What is Alps?
Alps provides KS4 and KS5 performance analysis and tracking for schools and groups through our platforms Connect and Summit.
Our analysis is simple, easy to use, and effective. Progress is measured against our own national, aspirational benchmarks to ensure all students achieve their potential.
Educational Impact
Additional evidence
Oct 2020
Penistone Grammar School, Barnsley, UK
Oct 2020
The Purbeck School, Dorset, UK
Oct 2020
Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School , Derbyshire, UK
Oct 2020
Jumeirah College, Dubai, UAE
Oct 2020
Chelsea Academy, London, UK
Oct 2020
Rickmansworth School, Hertfordshire, UK
Oct 2020
Limavady Grammar School, Northern Ireland, UK
Oct 2020
Cardiff High School, Cardiff, UK
Feb 2023
Anthem Schools Trust, Reading, UK
 Company | Business Name: Alps HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2001 |
| Age Range | 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | In-year TrackingStudent-led AnalysisStudent, Subject, Whole School And Group AnalysisQuickly Spot Areas For ImprovementHighlight Strengths And Share Good PracticeImprove Outcomes With Aspirational Target SettingSwift, Visual AnalysisBenchmarking Against National Data SetsCommon Language For ProgressSend, Eal And Other FiltersModel Improvement With What-if? ToolCat4 Support |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Few to no features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - High Bandwidth |
 Set Up | Within a couple of hours |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Complete Support and Onboarding We make using Alps easy. Our highly-rated training and support includes: - Allocated Alps Account Manager - Dedicated phone and email support all-year-round with our experienced team - Access to a regularly updated knowledge base - Onboarding for new schools and colleges - Data set up session - Intro to Connect Interactive session The Alps Champions Programme Your data is only the first step. We have excellent practical resources to help you to embed Alps to make a difference to your student outcomes. The starting point is our Alps Champion handbook – a digital guide with all you need to launch and use Alps. - Free live and recorded webinars - Regular blogs, briefing papers and newsletters - Checklists for teachers, pastoral and senior leaders - Quick videos and training guides |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | School must create the account. |
 Tags | Data AnalysisKS4 and KS5 performance insightsperformance insightsstudent progressKS5KS4 |
Alps PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Subscription pricing is available on 1, 2, and 3 Year plans. Pricing is split into simple tiers based on the size of your KS5 cohort, with KS4 analysis available at a fixed cost. Group platform pricing is also available.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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from 91 Verified Reviews
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Sam Andrew
Progress Leader - Year 11-13
Used Alps monthly for 1-2 years
Nov 2024
The training I have received is by far the best data analysis training that I have had. John Roe is a credit to ALPs and explains everything in such detail and so clearly that I always feel prepared to analyse the data myself, as a new Head of 6th Form.
Sam Andrew found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Identifying under achieving pupils”
- Significantly improves school processes“Identifying pupils in need of academic mentoring”
- Significantly improves attainment“Allows me to address underachievement with staff and pupils”
Nov 2024
We find it is really good at helping staff understand the ability of learners in their classes and so it helps challenge pupils. We also find it really impactful to see how different classes fare against each other in a cohort based on different class teachers and identify where teaching and learning is excellent or needs to improve. The main difficulties we have is with the upload process and the mapping. Often I have to restart a process if one area is wrong. Being able to update the data whilst uploading it would be extremely helpful.
Huw Morris found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves school processes“We use it to set aspirational targets for our learners across Y10 -13”
- Significantly improves attainment
Oct 2024
it is a brilliant platform that make data capture and analysis much clearer and efficient
Hope Wilson found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“helps to plan student intervention groups”
- Moderately improves school processes“increases efficiency for data analysis meetings”
- Moderately improves attainment“easy overview of student attainment across subjects/ how close to MEG”
Peter Bekker
University and Careers Guidance Counsellor
Used Alps weekly for 0–3 months
Oct 2024
Easy to access needed data with simple steps to highlight areas of inquiry and analysis is very accessible.
Peter Bekker found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“ALPS is more than an academic tracker - it is an intuitive collaborator that allows teachers and administrators to monitor expectations and identify areas to target.”
- Moderately improves school processes“When dealing with subject options and student performance it is helpful to be able to access information instantly and visually spot concerns and triumphs.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Too soon for us to report on attainment impact - but expect it to make a positive impact.”
Sep 2024
Staff are always helpful and knowledgeable
Sabiha found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“allowing staff to see targets and performances at each assessment points”
- Moderately improves school processes“Setting targets”
- Slightly improves attainment“able to give accurate performances”
Sep 2024
We gave a score of 10/10 and highly recommend Alps because its powerful data insights and user-friendly tools significantly enhance teaching efficiency, student progress tracking, and overall academic outcomes.
Kristy Watts found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The Alps system enhances teaching efficiency at our institution by providing comprehensive data insights, enabling targeted interventions, and streamlining performance tracking, which allows us to focus on personalized learning and improving student outcomes.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Alps improves our processes by streamlining data analysis, facilitating more efficient progress monitoring, and enabling timely interventions through user-friendly tools and real-time insights, ultimately supporting better decision-making.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Alps helps us to improves attainment by providing clear performance data and benchmarks, allowing us to set more targeted goals, identify underperformance early, and implement tailored interventions that support our students in reaching their full academic potential. We have seen a notable improvement in our AS Level subjects since we implemented the Alps methodology.”
Aug 2024
We love using ALPS at Alec Hunter. It is well understood by senior and middle leaders, it demonstrates clearly what each student should be expected to achieve and challenge is built in at an appropriate level. The data that we get from ALPS really helps us to improve as a school.
Trevor Lawn found Alps:
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves school processes“Middle Leaders have a better understanding of what 'success' looks like in terms of progress rather than attainment. The simplicity of the ALPS grading system, based on the national dataset and taking account of prior attainment as the baseline, helps those leaders who are less conversant with data to feel confident that they understand the standard expected. The 'what if' function is absolutely invaluable in demonstrating how the grading will shift upwards if they are able to move certain students up by a grade or two.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Teachers can target their support due to having a better grasp of what each individual should be expected to achieve as a minimum and this in turn drives up attainment.”
Craig Wade
Adviser for Curriculum
Used Alps monthly for 7–12 months
Jul 2024
Outstanding pupil progress and monitoring approach
Craig Wade found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Alps allows you to identify specifically teaching groups and individual learners and target support and interventions”
- Significantly improves school processes“coherent and consistent approach to targeting and identifying pupil underperformance”
- Significantly improves attainment“there are a significant number of easy to use features that allow you to identify under attainment and model against this to identify where to to target support”
Jul 2024
Alps has revolutionised the tracking of student performance throughout the year. It also allows judgements to be made compared to other schools Nationally. It is a powerful tool for self evaluation improvement planning.
John Firth found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Alps allows me to track the progress of learners in real time throughout the academic year. This allows me to spot underperforming students and target extra support.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Alps makes it easy to identify good practice across the department as well as areas for development.”
- Significantly improves attainment“I find the what if tool allows me to know which students to target for additional support to raise outcomes.”
Clare Scanlon
Education Improvement Service Manager
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Jul 2024
Clarity of data, ability to manipulate data to easily consider groups of learners etc. Evolution of system to respond to need/change
Clare Scanlon found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves school processes“I don't work in a school so can't provide an evidence based response”
- Moderately improves attainment
Jul 2024
Fantastic product and service
Ed MacLeod found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Data-driven monitoring and tracking, high aspirations for all, positive dialogue with students and parents”
- Significantly improves school processes“Simple, clear, user-friendly dashboard and processes”
- Significantly improves attainment“improving value added scores year on year”
Mr Elfed T Morris
Gwynedd and Anglesey Post-16 Education Consortium Coordinator.
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Jul 2024
Excellent support and training services provided by ALPS staff as part of the ALPS package.
Mr Elfed T Morris found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“From an LEA Perspective: Recognising good practice and identifying areas for improvement.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Recognising good practice and identifying areas for improvement. Tracking learner performance and ensuring learners reach or surpass their target grades.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Tracking learner performance and ensuring learners reach or surpass their target grades. To ensure that individual establishments achieve the desired level of learner attainment.”
Jun 2024
ALPS is great for looking at individual and department level data - and whole year group. We can see which students are not achieving targets across different subject areas. I would really like to see an overall summary of where the school is against Welsh performance measures as I have to put data into a separate spreadsheet in order to do this.
Lucy Bunce found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Identify which students to focus on for intervention when looking to raise overall attainment”
- Moderately improves school processes“Deciding which students should be given additional study sessions”
- Moderately improves attainment
May 2024
ALPs has been very powerful as a tool to support the effective analysis of value added data at all levels within school.
Ceri Garlant found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“We use ALPs after each progress check to identify whole school those subject areas where pupil progress is a concern. This supports senior leaders in challenging and supporting middle leaders as part of a cycle of standards meetings and also helps middle leaders to identify strengths and areas needing development at subject level. The class analysis tool is particularly useful, as is the analysis for groups of learners.”
- Significantly improves school processes“ALPs supports our self evaluation processes both at whole school level and faculty level. It provide robust and honest value added analysis that we can use to identify what practices are working well and areas which need development.”
- Significantly improves attainment“The 'what if' analysis is perfect for use by teaching colleagues and faculty leaders for identifying which individual students will have the greatest impact on outcomes if intervention is put in place. The analysis also allows us as a school and within faculties to identify which groups of learners may not be making the expected progress.”
May 2024
All staff this year have said how much they like it, although I don't think they use the site themselves, just what the data manager produces.
Amy Hornblow found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Extra sessions for those who are on grade borders. Teachers can see how students in their subject compare to other subjects and address any inconsistencies. Teachers use "what if" functions to look at impact on their results as a whole and then put measures in place”
- Moderately improves school processes“Our data manager now gives us all data drop information in one colour coded spreadsheet. This helps to inform students target setting and interviews with form tutors/HOY/parents”
- Slightly improves attainment“I am only neutral as we have only started using it more consistently this year across all subjects through our data manager.”
Beth Willis
PE Teacher/Dep Dir Sixth Form
Used Alps monthly for 3-4 years
Apr 2024
ALPS has allowed us to easily monitor and track pupil progress with fantastic support
Beth Willis found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Able to adapt differetiation and monitor/track pupils”
- Significantly improves school processes“Tracking and monitoring pupils”
- Significantly improves attainment“Targeted interventions”
Apr 2024
Ease of use and accuracy in analysis has meant that ALPS is a key driver of both our self evaluation processes and development plan formulation.
Mark Wagner found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“ALPS is a fantastic tool for providing my staff and I with the key analysis we need to pinpoint areas of strength and development, therefore giving us more time to develop pedagogy and strategy to target these areas.”
- Significantly improves school processes“ALPS has been incredibly important in my quality assurance processes as head of faculty. It allows my staff to take ownership of the performance of their classes and drives improvement in outcomes.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Up to date analysis using regular internal data drops let me see how whole cohort and, crucially, specific groups of learners are performing. This drives intervention and has seen improvement in outcomes at both key stage 4 and 5.”
Apr 2024
A simple and effective value added system that allows teachers and leaders to get to the heart of student progress and achievement.
Dominic Pinto found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Forensic analysis of individual students and student groups.”
- Significantly improves school processes“It has become the basis of our quality assurance and school improvement process.”
- Significantly improves attainment“It allows teachers to really consider their practice and how they can incrementally improve student grades.”
Simon Davies
Head
Used Alps weekly for 7–12 months
Apr 2024
The flexibility the system provides, the immediate analysis allowing easier intervention, national subject comparisons, ease of use
Simon Davies found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Ability to target important groups of pupils and individuals to be able to plan their learning better”
- Significantly improves school processes“Allowed us to track pupil progress more consistently with clear analysis provided to be able to intervene on whole school, department and individual level quickly and effectively”
- Significantly improves attainment“There are clear examples of improved progress during our comparisons of data drops that will, hopefully, come through with exam outcomes”
Sarah Smith
Assistant Head (Head of Sixth Form)
Used Alps daily for 1-2 years
Mar 2024
An excellent tool to analyse student performance, which is user-friendly, accurate and extremely helpful in contributing to improved student outcomes!
Sarah Smith found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are able to target those underperforming in their subject by liaising with other staff where students are meeting/exceeding targets”
- Significantly improves school processes“It enables middle leaders to take greater ownership of their data enabling more efficient and accurate analysis”
- Significantly improves attainment“Our KM students make significant improvement when targeted with personalised interventions following Alps analysis”
Feb 2024
Alps has aided new processes in our tracking in sixth form to be more robust. The data is readily available, with a wealth of useful filters to target individual groups of students.
Rob Jones found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Alps has allowed us to put tailored mentoring into place for students so that they feel more supported. It has significantly improved our current retention figures.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Staff have more data to discuss in departments so that mentoring is more targeted.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Pupils are more involved in their own progress, by being made aware of MEG's and how to improve.”
Geraint Lewis
Principal Improvment Partner Cardiff Secondary and Special schools
Used Alps occasionally for 5 years+
Feb 2024
A very useful school and subject improvement tool that could be further enhanced by including generation of Wales Interim Performance Measures.
Geraint Lewis found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Departments have used ALPS Connect to analyse pupil groups' performance in-year and and at end of qualifications to inform discussion and sharing of teaching and learning practices.”
- Moderately improves school processes“Use of minimum expected grades during pupil mentoring sessions has resulted in the use of aspirational target setting owned by the learner.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Departments have been able to analyse patterns of performance and put in place interventions to improve attainment.”
Gareth Lanagan
Corporate Manager for School Improvement
Used Alps monthly for 5 years+
Feb 2024
I see as an integral part of the school improvement process
Gareth Lanagan found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves school processes“Helps us understand how all learners are doing as opposed to raw results”
- Significantly improves attainment“Use the data in year to target interventions for learners”
Catrin Walters
Assistant Headteacher
Used Alps weekly for 4-6 months
Dec 2023
It’s ability to compare similar students in each subject across the country provides us with an excellent tool for monitoring our students’ progress.
Catrin Walters found Alps:
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Enables leaders to identify students who are underachieving and provide tailored support.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Provides a quick and effective method of monitoring student progress, which feeds into the school mentoring and student support plan.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Allows teachers to identify and provide support to students who are underachieving early in the year, leading to improved attainment.”
Dec 2023
It has such a lot to offer to help drive improvement.
Michael found Alps:
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“To identify learners who need minimal action to improve.”
- Significantly improves school processes“When identifying underperformance by attendance.”
- Significantly improves attainment“It allows learner interviews to identify specific areas that can be improved with minimal effort.”
