Multi-Academy Trusts
Purple for Multi-Academy trusts
Make confident decisions across your trust
Make Confident Decisions Across Every School
Give your trust one shared view to direct support, prioritise resources and make confident school improvement decisions.
Give your trust one shared view to direct support, prioritise resources and make confident school improvement decisions.
✓ Identify trust-wide trends
✓ Compare performance against historic data
✓ View complex analytics
✓ Build stronger evidence for Ofsted and governors
What is Purple?
One platform for trust-wide visibility
One Platform For Trust-Wide Visibility
Purple is a purpose-built, cloud-based platform that brings trust and school-level data together in one place, helping trust leaders compare outcomes consistently, identify emerging issues earlier and make more confident decisions across every school.
Purple is a purpose-built, cloud-based platform that brings trust and school-level data together in one place, helping trust leaders compare outcomes consistently, identify emerging issues earlier and make more confident decisions across every school.
No spreadsheets. No reporting infrastructure.
No disconnected systems. Just one clear view across your trust.
The challenges Multi-Academy trusts face
Trust-wide accountability needs trust-wide visibility.
Trust-Wide Accountability Needs Trust-Wide Visibility.
Trust leaders need to compare schools consistently, identify where support is needed, evidence impact for trustees and make confident decisions for trust reviews, school improvement reviews and strategic planning.
✓ Multiple schools
✓ Multiple data sources
✓ One clear view
Fragmented data
Important information sits across systems, reports & spreadsheets.
Emerging need
Patterns can remain hidden until pupils need more intensive support.
Reporting burden
Manual reporting takes time away from the conversations that matter.
Prove impact
Evidence impact for trustees, school improvement reviews & inspection readiness.
A smarter investment
Don’t just improve reporting. Reduce costs.
Don’t just improve reporting. Reduce costs.
Don’t just improve reporting. Reduce costs.
Purple helps trusts replace fragmented reporting processes, reduce reliance on multiple systems and avoid the cost of developing and maintaining in-house dashboards. Rather than investing time and budget into data infrastructure, trusts can focus resources on school improvement and student outcomes.
Purple helps trusts replace fragmented reporting processes, reduce reliance on multiple systems and avoid the cost of developing and maintaining in-house dashboards. Rather than investing time and budget into data infrastructure, trusts can focus resources on school improvement and student outcomes.
Avoid dashboard development
Avoid dashboard development
No Power BI development projects, external consultants or ongoing dashboard maintenance.
No Power BI development projects, external consultants or ongoing dashboard maintenance.
Consolidate systems
Consolidate systems
Reduce reliance on multiple reporting, provision and analysis tools across your trust by bringing everything into one platform.
Reduce reliance on multiple reporting, provision and analysis tools across your trust by bringing everything into one platform.
Save staff time
Save staff time
Automate reporting and evidence collection so leaders spend less time preparing data and more time acting on it.
Automate reporting and evidence collection so leaders spend less time preparing data and more time acting on it.
One platform. Multiple savings.
Reduce software costs, technical overhead, reporting workload and duplicated effort across your trust while strengthening accountability and evidence.
Trust-wide visibility
From trust-wide trends to individual pupil insight.
From trust-wide trends to individual pupil insight.
Purple helps trust leaders see the bigger picture across every school while giving them the ability to drill down into the detail. Start with trust-wide trends, explore individual schools, then investigate the data behind any pupil or provision.
Purple helps trust leaders see the bigger picture across every school while giving them the ability to drill down into the detail. Start with trust-wide trends, explore individual schools, then investigate the data behind any pupil or provision.
Monitor every school
Monitor every school
View performance, attendance, behaviour, inclusion and provisions across the entire trust.
View performance, attendance, behaviour, inclusion and provisions across the entire trust.
Investigate with confidence
Investigate with confidence
Move seamlessly from trust dashboards into individual school data to understand what is driving trends.
Move seamlessly from trust dashboards into individual school data to understand what is driving trends.
Support pupils more effectively
Support pupils more effectively
Access detailed pupil profiles, provision histories and outcomes when deeper insight is needed.
Access detailed pupil profiles, provision histories and outcomes when deeper insight is needed.
PURPLE FEATURES
What can Purple analyse?
From programme participation and impact evaluation to attendance, behaviour and wellbeing, Purple helps organisations understand what is working, who it is working for and where further support may be needed.
Explore Every feature
ATTENDANCE & ABSENCE
Attendance &
absence
Monitor attendance patterns and identify pupils at risk.
Explore attendance & absence
BEHAVIOUR & SUSPENSIONS
Behaviour & suspensions
Track behaviour trends and reduce suspensions effectively.
Explore behaviour & suspensions
INCLUSION & VULNERABILITY
Inclusion & vulnerability
Understand vulnerability indicators and improve pupil outcomes.
Explore inclusion & vulnerability
PROVISION TRACKING
Provision
tracking
Measure provision engagement, delivery and impact.
Explore provision tracking
IMPACT EVALUATION
Impact
evaluation
Evaluate effectiveness and demonstrate measurable outcomes.
Explore impact evaluation
SURVEYS & FEEDBACK
Surveys &
feedback
Capture pupil voice and monitor wellbeing trends.
Explore surveys & feedback
See how Purple supports school improvement
PURPLE FEATURES
What can Purple analyse?
From programme participation and impact evaluation to attendance, behaviour and wellbeing, Purple helps organisations understand what is working, who it is working for and where further support may be needed.
Explore Every feature
ATTENDANCE & ABSENCE
Attendance &
absence
Monitor attendance patterns and identify pupils at risk.
Explore attendance & absence
BEHAVIOUR & SUSPENSIONS
Behaviour & suspensions
Track behaviour trends and reduce suspensions effectively.
Explore behaviour & suspensions
INCLUSION & VULNERABILITY
Inclusion & vulnerability
Understand vulnerability indicators and improve pupil outcomes.
Explore inclusion & vulnerability
PROVISION TRACKING
Provision
tracking
Measure provision engagement, delivery and impact.
Explore provision tracking
IMPACT EVALUATION
Impact
evaluation
Evaluate effectiveness and demonstrate measurable outcomes.
Explore impact evaluation
SURVEYS & FEEDBACK
Surveys &
feedback
Capture pupil voice and monitor wellbeing trends.
Explore surveys & feedback
See how Purple supports
school improvement
PURPLE FEATURES
What can Purple analyse?
From programme participation and impact evaluation to attendance, behaviour and wellbeing, Purple helps organisations understand what is working, who it is working for and where further support may be needed.
Explore Every feature
ATTENDANCE & ABSENCE
Attendance &
absence
Monitor attendance patterns and identify pupils at risk.
Explore attendance & absence
BEHAVIOUR & SUSPENSIONS
Behaviour & suspensions
Track behaviour trends and reduce suspensions effectively.
Explore behaviour & suspensions
INCLUSION & VULNERABILITY
Inclusion & vulnerability
Understand vulnerability indicators and improve pupil outcomes.
Explore inclusion & vulnerability
PROVISION TRACKING
Provision
tracking
Measure provision engagement, delivery and impact.
Explore provision tracking
IMPACT EVALUATION
Impact
evaluation
Evaluate effectiveness and demonstrate measurable outcomes.
Explore impact evaluation
SURVEYS & FEEDBACK
Surveys &
feedback
Capture pupil voice and monitor wellbeing trends.
Explore surveys & feedback
See how Purple supports school improvement
See What Purple Could Cost Your Trust
Build an indicative annual estimate based on the size of your trust, then compare it with what you currently spend on data analytics, provision tracking and related platforms or services.
Unlimited Purple App access is included at no additional charge.
Purple pricing is made up of two simple elements:
A fixed annual fee based on the total number of schools within your trust. This includes trust-wide dashboards, benchmarking, central oversight and access for six central trust colleagues.
Each school includes eight dashboard users as standard alongside unlimited Purple App access for staff delivering provisions and support.
Trust Size
Your Indicative Purple Estimate
Compare Your Current Spend
Enter the total amount your trust currently spends each year on data analytics, provision tracking, surveys, reporting and related platforms or services.
What could I include?
You may wish to include relevant annual spending on:
- PowerBI licenses
- External analysis or reporting support
- Expanding data and PowerBI specialist teams
- Data analytics and reporting platforms
- Provision tracking systems
- Attendance or behaviour analytics
- Survey and feedback tools
- Impact evaluation tools
- Other overlapping platforms or services
This guidance is illustrative only.
Want A More Accurate Trust Estimate?
We can review your trust structure, access requirements and current platform landscape to provide a personalised quotation and value comparison.
Book A Demo To Get A Personalised QuoteTwo ways to use Purple
Two Ways to Use Purple
Two Ways to Use Purple
One connected platform for the people delivering provision and the leaders evaluating its impact.
One connected platform for the people delivering provision and the leaders evaluating its impact.
Purple app users
Provision tracking
Create & edit groups · Archive students Registers · Engagement tracking
Attendance monitoring · Exports
Flows
Dashboard users
Understand impact
School dashboards · Trust dashboards Inclusion analytics · Vulnerability analysis· Provision impact evaluation · Benchmarking
Trust-wide evidence
Preparing for greater trust accountability
Preparing For Greater Trust Accountability
Trust leaders increasingly need a clear, consistent understanding of performance, need and impact across every school. Purple helps trusts create a shared evidence base for trustee reporting, school improvement conversations, trust reviews and wider accountability processes.
Trust leaders increasingly need a clear, consistent understanding of performance, need and impact across every school. Purple helps trusts create a shared evidence base for trustee reporting, school improvement conversations, trust reviews and wider accountability processes.
✓ Trust-wide visibility
✓ Consistent school comparison
✓ Evidence of impact
✓ Trustee reporting
✓ School improvement oversight
✓ Trust review readiness
Assessment & attainment
Your assessment data, your way.
Your assessment data, your way.
Your assessment data, your way.
Every school and trust measures attainment differently. That’s why Purple doesn’t force you into a fixed framework. Where assessment data is available and structured appropriately in schools' MIS, we can work with you to create bespoke analytics that turn grades, assessment points and progress measures into meaningful insight.
Every school and trust measures attainment differently. That’s why Purple doesn’t force you into a fixed framework. Where assessment data is available and structured appropriately in schools' MIS, we can work with you to create bespoke analytics that turn grades, assessment points and progress measures into meaningful insight.
From data to decisions
Built around your model
Assessment data
SIMS
Arbor
Bromcom
Purple configuration
Configured for you
Grade Mapping
Progress Measures
Custom Cohorts
Subject Analysis
Bespoke analytics
Attainment Trends
Attainment Trends
Progress Tracking
Progress Tracking
Subject Performance
Subject Performance
Cohort Comparisons
Cohort Comparisons
Your existing assessment data, transformed into analytics that fit your context.
Trusts FAQs
Questions trust leaders are asking
Questions trust leaders are asking
How can Purple help us monitor performance across our trust?
How can Purple help us monitor performance across our trust?
Can Purple compare schools across our multi-academy trust?
Can Purple compare schools across our multi-academy trust?
How does Purple support trust-wide school improvement?
How does Purple support trust-wide school improvement?
Can Purple evaluate the impact of trust-wide strategies and programmes?
Can Purple evaluate the impact of trust-wide strategies and programmes?
How does Purple support inclusion across a multi-academy trust?
How does Purple support inclusion across a multi-academy trust?
What reporting can trust leaders access?
What reporting can trust leaders access?
Can Purple reduce the reporting burden on schools?
Can Purple reduce the reporting burden on schools?
Will Purple work with our existing MIS and systems?
Will Purple work with our existing MIS and systems?
Why do trusts choose Purple over traditional trust reporting tools?
Why do trusts choose Purple over traditional trust reporting tools?
Want to know more about Purple for schools?
Purple also provides dedicated school-level analytics, provision tracking, surveys and impact evaluation tools for individual schools across your trust.
Understand what is happening across your trust
Understand what is happening across your trust
Understand what is happening across your trust
Bring every school’s evidence into one dependable view—so leadership teams can compare variation, identify best practice, scale successful approaches, allocate support effectively and evidence the impact of trust-wide strategy.
Bring every school’s evidence into one dependable view—so leadership teams can compare variation, identify best practice, scale successful approaches, allocate support effectively and evidence the impact of trust-wide strategy.
Purple trust overview
One framework. Every school.
One framework. Every school.
Attendance
92.4%
Inclusion
4 focus groups
Priority action
3 schools
Evidence base
Trust-wide