 14 listing · G-Cloud 14 (2024)

Best fit

DSL teams that want a mature safeguarding-first product.

Visible limitation

Public positioning is strongest around safeguarding and pastoral records rather than broad SEND, assessment, classroom, or health operations.

Keep CPOMS / StudentSafe when

Keep CPOMS when your safeguarding practice is settled, trusted, and the main issue is not cross-team visibility.

Compare Student Radar when

Compare Student Radar when DSLs, SENCos, attendance leads and pastoral staff keep asking for context from other systems before they can decide what to do next.

Ask on the demo: Show how safeguarding context reaches the SENCo, attendance lead and pastoral team without becoming everyone else’s second login.

Sources checked 2026-07-11

CPOMS integration partners CPOMS safeguarding platform PDF

Student Radar vs Tes Provision MapSEND and provision mapping

SEND-focused software for provision mapping, learning plans, pupil passports, outcomes, reviews, reporting, and school or trust oversight.

Pricing

Third-party estimate

From £795 / school / year

Tes’s own page is quote-only; ~£795/yr (£675 on a 3-year term) comes from third-party listings, not the vendor.

EdTech Impact + Edukey order form · third-party, 2024–26

Best fit

SENCos and inclusion teams principally looking for specialist SEND provision management, learning plans, and review evidence.

Visible limitation

Tes is developing Connected Insights links with Class Charts and MyConcern. Its current public centre of gravity remains SEND provision and learning plans rather than one native workflow across every pupil-support domain.

Keep Tes Provision Map when

Keep Provision Map when SEND provision evidence is the only workflow that needs changing.

Compare Student Radar when

Compare Student Radar when annual reviews, interventions and provision plans are missing important context from the rest of school.

Ask on the demo: Show how provision evidence connects to attendance, behaviour, safeguarding and health before a review meeting starts.

Sources checked 2026-08-20

Tes Provision Map Tes Provision Map learning plans Tes Provision Map Connected Insights

Student Radar vs Tes Class ChartsClassroom management

Classroom management platform centred on seating plans, behaviour, rewards, attendance, detentions, homework, and parent visibility.

Pricing

Price on application

Vendor shows “speak to sales” only; a third-party site lists ~£870/yr as an unofficial starting point.

Tes Class Charts · 2026

Best fit

Schools looking for strong classroom behaviour and seating tools.

Visible limitation

Strong in teacher/classroom workflows; SEND provision, annual review, health, and safeguarding depth are not the main public proposition.

Keep Tes Class Charts when

Keep Class Charts when the main pain is classroom behaviour workflow and seating.

Compare Student Radar when

Compare Student Radar when behaviour logs are useful but nobody can see the wider reason for the pattern.

Ask on the demo: Show what happens after a risk pattern appears: who gets the action, where it lives, and how leaders know it happened.

Sources checked 2026-07-11

Tes Class Charts Class Charts on Wonde

Student Radar vs Arbor MISMIS and school operations

Broad MIS ecosystem with attendance, behaviour, parent/guardian app, assessment, reporting, clubs, trips, and operational workflows.

Pricing

Published

£2.35–£11.55 / pupil / year + base fee

A full MIS: per-pupil rate (by phase and tier) plus a £1.6k–£4.2k base licence. Runs the whole school office, not just pupil support.

Arbor G-Cloud 14 pricing document · G-Cloud 14 (2025)

Best fit

Schools or trusts standardising core MIS operations.

Visible limitation

Public positioning is MIS-led; SEND, safeguarding, and intervention orchestration appear less specialist than dedicated tools.

Keep Arbor MIS when

Keep Arbor as the MIS when you need core records, statutory administration and operational management.

Compare Student Radar when

Compare Student Radar when MIS reports show the risk but do not make ownership, action, review, and cross-team context obvious.

Ask on the demo: Show what happens after a risk pattern appears: who gets the action, where it lives, and how leaders know it happened.

Sources checked 2026-06-25

Arbor parent introduction Arbor MIS service definition

Build the comparison brief

Compare the decision, not just the feature list

Products can look similar on a feature list while organising school work very differently. 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 all-inclusive platform price; 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

CoreIncludedSENDIncludedLeadIncludedSafeguardIncludedConnectIncludedAssessIncludedHealthIncludedOfficeIncludedTeachIncluded

Every standard product area is included. Annual prices exclude VAT, with no setup fee and 5–20% 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, the all-inclusive platform price, published volume discounts and VAT against this calculator.

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.
Compare complete-platform scope, implementation, quote and renewal terms like for like; an entry-level module price is not a substitute for the full cost.
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?”

Test the daily workflows staff actually need to complete, not just whether a product offers one login or calls itself connected.
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, and 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

Focused comparisons

Start with the product on your shortlist

Each guide credits the product’s public strengths, shows the workflow difference and links the evidence used. Last verified 20 August 2026.

Supporting evidence

Check the practical context

A coverage table is a starting point. These pages answer the questions that determine whether a buying decision will survive procurement.

The practical questions

Common questions

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.

Your actual school stack

Want us to map it with you?

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.

Request demo access Request a 30-minute walkthrough

Compare Student Radar with the tools your school already knows

Start with the stack you have

Separate coverage from connection

Take a decision brief away

How this comparison is built

“Not marketed” isn’t “can’t do it”

Sources checked 25 June 2026 to 20 August 2026

Our own column is self-assessed

Tell us if it’s out of date

Start with the stack you actually have

Coverage first. Connection second.

What each tool coversTap 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

Start with the product on your shortlist

Check the practical context

Common questions

Is this a certified competitor benchmark?

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

Can Student Radar replace every tool in a school?

Want us to map it with you?

Start with the stack you actually have

Coverage first. Connection second.

What each tool coversTap 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