Schools admission management

Access software for Schools Admission Management is designed to make the process of applying for a child’s place at school, simple fast and efficient, saving time for local, schools and parents.

Parents can apply for school places online, which also saves data entry time for local authorities and schools.

Our software manages the admissions, transfers and appeals processes across all schools at the key stages in a child’s educational journey, from nursery to secondary, along with transfers and in-year admissions.

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Why use our schools admission management software?

Our school management software records details of school capacities, applications for places, decisions and automatic allocations based on specified criteria against admissions policies.

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Admission management software features

Comprehensive admissions management

A comprehensive solution that records details of school capacities, attendance applications, appeals and placements.

Offering a comprehensive online schools admission system:

Allows for powerful and flexible search and selection of school place applications, efficient bulk processing based on the admissions criteria for either the local authority or the individual school
Choose to use it stand alone or as a part of the integrated suite of software.

User friendly parent portal

Parents can apply for school places online with the user-friendly Parent Portal, which can also be accessed on mobile devices for busy parents on the go.

Parents can find the information they need and choose their preferences quickly.
Validations are in place to help them enter the correct information.
Parents are also kept up-to-date with their application and able to accept/decline offers and appeal decisions.

Schools Access

Our Schools Access system enables schools to view pupil applications, including all the information supplied via the Parent Portal, which schools download securely for import into their systems at the end of the enrolment process.
Own Admissions Authority Schools can rank applicants online with the local authority able to see this in real-time.
Primary Schools can assess whether pupils have made preferences so that they can support parents where necessary.

Electronic data exchange

Our Electronic Data Exchange Module (EDEM) is the best available solution to support co-ordinated admissions and transfers.

It consists of user-friendly, wizard-based tools to handle the import and export of all Department for Education prescribed files.
Online modules are available for pupils to apply for school places and for schools to manage applications, with real e-government applications that benefit both the applicants and the local authority.

Geographical information system

The Geographical Information System (GIS) software extension retrieves catchment area data for applicants and generates catchment-based preferences.
GIS for school management gives your school an online distance measurement, in straight line routes, shortest calculated routes and safe walking routes, including details of catchment areas and nearest school type details.

Synergy has modernised the way in which parents make school applications, while reducing the number of paper applications and administration time to input the data.

Rebecca Hood - Systems Support Team Manager Medway Council

We wanted a better customer experience for parents. Synergy is a lot easier than what we had before.

Lincolnshire County Council

They have been fantastic in meeting our required timescales – delivering all projects on time, and within budget, without a single system glitch.

John O’Connor - Service Manager, Education Support Lincolnshire County Council

Schools can now log in and see all the allocations that we have worked on in a particular week. For us that was a big success factor, we could see the interaction and the immediacy and we loved it.

Cassandra Phillip - Admissions Project Manager, School Admissions Team London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council

The School Admissions module has modernised the way in which parents make school applications while reducing the number of paper applications and administration time to input the data. The implementation of Synergy was an efficient and straightforward experience.

Rebecca Hood - Systems Support Team Manager Medway Council

When we went out to market, Synergy stood out as a system that was able to meet our needs. It is very user-friendly, and affordable too.

Katherine Atkinson - Assistant Director Management Information & Intelligence Kent County Council

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